Hunger Games DVD/Blu-ray Press Release and Promotional Video
SANTA MONICA, CA, May 23, 2012 –Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games juggernaut will arrive on home entertainment at 12:01 A.M. on Saturday, August 18, as the first film in Lionsgate’s (NYSE: LGF) The Hunger Games franchise, which has already grossed nearly $400 million at the North American box office and is approaching $650 million at the worldwide box office, debuts on 2-disc DVD (plus digital copy), 2-disc Blu-Ray (plus digital copy), VOD and digital download with three hours of previously unavailable bonus materials in the biggest home entertainment launch in Lionsgate’s history, the Company announced today.
The film, based on the New York Times best-selling novel from writer Suzanne Collins, achieved a remarkable four-week run as the #1 film at the North American theatrical box office where it has already grossed $392 million, ranking as the 14th highest-grossing film of all time, and it is approaching $650 million at the worldwide box office with an early June opening slated in China.
The 2-disc Blu-ray and 2-disc DVD arrive loaded with over three hours of extensive bonus materials including the comprehensive eight-part documentary, “The World is Watching: Making of The Hunger Games.” Other special features include a sit-down conversation with director Gary Ross as well as numerous featurettes that examine the global success of the books, the creation of the control room in the film and the filmmakers’ motivation behind creating new scenes that were not in the book plus much more. The Blu-ray Disc set contains an additional exclusive feature, “Preparing for the Games: A Director’s Process,” which looks at the progression of taking three key scenes from the book to the screen. The Hunger Games Blu-ray Disc and DVD is a must-have film that is hailed as “exciting and thought-provoking in a way few adventure dramas ever are” (New York Daily News). Fans will be able to pre-order the Blu-ray Disc and DVD, starting on Friday, May 25th, for $39.99 and $30.98, respectively.
“The motion picture event of the year is poised to become the home entertainment event of the year and, with a midnight launch and midnight retail events scheduled at stores around the country, we expect to replicate the same level of consumer excitement generated by the film’s theatrical debut,” said Ron Schwartz, Lionsgate Executive Vice President & General Manager, Home Entertainment. “This is far and away the biggest home entertainment launch in Lionsgate’s history and, true to a theatrical marketing campaign that incorporated an unprecedented reliance on digital and traditional media alike, our home entertainment launch will involve a similarly innovative and integrated digital and packaged media rollout that we will unveil in the weeks ahead.”
BLU-RAY & DVD SPECIAL FEATURES*
· “The World is Watching: Making of The Hunger Games” – an eight-part documentary covering the “making of” the film in all aspects from the pre-production process all the way through the theatrical release and fan reactions
· “Game Maker: Suzanne Collins and The Hunger Games Phenomenon” featurette
· “Letters from the Rose Garden” featurette – insights from Donald Sutherland on the development of his role as President Snow
· “Controlling the Games” featurette – stories and concepts behind creating the control center
· “A Conversation with Gary Ross and Elvis Mitchell”
· Propaganda Film (in its entirety)
· Marketing Archive
· “Preparing for The Games: A Director’s Process” (Blu-ray Exclusive)* Subject to change
Also, here is the promtional video, embedded from the Hunger Games official Youtube channel.
GAHHHHH SO excited!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, but will it have deleted footage and/or extended scenes?
oh yeah! making of! making of! making of!!!!!!
and: peetas “GO!” oh my god! chiiiiiiiillllsssss!
my emotions!
Yay! I’m extremely excited, it would make a great birthday present for myself!
I’m sad no deleted scenes or commentary?
IN THE PROMO THEY HAD DELETED SCENES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! OMG! OMG! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!! I LOVED THE MOVIE AND NOW I CAN’T WAIT TO OWN IT!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! SCREAMED WHEN I FOUND OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT’S GONNA HAVE EXTRAS!!!!! OMG! OMG! OMG! I LOVE Jennifer Lawerence, Josh, Amandala, Isabella, and WIllow! HECK I LOVE EVRY ONE!!!!!!!!!!!! CAN’T WAIT FOR CATCHING FIRE AND MOCKING JAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WORDS CAN’T DESCRIBE HOW I FEEL RIGHT NOW…… GONNA LIKE CRY I’M SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!P.S. My name is my nick-name, not ligit name….
I’m so excited, who cares if it’s a week’s worth or babysitting money? Like Breaking Dawn Part 1, it comes with lots of cool features and I am so dragging my parents to Walmart at midnight to get it. Hopefully they’ll add limited edition props if you buy it at midnight like they did for Breaking Dawn!
(ps: not trying to rush you guys or anything, but when are yoy going to announce the winners for the poster contest? JW)
I can’t wait to see all the star’s extra videos, like how they were saying they got a little flip cam thing to record before, during, and after filming for the DVD!
Can someone give me the YouTube link?
IT WONT LET ME WATCH BUT I STILL CANT WAITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY
The no commentary thing really brought my mood down. Oh, well. *sighs* The making of will probably be good.
I’d love it if it had Bloopers. Can’t go wrong with bloopers. XD
No commetary or extra scenes? I figured no extra scenes because Ross’s previous statements but no director’s commentary?? I’ll buy it but I almost don’t see the point to get it right away but I’ll do it anyway to support HG lol. Hope I am misunderstanding….
Ahhhhhhh im sooooooooooo excited to actully own the Hunger games!!!!!!!! cant wait till augest 18
Hopefully there is deleted scenes..or bloopers with Josh and Jennifer that would be be awesome and pretty funny!
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY CRAP – YES!!! AWESOME! It’s still playing in Theaters here!!!
OH MY GOD GUYS this is totally unrelated but Entertainment Wise says lionsgate is thinking of casting Robert Pattinson as Finnick Odair and the reason I am writing this now is becase a while back I joked about this happening here in the comments and everyone was like “Blergh” and “No. Period” And I was like “haha I know JK! just speculating” . I don’t know wether to laugh or cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARRRGGHGHHH I really wanted to have a full commentary of the movie by the directer and the three leads and also bloopers. But oh well we’re still getting a good look at how it was made so it’s still something to be grateful for.
I would’ve been most excited to see deleted scenes. Except, you know, there aren’t any.
And I wouldn’t rely on that promo. The movie trailer had at least one thing that wasn’t in the movie.
I don’t care what Ross said; there needs to be an extended edition or at least deleted scenes. Not adding deleted scenes and bloopers to the DVD is silly, bad business, and plain immature on Ross’s and the studio’s/producer’s part. I don’t give a damn about how the control room was created or what marketing strategies they used. Give me extra stuff that wasn’t shown in theaters.
I was hoping that it would have been released later like around october or november so they could have included an exclusive first look or trailer for catching fire since they start filming in late august
This si awesome…. though I had to go to youtube to watch the promo… tryign to play it on here…. it’s telling me in Japanese that it won’t play. O_o
I’m really excited!!!
I like how the trailer is a little off from the movie. Katniss says “I’m not going to leave you” to Rue in the trailer, but in reality, she said it to Peeta. And at the end, she says “You could win” to Peeta, but in reality she said “we could win.”
@Emily I thought that she has said “we”. However, when I played it back, it did sound a little like “you”. I still think that it is “we”, but I honestly have no clue.
Haha, this is going to bug me for the rest of the night.
@Savanah – that had to be from a deleted scene, right? I don’t recall that she says that to him in the movie.
(Not that I have any hope said deleted scene will be on the DVD.)
Oh my goodness hold on to your hats ladies and gentlemen!
0:07, bloopers. Gale lift Prim after Katniss volunteer, not before. But yeah, whatever. Bluray tho’.