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The 72-acre (29 ha) village was a filming location of "District 12" scenes of the 2012 film The Hunger Games. [3] [4] In the wake of the film's release, The SyFy Channel’s show “Hollywood Treasure” estimated the value of the property at more than $1.2 million in 2012 [5] and took bids (unsuccessfully) to sell it. A book about the town and ...
The Hunger Games entered the New York Times Best Seller list in November 2008, [17] where it would feature for over 100 consecutive weeks. [18] By the time the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in March 2012, the book had been on USA Today ' s best-sellers list for 135 consecutive weeks and has sold over 17.5 million copies. [19 ...
The Hunger Games universe is a dystopia set in Panem, a North American country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and 13 districts in varying states of poverty. Every year, two children, one boy and one girl, from the first 12 districts are selected via lottery to participate in a compulsory televised subjugation, disguised as battle royale ...
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire earned $424.7 million in North America and $440.3 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $865 million. [2] Worldwide, it is the highest-grossing film of The Hunger Games series, [74] the highest-grossing film distributed by Lionsgate and the fifth-highest-grossing 2013 film. [75]
He was present at the Reaping in The Hunger Games. He is also mentioned as throwing a Harvest Festival party in District 12 in Catching Fire. He dies in the District 12 bombing. Goat Man is an old man who raises goats for a living. In The Hunger Games, Katniss recalls him as the man who sells Katniss and Gale a goat. Later, the goat is given to ...
In total, it held the No. 1 spot in the North American box office for four consecutive weekends (even after facing competition with In the Heart of the Sea in its fourth weekend), becoming the first film since Furious 7 to top the box office for four straight weekends and the second film in The Hunger Games film series after 2012's The Hunger ...
Asheville. The mountainous western North Carolina city of Asheville is mentioned several times throughout the book. Kya’s dad, Pa, is from Asheville. His family owned a plantation there, but ...
It was announced on November 1, 2012, that the studio had decided to split the final book, Mockingjay (2010), into two films: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015), much like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) and 2 (2011), and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn ...