The Hunger Games (film) not a pop song or anything. More of an anthem that could be playing at a big sporting event like the [Hunger] Games. So we did a structure for that, and then James Newton Howard made a movie-score version of it that happens in several places in the film." Arcade Fire's Panem national anthem has received strong reviews. According to "Spin", "'Horn of Plenty' pulls off the neat feat of sounding both exactly like Arcade Fire and exactly like a futuristic anthem. It still has one foot in the band's uncorrupted neighborhoods, but another is up on the podium at
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2013 and the highest-grossing entry in "The Hunger Games" series. The film was followed by "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay", a two-part sequel and finale of the franchise: "" was released on November 21, 2014, in the United States, and "" on November 20, 2015. "Catching Fire" received positive reviews and is widely considered by critics to be an improvement over its predecessor, with the sentiment being that it's "a more-confident, more-polished movie"; praise also goes to Lawrence's performance as Katniss. It's the most critically acclaimed chapter in "The Hunger Games" series, according to review aggregator