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BREAKING … Lionsgate will release two films based on Mockingjay, the third book in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 will bow worldwide November 21, 2014, followed by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 on November 20, 2015. The first sequel, Catching Fire, is coming out November 22, 2013. The original Hunger Games bowed March 23 and has grossed $404.4 million at the domestic box office and $678.2 million worldwide.
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The third book is easily the weakest of all three. I don’t think it’s strong enough to sustain two films.
Unless they leave Katniss’s perspective and actually show us the war.
Are you kidding? I thought it was great! You’re nuts.
Roger, chill. The consensus among the group of people I passed the book to was the same – CF and MJ both lose steam. Not horrible, but not great. HG was a very unique and special adventure. Anyhow you’re either very young or easily pleased. Either way, lucky you!
As much as I hated the film version I’m honestly hopeful it can only improve with a new person at the helm. We’ll see.
Wow. You’re either very closed-minded or you’re just a jerk. There is a good 50/50 opinion split on Mockingjay. There is not a consensus that it was a bad piece of literature. I am neither very young nor easily pleased, and I loved all three books in the series as well as the movie. There’s no reason for you to be hateful toward Roger or anyone else for liking something. Saying things like that only makes YOU appear immature.
i agree plus i just can’t wait that long
So many Part 2: The Quest for More Money movies coming out based on books that have no right/need to be divided into two (maybe HP7 warranted it… But The Hobbit? Breaking Dawn? Mockingjay? No).
This is actually a trilogy movie. You know, kinda like Lord of the Rings, The Matrix and countless others. It was always meant to be more than just the 1. If you don’t wanna continue along in the series then don’t. But if you haven’t read the books then I recommend going to do that, ’cause you may just change your mind.
When will this two-part finale crap end?
I blame Tarantino and his Kill Bill. Then it was HP, then Twilight, now this?
Most of these stories are too thin to fill one film, much less spread it out over two. It’s a blatant attempt to bleed more cash from fans who followed your franchise and make them pay for an additional film.
Shameless, and disrespectful to the very fans that made your franchises a success.
but at least the final harry potter book was close to 800 pages and had enough story to fill two movies. i suppose the hobbit has enough for it as well, but come on, mockingjay was easily the worst of the three books with very little plot. they could probably turn it into an hour and a half on tv (with commercials) and get everything they needed to included. four hours in a theater is just a crazy money grab.
The only thing I disagree with you on is your blame of Tarantino for starting or being the first in a recent line of part 1/part 2 film formats. Though he did split up Kill Bill for theatrical release, to insinuate that this was a money grab on his part is just false. When Kill Bill first debuted at Cannes it was as one film, which is how he intended it to be and only later conceded to the fact that it was too long for audiences.
Rather than splitting, they should be concentrating on making a single long but tight epic film. There’s a risk of getting a mediocre first part and then an awesome 2nd part. As for Kill Bill, I loved both films but now that think back about it, QT could have tightened that story into a single 2 hours plus movie like he did with Inglorious Basterds.
I’m sorry but Mockingjay is pretty dense enough to be made into two films. It’s basically very much action packed from the beginning ang splitting the film will be fine. I think it would also be too long if they’ll just made it into one.
LOL! Yah, I wanted to say the same thing. For one thing Harry Potter did have a good reason to have a 2-part finale since the book was so long, but since the studios saw what a money making venture this is, they’re doing it for all the trilogy series now. H’wood is so full of crock.
To be honest, I think Hunger Games should’ve been longer. It skimmed over so many characters and didn’t portray the story as excitingly as the book.
How predictable. Unlike Harry Potter where two movies based on the last book were warranted, this is rather inexplicable. Mockingjay is by far the worst book in the series and two movies are not needed.
Seriously? What a terrible trend.
Bad decision. This one is tough to split into two and both parts will suffer for it.
totally agreed.
Wow, how transparent can Lionsgate be now they finally have what they hope will be a gold mine for them.
Mockingjay would have actually benefited from just being made into one film.
As fair warning to how well this will work, they could call the first one “Mocking” and the second one “Jay”.
Maybe they can squeeze three movies out of it…Mock (yeah) ing (yeah) jay (yeah)
More like MockingJaybe.
How long is the novel again? Why stop at two parts? Make it four! I hope audiences see right though Lionsgate’s blatantly cynical money grab and stay away.
I actually think that these final book movies being split into two parts is a good idea. Yes the studios make more money but the real fans are also happy as they get to see their favorite characters an extra time. Just go and ask a Twilight movie (not book) fan if they’d prefer 5 movies or just 4. I guarantee you the majority would say 5.
We must now split Catching Fire into two films. Our fans are hungry for more games. Our job is to make as much money as we possibly can from the tributes who will line up to give us their parents money for these movies.
Bad idea and way too long ANOTHER VAMPIRE SERIES WILL TAKE IT’S PLACE OF POPULARITY EASILY !
Harry Potter started this, then Twilight copied it, making it a trend. Now Mockingjay. Hollywood is so unoriginal. It’s all remakes and splitting movies up to make more money
The real money will come with the rebooting of Twilight five years from now. They will get to make another four movies with a new cast then ten years from now an all new cast in the reboot of Hunger Games.
Thank God they’ve locked in another set of release dates without a finished script or a confirmed director… because that didn’t cause them any problems the first time around.
Said it before… I’ll say it again… Hollywood no longer makes great films, they make great release dates.
The third book is the weakest, and has the thinnest plot. Any fan of the series will admit disappointment with the final book. Here’s hoping this announcement is a sign of some hard work going on in the writing dept, and that some great story additions are underway. Otherwise, shame.
WTF??? Mockingjay does NOT need to be in 2 parts. Aren’t three movies enough? Hollywood should try writing some original stuff rather than stretching out other people’s material to a ridiculous extent. Why an ENTIRE YEAR?
I don’t get all the hate for “Mockingjay”. I enjoyed the book just as much as the first two. It also features a lot of chase/action scenes which might not be great to read in a book but will be great on screen and also take up quite a bit of run time. They have more than enough material for 2 films. It seems like people might not like the way book ends and are therefore saying it is a weak title.
i’m glad they’ve done this! it means we get to see more!!!!! yay!!!
They can easily stretch Mockingjay into two books. I guess they end part one in a rescue and the result. And then part two into the Capitol issues. In the book it’s only from her perspective, so a lot of other things are happening away from her that can fill up two movies. I doubt they’d be two and a half hours each maybe closer to 90 minutes each.
I thought book 3 was stronger than the second one. So I too don’t get all the hate for Mockingjay. Catching Fire seemed like filler in the first part and then a rehash in the second half.
I’m talking about just the books, what may be boring from her perspective could be exciting in a movie, because a lot of the action is happening away from her and her character isn’t really privileged to the latest updates on the unrest in the districts. So both halves of Catching Fire could be equally interesting.
“In the book it’s only from her perspective, so a lot of other things are happening away from her that can fill up two movies.”
EXACTLY.
Well, I don’t think there is need to split Mockingjay into two parts. The book is good but not as good as the other two. It’s kind of “same thing all the time” in the first part. And, besides they explore all the pollitic, and war, and tourturing at capitol, and caos, and characters past stories thing they won’t have enought stuff to do a good and long enought first part. Cause all the action lives in the second/third one. What I think is that Caching fire would be a better deal on spliting into two parts. at least more things happens in there…
I could easily see this as two parts, because the story itself is so jarringly different from the District 13 half, and the later warfare. Each part has its own three acts.
Plus it’s pretty hard to just breeze through warfare without it turning, as in many films, into “meaningless, no-risk, gunfire battle montage and… we win!”
I liked the third book. What’s the problem? I thought it would transfer the best onto the big screen.
i love this movie i have the movie and the book