NEWS: 'The Hunger Games' tops Yahoo's Most Searched Movies of 2012

Last week, we posted that The Hunger Games made Yahoo's 2012 Top Obsession list at #4. As part of their 2012 Year in Review, The Hunger Games film and cast were also included in a few other best-of lists including the Most Searched Movie of the Year!

• 10 Top-Searched Movies on Yahoo: The Hunger Games (#1)
• Breakout Stars: Josh Hutcherson in The Hunger Games (#1)
• Most Dramatic Big Screen Transformations: Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games

1. "The Hunger Games." The Suzanne Collins series had the makings of a crossover juggernaut like "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" before it. Its premise, however, involved a 16-year-old archer in post-apocalyptic America, sacrificing herself to fight in a killing field. Oh, and Katniss Everdeen was a girl, one of a growing cadre of underaged onscreen killing femmes. That kind of bloodlust shouldn't have been been surprising, given the female penchant for mysteries, true crime, and Lifetime women-in-peril-who-fight-back lineups. Hollywood also calculated, from "Twilight" figures, that ladies actually went to the movies, and judging from Yahoo! Searches (which ran 63% female), they would show up for this adaptation. The film had a massive opening weekend (in March), the third-biggest grosser in 2012, outperformed "Harry Potter" (in domestic grosses), and the best debut for a film that wasn't a sequel. Its influence didn't stop in the movie theaters: The impulse to shoot some arrows helped fill archery classes across the nation. All this will surely up the ante for sequel "Catching Fire," due out November 2013.

Check out more of the 2012 Year in Review at Yahoo! Movies.

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