“You really want to know how to stay alive?” Haymitch Abernathy tells Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of
The Hunger Games.
“Get people to like you.” Well, Katniss not only survived, she thrived.
The movie based on Suzanne Collins’ teen-fave best seller smashed
nearly every record in the box-office annals with $155 million in its
first three days of release in North American theaters, according to
Lionsgate, its delirious distributor. That number is the third highest
ever for an opening weekend, behind the $169.2 million for the
Harry Potter finale and $158.4 million for
The Dark Knight and ahead of
Spider-Man 3.
It is the all-time tops for a nonsequel and the best for a film
released between December and April. As Haymitch or Sally Field might
say about Katniss, they like her, they really like her!
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