Budget for film to be shot around Asheville and North Carolina up from $60 million to $75 million

Jason Sandford

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The news from thehungergamesblog.wordpress.com:

According to The Wall Street Journal, The Hunger Games movie has a budget of $75 million an increase over the initial $60 million:

The highest-profile of the new candidates is Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.’s adaptation of Ms. Collins’s popular “Hunger Games” trilogy, which has more than 8.8 million copies in print. The series’ first film, about a teenage girl forced to compete for her life on a reality television show, has a production budget of roughly $75 million and is slated for release next March.