The Hunger Games Blu-ray

Next month, Lionsgate Home Entertainment will bring The Hunger Games to Blu-ray. This adaptation of author Suzanne Collins' popular science-fiction novel focuses on the post-apocalyptic remnants of the United States as well as the Hunger Games, an event that pits young adults against one another in a fight to the death.

Academy Award-nominee Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone) stars as Katniss Everdeen, a skilled Hunger Games contender who unwittingly comes to represent the rebellion protesting the corrupt Capitol that fosters the brutal competition.

Directed by Gary Ross (Seabiscuit), the film also has an impressive supporting cast that includes Josh Hutcherson (The Kids Are All Right), Stanley Tucci (Captain America: The First Avenger), Toby Jones (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), Elizabeth Banks (Zack and Miri Make a Porno), Donald Sutherland (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), and Woody Harrelson (Zombieland).

Lionsgate's two-disc Blu-ray/Digital Copy combo pack presents the feature in its 2.39:1 original aspect ratio with a 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track. The disc also contains the following bonus supplements:

• Eight-part The World is Watching: Making of The Hunger Games documentary covering the film from its pre-production process through its theatrical release
• Behind-the-scenes featurettes:
• Game Maker: Suzanne Collins and The Hunger Games Phenomenom
• Letters from the Rose Garden with Donald Sutherland
• Controlling the Games
• A conversation with Gary Ross and film critic Elvis Mitchell
• Full version of the film's Panem propaganda video
• Marketing archive
• Blu-ray exclusive Preparing for The Games: A Director's Process featurette

The Hunger Games streets on August 18th.




Note: The following clip from one of The Hunger Games' Blu-ray supplements premiered at this year's San Diego Comic-Con.