HBO-the home of blockbuster premieres, Bags the most talked about title of 2012-The Hunger Games

As the English movie entertainment space gets more spirited; HBO has created a new benchmark by immediately getting the broadcast rights for the most talked about and critically acclaimed movie off recent - The Hunger Games, the first of a planned four-film series by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.

The Hunger Games, still in theaters across the world, has already posted the third-best opening in US history, breaking the worldwide box office records with $214 million haul in the opening weekend including $ 155 million in US alone, setting a new record for a non-sequel opening. The movie is expected to air soon in India exclusively on HBO, the channel that has a strong reputation of bringing the biggest and the latest Hollywood premieres year on year to Indian audience.

The Hunger Games is an American dystopian science fiction action-drama film directed by Gary Ross and based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence as a teen forced to compete in a televised death match against other youths in a future North American society where a privileged capital city oppresses the people of 12 outlying worker districts. Its sequel Catching Fire is soon expected to get into production.

In addition to this, HBO will air the best of box office fare in 2012 for the first time in Indian television, including Fast Five, an action movie, the fifth installment in the Fast and the Furious film series, Robert Downey Jr. starrer comedy Due Date, Ashton Kutcher-Natalie Portman starrer romantic comedy No Strings Attached and pop-sensation Justin Bieber’s biography in Justin Bieber: Never Say Never in the coming months.