As most analysts predicted, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 dominated the box office this weekend. The only new release this weekend, the film easily held off a group of holdovers, which included some animated superheroes, a few astronauts and Jim Carrey.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is a ridiculously long title for a film and some analysts believe that it is also a ridiculously unnecessary film. Many of them agree that the film, based off of the final book in the Hunger Games trilogy was split into two films only to satisfy the wallets of studio executives and it seems that audiences have caught on, at least a little bit.

According to Reuters, the film brought in $123 million this weekend, making it the lowest earning first weekend of any film in the Hunger Games franchise. To compare it, the previous two films, the original Hunger Games and its sequel Catching fire, which both opened in the same pre-thanksgiving weekend frame, opened to $152 million and $158 million or their opening weekends, respectfully.

Of course the opening numbers for Mockingjay are nothing to sneeze at, as a matter of fact this is the largest opening weekend of any film for all of 2014. The only film to make even close to it this year was this summer’s, Transformers: Age of Extinction, which took in $100 million in its opening weekend. Mockingjay also took in over $150 million additional bucks from international markets.

The rest of the box office looks very similar to last weekend with Big Hero Six easily coming in second with $20.1 million while Interstellar took a dip, landing at third with $15.1 million. Dumb and Dumber To, last weekends box office champion, took a steep fall to number four, bringing in $13.8 million. Finally, Gone Girl held on for yet another round, hanging on to number five for the eighth weekend in a row.

Movies that didn’t make it into the top five include the Stephen Hawking biographical pic, The Theory of Everything, which added more theaters to its run, bringing in $1.5 million while the Michael Keaton-starring independent film, Birdman, brought in an additional $1.9 million this weekend.