New THE HUNGER GAMES TV Spot Promises "The Movie Event Of The Year"

New THE HUNGER GAMES TV Spot Promises "The Movie Event Of The Year"

The latest TV spot for The Hunger Games features a few new snippets of footage as well as the promise of "The Movie Event Of The Year Based On The Epic Novels".

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By JoshWilding - Mar 08, 2012 10:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Action
Source: Bleeding Cool

Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the evil Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its twelve districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete in the Hunger Games. A twisted punishment for a past uprising and an ongoing government intimidation tactic, The Hunger Games are a nationally televised event in which "Tributes" must fight with one another until one survivor remains. Pitted against highly-trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives, Katniss is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentor ship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy. If she's ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.




STARRING:

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen
Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark
Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy
Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne
Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket
Lenny Kravitz as Cinna
Donald Sutherland as President Snow
Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman
Wes Bentley as Seneca Crane

RELEASE DATE: March 23rd, 2012.


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RunDTC
RunDTC - 3/8/2012, 10:43 AM
um, the movie event of the year is The Dark Knight Rises.
PaulRom
PaulRom - 3/8/2012, 10:44 AM
Nah, the movie event of the year is The Avengers. :P Though TDKR will almost be as big. Almost.
batfan175
batfan175 - 3/8/2012, 10:47 AM
never make promises you know you can't keep. never heard of the books, i'm not going to read them now and I have no interest in this movie. Bunch of beautiful kids killing each other, wow what a feat.
StrangerX
StrangerX - 3/8/2012, 10:48 AM
I thought the Event of the year was The Avengers
NerdyGeek
NerdyGeek - 3/8/2012, 10:48 AM
What about The Three Stooges? ;)
Kayo
Kayo - 3/8/2012, 10:50 AM
could be a hit or could be a miss
Tymminator
Tymminator - 3/8/2012, 10:54 AM
I never read the books, but I heard about them. Don't underestimate this movie. Almost every woman I know from 15 to 40 is talking about this. If I hhad to hazard a guess it won't be as big as harry Potter, but it may do better than Twilight. Either way there is a audience for it and its not really a small one.

In the end, I don't care as long as I get to see Avengers, DKR, Prometheus and hell even MiB. Would be great if they do well. I ain't sold on Spider-man yet but I am not totally against it either I guess.
IrfonW
IrfonW - 3/8/2012, 10:56 AM
Avengers, The Hobbit and The Dark Knight rises are far bigger movie events. But I understand them wanting to make it sound like this film is going to be massive.
ndwwrestler2
ndwwrestler2 - 3/8/2012, 10:57 AM
I have nothing against the hunger games or the rest of the series... but even if the Avengers wasn't coming out this year, you still couldn't convince me that this was "the movie event of the year".
P862010
P862010 - 3/8/2012, 10:59 AM
Hollywood reporter said this film is slated for a 70-100 million dollar weekend
RunDTC
RunDTC - 3/8/2012, 11:01 AM
has anyone read The Hunger Games books? my sister wants me to take her but I ain't taking her to the next Twilight.
marvel72
marvel72 - 3/8/2012, 11:03 AM
the movie event of the year is the avengers or the hobbit,nothing else.
Tymminator
Tymminator - 3/8/2012, 11:04 AM
Oh yeah, also looking forward to John Cater and THE HOBBIT!

In fact I think Hobbits gonna be the monster blockbuster this year if I was forced to pick. Avengers is still what I personally am looking forward to the most as when it does well (notice I said "when" not "if") that opens up so much for not only Marvel but DC as well.
RaleighAntrobus
RaleighAntrobus - 3/8/2012, 11:04 AM
This sh*t looks extra lame.
ManThing
ManThing - 3/8/2012, 11:07 AM
lol please...
claybo4131
claybo4131 - 3/8/2012, 11:10 AM
@RunDTC Dude trust me it is NOT ANYTHING like Twilight. For the last time people, this is not anything similar to Twilight. It is also not a "Battle Royale" ripoff (If Battle Royale was so damn popular, why had I never heard of it till after I read Hunger Games).

I am not saying it is the movie event of the year (though I had it as #2 of movies I want to see this year behind Avengers & Ahead of TDKR)

For those who keep dissing this film and comparing it to Twilight, GET OFF THE COMPUTER AND READ THE BOOKS, trust me they are good.
Deadsupermodel
Deadsupermodel - 3/8/2012, 11:12 AM
I have never read these books either but it just seems to me like a rip off of BATTLE ROYALE.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/
Name
Name - 3/8/2012, 11:13 AM
I havent read the books and i'm not planning to but i've heard good things so i'm going to watch this. I have the first twilight a watch but didnt feel i needed to follow that series but i'm willing to give The Hunger Games the same chance.
Name
Name - 3/8/2012, 11:13 AM
gave not have.
GingerBird
GingerBird - 3/8/2012, 11:14 AM
Haha THE MOVIE EVENT OF THE YEAR! I didn't realize The Dark Knight Rises was moved to next year...
claybo4131
claybo4131 - 3/8/2012, 11:15 AM
@francisjb ITS NOT A BATTLE ROYALE RIP OFF. The only thing that is similar is that kids have to kill each other. Read the premise of both, they have different tones, themes & emotions.
gannicus
gannicus - 3/8/2012, 11:26 AM
movie event of the year my ass the avengers dark knight rises then the year ends with the hobbit this movie looks so crap to me another movie those twilight fans good god.
RaleighAntrobus
RaleighAntrobus - 3/8/2012, 11:38 AM
Well, I have read the books, and trust me, they're just OKAY.
Kaziganthi
Kaziganthi - 3/8/2012, 11:46 AM
Sheesh....chill everyone. It's just marketing. It will be the movie event of the year...until the next big movie event of the year comes out a few weeks after that....then there will be another movie event of the year. Regardless I do think the Hunger Games will be pretty big. I'm excited to see it.
NewNameWhoDis
NewNameWhoDis - 3/8/2012, 11:47 AM
Bold statement in a year of Avengers, Batmen, and martians. I'm not buying it.

Plus Taken 2 is supposed to come out later this year? Pshshs...its over.

Hunger Games is gonna be a let down. Bet ya.
TheOverlord
TheOverlord - 3/8/2012, 11:51 AM
This looks dumb.
AutobotCommander84
AutobotCommander84 - 3/8/2012, 11:53 AM
Maybe with the younger crowd and some women it will.
Ha1frican
Ha1frican - 3/8/2012, 12:26 PM
Right because anyone other than middle school girls actually knows what it is... owait
Deadsupermodel
Deadsupermodel - 3/8/2012, 12:56 PM
@claybo4131 The reason you have never head of it is because it is a Japanese cult film that only us cool nerds know about. Haha! Hunger Games was straight up mainstream and sorry but I guarantee the author was a Battle Royale fan. HG will have all the bells and whistles and big names but Battle Royale was the real deal.
BruceLeroy
BruceLeroy - 3/8/2012, 1:49 PM
Battle Royal is better...
TheGambitFreak
TheGambitFreak - 3/8/2012, 6:40 PM
Excuse my prodigical facts, but, "The Battle Royale Rip-Off Adventures of Katnip and Wanna-Be Spider-Man" will not live up to that, now the Next Twilight, sure.

But, "Movie Event of the Year" belongs to the Chosen One...
TheGambitFreak
TheGambitFreak - 3/8/2012, 6:42 PM
Sorry, I meant this Cluster[frick] will end up being like Twilight.
TheGambitFreak
TheGambitFreak - 3/8/2012, 6:50 PM
HAHA! spanglish I'm sorry, but I'm stealing that poem, that's just too good!
CoolantTech
CoolantTech - 3/9/2012, 1:09 AM
@TheGambitFreak Oh my god lol your'e a freakin retard for that Twilight/Blade showdown lmao!!... CLASSIC!!! hahahahahaha!!!
LEOSTRATOR
LEOSTRATOR - 3/9/2012, 7:57 AM
@Francisjb Man I thought I was the only one who see the similarity. The Hunger Games books fallow the manga and the movie Battle Royale very close. The BR manga is a gore fest, I loved it.
claybo4131
claybo4131 - 3/9/2012, 11:32 AM
Its NOT a Battle Royale rip off. Just cause it has a "cult following" doesn't mean its better. To me it means its not as popular as this series.

You guys call this a rip off yet I do not hear people say Iron Man is a Batman ripoff nor do I hear that Aquaman is a Namor ripoff? Comic characters are similar in ways, buddy cop films, cop shows, forensic shows, they all are. But this oh no its a rip off of some foreign film most people had never heard of?

You guys are assuming its that & Twilight like, ITS NOT. Lionsgate had to plea with the MPAA for it to be PG13, so the violence will be pushing the limit for PG13.
claybo4131
claybo4131 - 3/9/2012, 11:39 AM
And for the record, and I will say this without spoiling the ending of the entire series, not everyone comes out of this unscathed and lives on happily ever after like other books. Unlike Twilight where the two douchebags do not fight to the death of a girl (which makes more sense than one wolf boy falling in love with a baby: Yeah I don't mind spoiling Twilight) this book has tension and despite it taken place about 1200 years into the future, the situations seem real and the outcomes seem real. These are situations that I would hate to be in the middle of.

And this is not a teen love story book. Unlike many of y'all who have NOT read it, in the first chapter, Katniss says she "Doesn't want to get married nor have kids" and she also is fighting for her life & her famailes life rather than worrying about her first kiss or first love.
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