Running time142 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$78 millionBox office$694.4 millionThe Hunger Games is a 2012 American - film directed by and based on ’s. It is the first installment in and was produced by and Jon Kilik, with a screenplay by Ross, Collins,.
The film stars,. The story takes place in a dystopian future in the nation of, where a boy and a girl from each of the nation's 12 Districts are chosen annually as 'tributes' and forced to compete in The Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death. volunteers to take her younger sister's place, and with her district's male tribute, , travels to the Capitol to train and compete in the games.Development of The Hunger Games began in March 2009 when entered into a co-production agreement with, which had acquired the rights a few weeks earlier. Collins collaborated with Ray and Ross to write the screenplay.
The screenplay expanded the character of Seneca Crane to allow several developments to be shown directly to the audience and Ross added several scenes between Crane and Coriolanus Snow. The main characters were cast between March and May 2011. Principal photography began in May 2011 and ended in September 2011, with filming taking place in.The film was released on March 21, 2012, in some European countries and in the US and UK on March 23, 2012, in both conventional theaters and digital theaters.
Japan received it last, on September 28. When the film released, it set records for opening day ($67.3 million) and opening weekend for a non-sequel. At the time of its release, the film's opening weekend gross ($152.5 million) was the third-largest of any movie in North America.
It is the first film since to remain in first place at the North American box office for four consecutive weekends. The film was a massive box-office success by grossing over $694 million worldwide against its budget of $78 million, making it the third-highest-grossing film in the United States. It was released on DVD and on August 18, 2012. With 7,434,058 units sold, the DVD was the best-selling DVD of 2012.
The second installment, was released on November 22, 2013, in the United States.The Hunger Games received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its themes and messages, as well as Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of Katniss, though there was some criticism of the film's use of, especially in the action sequences. Like the novel, the film has been noted for its similarities to other works, including the Japanese novel and its, 's short story ' and its Italian film adaptation, and the short story ', with some criticizing The Hunger Games for being derivative of such works. Collins stated in an interview that her novel and screenplay drew on sources of inspiration such as the myth of, Roman games, and the of viewers to media coverage of real-life tragedy and, not to think as just an audience member, 'Because those are real people on the screen, and they’re not going away when the commercials start to roll.' The song ' sung by American singer featuring, won a and was nominated for a for. For her performance, Lawrence won the for, the for Best Actress in an Action Movie, the for and was also nominated for the for. Contents.Plot As punishment for a past rebellion, the 12 districts of the nation of Panem are forced by the Capitol to select two tributes, one boy and one girl between 12 and 18, to fight to the death in the annual Hunger Games until there is only one survivor. In District 12, after her younger sister Primrose is chosen, volunteers to take her place.
She and fellow tribute are escorted to the Capitol by their chaperone Effie Trinket and mentor Haymitch Abernathy, the only victor for district 12 in the nation's history. Haymitch stresses the importance of gaining sponsors, as they can provide gifts during the Games. While training, Katniss observes the 'Careers' (Marvel, Glimmer, Cato and Clove), volunteers from the wealthy Districts 1 and 2 who have trained for the Games from an early age. During a televised interview with Caesar Flickerman, Peeta expresses his love for Katniss, which she initially sees as an attempt to attract sponsors; she later learns his admission is genuine.At the start of the Games, Katniss ignores Haymitch's advice and grabs some of the supplies placed around the Cornucopia, a structure at the starting point, and narrowly escapes death. Half of the 24 tributes die in the initial melee, and only eleven, including the Careers, survive the first day. Katniss tries to stay away from the others, but the Head Gamemaker, Seneca Crane, triggers a forest fire to drive her towards them. She runs into the Careers, with whom Peeta has seemingly allied, and flees up a tree.
Peeta advises the Careers to wait her out. The next morning, Katniss notices Rue, District 11's young female tribute, hiding in an adjacent tree. Rue draws her attention to a nest of, genetically modified venomous wasps. Using a knife, Katniss saws the branch holding the nest off of the tree, causing it to fall on the Careers; Glimmer succumbs to the stings and dies, while the others escape to a nearby lake. Katniss is disoriented from being stung a few times; in a hallucination, Peeta returns and tells her to flee.Rue helps Katniss recover, and the two become friends and allies.
Katniss destroys the supplies the Careers have stockpiled by detonating mines guarding them, while Rue provides a distraction. Katniss later finds and frees Rue from a net trap, but Marvel impales Rue with a spear thrown at Katniss, who then fatally shoots him with an arrow in response. Katniss comforts Rue and, after she dies, adorns her body with flowers. Afterwards, she makes a three-finger salute to the cameras. This triggers a riot in District 11. President Coriolanus Snow warns Crane about the unrest that has been caused under his watch.Haymitch persuades Crane to change the rules to allow two winners provided they are from the same district, suggesting that this will pacify the public.
After the announcement, Katniss searches for and finds a gravely wounded Peeta. Another announcement promises that what each survivor needs the most will be provided at the Cornucopia the next morning. Despite Peeta's strong opposition, Katniss leaves to get medicine for him but is ambushed and overpowered by Clove.
When Clove gloats about Rue's death, District 11's male tribute, appears and brutally kills Clove by breaking her skull. He spares Katniss, for Rue's sake. Katniss takes the medicine, which heals Peeta.While hunting for food, Katniss hears a cannon go off, signalling a death. She races to Peeta and finds he has unknowingly collected deadly 'nightlock' berries. They discover 'Foxface', District 5's female tribute whose name they didn't know, dead from the berries she assumed were edible from watching Peeta.Crane then unleashes genetically modified beasts. They kill Thresh and force Katniss, Peeta and Cato onto the Cornucopia's roof. There, the last survivors must fight to a stalemate.
Cato gets Peeta in a headlock and uses him as a human shield against Katniss's bow. Peeta directs Katniss to shoot Cato's hand, enabling Peeta to throw him to the beasts below. As Cato is torn apart, Katniss kills him with an arrow in an act of mercy rather than leaving Cato to suffer a more horrific death.However, the rule change about two victors is suddenly revoked. Peeta urges Katniss to shoot him, but she convinces him they should eat the 'nightlock' together. Just before they do, Crane hastily declares them co-victors. Afterwards, Haymitch warns Katniss that she has made enemies with these acts of defiance.
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The studio, which had not made a profit for five years, raided the budgets of other productions and sold assets to secure a budget of $88,000,000—one of its largest ever —for the film. Collins' agent Jason Dravis remarked that 'they Lionsgate had everyone but the valet call us' to help secure the franchise. Lionsgate subsequently acquired of $8 million for shooting the film in. The production was eventually brought in under-budget at $78 million.Collins adapted the novel for film herself, in collaboration with screenwriter Billy Ray and director Gary Ross.
The screenplay remains extremely faithful to the original novel, with Ross saying he 'felt the only way to make the film really successful was to be totally subjective', echoing Collins' presentation of the novel in the. Instead of Katniss' about the Capitol's machinations, the screenplay expanded the character of Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker, to allow several developments to be shown directly to the audience. Ross explained, 'In the book, Katniss speculates about the game-makers' manipulations. In the film, we can't get inside Katniss's head, but we do have the ability to cut away and actually show the machinations of the Capitol behind the scenes.
I created the game centre and also expanded the role of Seneca Crane for those reasons. I thought it was totally important.' Plays in the film.Lionsgate confirmed in March 2011 that about 30 actresses auditioned or read for the role of Katniss Everdeen, including,.
On March 16, 2011, it was announced that Jennifer Lawrence (who was at the time filming for ) had landed the coveted role. Ross described Lawrence as having 'an incredible amount of self-assuredness, you got the sense that this girl knew exactly who she was.
And then she came in and read for me and just knocked me out; I'd never seen an audition like that before in my life. It was one of those things where you just glimpse your whole movie in front of you.' Though Lawrence was 20 when filming began, four years older than the character, Collins said that the role demanded 'a certain maturity and power' and said she would rather the actress be older than younger. She added that Lawrence was the 'only one who truly captured the character I wrote in the book' and that she had 'every essential quality necessary to play Katniss'. Lawrence, a fan of the books, took three days to accept the role, initially intimidated by the size of the production.Contenders for the role of Peeta other than Hutcherson included (who was later cast as Cato),. Other actors considered for the role of Gale included,.
In April 2011, was in talks with Lionsgate to portray. The following month Lionsgate announced that the role had gone to Oscar nominee. The casting of Grammy winner as Cinna, Oscar nominee as Caesar Flickerman, and as Claudius Templesmith, soon followed. Both got the role at the time they were promoting.
Multiple- winner was cast as President Coriolanus Snow in late May 2011. The scene where Katniss tracks down Peeta was filmed at in., and were listed as possible directing candidates, but in the end Ross was announced as the film's director in November 2010. Insured the production, but as part of the underwriting process insisted on a thorough risk analysis of hazards as diverse as wayward arrows, poison ivy, bears, bugs, and a chase across fast-running water.Lawrence dyed her blond hair dark for the part of Katniss. She also underwent extensive training to get in shape for the role, including, rock and tree climbing, combat, running, and, and had an accident on the last day of her six-week training phase, in which she hit a wall while running at full speed, but was not seriously injured. Other stars who dyed their hair for the movie include as Peeta and as Gale. Lionsgate hired Olympic bronze medal-winning archer to teach Lawrence how to shoot.With an initial budget of $75 million, principal photography began near in in in May 2011 and concluded on September 15, 2011, with a final budget reported as between $90 and $100 million, reduced to $78 million after subsidies.
Served as a, and filmed much of the District 11 riot scene. The movie was shot on film as opposed to digital due (in part) to the tightness of the schedule; as Ross said in an interview with The New York Times, 'I didn't want to run the risk of the technical issues that often come with shooting digitally—we simply couldn't afford any delays.' Virtually all production photography took place in, with Lionsgate receiving tax credits of around $8 million from the state government to do so. Forbes magazine estimated that the state economy gained up to $60 million from the production, with over 5,000 people employed as extras, crew and support staff. Most outdoor scenes, both from the arena and from the outskirts of District 12, were filmed in DuPont State Forest; the, with its multiple waterfalls, provided several locations for shooting the river running through the arena.
To run across, Lawrence was attached to wires and ran on a board.Many of the urban and interior locations, in the Capitol and elsewhere, were filmed in and; other scenes also took place and was filmed in the area. Ross and Phil Messina drew on the buildings of the and symbols of political power including and, when designing the Capitol architecture, which they wanted 'to be set in the future but have a sense of its own past. It's festive and alluring and indulgent and decadent but it also has to have the kind of might and power behind it'. For Katniss' neighborhood in District 12, the production team found, an abandoned mill town which Ross said 'just worked perfectly for the movie to evoke the scene'; Messina explained that 'originally we talked about maybe building one house and the facade of the house next door and redressing it, and maybe doing some CG extensions. We ended up finding a whole abandoned mill town. It was absolutely perfect'.For the costume design, and her crew looked at a lot of photographs of coal mining districts from the 1950s in the search of a very American feel. The idea was to create clothing unique for every character and to differentiate strongly the people in Capitol and in districts Grey and blue prevailed in the color palette for the district, while the people in Capitol were chosen to look bright in theatrical hats, flowers, ruffles, with powdered and eyebrowless faces.
Music Soundtrack. Main article:The soundtrack album for The Hunger Games contains songs inspired by the film; only three of them ('Abraham's Daughter', 'Safe & Sound', and 'Kingdom Come', respectively) appear in the film itself, during the closing credits. The first single from the film's companion album, ' by featuring, was released on December 23, 2011. It reached number one on the overall charts in 12 hours. The music video for ' was released on February 13, 2012. Along with separate songs from Swift and The Civil Wars, the soundtrack also features songs by, featuring The, winner, Jayme Dee,. The soundtrack was released on March 20, 2012.
The soundtrack track list was revealed on iTunes on February 13, 2012, and on the 14th ' was released as the second single. Jennifer Lawrence singing 'Rue's Lullaby' was not included on the soundtrack. The album debuted at No.
1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, having sold 175,000 copies in its first week. It is one of just 16 soundtracks to grace the top slot in the history of the Top 200 and the first since Michael Jackson's This Is It to debut at #1. Score The Hunger Games: Original Motion Picture Scoreby. Main article: Home media The film was released in North America and the Netherlands on DVD and August 18, 2012, and in the rest of Europe on September 3, 2012. Extras include The World is Watching: Making The Hunger Games, numerous featurettes, the propaganda video in its entire form, a talk with the director Gary Ross and also Elvis Mitchell and a marketing archive.In its first weekend on sale, Lionsgate reported that 3.8 million DVD/Blu-ray Disc copies of the movie were sold, with more than one-third in the Blu-ray Disc format. Three weeks after the release of the movie to home media formats in the US, over 5 million DVD units and 3.7 million Blu-ray Disc units have been sold.
With 10,336,637 sold, it became the top-selling video of 2012. The entire Hunger Games series was released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on November 8, 2016. Main articles:, andOn August 8, 2011, while still shooting the film, Lionsgate announced that a film adaptation of the second novel in The Hunger Games trilogy, was scheduled to be released on November 22, 2013. In November 2011, Lionsgate entered negotiations with screenwriter to adapt the novel for screen, since the post-production schedule for The Hunger Games was too crowded for Ross and Collins to adapt the next film as originally planned. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire began production in the summer of 2012. Gary Ross did not return for Catching Fire, and instead directed the film.
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On May 6, 2012, it was reported that was in talks to re-write the script for Catching Fire. Arndt officially signed on as the new script writer on May 24, 2012. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire began filming September 10, 2012, and concluded December 21, 2012; it premiered in London on November 11, 2013, before premiering on November 22, 2013 in the US as was originally scheduled.In July 2012, release dates were confirmed for two films based on the last book. Was released November 21, 2014, and was released November 20, 2015. Lawrence, Hutcherson, Hemsworth, and Harrelson were all signed on to the whole franchise. References.
What do you look for in a heroine? Do you want courage, integrity, self-sacrifice, mercy, love of liberty? You’ll find them all in this film’s heroine. You’ll also find villains who ooze perfidy, cruelty, bloodthirstiness, cynicism, betrayal and tyranny – aplenty. In short, you won’t doze off.
(By the way, yes: here it’s “heroine,” not “hero,” for a woman who’s heroic – or at least is the leading lady.)This mega-dystopian film opens with a caption that sets the stage. In punishment for a quashed rebellion decades ago, each of 13 largely poverty-stricken districts in a reorganized, totalitarian North America must “offer up” a teenage boy and girl every year to be selected from their peers to take part in the Hunger Games, “a Fight to the Death, until a lone victor remains.” The setting of this mortal combat is not an arena but a forest. The powers that be intend this spectacle to remind their subjects who is boss – and to provide sick entertainment for the effete, regime-supporting denizens of the capital city.Along comes Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), 16, from a coal-mining district so poor that its residents face malnutrition. To feed her Mom and sister Primrose (Willow Shields), age 12, Katniss poaches the king’s deer, so to speak – she hunts game with a stashed-away bow and arrows – her “pike in the thatch.” In this bleak existence she tells her friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth) that she doesn’t want children. When tiny Primrose gets picked for the Games and faces certain death, Katniss immediately volunteers to take her place.Taken to the capital with her district-teammate Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) to train for the coming grisly spectacle, Katniss wins the respect of former Games champ Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) with her defiant spirit, and he becomes her mentor. As soon as the contest starts, the weakest entrants fall victim. Knowing that Peeta believes his best strategy is to go solo for the time being, Katniss is on her own.
In a Mount Olympus-like set, observers monitor the contest and can influence it. Viewers in the capital and around the districts watch live public broadcasts of the spectacle, close-ups and all.The most ruthless contestants form a temporary alliance and pursue Katniss, but she, skilled in the ways of the woods, eludes them, although just barely. Finally cornered, she fights back inventively and effectively. Katniss, though she is an able, modern-day Diana the Huntress, kills her fellow humans only to save her own life and that of Rue (Amandla Stenberg), a 12-year-old who has befriended her.When Rue is slain, a grieving Katniss lays flowers atop her and makes a gesture of both farewell and defiance: kissing and then holding up the middle three fingers of her left hand. Seeing this, viewers in her home district do the same and then attack policemen of the regime – a first spark of revolution. President Snow (a coldly menacing Donald Sutherland) is furious and wants Katniss dead, but Haymitch instead persuades the Games’ referee (Wes Bentley) to change the rules to allow two winners.
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Katniss comes upon a wounded Peeta and aids him; they become true teammates.Katniss and Peeta end up as the last two survivors besides Cato (Alexander Ludwig), the most skilled competitor and the cruelest. Cato and Peeta fight, and Cato manages to hold Peeta as a human shield. He warns archer Katniss that if she shoots him Peeta will topple along with him into a pack of savage giant dogs below. She shoots Cato in the hand, he loses his grip, and Peeta tosses him to the dogs.
As the dogs start ripping Cato to pieces (heard but not seen), Katniss euthanizes him with an arrow (the impact not shown).SPOILER ALERT: Katniss and Peeta think they have won the Games, but are told the two-winner rule is now revoked, so only one of them can win. Peeta wants Katniss to kill him, but she refuses and offers him poisonous berries with which they can commit suicide, Romeo-and-Juliet style. Suddenly they are told to stop and are declared winners. An ebullient interviewer telecasting the Games (Stanley Tucci) coaxes them to appear to be a couple, and they return home to a cheering throng that includes Katniss’s mom (Paula Malcomson), Primrose, and Gale. The movie ends with a morose and sinister President Snow pondering what to do about Katniss.The movie has several problems.
As is standard in dystopian films, no one appears to be Christian anymore. Katniss needn’t forever close the door on becoming a mom. The movie uses a particularly hard case to make euthanasia look good.
Katniss and Peeta didn’t need to consider suicide; they could have just sat down and shamed the powers that be into declaring them winners. But otherwise, the movie does a fine job of highlighting the human person’s dignity and worth and of showcasing the primacy of conscience and the legitimacy of resisting tyranny.The film prompted the sequels The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Parts 1 and 2; stay tuned.The MPAA rating for this film is “PG-13 for intense violent thematic material and disturbing images – all involving teens.” The movie is based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. Gary Ross directed.
Collins and Billy Ray wrote the script. James Newton Howard composed the score. Tom Stern was the cinematographer. Christopher S. Capp, Stephen Mirrione, and Juliette Welfling were the film editors. Casting by Debra Zane.
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John Collins was supervising art director, assisted by Robert Fechtman and Paul G. Set decoration by Larry Dias, costume design by Judianna Makovsky and production design by Philip Messina.— Dan Engler.