Imax to produce 'Hunger Games' day and date

Imax will release Lionsgate's high-profile ''The Hunger Games'' for any one-week window day and date using the pic's March 23 wide release. Electronically re-mastered in to the Imax format, the film may have a restricted one-week engagement in Imax theaters. ''With what is the news, the discharge of ''The Hunger Games'' has truly become a legendary event,'' stated Lionsgate's Joe Drake. ''The Hunger Games'' and Imax really are a match produced in paradise - fans love this book because its world is really strongly imagined to see the film in Imax can make them feel like they've arrived right in the center of the experience.'' The pic may be the first installment from the trilogy according to Suzanne Collin's best-selling books. The 2009 week, Imax introduced that Marvel and Wally Disney will to produce electronically re-mastered ''The Avengers'' day and date too on May 4. This past year, Paramount's ''Mission Impossible , Ghost Protocol'' released in previews on Imax for 5 days before its wide release. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com