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"The Hunger Games" fended off two new challengers Friday at the box office, with "The Three Stooges" and "Cabin in the Woods" neck in neck for second place behind Lionsgate's smash hit.
"The Hunger Games," which has won the past three weekends and is expected to repeat for a fourth, brought in an estimated $6.45 million from nearly four thousand domestic locations on Friday.
Fox's "Three Stooges" had a stronger than expected opening day, bringing in $5.6 million at 3,477 locations to edge past Lionsgate's horror movie, which grossed an estimated $5.5 million from 2,811 locations.