How Taylor Lautner Played A Part in the Success of The Hunger Games Movie in the UK
Posted on 26. Mar, 2012 by lisa in Movie Related, News
Moviefone tells us how Taylor Lautner was a huge help in making The Hunger Games movie a success in the UK:
“In the U.S. there really wasn’t a need to build awareness for the book in the same way as we had to here,” Lionsgate U.K. higher-up Zygi Kamasa told The Hollywood Reporter. “We [Lionsgate U.K.] spent a lot of time working with Scholastic [the book’s publisher] to get teenagers to read the book.
“And what a better star vehicle than the often-shirtless Lautner? When the “Twilight” star’s action film, “Abduction” hit theaters overseas, the distributor passed out Collins’s book to the first 20,000 viewers.
“The Hunger Games,” which premiered in London this past weekend, ended up the year’s biggest box office hit in England, at £4.85 million ($7.69 million). A sum that is more than double “Twilight’s” first U.K. premiere.
