Tuesday 5 February 2013

Main Film - The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games


Background -

The film The Hunger Games was based on the book by Suzanne Collins, and she also was part of writing the film, along with Gary Ross and Billy Ray. The screenplay remains very faithful to the orginal novel, and more sequels are being created, the next being "Catching fire", due to be released on 22nd November 2013.

 The film was premiered on March 12th, and was released in America on March 22nd, and the total running time is 142 minutes.

Budget-

The total budget for the film was $78 million, and on the weekend of it's release, made $152.5 million, making it the third largest of any movie in North America. Worldwide, the movie was also a massive success, grossing at $685 million against it's $78 million budget. This made it the 9th highest grossing worldwide of 2012.

The movie was also released on dvd on August 18 2012, and in the first weekend Lionsgate stated that 3.8 million DVD/Bluray copies of the film were sold, with more than one third of these being in Bluray format. Three weeks after this, movie sales continued to rise, with 5 million copies being sold on DVD and 3.7 million on Blu-ray.

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