Rabid fans are feasting on advance tickets for “The Hunger Games” ahead of tonight’s midnight release.
With less than a day to go before the movie hits theaters, “The Hunger Games” has already sold out 4,300 screenings, according to Fandango and Movietickets.com, E! Online reports.
Considering that the Lionsgate movie is playing on just 4,137 theaters, it’s possible that every theater has at least one sold-out show.
The movie is already the fourth biggest advance-seller of all time on Fandango, overtaking “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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By Wednesday afternoon, the country’s top theater chains had also racked up more than $15 million in ticket sales, according to THR.
Box-office experts are now predicting that the film, which reportedly cost $75 million to make and $45 million to market, will gross between $130-140 million this weekend, making it the biggest March opener of all time: a record currently held by Alice in Wonderland’s $116 million debut.
“I’m feeling a groundswell here,” Hollywood.com box-office analyst Paul Dergarabedian told E! Online, agreeing with the predicted grosses for the film’s debut.
However, Dergarabedian cautioned that the fact that the film is the first release in a franchise means there’s no track record to gauge its performance: “You need to be careful. … It could come in higher, it could come in lower.”
For last-minute ticket-buyers suddenly hungry for a movie about teenagers fighting to the death, there are still tickets available for midnight shows in New York.