Hunger Games: Catching Fire was last year's biggest blockbuster and the corresponding sequels seem to be headed in that direction as well. But will it reign supreme again on the top of the box office or will another film overtake the Jennifer Lawrence-led young adult juggernaut?

Right now, judging from the numbers of the previous films, there is no doubt that the latest installment in the Hunger Games franchise can come up big at the box office. The first Hunger Games film grossed $691 million on a budget of $78 million.

The second film, Catching Fire, grossed $865 million on a budget of $130 million, meaning that gross ticket sales rose 25 percent between the first two films.

The combined budget of the two Mockingjay films, at $250 million, is only moderately higher than Transformers: Age of Extinction, which had a budget of $210 million. If Part 2 is as successful as Part 1, it's easily to imagine the two Mockingjay films grossing more than $2 billion on a $250 million budget.

By comparison, The Avengers grossed $1.5 billion on a budget of $220 million.

According to Fool, the recent practice of splitting final books into two films has also revealed an interesting sales trend, the second part performs better than the first one. Box-office sales rose 16 percent between Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Part 2.

Box-office sales surged 40% between the two parts of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Therefore, Mockingjay Part 2 could soar into a very impressive finish next year.

Mockingjay: Part 1 hits theaters on November 21 while the second part opens on November 20, 2015.

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The Hunger Games, Movies