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Francis Lawrence was born on March 26, 1971 in Vienna, Austria. He is a producer and director, known for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013), I Am Legend (2007) and Constantine (2005).
Since Lions Gate had director Francis Lawrence film the two Mockingjay films back-to-back, the mini-studio is clearly confident that the stellar box-office performance of the first two films will continue. However, could Mockingjay Part 1 top Lions Gate's own expectations and become the highest-grossing film of 2014?
The business of The Hunger GamesThe first Hunger Games film grossed $691 million on a budget of $78 million. The second film, Catching Fire, grossed $865 million on a budget of $130 million. This means that gross ticket sales rose 25% between the first two films.
By comparison, the global box office of Lions Gate/Summit Entertainment's Twilight series surged 81% from $393 million to $710 million between the first two films. Therefore, it's not unreasonable to assume that Lions Gate could experience another 25% bump between Catching Fire and Mockingjay Part 1, which would help the latter's global box office hit $1.08 billion. That would be enough to edge out Viacom (NASDAQ: VIA ) /Paramount's Transformers: Age of Extinction, the top film of 2014, which has grossed $968 million worldwide.
More important, the combined budget of the two Mockingjay films, at $250 million, is only moderately higher than Age of Extinction, which had a budget of $210 million. If Part 2 is as successful as Part 1, we could easily see the two Mockingjay films grossing more than $2 billion on a $250 million budget. By comparison, Disney's The Avengers grossed $1.5 billion on a budget of $220 million.
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