- The highly anticipated trailer premiered live on Saturday, July 20th during the Lionsgate panel featuring THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE at Comic-Con in San Diego. The trailer premiered simultaneously online on Yahoo!.
- The following talent were in attendance at Saturday’s panel in Comic-Con: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Lenny Kravitz, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Wright, Willow Shields and Director Francis Lawrence
- The Hunger Games series has nearly 2 dozen social media and online destinations. To best represent this diverse online world, TheHungerGamesExplorer.com was created as a place for ALL Hunger Games fans to rally behind their favorite book and movie series and consume the best and newest information and materials about the franchise on the web.
- The official hashtag on the trailer is #CelebrateYourVictors – a reference to the ‘Quarter Quell’ event from the book and film.
THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE begins as Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. 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 HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE is directed by Francis Lawrence, and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. The novel on which the film is based is the second in a trilogy that has over 50 million copies in print in the U.S. alone. THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE opens on November 22, 2013.
