Hunger Games Targets The Worldwide Box Office

Mar 23, 2012 1 Comment by WLM[mty]

Today sees the release of The Hunger Games, the highly anticipated adaptation is the first taste of the summer movie season. Over 24 million copies of the book has been sold and expectations are naturally sky high for the movie.

In America the movie will be on nearly 10,000 screens, which in itself is a record for a non sequel and whilst Lionsgate are a studio on the rise they are still very much a mid level studio.

Even the last Harry Potter didn’t get this kind of screen count, so all eyes are on the worldwide box office this weekend to see if the hype translates to a record breaking opening weekend.

Overall a $200 million seems the safe bet, easily $120 million will be from the American box office but with such a front loaded opening it’s likely to have a steep drop off for week two. Either way expect news of the sequel very soon after the weekend.

Check back over the weekend for a half hour podcast special on The Hunger Games, both myself and Jim make our predictions for it’s opening weekend, and of course go off topic.

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Alright, I know I’m going to take heat for this…
I really hope this film does poorly. I have only wished this on one other film before: 30 Minutes or Less. That movie was about some poor pizza guy who got a “bomb” strapped to his chest and was told to rob a bank or he would die. Ha. Ha. Not very funny considering this really happened to some poor guy, but he was killed using the explosives strapped to him by an unknown person. Hunger Games is about kids 12-18 killing each other, pure and simple. I don’t care about the “deeper meaning” of the plot or the “rich character development”. If it was about a grown man slaughtering kids of these ages, people would be freaking out. Why is it okay for children to be murdering each other? I hope this tanks.