The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Lawrence's acting, its themes, action sequences, musical score, screenplay, visual effects, and emotional depth it is considered one of the best films in the series.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on November 11, 2013, and was theatrically released in the United States eleven days later. Filming locations included Georgia, Hawaii, and New Jersey. The main cast was confirmed by September 2012 and principal photography began later that month, lasting until March 2013. Lionsgate announced a sequel film based on Collins' second Hunger Games novel in 2012, with Gary Ross initially set to return as director Ross was replaced with Lawrence that May, while deBruyn completed several rewrites to Beaufoy's screenplay. In the film, Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson) become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the Games inspire uprisings in Panem. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Donald Sutherland, Jeffrey Wright, Stanley Tucci, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The sequel to The Hunger Games (2012), it is the second installment in The Hunger Games film series. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a 2013 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by Simon Beaufoy and Michael deBruyn, based on the 2009 novel Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins.

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