'Hunger Games' Premiere Kicks Off Monday in L.A. - Where to Watch
The world premiere of the much hyped Hunger Games movie starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, is set to premiere on Monday in Los Angeles.
For those who can't attend the premiere at the Nokia Theatre, the Yahoo! Movies site will be live streaming the event starting at 8:30 p.m. EDT.
Moviegoers will need to wait until March 23 for the nationwide release.
Some fans are not as excited for the premiere as they are for the film itself.
"I can watch the movie or I can watch famous people walk into the movie?" Facebook user Allison Sehika asked in reply to an announcement about the world premiere.
Some were eagerly anticipating the film.
"I'm on the last book! I love it! Can't wait for the movie," another fan Junni Walker said on Facebook.
Hunger Games is an adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novel of the same name that has sold more than 23 million copies in the United States alone.
The film is directed by four-time Oscar nominee Gary Ross and takes place in a post-apocalyptic world in a nation called Panem, the ruins of what was once North America. There the evil government forces a teenage boy and girl to compete in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to death on live television.
Katniss, who is played by Jennifer Lawrence, is a 16-year-old girl from District 12 who volunteers for the Hunger Games in place of her younger sister.
Collins, who says she saw the entire movie, gave the adaptation a thumbs up.
"I'm really happy with how it turned out. I felt like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another," she wrote in a letter to fans on March 1.
Collins says that Ross' adaptation is faithful in both its narrative and theme while portraying a powerful vision of a futuristic world.
