Good news for all the Hunger Games fans!, because Roadshow Entertainment can today announce that Australia will be the first territory in the world to release THE HUNGER GAMES on DVD and Blu-ray, now confirmed for Friday 17 August.

The DVD will be released in a 2-disc edition, containing hours of additional features and never-before-seen footage. The Blu-ray edition will be a 3-disc ‘Double Play’1, and include content additional to the DVD as well as a digital copy to enable fans to view the movie on portable devices.

Since opening in cinemas nearly ten weeks ago, THE HUNGER GAMES has taken more than $30 million domestically, and almost $650 million worldwide, making it the second biggest release in the past 12 months. The film, based on the New York Times best-selling novel from writer Suzanne Collins, achieved a remarkable four-week run as the #1 film at the US theatrical box office, and the trilogy of books published by Scholastic has become a literary phenomenon with over 36.5 million copies in circulation.