The Hunger Games is a young adult novel written by Suzanne Collins. It was originally published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic. It is written in first person and introduces sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, holds absolute power over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the 12 districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle in which only one person can survive. (more from wikipedia).
'Hunger Games' could help Lions Gate shake up movie industry
March 20 (Bloomberg) -- Until "The Hunger Games," the biggest movie for Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. was "Fahrenheit 9/11," the Michael Moore war commentary that took in almost $120 million in US theaters. That record will fall with the March 23 ...
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