The Guinness Book of World Records 2015 has announced that our Suzanne Collins' Katniss Everdeen has set the world record as the Highest-Grossing Action Movie Heroine! The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has also set the record for the Highest-Grossing Post-Apocalypse Movie ever!
The “highest-grossing action movie heroine” may seem like quite a specific world record category – even in these supposedly enlightened times, the competition isn’t up to much – but we’ve always had a soft spot for both Katniss Everdeen and Jennifer Lawrence, and are happy to report a bit of positive news given what the Oscar-winning actress has been put through recently.
So yay for the star of the Hunger Games and her screen alter ego Katniss that she’s picked up a new Guinness World Record.
Lawrence has played the character created by author Suzanne Collins in two films so far – The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – having pulled in a total of £928 million at box offices around the world (just shy of a billion quid!).
And with the two further instalments based on Collins’s novels heading for the big screen soon, Katniss is likely to hang on to the record for the foreseeable future.
Meanwhile, Catching Fire has also been named the "highest-grossing post-apocalypse movie" ever (with a box office haul of £519,711,000 worldwide).
Sure, dystopian sci-fi is pretty big business these days, but even so that's got to be a contender for "most tenuous world record" of all time...Guinness World Records 2015 is scheduled to be on sale starting on September 11th.
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