The Hunger Games (film) formed an opinion about "The Hunger Games" as a parable of the Occupy Wall Street activity. "The Huffington Post" reported that Penn Badgley, a supporter of Occupy Wall Street, saw the film as a social commentary on the movement. Burnett also states that "Collins doesn't use the terms 1 percent and 99 percent, but it's clear that those in the Capitol are members of the 1 percent and everyone in the Panem districts is part of the 99 percent". Steven Zeitchik and Emily Rome, in the "Los Angeles Times" and the "Dallas Morning News" reported that, among other disparate interpretations,
The Hunger Games (film) became the top-selling video of 2012. The entire Hunger Games series was released on 4K UHD Blu-Ray on November 8, 2016. On August 8, 2011, while still shooting the film, Lionsgate announced that a film adaptation of the second novel in "The Hunger Games" trilogy, "", was scheduled to be released on November 22, 2013. In November 2011, Lionsgate entered negotiations with screenwriter Simon Beaufoy to adapt the novel for screen, since the post-production schedule for "The Hunger Games" was too crowded for Ross and Collins to adapt the next film as originally planned. "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" began