"The Hunger Games" breaks pre-sale records - Celebrity Circuit (CBS News) "The Hunger Games" is already breaking records, and it hasn't even opened in theaters yet. Fandango announced Tuesday that the film, based on Suzanne Collins' wildly popular novel, has sold more advance tickets than any other non-sequel ever. Pictures: "The Hunger Games" premierePictures: "The Hunger Games" character posters The movie tickets website said more than 2,000 showtimes for "The Hunger Games" have already sold out, according to Entertainment Weekly. "The Hunger Games," directed by Gary Ross and starring Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen, will be released on Friday. The film is expected to open big at the box office. That could give "The Hunger Games" an even bigger opening than the most recent "Twilight" film, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1," which brought in $138.1 million during its first weekend back in November. Tell us: Are you planning to see "The Hunger Games"? © 2012 CBS Interactive Inc.
The hunger games wiki The book received mostly positive feedback from major reviewers and authors. It was praised for its storyline and character development, though some reviewers have noted similarities between Collins' book and Koushun Takami's Battle Royale (1999). In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008. Background Collins has said that the inspiration for The Hunger Games came from channel surfing on television. Plot Katniss and Peeta are taken to the Capitol, where their drunken mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, victor of the 50th Hunger Games, instructs them to watch and determine the strengths and weaknesses of the other tributes. Themes The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins in 2010 "The rules are arbitrary, unfathomable, and subject to sudden change.
Doctor Who Official on Tumblr Buytennis RACCHETTE/SCARPE Collections 2012 BORSEAcquista la borsa dei tuoi campioni Counterpoint Review: 'The Hunger Games' Is A Tired, Overlong Blockbuster Lacking Flair & Imagination With "The Hunger Games" arriving in theaters this weekend and expected to blow up the box office, early reviews have been very positive and anticipation has been running high. Our own review called it "an engaging, thoughtful, populist piece of entertainment that transcends gender, genre or source material." But not everyone in The Playlist camp felt the same. The word “tribute” carries several loaded meanings. Civilizations are back to simpler, more primitive times. Into town comes the Hunger Games committee. As we soon learn, the Hunger Games have been going on for seventy-three years now, each year yielding a new people’s champion from each District. Katniss’ reluctance to be the poster child for the Hunger Games at first seems like a genuine show of individuality. After a publicity dog-and-pony show, Katniss and Peeta are thrust into the game, shoved out in the middle of nowhere with twenty-two other youths. What’s interesting is this film’s philosophical angle.
Are You Reading YA Lit? You Should Be. Image by Thiru Murugan on Flickr I’m a young adult librarian, but I didn’t read young adult lit when I was a teen myself. I was a precocious reader and desperate to be treated like a grown-up, so I read books for grown-ups because anything else was just too puerile for someone as obviously mature and sophisticated as I. Outside of YA circles, I sometimes find myself having to justify my tastes to others. I think the reason some grown-ups look down their noses at YA lit is because they haven’t read any of it recently, so they don’t know how good it’s gotten—or how different it is from what they might imagine it to be. YA lit is so much more than a genre I think it’s a lack of exposure to contemporary YA lit that makes adults refer to it as a “genre.” This author characterized YA lit as first-person, coming-of-age stories told in 300 pages or fewer. But what about that coming-of-age bit? So it seems silly to me to call YA lit a genre, to pretend that it’s all somehow the same.
Guy Vernes | Maison des Arts The Hunger Games All Critics (275) | Top Critics (46) | Fresh (232) | Rotten (43) | DVD (4) The film shows precious little hunger and no sense of game. Even when two people are just talking calmly, Ross jerks the camera around. Why? As the sense of danger increases, he has nothing to build toward. Ross manages to keep the pacing remarkably swift, given that the games themselves don't start until halfway through the 144-minute running time. Like the select participants of its savage sport, The Hunger Games stands triumphant, if scarred and a bit wobbly from the contest. It features a functioning creative imagination and lots of honest-to-goodness acting by its star, Jennifer Lawrence, who brings her usual toughness and emotional transparency to the archer-heroine Katniss. Watching The Hunger Games, I was struck both by how slickly Ross hit his marks and how many opportunities he was missing to take the film to the next level -- to make it more shocking, lyrical, crazy, daring.
The Cassette 'Hunger Games' frenzy surpasses 'Twilight' By Dave Rosenthal 12:47 p.m. EDT, March 21, 2012 With the wide release of "The Hunger Games" movie in little more than a day, ticket sales are headed for a record, as fans across the country prepare for the biggest literary adaptation since the Harry Potter and Twilight films. And early ticket sales show that the movie is not just for teen-agers. The movie about post-apocalyptic North America is on track to become the biggest seller for the on-line ticket site Fandango, according to The Baltimore Sun's Jill Rosen. Interestingly, nearly half of the tickets are being purchased by people older than 25, the article notes. The Harry Potter and Twilight books, ostensibly aimed at a young readers, were quickly snapped up by adults, and the same phenomenon can be seen with Suzanne Collins' trilogy. That all bodes well for the movie -- and others that surely will follow -- as well as book sales. We've upgraded our reader commenting system.
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