‘The Hunger Games’ Comes Home on DVD

The biggest movie ever filmed in North Carolina (so far) and the most anticipated home entertainment release of 2012 arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download this Saturday, August 18th, packed with enough bonus features to keep fans satisfied until the sequel opens in theaters next year.

Jennifer Lawrence on the NC set of ‘The Hunger Games’.

The Hunger Games two-disc set will include over three hours of unreleased bonus material, including an eight-part documentary entitled The World is Watching: Making of The Hunger Games, as well as the full-length “Propaganda Film” shown during the Reaping scene.

The release also boasts an ultra-violet digital copy of the film, a conversation with director Gary Ross and Elvis Mitchell, marketing archives, and the featurettes Game Maker: Suzanne Collins and the Hunger Games Phenomenon, Letters from the Rose Garden, and Controlling the Games.

Preparing for The Games: A Director’s Process is also included as an exclusive feature only available in the Blu-ray set.

Lionsgate Studios released a new trailer to promote the event, which you can view in the player below!

This will be Lionsgate’s biggest home entertainment launch to date, as pre-orders on Amazon started in June, kicking off a 12-week countdown to the DVD release - at exactly midnight this Friday night.

Filmed in and around Charlotte, North Carolina in 2011, The Hunger Games broke numerous box office records earlier this year and has made more than $650 million worldwide so far.