Financing

The whole Hunger Games trilogy has been distributed and funded by an independent studio " Lions Gate Entertainment" which is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. that is a conglomerate owning several companies spanning over different ares of the media such as films, home entertainment, music and publishing and television.

Jacobson picked up the movie rights to the Suzanne Collins trilogy in 2009 for $200,000 and sold them to Lionsgate for $1.25 million. 

The film's production began on September 16, 2013, in Boston, Atlanta, and Los Angeles. . The film carried a production budget of $160 million with a further $55 million spent on promotion and advertisements, and $13.9 million in television advertisements.


The movie carried some commercially sound elements such as the principal cast of  Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, Liam Hemsworth as Gale, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch, Donald Sutherland as President Snow, Elizabeth Banks as Effie etc.
As this film was the last movie of The Hunger Games trilogy, the 'Must-See' element was already present as everyone wanted to find out how it does justice to the cliffhanger left in the previous movie.
The previous movies were very successful as they won many awards over the course of the previous 3 movies such as:

BAFTA Awards 2012
Won

BAFTA Children's Award Best Feature Film


Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2013
Won
Kick Ass Award for Best Female Action Star

Jennifer Lawrence 


North Carolina Film Critics Association 2013
Won
Tar Heel Award