The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 2009 book, Catching Fire
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Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins, 2009
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Francis Lawrence, 2013

Sometime after Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark return to District 12 following their victory in the 74th Hunger Games, President Snow visits Katniss and explains that her actions in the Games have inspired uprisings. He orders her to use the upcoming Victory Tour to convince him that her actions were out of love and not defiance against the Capitol, warning her that her friends, family, and District 12 will otherwise suffer.


The Hunger Games. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2008 book
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The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins, 2008
movie vs book
Gary Ross, 2012

The nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts, ruled from the Capitol. As punishment for a failed revolt, each district is forced to select two tributes, one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18, to fight to the death in the annual Hunger Games until there is only one survivor.


The Dressmaker. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2000 book
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The Dressmaker
Rosalie Ham, 2000
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Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2015

In 1926, in the fictitious Australian outback town of Dungatar, schoolgirl Myrtle Dunnage is blamed for the death of classmate Stewart Pettyman and exiled from the town by local police sergeant Horatio Farrat. Twenty-five years later in 1951, Myrtle, now an accomplished dressmaker going by the name Tilly, returns to Dungatar.


Most Dangerous Game. Poster of the 2020 TV series and cover of the 1924 book, The Most Dangerous Game
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The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell, 1924
TV series vs book
Phil Abraham, 2020-

Dodge Maynard accepts a proposal to take part in a deadly game where he quickly learns that he is not the hunter but the prey out of desperation to care for his pregnant wife before a terminal sickness can claim his life.


The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2010 book, Mockingjay
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Mockingjay
Suzanne Collins, 2010
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Francis Lawrence, 2014

After being rescued from the destroyed arena in the 75th Hunger Games, tributes Katniss Everdeen, Beetee, and Finnick Odair are taken to District 13, a below-ground district isolated from Panem that has been spearheading the rebellion. Katniss is told that her arrow destroying the forcefield led to riots in over half the districts, joining District 13 in the rebellion, which caused Snow to bomb District 12 in retaliation.


The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2009 book, Catching Fire
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Catching Fire
Suzanne Collins, 2009
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Francis Lawrence, 2015

Three convicts, Ulysses Everett McGill, Pete Hogwallop, and Delmar O’Donnell, escape from a chain gang and set out to retrieve a supposed treasure Everett buried before the area is flooded to make a lake. They pick up Tommy Johnson, a young black man, who claims he sold his soul to the devil in exchange for the ability to play guitar.


The Last Song. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 2008 book
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The Last Song
Nicholas Sparks, 2008
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Julie Anne Robinson, 2010

At 17, Veronica Ronnie Miller remains as rebellious as she was the day her parents divorced and her father moved to Georgia three years prior. Steve now has the chance to reconnect with his estranged daughter when her mother, Kim Miller sends the rebellious teen and her younger brother, Jonah, to spend the summer with him in Georgia.


Arkansas. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2008 book
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Arkansas
John Brandon, 2008
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Clark Duke, 2020

Drug dealer Kyle Ribb is promoted to move product wholesale in Arkansas, part of a loose criminal organization run by a man named Frog. He explains that Kyle and Swin are to work under him, living on the park grounds with cover identities as park employees while they traffic drugs across the southern U.S. Swin begins dating Johnna, a nurse who brings him to a curio shop run by an eccentric owner.


Paranoia. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 2003 book
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Paranoia
Joseph Finder, 2003
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Robert Luketic, 2013

Adam Cassidy is a low-level inventor who works for a corporation run by Nicholas Wyatt. After being fired for insubordination, Adam uses the company’s credit card to pay for bottle service for his friends at a club. Wyatt and his enforcer, Miles Meechum, blackmail Adam into becoming a corporate spy for Wyatt by threatening to have him arrested for fraud.


Independence Day: Resurgence. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Independence Day Resurgence
Tracey West, 2016
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Roland Emmerich, 2016

Twenty years after the devastating interstellar war against alien invaders, the United Nations has founded the Earth Space Defense, a global defense and research program that reverse-engineers alien technology and serves as Earth’s early warning system against extraterrestrial threats. It is revealed that people such as former U.S. President Thomas Whitmore, Dr. Brackish Okun, and Umbutu are telepathically linked to the aliens’ collective consciousness, following personal encounters, and have visions of an unidentified spherical object.