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Pictures via its Movie Land Animation Studios label. As punishment for a failed past rebellion, the 12 districts of the nation of Panem are forced by the Capitol to select two tributes, one boy and one girl between ages 12 and 18, who must fight to the death in the annual Hunger Games until there is only one survivor. In District 12, after her younger sister Primrose is chosen, year old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her place.

Before she departs, Katniss says goodbye to her family, and she is given a mockingjay pin to protect her during the games. She and fellow tribute Peeta Mellark are then escorted to the Capitol by their chaperone Effie Trinket and mentor Haymitch Abernathy, the only surviving previous victor from District Haymitch stresses the importance of gaining sponsors, as they can provide potentially life-saving gifts during the Games.

While training, Katniss observes the "Careers" Marvel, Glimmer, Cato and Clove , volunteers from the wealthy Districts 1 and 2 who have trained for the Games from an early age.

During a televised interview with Caesar Flickerman the night before the Games start, Peeta expresses his love for Katniss, which she initially sees as an attempt to attract sponsors; she later learns his admission is genuine. At the start of the Games, Katniss ignores Haymitch's advice and grabs some of the supplies placed around the Cornucopia, a structure at the starting point, and narrowly escapes death. Half of the 24 tributes die in the initial melee, and only eleven, including the Careers, survive the first day.

Katniss tries to stay away from the others, but the Head Gamemaker, Seneca Crane, triggers a forest fire to drive her towards them. She runs into the Careers, with whom Peeta has seemingly allied, and flees up a tree. Peeta advises the Careers to wait her out. The next morning, Katniss notices Rue, District 11's young female tribute, hiding in an adjacent tree.

Rue draws her attention to a nest of tracker jackers , genetically modified venomous wasps. Using a knife, Katniss saws the branch holding the nest off of the tree, causing it to fall on the Careers; Glimmer succumbs to the stings and dies, while the others narrowly escape to a nearby lake.

Katniss is disoriented from being stung a few times; in a hallucination, Peeta returns and tells her to flee. Rue helps Katniss recover, and the two become friends and allies. Katniss destroys the supplies the Careers have stockpiled by detonating mines guarding them, while Rue provides a distraction. Katniss later finds and frees Rue from a net trap, but Marvel impales Rue with a spear thrown at Katniss, who then fatally shoots him with an arrow in response.

Katniss comforts Rue and, after she dies, adorns her body with flowers. Afterward, she makes a three-finger salute to the cameras. This triggers a riot in District President Coriolanus Snow warns Crane about the unrest that has been caused under his watch. Hide Show Producer 4 credits. Show all 11 episodes. Show all 26 episodes. Show all 12 episodes. Hide Show Thanks 8 credits.

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Star Sign: Aries. Getting Started Contributor Zone ». Edit page. In New York City, you're much more likely to fall down a manhole than a rabbit hole and, if you do, you're not going to find a tea party. What you might find? It has been sold into 21 foreign territories.

Her next series, The Hunger Games Trilogy, is an international bestseller. It has been sold into 54 territories in 52 languages.