(EMAILWIRE.COM, May 23, 2012 ) Salt Lake City, UT -- “The Hunger Games” has filled fan appetites with a $155 million on its premiere night. This huge haul marks the movie as the third-best debut ever in terms of revenue behind last year’s Harry Potter finale with a $169.2 million opening. However, Harry Potter was a well-established franchise thus “The Hunger Games” set a revenue record for a non-sequel earning more than what the first “Twilight” movie did on its opening weekend.
It is a without a doubt that the “The Hunger Games” movie is a blockbuster this year. Fans from all over the world are going crazy over this movie based from the best-selling book series by Suzanne Collins. By far, “The Hunger Games” is the biggest start for a film opening outside the holidays and the busy summer. The movie amassed $214.3 million worldwide in just a few days.
The movie was such a great anticipation to its fans during it opening. Fans camped out for the first screenings of “The Hunger Games”, which began after midnight Friday. Fans showed up during the opening night dressed in their favorite characters from the story.
In addition to this teenage-adventure movie, one of the movie’s soundtrack “Safe and Sound” by Taylor Swift makes this movie more agreeable to its fans all over the world. Taylor Swift “Safe and Sound” song was released on December 2011 and the official music video followed two months after. When “The Hunger Games” movie was released on March 21, 2012, fans just couldn’t stop listening to the official soundtrack “Safe and Sound”. Teenage girls from all over the world created their own version of the song by doing covers and one of them is Taylor Olson. Her “Safe and Sound” cover video garnered 200,000 views on YouTube. She captured the essence of the original track while adding her own flair to the song.
About “The Hunger Games” movie:
“The Hunger Games” movie is about a teen played Jennifer Lawrence who is one the 24 youths forced to compete in a televised death match in a post-apocalyptic North American society. It is based on the first novel from the best-selling trilogy by Suzanne Collins.
Safe and Sound Cover by Taylor Olson
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