Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 is lording over the box office and it is expected to rake in more money in the coming days. In the latest data provided by Deadline's Amanda Nduka, the Jennifer Lawrence starrer movie, earned $24.1M during the Black Friday holiday, topping new comers like the Penguins of Madagascar and Horrible Bosses 2.
Ticket sales is not the only area where Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I movie is dominating. Even the music industry. According to BBC UK, Jennifer Lawrence's song The Hanging Tree is now an official Top 40 single after reaching number 29 in the UK single charts.
BBC wrote:
"The American actress sings on The Hanging Tree by composer James Newton Howard. It features on the soundtrack of her new film The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. Mid-week sales figures from the Official Charts Company show the song is at number 29. The track was co-written by composer James Newton and the folk rock band The Lumineers."
The success of Jenniference Lawrence's song can be attributed to the success of Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I movie. Or simply because the name JLaw is connected to it.
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I film director Francis Lawrence revealed that Jennifer Lawrence was not really sold on the idea of singing. The Hollywood sweetheart was even reduced to tears while doing the performance.
"I knew she didn't love the idea of singing, but I didn't realize how nervous she was until when we started the first take, and she was in tears. Not totally broken down, but she was unhappy," Lawrence revealed to the Vulture. "She would have much rather we used somebody else's voice. I think she said she wanted Lorde [who sings the movie's theme song] to do it!"
"It shouldn't sound like a professional," the director says. "It should sound like a real girl singing. So she did it. She did it all day. And she has a really cool sound to her voice. There's kind of a raspy texture to it. So it was not terrible in the slightest."
