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1. Fiorella Limay

2. Production Companies
•Color Force
▫2007 – Present
▫American
▫Focus on novel adaptations (Hunger Games,
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, One Day)
▫Is an independent company

3. Production Companies
•Lionsgate Films
▫1997 – Present
▫American
▫Famous for their action, thriller, and horror films
▫Owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Inc.

4. Lions Gate Entertainment Inc.
•This is a conglomerate as they own several
companies, spanning a number of different sectors
of media
•Lionsgate Films
•Lionsgate Home Entertainment
•Lionsgate Music & Publishing
•Lionsgate Television

5. Funding
•The Hunger Games : Catching Fire was funded by
an independent studio named ‘Lionsgate
Entertainment’. However, it is very debated
whether Lionsgate is really an independent film
studio as it is very wealthy and is considered a
‘mini-major’. Lionsgate is not a conglomerate
meaning it works fundamentally as a studio and
passes exhibition on to another company.
However, the film was distributed by Lionsgate as
well as funded.

6. Distribution Company
•Lionsgate UK
▫Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. own their own
distribution companies so as they can cut down on
external expenses
▫This is a form of synergy

7. Budget
•Catching Fire was given a budget of $130–140
million, which is seen as a very high budget at a
Hollywood range too. As this is a very large budget
it means that lots of special effects, renowned
actors and high budget sets were afforded. This
made the film’s impact a lot stronger due to this
Hollywood sense that struck the audience, even in
this British film. However, this budget can be seen
as a lot smaller to other films at it’s calibre. For
example, Avatar’s budget reached $237 million,
almost double that of Catching Fire.

8. Box Office Gross
•Total Budget
▫$185,000,000 (£110,474,143)
•Opening Weekend
▫$158,074,286 (£94,395,250)
•Total Domestic Gross
▫$422,575,819 (£252,344,332)
•Worldwide Gross
▫$861,854,554 (£514,662,937)

9. Director
•The film was directed by an American woman
named Nina Jacobson, the same woman who
owned the studio it was filmed on. Nina is from
Los Angeles and is heavily associated with The
Walt Disney Company. Nina is also responsible for
films like The Sixth Sense, Pearl Harbour, Narnia
and Pirates of the Caribbean. Although the film is
British, the director is American meaning that it is
likely that a number of other factors in the film’s
production is associated with Britain.

10. Main Actors
•Jennifer Lawrence – Katniss Everdeen
•Josh Hutcherson – Peeta Mellark
•Woody Harrelson – Haymitch Abernathy
•Elizabeth Banks – Effie Trinket

11. Supporting Actors
•Liam Hemsworth – Gale Hawthorne
•Lenny Kravitz – Cinna
•Phillip Seymour Hoffman – Plutarch Heavensbee
•Stanley Tucci – Caesar Flickerman
•Donald Sutherland – President Snow

12. Cinema Releases
•Catching Fire was shown in 4,163 theatres upon
its release. For a film of this standard, that is an
incredibly large number compared to films like
Avatar, which was only shown in 3,461, about 700
less than Catching Fire. This shows that demand
for Catching Fire was very high as it was requested
in so many theatres. It also explains why the box
office gross was so high as well, due to high
amount of exhibition.

13. Promotion

14. Promotion
•Playing on the futuristic
setting even further, a
motion poster was
created to promote the
film

15. Genre
•The genre is mainly a hybrid of Sci-Fi and Thriller. The elements
of sci-fi we can see are the use of new technology and gadgets not
yet invented and seem almost alien like, for example, creating real fire
out of nothing to attack contestants. Also the setting, Panem, which is
a fictional country, unlike any real country on this planet. This style
clearly suggests a sci-fi genre. The styles we see that connote thriller
include suspense, mystery and tension. Throughout the film
tension is high when Katniss is literally fighting for survival and at
the same time Peeta, her friend, is also fighting for survival but there
can only be one survivor, so tension is high and mystery starts to erupt
when the audience must think of how they can both survive.

16. Success - Awards
Award Association Won Nominated
Golden Globes, USA Best Original Song –
Motion Picture (Atlas)
Broadcast Film Critics
Association Awards
•Best Action Movie
•Best Actress in an
Action Movie (Jennifer
Lawrence)
•Best Song (Atlas)
Costume Designers
Guild Awards
Excellence in Fantasy
Film
Golden Trailer Awards Best Action Poster
Grammy Awards
Hollywood Film
Festival
Song of the Year
(Atlas)
Hollywood Makeup
Artist and Hair Stylist
Guild Awards
Best Special Makeup
Effects – Feature
Films

17. Success – Awards Cont.
Award Association Won Nominated
Key Art Awards •Best Audio/Visual
Technique
•Best Digital Marketing
London Critics Circle
Film Awards
Technical Achievement
of the Year
People’s Choice Awards Favourite Year End
Movie
San Diego Film Critics
Society Awards
•Best Supporting Actress
(Elizabeth Banks)
•Best Editing

18. Success - Reviews
•Rotten Tomatoes
▫89% from critic reviews
▫Average rating of 7.5/10 from 243 ratings
▫91% from audience feedback
▫Average rating of 4.4/5 from 324,470 ratings
•Metacritic
▫Metascore of 75/100 based on 47 critics
▫User score of 8/10 based on 833 ratings

19. Success – Box Office
•Iron Man 3 (Marvel Studios) grossed
$1,214,713,994 (£725,375,609) worldwide
making it the highest grossing film of 2013
•Hunger Games: Catching Fire was the
fourth highest that year with $861,854,554
(£514,662,937)