Part 1 brought in $121.9 million domestically in its opening weekend a year ago. Underground, however, is just as unsafe, especially when mutants with huge, razor teeth try to feast on Katniss and her buddies as they near the finish line.
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“Part 2” is flying high in its first US showings with $16 million in Thursday night previews – just not as high as the previous three films.
Her casting was hotly contested in 2011 by fans who loved the book trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
And Roberts first thriller since 1993’s “The Pelican Brief” brought in $2.3 million and is looking at $7.1 million for STX. His part, likely due to his premature death, is limited to a handful of scenes, but he still manages to make an impression in each one of them. The film tells the story of three friends who reunite for their traditional Christmas Eve gathering.
The film has opened to rave reviews in the west and the Indian Audiences are really looking forward for its release.
Posters promoting the final Hunger Games movie in Jerusalem and the coastal Israeli city of B’nei Brak have scrubbed star Jennifer Lawrence from the main image.
According to Deadline, the final film in the franchise is still hot for the taking with fans swarming in to see the final battle between Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and President Snow (Donald Sutherland).
Even though an actual “Hunger Games” isn’t present in this film, it still has all the elements of the games, and people get killed one after another in horrifying ways.
The success of the latter surely helped launch the former as Hollywood took notice of the big box office numbers that could result from adaptations of young adult novels.
Directed by Francis Lawrence, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay 2” is produced by Nina Jackobson and Jon Kilik and distributed by Lionsgate.
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action and for some thematic material.
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The war in Panem continues, picking up immediately where MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 left off. Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) is no longer a prisoner but deeply brainwashed to murder Katniss (Lawrence).
