Reuters: Global Markets: Hunger Games' stocks up on big opening weekend

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Hunger Games' stocks up on big opening weekend Mar 26th 2012, 15:04 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News "Hunger Games" gorges on $214 million global debut Sun, Mar 25 2012 "Hunger Games" midnight madness lures $19.7 million Fri, Mar 23 2012 How to play it: Feasting on "The Hunger Games" Fri, Mar 23 2012 How Lions Gate won "Hunger Games" Thu, Mar 22 2012 Wall Street slips on China, but retailers offset losses Tue, Mar 20 2012 Analysis & Opinion Comic '21 Jump Street' leads box office Icahn targets given red alert by Dynegy debacle Related Topics Hot Stocks » Asian Markets » Money » Related Video Sun, Mar 25 2012 A marquee advertising ''The Hunger Games'' is seen at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square Theatre in New York March 22, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Allison Joyce Mon Mar 26, 2012 11:04am EDT (Reuters) - Stocks in companies with a stake in this weekend's blockbuster movie "The Hunger Games" all rose in early trading on Monday after the film opened with a record-breaking $155 million at U.S. and Canadian box offices. Shares in Lions Gate Entertainment Corp, the studio that produced the post-apocalyptic action movie, rose by almost 4 percent in early trading. As well as having the highest domestic opening weekend for a non-sequel movie, Hunger Games also did well internationally, bringing in $59.3 million from 67 markets for a global haul of $214.3 million. Other stocks that were up in early trading included toymakers Hasbro Inc, which was up 1.4 percent, and Mattel Inc, up 0.2 percent. Both have licenses to make Hunger Games related items. Teen retailer Hot Topic Inc said last week it had sold out some Hunger Games merchandise. Its shares were up 0.4 percent. Anticipation had built among fans and on Wall Street, where Lions Gate shares jumped nearly 33 percent in the six weeks leading up to the film's Friday opening, Investor Carl Icahn took a 33 percent stake in Lions Gate in 2009 and launched an unsuccessful proxy fight to elect five board members to the studio's board of directors. Icahn bailed out on Lions Gate in August 2011, selling his 44 million shares for $7 apiece and losing out on a $331 million profit based on Lions Gate's closing stock price on Friday. (Reporting By Yinka Adegoke; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick) Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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