By 9 p.m. Thursday, throngs of mostly young people were standing in line for the premiere of The Hunger Game, a much-anticipated movie premiering at midnight at the Tysons Corner movie theaters and across the U.S.
The AMC theaters at Tysons Corner has 16 screens. 13 are showing the Hunger Games. Customers can choose the traditional digital version or pay more and see it in IMAX.
“The Hunger Games” trilogy, a best-selling series of young adult books by Suzanne Collins, has generated the kind of mania familiar to fans of “Twilight” and Harry Potter, according to the New York Times.
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The books are about teenagers who have to fight to the death in a televised competition held on a post-apocalyptic world.
Some of the fans brought dinner and picnicked sitting in line.
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