to help me get this trip in when you get back home so what do we do from now on your job is to be a distraction so people forget what the real problems are  invincible i'm david bruce and you are watching visual hollywood where we take offense centric point of view of the films from hollywood today we're looking back to two thousand and thirteen and probably one of the most significant films of that year what film was that why the hunger games catching fire the second in the series starring jennifer lawrence a man wow and can she act you know you know if you don't like you know all the hoopla  don't like big budget films like this one i just got to tell you that if you go and see even with such an attitude you're going to be overwhelmed by her acting she is an amazing actress she puts herself into it she is consummate and well if you've seen any of her other films and particularly the independent films you know that and she delivers in this i was really impressed this film really did well it had a budget of one hundred and thirty million dollars now that is an awful lot of money but it actually made in the opening weekend one hundred and fifty eight million opening weekend so that's more than the budget and to date it's made four hundred and eight million dollars near a half a trillion dollars so wow can i just say something here before we get into an incredible program about everything you ever wanted to know about the hunger games it's coming up but this film was female driven not only the lead actress but also the audience most of the people who went to go see this film were female females women are the driving force there were a number of macho movies and opened in two thousand and thirteen and i got to tell you they did do really well but this one did spectacularly lesson to be learned here another film that did so well that was led  by women and particularly to women was the heat yes and then we ended the year two thousand and thirteen with an amazing film gravity where sandra bullock basically carried the whole film she's almost the only person in the film except for and occasional george clooney was always good but the point when movies go macho they don't do very well anymore the future belongs to women and i think this film demonstrates that quite well without any further ado let's take a look at everything you need to know about the hunger games catching fire it's a definitely exciting it's a little weird because we're not done with the movie and it feels like i'm on the international tour for you know the film and we're not quite finished with it but sure it's exciting and partially because it's my first time here so it's nice to be here you know one of my hopes was that you know that this movie reaches more and more people you know universally it did for you know very with the first one did very well in america but you know i think there's room to grow and hopefully people are reading the books and enjoying the books and hopefully you know more people around the world will come see th film it's fantastic you know it's such a great group of people every realigns case fantastic the producers are fantastic the cast has been incredible i mean really talented people really nice people to be around was really fun and sad collaborators you know we did a bunch of new people as well so it's been it's been really good for the fans of the books and for the fans of the movies i mean you know we did a really true adaptation of this book you know i'm a lover of the books and a big fan of susan collins the author who we really try to treat stay true to the spirit and truth of the book which we did so i think you'll enjoy that but i just think that it's a really emotional story i think the performances are fantastic and i think the actions fantastic on that i'm really pleased with the way this story came came together i've always been a big fan  than it's so exciting because i know this is just such a big event and so much fun to see all the fans just sad and so excited it's really great maybe just see you know how the characters are growing and changing throughout these movies and see you know from the first first movie to  like to it's like they just they're like i love it and i love it so much that i'm going to completely dress up and like wait you know all night long just to be able to have a poster side like it's so sweet that i feel like you kind of just want to like give the more you know this trip doesn't include get back home you never get off this train you tour mentors now from now on your job is to be a distraction so people forget what the real problems are it's incredible i mean the first time it was great but you know in a way we were all still getting to know each other and now it's a called friends who are really familiar with each other and it is just fun all day long i i think it's the funnest set i've ever been on he still he at this point you know katniss and peeta have been living in the same areas hammett's because they they moved the victors up to a nice little area where they all stay and so we've been living in fairly close proximity and i think getting along pretty good there's always a degree of contentiousness between my character and katniss but you know i think peter and i get along real well hammett she's i was concerned to mentor these two yet again but it's it's a much bigger deal in the sense that she is the mockingjay in the symbol of the revolution that is  imminent so you know obviously him which is is doing things behind the scenes that that we don't see on screen and but you know it's is a very very pivotal time in in the in the course of their relationships and just in the course of their lives you know this is a really pivotal time