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By Jazmine Dirks<\/strong>~ In a futuristic world, a young man and young woman are selected from twelve different districts to bring pride to their district in a fight to the death. Writer, Suzanne Collins\u2019s popular book series titled The Hunger Games<\/em><\/strong> came out with a bang in its first motion picture thanks to Lions Gate Entertainment and director Gary Ross.<\/p>\nMorningside Activities Council (MAC) gave out 240 tickets to see the midnight showing on March 23.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Kayla Frey, has read Collin\u2019s first book in The Hunger Games<\/em> series twice. Frey, who participated in the all day reading event held in the Learning Center and saw the movie says, \u201cAlthough it didn\u2019t follow the book exactly, I was still impressed.\u201d<\/p>\n Opening weekend the movie grossed $214 million, setting records for highest opening of a non-sequel film and biggest debut outside of blockbuster season. The movie is now showing at Sioux City\u2019s Carmike Southern Hills 12 Theatre, and the Promenade Cinema 14.<\/p>\n (Photos by Jazmine Dirks)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Jazmine Dirks~ In a futuristic world, a young man and young woman are selected from twelve different districts to bring pride to their district in a fight to the death. Writer, Suzanne Collins\u2019s popular book series titled The Hunger Games came out with a bang in its first motion picture thanks to Lions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":3704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3687\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2012\/03\/DaveE-200x133.jpg\")
In anticipation of the showing, a reading of the first book of the series was held on the second floor of the Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Learning Center from 9am-6:30 pm.<\/p>\n