When the first Hunger Games was released in 2012, there were high expectations that it would be the first in a series of films based on the wildly popular YA books written by Suzanne Collins. Nonetheless, the stunning achievements of Gary Rosss adaptation took everyone by surprise, with early predictions of an opening weekend take of around $75 million being made to look ridiculous by its massive $155 million start. All told, The Hunger Games banked almost $700 million, and the Catching Fire sequel made over $150 million more than that. Can The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 become the first in the franchise to break the billion? The U.S. box office may have experienced a worrying decline this summer but the emergence of major foreign markets like China has placed a higher degree of importance on tales that travel and can appeal to a global audience. The Hunger Games movies certainly fulfil those criteria, and it looks like the odds of another huge success are ever in favour of Katniss and Co.Why the Guardians should be worried: A lock to out-gross Guardians, Mockingjay Part 1 will surely better Catching Fires achievement of finishing fifth overall in 2013. The only real question is whether or not it will manage to overtake Transformers as the years biggest hit (unlikely, but not completely out of the realms of possibility). And Mockingjays other chief rival is