The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 is the lowest-grossing entry in the Lionsgate franchise with $652 million worldwide (over $100 million less than what Part 1 earned).

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During a call with Wall Street analysts Friday, the studio -- whose stocks took a tumble after it announced weaker than expected Q3 earnings -- blamed the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Paris terrorist attack last November for the film's "softer than anticipated" performance at the box office. (Mockingjay, Part 2 opened in November.)“I think the combination of circumstances was unique between the terrorist attack in Europe and Star Wars,” said Rob Friedman, Lionsgate’s co-chairman of the Motion Picture Group, according to Deadline Friedman added that The Force Awakens' record-shattering box office run “hit our numbers by somewhere between $50M and $100M.”According to THR , Lionsgate also blamed Mockingjay 2's underperformance in the increasingly vital Chinese marketplace to overcrowding.The studio likely doesn't want to acknowledge that perhaps it was the quality of Mockingjay, Part 2 that impacted its grosses. We ranked it as the weakest of the Hunger Games movies