The 'fierce' Hunger Games poster burning up the internet
The first promotion for the buzzed-about movie literally crackles with anticipation — and ambition
The suits behind "The Hunger Games" film, starring Jennifer Lawrence, will hit theaters in March 2012, are positioning it as a big-event movie and the anchor for a franchise. Photo: Facebook SEE ALL 16 PHOTOS
Best Opinion: Slash Film, E! Online
The image: It's a bird! It's a poster! It's an animation! It's all three, actually. The first promotion for The Hunger Games movie, based on the widely devoured novel, has hit online, and it's no mere movie poster. It's a motion poster (view below). The image depicts the book's iconic Mockingjay pin audibly crackling with flames that just keep burning on a digital loop. In the novel, tough-as-nails protagonist Katniss wears the pin as she fights to be the last teen standing in a demented, government-run TV competition. The film will be released March 23, 2012.
The reaction: "Gorgeous," says Germain Lussier at Slash Film. By literally branding the film, "Lionsgate obviously hopes The Hunger Games will be their version of Summit's Twilight or Warner Brother's Harry Potter," a possibility, considering the bleak novel's millions of fans. Well, "if The Hunger Games truly wants to be the next It franchise, it has some big shoes to fill," says Team Truth at E! Online. But, with this "fierce new promotional poster," it's clearly "already trying to separate itself from the pack." Judge for yourself:
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