The Hunger Games has been cut by its distributor in order to achieve a teen-friendly rating of 12A in the UK.
The film, set in a post-apocalyptic America where adolescents fight to the death on live TV, had been facing a 15 certificate.The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) said seven seconds of cuts included the digital removal of "blood splashes".
The movie is based on the first of a trilogy of novels by Suzanne Collins.The big screen adaptation stars Jennifer Lawrence, an Oscar nominee last year for Winter's Bone, in the lead role.
The cast also includes Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz and Donald Sutherland.
The BBFC said the film's UK distributor Lions Gate UK "chose to make cuts in order to achieve a 12A classification".
"A number of cuts were made in one scene to reduce an emphasis on blood and injury," the BBFC report said.
The film, set in a post-apocalyptic America where adolescents fight to the death on live TV, had been facing a 15 certificate.The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) said seven seconds of cuts included the digital removal of "blood splashes".
The movie is based on the first of a trilogy of novels by Suzanne Collins.The big screen adaptation stars Jennifer Lawrence, an Oscar nominee last year for Winter's Bone, in the lead role.
The cast also includes Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz and Donald Sutherland.
The BBFC said the film's UK distributor Lions Gate UK "chose to make cuts in order to achieve a 12A classification".
"A number of cuts were made in one scene to reduce an emphasis on blood and injury," the BBFC report said.
