Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a VictorвЂ™s Tour of the districts. Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ( 2013) Trailer.

The film has grossed over $865 million worldwide and is the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2013, the highest-grossing film released by Lionsgate, and the highest-grossing entry in The Hunger Games series. It ranks as the 26th-highest-grossing film at the domestic box office and the highest-grossing film at the domestic box office of 2013, becoming the first 2-D film since The Dark Knight (2008) to top the yearly box office, as well as having a lead female top the box office for the first time since The Exorcist (1973). The film set records for the biggest November opening weekend and biggest three- and five-day Thanksgiving box-office totals, surpassing the first film's box office grosses by over $150 million. If it over-performs and comes closer to doubling the first films foreign haul, Catching Fire could even take a run at 1 billion worldwide, the gold.The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiered in London on Novemand was theatrically released on November 15, 2013, in Brazil November 20 in Finland, Sweden, and Norway November 21 in the United Kingdom and November 22 in IMAX, in the United States. Rather than reaping two contenders between the ages of 12 and 18 from each of the countryвЂ™s 12 districts, tributes come from the pool of victors. Megashare.ca.Catching Fire: Your Guide to the Victors The 75th Hunger Games is upon us and in honor of the third Quarter Quell, things are going down a little differently.

Holiday Movie Preview: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Wolf of Wall Street, and More. His mansion is the elegant 1920s Swan House. Away from the grim вЂDistrict 12вЂ™, Katniss and Peeta ( Josh Hutcherson) are whisked away to a lavish victory party at the estate of President Snow.

He orders her to use the upcoming Victory Tour to convince him that her actions were out of love and not defiance against the Capitol, warning her that her friends, family, and everyone else in District 12 will otherwise face execution. The song ' Atlas' was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.Further information: List of The Hunger Games charactersSometime after Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark return to District 12 following their victory in the 74th Hunger Games, President Snow visits Katniss and explains that her actions in the Games have inspired uprisings. For her performance, Lawrence was nominated a second time for the Empire Award for Best Actress as well as the Saturn Award and Broadcast Film Critics Association Award. The film also received numerous nominations, with a nomination for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Action Film and a Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film. It's the most critically acclaimed chapter in The Hunger Games series, according to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

On Reaping Day, Haymitch's name is drawn, but Peeta immediately volunteers to take his place. Katniss devotes herself to ensuring Peeta survives. The upcoming Hunger Games - the 75th overall and the third 'Quarter Quell' is announced, and will involve tributes selected from previous victors. Thread calmly gives in, but then declares curfew on District 12's residents under threat of death on sight. Haymitch, Peeta, and Katniss use their influence as Hunger Games victors to save Gale from further torture and death.

The citizens then protest for the Games to be stopped to no avail. Peeta announces that he and Katniss, who had previously announced their engagement during their Victory Tour in an unsuccessful attempt to quell the Districts, are expecting a child. For her pre-Games interview, Katniss wears a wedding dress, as ordered by Snow, but her stylist Cinna sets it to transform into a symbol of a mockingjay.

When mandrills attack, Peeta is saved by the unexpected sacrifice of a tribute from District 6. The group is forced to flee from a poisonous fog when Peeta cannot go on, Mags sacrifices herself so that Finnick can help him. When the arena's forcefield shocks Peeta, stopping his heart, Finnick resuscitates him.

The lightning is conducted along the wire, causing the arena shields to fail and the roof to fall, and Katniss is knocked unconscious.Katniss awakens in an aircraft to find Haymitch, Beetee (still unconscious), Finnick, and Plutarch Heavensbee, the head Gamemaker, who is revealed to be a rebel against Snow. Katniss attaches wire to an arrow and shoots it into the arena roof just as lightning strikes. Unable to find Peeta, and hearing a cannon, Katniss almost kills Finnick, thinking he betrayed them, but he reminds her to 'remember who the real enemy is'. Katniss finds an unconscious Beetee. When Brutus and Enobaria emerge, Johanna stuns Katniss, cuts the tracker out of her arm and flees. The group separates to prepare the trap, laying down wire.

She awakens to find Gale by her side, who reassures her that her family is safe but that District 12 has been destroyed by the Capitol. A distraught Katniss is sedated after nearly attacking Haymitch for violating his promise to save Peeta. They were unable to rescue Peeta and Johanna, as they still have their trackers on them.

On April 19, 2012, it was announced that Francis Lawrence was offered the director position for the film. Bennett Miller, Joe Cornish, Francis Lawrence and Juan Antonio Bayona were all being considered to direct the new film. On April 10, 2012, it was announced that Gary Ross, director of The Hunger Games, would not return due to a 'tight' and 'fitted' schedule. The shooting timeframe was co-ordinated between Lionsgate and 20th Century Fox, in order to allow time for Jennifer Lawrence to shoot X-Men: Days of Future Past, the sequel to Fox's X-Men: First Class, in January 2013. Simon Beaufoy was hired to write the script for the film and wrote two drafts before leaving after Gary Ross, director of The Hunger Games decided not to direct the sequel. Donald Sutherland as President Coriolanus SnowProduction Pre-production Lionsgate announced that a film adaptation of Catching Fire would be released as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on November 22, 2013, as a sequel to the film adaptation of The Hunger Games, with principal photography to take place in September 2012.

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