By the numbers: ‘The Hunger Games’

TORONTO – Let the games begin! The stars of the hotly anticipated adventure tale “The Hunger Games” are set to greet fans and walk the red carpet as the post-apocalyptic film makes its Canadian debut Monday.

Co-stars Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Vancouver-born Alexander Ludwig are set to attend a splashy premiere in downtown Toronto.

“The Hunger Games” is based on the bestselling dystopian teen novel by Suzanne Collins.
It stars Jennifer Lawrence as heroic teenager Katniss Everdeen, who is forced battle other children to the death. Hutcherson plays her rival, Peeta, while Hemsworth is her love interest, Gale, and Ludwig plays the villainous Cato.

GlobalNews.ca and ET Canada will be live blogging the event, providing viewers with the latest news, photos, celebrity interviews and fan reaction straight from the red carpet.

As “The Hunger Games” hits theatres on Friday, we take a look at facts and figures surrounding the widely popular books and highly-anticipated movie.

45,000,000: The movie’s marketing budget, in dollars

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80,000,000: The movie’s production budget, in dollars

100,000,000: Estimated amount, in dollars, “The Hunger Games” movie is expected to earn domestically on opening weekend alone

78,000,000: Number, in dollars, of the final film budget after movie subsidies

200,000: Number of copies sold in the first print run alone of “The Hunger Games” book

24,000,000: Number of book copies sold in the United States
6: Number of authors in the “Kindle Million Club.” “The Hunger Games” author Suzanne Collins became the sixth member after the trilogy sold more than one million Kindle e-books.
142: Length of movie, in minutes
8,000,000: Number of times the trailer was viewed within the first 24 hours of its release in November
26: Number of languages the books have been translated into
84: Approximate number, in days, it took to film the movie
160: Number of weeks (and counting) that “The Hunger Games” books have spent on The New York Times Bestseller list
3: Number of books in “The Hunger Game” series
4: Number of films expected to be released from the movie franchise. The final book, “Mockingjay” will be split into two movies.
613: Number of days left until the franchise’s second film, “Catching Fire,” is released on November 22, 2013.