Fandango Catching Fire Advance Ticket Sale Perks!!

Advance tickets for Catching Fire goes on sale October 1st, but there's SO MUCH MORE! Read the press release below to read about their awesome sweepstakes (which you get entered in simply by purchasing tickets), a soon to be released behind the scenes featurette, and much more!

FANDANGO’S ADVANCE TICKETS FOR LIONSGATE’S ‘THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE” ON SALE THIS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1

The Nation’s Leading Moviegoer Destination to Launch a Nearly Two-Month Campaign Featuring Special “Catching Fire” Features and Promotions, Including Sweepstakes, Gift-with-Purchase and Exclusive Content
Advance tickets for Lionsgate’s (NYSE: LGF) “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” voted by Fandango fans as the most anticipated movie of 2013, go on sale this Tuesday, October 1 at 9:00 a.m. PT, nearly two months before the movie is released in theaters onNovember 22.  Tickets will be available for showtimes starting at 8 PM on Thursday, November 21, as well as for special double feature screenings of “The Hunger Games” followed by “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”

“This is one of the earliest coordinated efforts where all of our theater chains are simultaneously selling tickets for an expected blockbuster, nearly eight weeks in advance,” says Paul Yanover, President of Fandango. “We are working closely with Lionsgate to launch a comprehensive content and promotional program on Fandango to support our fans’ most anticipated movie of the year.”

As an added bonus, every “Hunger Games” fan who purchases an advanced ticket for “Catching Fire” will receive an exclusive free download of Phantogram’s “Lights,” a track from the upcoming original motion picture soundtrack.  In addition, ticket-buyers will be automatically entered into a sweepstakes, where Fandango will give away more than 17,000 prizes including HD movie downloads of the blockbuster first installment of “The Hunger Games” franchise on Amazon Instant Video, and thousands of Fandango movie tickets.

The “Catching Fire” sweepstakes grand prize will take one lucky winner and a guest on a trip to the island of Oahu with Hawaiian Airlines to stay at the world-class Turtle Bay Resort, where the movie filmed an action scene at one of its private coves.
 Also on Tuesday, Fandango will premiere an exclusive behind-the-scenes featurette on the making of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”

#TickTock12 REVEALED!

The clock has struck! #TickTock12 has brought the announcement of Catching Fire ticket sales on 10/1 and the debut of Coldplay's Atlas.

Here's what the Hunger Games Explorer site had to say:

#TickTock12 - To kick off our 12 Week #TickTock Countdown until The Hunger Games: Catching Fire hits theaters, Lionsgate has announced that movie tickets will be on sale beginning OCTOBER 1st at 9am PT/12pm ET! Listen to the world debut of Coldplay's new track “ATLAS” today, from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Soundtrack, then share the link for a chance to win the original lyric sheet handwritten by Chris Martin & an exclusive #TickTock12 badge! 

Check out the site to enter!

Press Release:

Let the countdown begin!

To celebrate the release of THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, Lionsgate has begun their twelve week "TickTock" countdown! Each week, more surprises will be revealed through The Hunger Games Explorer to get you excited for the most anticipated film of the year. To kickoff the countdown, Lionsgate has revealed #TickTock12 with the announcement that movie tickets will go on sale starting October 1st! 

Advance movie tickets will be available through Fandango and MovieTickets.com on Tuesday, October 1 at 12pm ET / 9AM PT.

To continue the celebration, the first track off THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Soundtrack, 'Atlas' by Coldplay, is available NOW! Give it a listen, and make sure to head over to The Hunger Games Explorer this week to have the chance to enter Lionsgate's 'Listen & Share' contest. It’s where you will have the chance to WIN the original lyric sheet, handwritten by none other than Coldplay's Chris Martin!

Participate online with the hashtag #TickTock12 this week and stay tuned to The Hunger Games Explorer for more information! 

The Hunger Games Pre-Sale Tickets Reach Over 1 Million

Say what now?

According to Deadline, The Hunger Games has pre-sold over 1 million tickets!

Crazy speculation that Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games could gross $125 million its opening 3-day weekend beginning this Friday is more and more looking like reality. Even inside-the-studio estimates have cautiously been raised from $75M to $95+M. Already, the hotly anticipated film has pre-sold over a whopping 1 million tickets on big online sellers Fandango and Movietickets.com combined. Yesterday, the pic sold 83,000 tickets alone on Fandango. This movie based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Suzanne Collins has turnedTwilight-like huge for Lionsgate which was badly in need of a franchise. But unlike Twilight which attracted predominantly a female audience, The Hunger Games could attract younger males as well as younger and older females. Exactly how much the studio can gross for the first weekend depends on how many screenings each theater can pack into 72 hours by finding enough staff willing to work the extra hours and keep the pic running continuously. Tracking continues to amaze Hollywood which knows a blockbuster like this is great for the industry.

This is incredible news for the movie and future of the franchise!

Official Lionsgate press release; Tomorrow Will Be Kinder to be the track download for online ticket purchases

Here's the press release from Lionsgate on today's news: tickets going on sale, camping out at the World Premiere of The Hunger Games, the livestream of the red carpet through Yahoo! and the national mall tour. Also the free download with online ticket purchase will be Tomorrow Will Be Kinder by The Secret Sisters.

THE HUNGER GAMES MOVIE TICKETS NOW ON SALE

Free Song Download From The Hunger Games Soundtrack With Ticket Purchase

Additional Fan Opportunities Also Revealed

Wednesday, February 22, 2012- Today marks an exciting milestone in the lead up to the release of THE HUNGER GAMES: Movie tickets are now available for purchase online http://www.thehungergamesmovie.com/index2.html.

Additionally, all fans who purchase tickets online will receive a unique code to redeem in the iTunes store for a free download of a select track from the upcoming album "THE HUNGER GAMES”: Songs From District 12 And Beyond.”  The track is “Tomorrow Will Be Kinder” by The Secret Sisters, a hauntingly beautiful duet by the real-life sisters that was written especially for the film’s companion album.   More information about the companion album and its full track list is available here

Lionsgate has also confirmed that 400 lucky fans will be admitted to the World Premiere of THE HUNGER GAMES on Monday, March 12th at Los Angeles’ Nokia Theater at LA Live.  Guidelines for fans who wish to camp on site at “THE HOB” in hopes of securing tickets and participating in the red carpet excitement have been posted here

Fans who can’t make the trip to Los Angeles will still have an opportunity to watch all the excitement LIVE from the red carpet of the world premiere. Yahoo!, the premiere digital media company, will be the official live broadcast partner and the show, in addition to exclusive content from the event, will be viewable on Yahoo! Movies at http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/the-hunger-games/ to its audience of more than 46.1 million global users.

Another opportunity for fans to meet the cast will come in the form of a national mall tour during the month of March.  RSVP for the events here to set a reminder! http://on.fb.me/HGEvents

UPDATED: BUY HUNGER GAMES TICKETS AT MIDNIGHT!! Get a FREE Song From The Companion Album!

MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! Starting midnight tonight, you can FINALLY buy your tickets for The Hunger Games! We HIGHLY recommend going through Fandango because if you order your tickets through them you'll get a FREE downloadable song from The Hunger Games companion album!

To order tickets just click that Fandango banner over there! ----------------------------->

***ATTENTION! Hunger Games Tickets will be on sale starting at 9 PST tomorrow. Even then, your theatre may not have the ticket sales listed right at that time. Make sure to call your theatre to check!