The latest instalment of Lionsgate’s Hunger Games franchise,
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, will be released in China on
8 February. The film, imported to China by China Film Group and jointly distributed
by China Film Group, Huaxia Film Distribution and Lionsgate’s Beijing-based
promotional partner Talent International Film Co. Ltd., will debut in over 4,000
theatres across the country, marking the biggest Hunger Games
rollout to date in China and the first instalment to be released in 3D.
Mockingjay – Part 1 has already achieved the biggest opening
weekend of 2014 in North America ($121.9 million) and the third-biggest five-day
Thanksgiving weekend of all time ($82.7 million) on its way to a worldwide box
office of $700 million and counting. The film has already grossed approximately
$375 million internationally. The first three instalments of the The Hunger
Games franchise have already grossed more than $2.2 billion at the global
box office, with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire becoming the 10th
highest-grossing domestic release of all time.
Lionsgate Motion Picture Group co-chairs Patrick Wachsberger and Rob Friedman
said, “With the widest Hunger Games opening ever in China and the
first Hunger Games film to launch in 3D, Mockingjay is
positioned to become a major motion picture event in one of our largest and
fastest-growing territories.”
Directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Academy Award winner Jennifer
Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Sam Claflin, Woody Harrelson and
the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mockingjay – Part 1 is based on the
third book in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy that has already sold more than 82 million
copies around the world. Mockingjay – Part 2 is slated for worldwide
release on November 20, 2015.
