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Mockingjay is a 2010 dystopian young adult fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger Games series , following 2008's The Hunger Games and 2009's Catching Fire .
Kirkus Reviews gave it a starred review, saying the book is "both a tense, character-driven piece and a cautionary tale". [11] The Daily Telegraph reviewer criticized it as "not the most promising opening [fans expected]" and said that Collins should "stick to plucky heroes and dazzling plot-twists". She wrote that "when it comes to writing the ...
The first two books were both New York Times best sellers, and Mockingjay topped all US bestseller lists upon its release. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] By the time the film adaptation of The Hunger Games was released in 2012, over 26 million copies of the trilogy were in print, including movie tie-in books. [ 4 ]
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The new book begins with the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, set 24 years before the original “Hunger Games” novel, which came out in 2008, and 40 years after Collins' most recent book ...
In June 2019, Joe Drake, chairman of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, announced that the company was working with author Suzanne Collins with regards to an adaptation of the novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. [13] By April 2020, Collins and Lionsgate confirmed that plans were underway for the film's development.
The trilogy's second book, Catching Fire, was released in September 2009, and its third book, Mockingjay, was released on August 24, 2010. [15] Within 14 months, 1.5 million copies of the first two Hunger Games books were printed in North America alone. [16] The Hunger Games was on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than 60 weeks in a ...
Following the release of Suzanne Collins's novel The Hunger Games, on September 14, 2008, Hollywood film studios began looking to adapt the book into film. In March 2009, Color Force, an independent studio founded by producer Nina Jacobson, bought the film rights to the book.