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The Hunger Games eats up the top 10 US domestic opening weekends – in pictures

Biggest opening weekends: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
A Brit is top of the pops: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 strikes a blow for sequels everywhere. The eighth and final outing for the boy wizard took $169m on its first weekend of release Photograph: PR
Biggest opening weekends: The Dark Knight
All made up … The Dark Knight took $158m on its debut weekend back in 2008 Photograph: PR
The Hunger Games
Yum! The Hunger Games's impressive $155m opener means it takes the biscuit as a non-franchise movie with a big hit Photograph: PR
Biggest opening weekends: Spider-Man 3
Not bottom of the pack … Spider-Man 3 took $151m back in 2007 Photograph: .Columbia/Everett / Rex Features
Biggest opening weekends: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
You can't count it on both hands … Twilight New Moon took $143m on its opening weekend back in 2009 … Photograph: PR
Biggest opening weekends: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1
… fractionally ahead of the opening for Breaking Dawn Part 1 last winter ($138m) Photograph: PR
Biggest opening weekends: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Pirates of the Caribbean found $136m in its Dead Man's Chest back in 2006 Photograph: Disney/Everett / Rex Features
Biggest opening weekends: Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 lumbers into the lower strata of the top 10 with a $128m opening weekend Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar
Biggest opening weekends: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Harry and chums' penultimate outing (Deathly Hallows Part 1) is in with $125m Photograph: PR
Biggest opening weekends: Shrek
Rounding out the charts is an animation: Shrek the Third ($122m in 2007) Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/Dreamworks
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