Director Eli Roth’s R-rated slasher “Thanksgiving” opened slightly behind expectations with $10.2 million from 3,204 venues. It tied with “The Marvels,” so the final placement on box The games will probably take up about 30-40 minutes maybe a little bit more, and then I bet they drag out that final part, even though so much of it is boring. 10. ReliefDifficult9860 • 1 yr. ago. Hopefully the movie is closer to Catching Fire runtime, perhaps even a little bit longer. In 2008 Suzanne Collins' unleashed The Hunger Games on the world, launching a bestselling book series that would become a globally beloved franchise. Continuing the legacy of satirical stories like Battle Royale and The Running Man, the series centers on PANEM, a North America country that pits its children against each other in grim battles for survival. Set some 64 years prior to Katniss’ story, this time around, future president Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) is brought in as a mentor to a young tribute from District 12 called Lucy Gray Baird The prequel has a lot of ground to cover. So much so that director Francis Lawrence (who also helmed the previous three “Hunger Games” films) and screenwriters Michael Lesslie and Michael More information on this film. Title: The Hunger Games Director: Gary Ross Producer: Nina Jacobson, Jon Kilik Screenplay: Gary Ross, Suzanne Collins, Billy Ray Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, Donald Sutherland And like a lot of big-screen franchises, it quickly became caught up in its own ever-expanding lore and began to literally and figuratively lose the plot. It was still a given that, when Collins Once again, the Games are on. While the first Hunger Games movie owed a weighty (if unacknowledged) debt to Kinji Fukasaku's controversial Japanese hit Battle Royale (and Koushun Takami's source The latest report cites comments from a handful of “insider accounts” who corroborate stories from people who have seen test screenings of the film. According to the report, the runtime of the After a successful theatrical run, Lionsgate has announced that The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be available for purchase on Digital on January 30, before being launched hc937Y.