The movie version of "The Hunger Games" is generating remarkably good which is to say not at all "Twilight"like reviews. At the Strib, Colin Covert writes: "The muchrepeated motto for teen gladiators of "The Hunger Games" is "May the odds be always in your favor." The odds of making a good film of the property were daunting. How can you balance the demands of a violent science fiction opus, a story of starcrossed young love, and a dark portrait of class warfare and dystopian decadence? Above all, how do you cope with the ardent expectations of 23 million readers who turned Suzanne Collins' books into a global pop cult phenomenon? Happily, the film should meet most high hopes and exceed the rest.LM: You know, we do that. Not every country has a players' association. So as a policy we decided that we are going to talk to the boards, and all the boards have their players' association.

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