Director Gary Ross has finished principal photography on Lionsgate's highly anticipated movie, "The Hunger Games," the studio announced Thursday.
Lionsgate is betting that "Hunger Games" will do for it what "The Twilight Saga" — an adaptation of another series of young adult novels — did for Summit. The studio has rights to three more "Hunger Games" movies.
The book trilogy has sold more than 12 million copies in the United States alone, and has a significant worldwide fan base.
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The studio kept the set closed to the press and visitors — although it sponsored a sweepstakes that brought five winners from around the world, and their guests, to visit the sets, watch filming and meet the cast.