'Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2' news & update: finale is most anticipated movie in the fall

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The last movie of the "The Hunger Games" franchise is to be released this fall and is considered to be one of the most anticipated films of the last quarter of the year.

"The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" will be shown in theaters on Nov. 20 this year. It is the last movie based on the book trilogy penned by Suzanne Collins. According to a survey conducted by Fandango, Variety reports that the finale movie garnered the top spot of being the most anticipated fall movie with 36 percent votes. This is followed by "Spectre," a James Bond film starring Daniel Craig and "The Martian" starring Matt Damon.

The Inquisitr reports that the "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" is receving the same level of anticipation as the final "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" in 2011. The last Potter film raked in $1.3 billion dollars but according to Venture Capital Post, "Mockingjay Part 2" will be earning at least $3 billion dollars as the total earnings for the entire four-part movie franchise.

The reason why the last Mockingjay film is anticipated, Movie News Guide states, is because it will show the final scenes of Philipp Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee before he died in 2014.

Another reason is its heroine Katniss Everdeen, who is played phenomenally by Jennifer Lawrence. The franchise and the actress herself have a huge fan following. Book readers and movie watchers alike are excited to see the beloved protagonist, her closest friends and past game victors fight back against the tyranny of President Coriolanus Snow (played by Donald Sutherland) and the Capitol.

The Mockingjay finale also involves a star-studded cast. In addition to Lawrence and Sutherland, we will see Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket, Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy, Julianne Moore as District 13's President Alma Coin and Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman, among many others in the epic conclusion.

Director Francis Lawrence said that the final "Hunger Games" movie will be action-packed and will be full of violence and destruction. Majority of the films will also be filmed inside the Capitol.

"This is the most amount of time we've spent in the Capitol. So we had to focus a lot on how to accomplish that, especially when we spend most of our time out on the street," said director Lawrence via Ecumenical News.

Production designer Philip Messina also said that the Capitol will be Soviet-era inspired as it will be mostly ravaged by the war with its rebels and revolutionaries.

Witness the final confrontation of Katniss and President Snow in the finale, "Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" on Nov. 20, 2016.