Hunger games

• "The Hunger Games" is a smart, barreling adaptation of the hugely popular young-adult novels that mash up gladiator-like death games with last night's reality TV.
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• In this weeks Hunger-focused episode of Talk Nerdy, we compare the soon-to-be-released film to Suzanne Collins novel. The Hunger Games are upon us at last. In the land of Panem, this would not be news worth celebrating.
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• Parody may be the sincerest form of flattery, especially when it comes to blockbuster books. The Hunger Games and A Game of Thrones are just the latest to be spoofed. ◆ The Hunger Pains from The Harvard Lampoon (Touchstone, $13.
(Chicago Sun-Times)
• Fans of The Hunger Games can tell you the movie premieres at midnight. Many people expect the film to be a blockbuster.
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• The hypocrisy at the heart of The Hunger Games is irresistible. Novelist Suzanne Collins, whose trilogy has been decreed awesome by, among others, my 5th grade son, indicts violence and organized brutality as tools of mass-audience manipulation.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• In the months leading up to the premiere of The Hunger Games, Lionsgate's adventure epic based on Suzanne Collins' much-loved book, there have been plenty of comparisons to the Twilight franchise.
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• The plot is bleak. The setting is post-apocalyptic. The society is dystopian. Hardly qualities on which to hang a tourism promotion. But the power of Hollywood can be transcendent. Or so tourism officials in North Carolina hope.
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• For months, fans of the Hunger Games books have been tracking the films making online. CNETs Kara Tsuboi looks at the social-media marketing campaign.
(CNET News)
• Here's the question fans of "The Hunger Games" are asking each other today: Did you or didn't you? Attend a screening of the new movie early this morning, that is. Jacob Ballard, 17, of Iron Station did.
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• To accompany the highly anticipated theatrical release of The Hunger Games this week, the movies soundtrack, The Hunger Games: Songs From District 12 and Beyond, also hits the streets.
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