Lionsgate today celebrated the 12-week mark in the countdown leading to the worldwide release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire with the announcement that tickets to see the film will go on sale beginning Tuesday, October 1st at 12:00 PM EDT / 9:00 AM PDT.
The company also announced the debut of the first song from the official The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack, the track “Atlas” by multiplatinum recording artist Coldplay. You can check it out here.
The two announcements kicked off Lionsgate’s “TickTock” campaign which will reveal exciting new developments each week through The Hunger Games Explorer as audiences around the globe await the November 22nd worldwide release of the film in theaters.
Advance movie tickets will be available through Fandango, MovieTickets.com and exhibitor websites.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire stars Academy Award winner Jennifer Lawrence alongside Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone, with Stanley Tucci and Donald Sutherland. The film is directed by Francis Lawrence, from a screenplay by Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn, based upon the novel “Catching Fire” by Suzanne Collins and produced by Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire begins as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a “Victor’s Tour” of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games (The Quarter Quell) – a competition that could change Panem forever. The novel on which the film is based is the second in a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins that has over 50 million copies in print in the U.S. alone.
