How The Hunger Game rewrote the rulebook for the Hollywood blockbuster 

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series has not only been a massive commercial and critical success - according to one of its stars Natalie Dormer it has changed the face of the Hollywood blockbuster.

today (November 6), the actress - who played Cressida in the last two movies - praised the combination of mass success and important messages.

"I\'ve learned that they don\'t have to be two mutually exclusive things, to be a mega-blockbuster and to have some real meaning and message in a movie, a story," she said.

as a phenomenon has rewritten the rulebook for what can be a commercially-viable blockbuster, and it\'s long overdue.

"A franchise can have important messages and hope to inspire a generation, and still make a load of money and get bums on seats."

She continued: "It\'s about the quality of the writing. We can be more sophisticated and more respectful of our audiences when we make big blockbusters.

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"It\'s not condescending, it\'s not patronising to its younger audience and fully understands that they can process and cathartically explore ideas on the consequences of war, tyrannical oppression, liberty, a human being struggling with their sense of self-identity, questions of love, loss and sacrifice. It doesn\'t sugarcoat anything."

Producer Nina Jacobson said: "This has been an extraordinary privilege for all of us. For one because we\'re so connected to the material and connected with each other.

"It sets a very high bar in terms of the experiences you want to have. I\'ve always felt that audiences are smart, young people are smart and they deserve better than often what we provide.

"This movie has been a great reinforcement of that ambition - audiences are every bit as ambitious as filmmakers will let them be. It\'s on all of us to keep demanding that we raise the bar and not to patronise ever."

will open in cinemas on November 19. Watch a clip below.

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