Want a piece of The Hunger Games? If you have $1.4 million, the entire 72-acre town used as Katniss' District 12 village can be yours.
Henry River Mill Village, located near Hildebran and about 70 miles away from Asheville, N.C., was used in Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins' bestselling novel and has now been put up for sale.
Now that the Fifty Shades of Grey book auction is out of the way -- Universal and Focus got that one -- Hollywood can get back to more important matters: trying to find the next Hunger Games.
The Hunger Games opened to an astounding $152.5 million this weekend, turning Suzanne Collins' books into a giant new film franchise. Lionsgate's sequel, Catching Fire, is already set for release November 22, 2013, so it will need to start filming by the fall. But several of the major cast members from the first film already have other films in the can and new roles lined up in the intervening months. Here’s what Katniss and crew are up to next.
On Friday alone, the Gary Ross-directed Lionsgate adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novel raked in $68.3 million at the domestic box office -- the best opening day for a non-sequel ever -- and is headed for a $140-$150 million opening weekend. This comes nearly two months after Ross and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth graced the cover of The Hollywood Reporter magazine, where they discussed how they got the job, the rigors of filming and the Hunger Games phenomenon.
In the behind the scenes video from the THR cover shoot at Beverly Hills' Four Seasons Hotel, Ross waxed poetic about a film that would have one of the biggest box office openings -- and a diehard fanbase.
Led by months of media saturation and fan excitement, The Hunger Games was already a hot trending topic on the tips of moviegoers' tongues and tweets. And now that the public has actually gotten a chance to see the film, the conversation around the big screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins' hit dystopian young adult novel has hit a fevered pitch.
In the months leading to the premiere of The Hunger Games, Lionsgate’s adventure epic based on Suzanne Collins’ much-loved book, there have been plenty of comparisons to the Twilight franchise. Both are based on popular young-adult novels and feature a young cast.
At midnight tonight, Jennifer Lawrence will officially become a mega-star, thanks to her lead role in The Hunger Games. It can be a dangerous thing, taking on the role of an iconic book hero, but Lawrence has handled it with aplomb, showing a poise that is built over years of experience. That's no lucky strike; while many are getting to know the actress for the first time, Lawrence has been at this game for nearly a decade. Here's a quick guide to her career, for the uninitiated.
With the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ bestselling book hitting theaters this Friday and interest lingering at a fever pitch for what feels like years, The Hunger Games now enters a new area of the consumer sphere. It's a gym class.
And the stakes of group fitness have never been so high.
With The Hunger Games arriving in theaters in just a matter of days, excitement has reached fever pitch as fans of the source material pore over every last clip, image, or detail released by its distributor, Lionsgate. The Hollywood Reporter sat down with key members of the cast and crew for an in-depth discussion about the film which coincided with an exclusive photo shoot for the weekly magazine's pages.
The premiere of The Hunger Games is just three days away, and fan anticipation has reached fever pitch.
The tentpole adventure film, based on the much-loved book by Suzanne Collins, follows Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), a 16-year-old girl living in a dystopian futuristic North America called Panem. Every year, two young people from each district must enter the Hunger Games, a deadly televised competition in which only one competitor survives.
When it comes to the official opening of Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games, the phrase “highly anticipated” is an understatement.
Interest in the film is soaring ahead of its March 23 debut, with Fandango reporting nearly 2,000 showtimes sold out in advance and Imax Theaters adding 3 a.m. showings after selling out 150 midnight screenings. Tracking data suggests that the film could even out earn The Twilight Saga’s fourth installment, Breaking Dawn Part 1, which opened to $138.1 million in November.
The Hunger Games is off to a killer start at the box office -- more than two days ahead of its release.
The wildly anticipated big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins' dystopian best-selling novel has presold out nearly 2,000 screens, Fandango announced Tuesday. The company said that the film is garnering 92% of its daily sales and has already surpassed the first Twilight film's presales numbers.
The wait is almost over for Hunger Games fans, as the highly anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ beloved novel is due out on Friday, March 23. But in the meantime, Lionsgate has released a new clip featuring Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss and Liam Hemsworth’s Gale.
