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"The Hunger Games is on course to open bigger than The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 in the US. According to box office tracking numbers, audience anticipation is so high for the Suzanne Collins adaptation that analysts are predicting it will outpace the $138 million Breaking Dawn debut from last November. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 currently holds the record for the biggest ever opening weekend (with $169 million), but Hunger Games is expected to surpass the rest of the Potter franchise entries when it is released in cinemas on March 23. Conservative estimates for The Hunger Games put it between $100 million to $120 million, though opening weekend figures are reportedly harder to predict once a film&amp;#039;s tracking rises about the $100 million mark.  Definite interest in the Lionsgate action movie has jumped from 55% to 60% in the last week, while awareness went from 75% to 83%. The Hunger Games is also expected to catch a younger male audience, with interest from men younger than 25 sitting at 28% against the 10% for Breaking Dawn. An anonymous studio executive told The Hollywood Reporter that Hunger Games is tracking &amp;quot;like a sequel, even though it isn&amp;#039;t a sequel. It&amp;#039;s three times higher than the first Twilight.&amp;quot; Jennifer Lawrence leads the Hunger Games cast as Katniss Everdeen, a teenage girl selected to take part in a televised fight to the death against other children from the 12 Districts of a post-apocalyptic America (called Panem). Alice in Wonderland currently holds the record for the biggest March debut with $116 million in 2010. &amp;gt; Hunger Games cuts &amp;quot;bloody&amp;quot; 7 seconds to get 12A UK rating &amp;gt; Hunger Games video: Peeta Mellark&amp;#039;s pre-games interview View pictures from the US premiere of The Hunger Games below: "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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