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‘Hunger Games’ Franchise Filmmaker Francis Lawrence Inks First-Look Deal With Lionsgate


'Hunger Games' franchise filmmaker Francis Lawrence has signed a first look deal with Lionsgate.

Lawrence and his about:blank producing partner Cameron MacConomy recently finished production on Lionsgate’s The Long Walk, the feature take of the Stephen King novel, starring Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson. It was a year ago that Lawrence’s prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes opened, ultimately grossing close to $350M worldwide and sending the Lionsgate feature series based on the Suzanne Collins novels to $3.7 billion in global tickets sales. With the director’s deal to direct and produce The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, the next film in the series, now closed, Lawrence is now prepping work on that project.

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