The Hunger Games Midnight Showing - Our Experience and Yours as Well!

As promised, we will share our Midnight Showing experience! And some of YOU shared with us your pictures and stories as well so of course we will be including those. Check it out to see how some Hunger Games fans spent their Midnight Showing!

Welcome to District 12:

On March 22, 2012, Welcome to District 12's Courtney, Tiffany and Denise, along with our group of friends, went to see The Hunger Games at midnight in the Cinerama Dome at the ArcLight in Hollywood.

Our group outside of the ArcLight and an accurate representation of all our personalities.
Clockwise from the left: Michelle, Chelsea, Patty, Tiffany, Janine, Denise & Courtney

The bread in our mouths comes from our Hunger Games pre-movie snack: District 11-like bread, goat cheese wrapped in basil, apples and beef jerky, all in a basket.

We're all sporting our Hunger Games headbands made by our friend Patty, and eventually we all ended up with Katniss braids done by Denise!

The rest of our story and others' midnight showing experiences after the cut!

Gary Ross was in our Midnight Showing!

I guess living in L.A. has its benefits. The Welcome To District 12 crew enjoyed the midnight showing in the Cinerama Dome at the Arclight Cinema in Hollywood.

Every movie gets introduced by a staff member. We were all the way in the back, and the guy came out to introduce it. I turned to my friend and said "Hey he looks like Gary Ross from afar." Not a moment later did he say, "Hi, I'm Gary Ross." Commence flipping out. Turns out Arclight is his local theatre!

Fandango: Ticket Sales Update PLUS Theatres Adding More Midnight Showings!

Sorry we got a little behind on our postings, but here's a cool update on how ticket sales are going on Fandango's end.

“HUNGER GAMES” SELLS OUT 1,000 SHOWTIMES ONE WEEK IN ADVANCE OF MARCH 23 RELEASE DATE, OVERTAKING “TWILIGHT” IN FANDANGO’S ADVANCE TICKET SALES

Los Angeles – March 15, 2012) One week from tonight, millions of moviegoers across the country will be entering the arena of “The Hunger Games” as the movie debuts in theaters at 12:01 a.m. on March 23.

More than a thousand showtimes are already sold out across the country, from New York to San Francisco, from Maine to Hawaii. Theater owners are adding additional showtimes -- some as late as 3:00 a.m. on Friday morning -- to meet the demand for tickets, available at http://www.fandango.com/thehungergames/movieguide.  The film’s advance ticket sales have already surpassed those of the first “Twilight” movie at the same point in that film’s sales cycle.

“It's our fastest-selling franchise-opener since ‘Twilight’," says Rick Butler, general manager and executive vice president of Fandango. "The brisk advance ticket sales are a testament to the strength of the incredible marketing campaign which has clearly resonated with fans and even those unfamiliar with the books."

"Hunger Games" currently represents 71% of today’s ticket sales on Fandango. Here are a few more statistics from an online survey of several thousand “Hunger Games” moviegoers conducted on Fandango:

• 72% say the intriguing premise and action is what attracts them most to  "Hunger Games”; only 18% picked the love story as the main attraction;

• 57% are planning to see the movie with a group of friends;

• 46% of respondents are 25 or older; 54% are younger than 25.