‘Hunger Games’ Crossing $400M Today

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• That’s indeed an impressive feat for “The Hunger Games”, unlike the “Harry Potter” & “Twilight” movies, this film showed tremendous legs. You’re right, i think with “TDKR” on the horrizon, it’s an almost sure thing that we will see 3 films top 400 million domestically this year. Along with “The Avengers” probally hitting between 620-630 million, i see “TDKR” hitting between 380-450 million.

  Comment by orlando — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 4:54am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Are you strictly talking about the domestic gross? Because while The Hunger Games did better domestically, Harry Potter grossed over $1.3 billion dollars worldwide and Twilight Breaking Dawn grossed over $700 million dollars global. In terms of global cum, the Hunger Games needs to do another $50 mil to catch up to Twilight and I don’t see that happening. There is also no way it will come anywhere close to Harry Potter.

    Comment by Huh — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 2:40pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • But you are completely missing the point. The Hunger Games is not a fantasy driven, escapist film. There are no wizards or vampires or CGI or 3D. It’s rather a dystopian film driven primarily by story and character, much more like Gattaca than the standard YA fare. It’s really very different than HP, which was also a much bigger literary franchise. THe HGs is not generally going to do as well in foreign markets (with exceptions like the UK) because it’s not the type of film that typically does well in foreign markets, which are much friendly towards special effects and escapism. A good analogy is a film like Dark Knight, which was also more dialogue and character driven and which did better domestically than overseas. I’d say that for a $78 million dollar, nonescapist, non-CGI based film without overwhelming global literary reach (for example, the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo books were much bigger sellers), HGs did fantastically. Plus it will have a huge DVD release and the the next films in the franchsie will play to much broader audiences. By way of comparison, the first Twilight film had a total gross worldwide of less than $400 million. It was able to build an audience with subsequent films.

      Comment by astro — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 9:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• don’t forget ‘The Hobbit’ in December

  Comment by Quigley Quagmire — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 5:04am PDT  Reply to this post

• A great accomplishment for a non 3-D movie. I don’t assume TDKR getting $400 mil is a sure thing by any means. Batman Begins grossed $205 mil and while no one wants to admit it TDK’s box office gross was helped tremendously by Heath Ledger’s death. I think TDKR will earn between $300-$325 million.

  Comment by Wynton Rey — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 5:23am PDT  Reply to this post

  • TDKR is only going to make $300-325 million domestic? I wish there were some way I could make a bet with you over the internet right now. I’d love to take some of your money.

    Comment by Rikkert — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 11:44am PDT  Reply to this post

• Remarkable.
  Mediocre film. Passable acting. Thin plot. Uninspired (so much so the director opted not to return and who can blame him.)
  And the marketing men worked their magic. The lemmings showed up in droves. Who needs filmmakers?

  Comment by Hungry to play — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 6:09am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Haters gonna hate. Your greenness is showing, too, as in envy.

    Comment by PaulH — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 10:26am PDT  Reply to this post

    • Hate? Come now. Thought it was mediocre. That’s all.
      Green? I’d love to retire off such drivel. Perhaps I will one day.
      That’s all, Paul H.

      Comment by Hungry to play — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 12:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

      • Far be it from anyone to disagree with an anonymous internet “expert”. To each his own.

        Comment by astro — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 9:56pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why in the world would you report that 3 movies passed $400 million domestic when The Dark Knight Rises hasn’t even come out yet?

  Such a bizarre leap to make.

  Comment by Chris — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 9:10am PDT  Reply to this post

  • As they stated, they were merely making the assumption that it would pass the $400m mark.

    Comment by Tom — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 9:57am PDT  Reply to this post

• This is great for Hollywood and bad for movie goers. Hunger Games was a paint by numbers adaptation with very little passion from director Gary Ross. How sad that a once original voice is making hack job motion pictures.

  Expect more Twilight-esque teen novels turned into movies over the next couple of years. Blah!

  Comment by Pabloesmuybueno — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 9:15am PDT  Reply to this post

  • So you didn’t actually see the movie? And talk about paint by numbers. Your comment fits the bill.

    Comment by astro — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 10:03pm PDT  Reply to this post

• And yet, the box office is still in a slump. Go figure.

  Comment by Hungry Avenger — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 9:32am PDT  Reply to this post

• So glad an action heroine crossed the 400 million mark

  Comment by Pion — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 11:16am PDT  Reply to this post

  • What Pion said. And it didn’t have a lot of CGI and explosions.

    Comment by anon — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 1:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

• While ‘The Hunger Games’ is another one of those ‘teen novel’ based movies, I find the concept rather intriguing, and for what I saw, it wasn’t half bad. I like how this film satirized reality television, and shows how dangerous overreaching liberal government control can be. More importantly, this film offers A more substantial female protagonist than Bella Swan.

  Comment by Marc Baker — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 3:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • The government int he movie wasnt liberal. it was right wing fascism. It’s what the world would look like if republicans like you got thier way.

    Comment by Juan — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 8:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • A box of noodles is a more substantial female protagonist than Bella Swan.

    Comment by Potato — Monday June 11, 2012 @ 7:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• First of all, STOP comparing this to Twilight. Only ignorant people will do so. These books actually have substance, something you would know if you actually took the time to read instead of making comments on something you know nothing about. I hate when people are stupid, and by the way, I’m far from a teen.

  Comment by angie — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 3:55pm PDT  Reply to this post

• well deserved.

  Comment by fan of mass entertainment — Sunday June 10, 2012 @ 5:44pm PDT  Reply to this post