Following up on our earlier report about Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” trilogy of young adult novels heading to the big screen courtesy of Lionsgate, here’s an official press release from the company about the acquisition and their plans for it. From Lionsgate: SANTA MONICA,...

Franchise-ready young adult book series are all the rage nowadays, with your “Twilight” and your “Harry Potters” and a sea of others. The latest kid-friendly series to get the big-screen treatment (and if all goes well, a movie franchise) is “The Hunger Games”, a novel...

Although billed as a young adult book, Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, sounds like and frankly reads like, a plenty grownup story to me. Coming soon from Nina Jacobson and her company Color Force. Hailed by Stephen King, it tells the story of a competition in a dystopian world where geographical regions...