Own Mockingjay Part 1 Today

March 6, 2015March 9, 2015 Lex Hunger Games, Mockingjay

Today is the home-video release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, including Blu-ray, DVD, and online streaming.

In mid-January, Mockingjay Part 1 quietly passed Guardians of the Galaxy to become the highest-grossing 2014 movie at the U.S. domestic box office. Scott Mendelson at Forbes notes that the feat is particularly impressive because Mockingjay Part 1 had neither 3D nor IMAX releases, which increase ticket prices and total gross. It also guaranteed the film will be “the highest-grossing non-3D/non-IMAX release in nearly nine years and the first such $300m+ grosser in 6.5 years.” The success of a Hunger Games movie shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it’s notable that the box office accomplishment hasn’t been more wildly reported.

Likely hoping to boost the dollar figure of the final installment, Lionsgate announced in early February that Mockingjay Part 2 will get an IMAX release. Perhaps a similar boost could have enabled Part 1 to hold on ahead of American Sniper, which is poised to squeak past Mockingjay for top 2014 film within the next few days. As Devin Faraci insightfully explained at Badass Digest, though, the long-term trends in the industry, and in the demographics of the ticket-buying audience, favor movies like the Hunger Games series.

B.J. Priester is editor of FANgirl Blog and contributes reviews and posts on a range of topics. A longtime Star Wars fandom collaborator with Tricia, he edited her novel Wynde and is collaborating with her on several future projects set in that original universe. He is a law professor in Florida and a proud geek dad.

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B.J. Priester has been a Star Wars fan since he played with the original Kenner action figures as a young boy. His fandom passion returned after watching Attack of the Clones in 2002 and reading the entire New Jedi Order series in 2003. He voraciously caught up on the novels and comics in the Expanded Universe in addition to writing fanfiction, frequently co-authoring with Tricia.

B.J. has served as editor of FANgirl Blog from its inception, as well as contributing reviews and posts on a range of topics. He edited Tricia’s novel Wynde, and is collaborating with her on several future projects set in that original universe.

Currently a tenured law professor in Florida, B.J. has been a practicing lawyer in Washington, D.C., a law clerk to a federal appeals court judge, and a law journal editor-in-chief. He is also a proud geek dad whose son who is a big fan of Star Wars and The Clone Wars.

Lex

B.J. Priester has been a Star Wars fan since he played with the original Kenner action figures as a young boy. His fandom passion returned after watching Attack of the Clones in 2002 and reading the entire New Jedi Order series in 2003. He voraciously caught up on the novels and comics in the Expanded Universe in addition to writing fanfiction, frequently co-authoring with Tricia. B.J. has served as editor of FANgirl Blog from its inception, as well as contributing reviews and posts on a range of topics. He edited Tricia’s novel Wynde, and is collaborating with her on several future projects set in that original universe. Currently a tenured law professor in Florida, B.J. has been a practicing lawyer in Washington, D.C., a law clerk to a federal appeals court judge, and a law journal editor-in-chief. He is also a proud geek dad whose son who is a big fan of Star Wars and The Clone Wars.

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