
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have settled into a life of material comfort and emotional unease back in District 12 following their joint victory in the 74th Hunger Games. The film was followed by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 in 20, respectively. 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. 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 was the most critically acclaimed chapter in The Hunger Games series, according to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. 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.Ĭatching Fire received positive reviews and is considered by critics to be an improvement over its predecessor, with the sentiment being that it's "a more-confident, more-polished movie" and praised Lawrence's performance as Katniss, themes, action sequences, musical score, screenplay, visual effects and emotional depth. It ranks as the 30th-highest-grossing film at the domestic box office and the highest-grossing film at the domestic box office of 2013, becoming the first 2D film since The Dark Knight (2008) to top the yearly box office, as well as having a lead female actor 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. 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 the United States. Throughout the story, Katniss senses that a rebellion against the oppressive Capitol is simmering among the districts.įilming took place from September 2012 to March 2013 in Georgia, Hawaii, and New Jersey.

The plot of Catching Fire begins a few months after the previous installment Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson) have returned home safely after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland reprise their roles from the previous film while Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Claflin, Lynn Cohen, Jena Malone, and Amanda Plummer join as new characters. The sequel to The Hunger Games (2012), it is the second installment in The Hunger Games film series. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a 2013 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Michael Arndt (credited as Michael deBruyn), based on the 2009 novel Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.
