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LOS ANGELES (AP) The feast is on: "The Hunger Games" has taken in $68.25 million domestically in its first day, a record for a non-sequel.

The Friday total for Lionsgate's "The Hunger Games" was the fifth-best opening day ever and puts the movie on track for the best debut weekend ever in March. That record is held by "Alice in Wonderland" with $116.1 million.

The big start should translate into an opening weekend of as much as $140 million domestically, according to Paul Dergarabedian, analyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com.

First-day revenues for "The Hunger Games" were well behind the record $91.1 million for last summer's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2." But "The Hunger Games" came within a few million dollars of each of the last three "Twilight" movies, whose opening days ranged from $68.5 million to $72.7 million.

"The Hunger Games" stars Jennifer Lawrence as a teen forced to compete in a televised death match against other youths in a future North American society where a privileged capital city oppresses the people of 12 outlying worker districts. The film is based on the first book in a best-selling trilogy by author Suzanne Collins.

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Thu, Mar 22 2012 by Bitchie Staff | Filed Under: Celebrities

Beyonce is back on her business grind. She was spotted showing off her tiny post-baby waist as she arrived at her office building earlier today in floral pants that she paired with yellow pumps. And of course shes still repping Blue Ivy with the blue nail lacquer.

When Rihannas not working, shes normally partying however she took a day off from both yesterday to have a quiet dinner with her best friend Melissa. Meanwhile, the paparazzi hounded her as she left Giorgio Baldi Restaurant because they were wondering what she was doing leaving Ashton Kutchers house at 4am earlier that morning. **sips tea**

Ciara hit the streets of Manhattan rocking blond combover bangs earlier this week.

Melanie Fiona was spotted looking casual and cute as she exited Fuse Studios yesterday afternoon. Her new album The MF Life is in stores now and has been getting rave reviews.

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At midnight tonight, Jennifer Lawrence will officially become a mega-star, thanks toher lead role in The Hunger Games. It can be a dangerous thing, taking on the role of an iconic book hero, but Lawrence has handled it with aplomb, showing a poise that is built over years of experience. That's no lucky strike; while many are getting to know the actress for the first time, Lawrence has been at this game for nearly a decade. Here's a quick guide to her career, for the uninitiated.

Lawrence got her start when she was 14-years-old and convinced her mother to take her from their horse farm in Kentucky to New York City so that she could audition and meet agents (an audition for Twilight did not work out).

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Soon, she got small roles -- a part in the TV movie Company Town and an episode of Monk in 2006, episodes of Cold Case and Medium in 2007 and 2008 -- and eventually, her efforts earned her a spot on the TBS sitcom The Bill Engvall Show, in which she played the comedian's teenage daughter, Lauren Pearson. That series ran for three seasons, 30 episodes overall, and launched her star.

"The Bill Engvall Show, I'm so grateful for it," Lawrence recently told Under the Radar Magazine. "I had so much fun on that show, and we all became like family. It funded my indie career, so I could do the movies that I want."

Engvall knew from the star that she'd be a star.

Of my favorite scenes that I did on that show, one of them was with Jennifer. I go back and watch it every once in a while," he told Kentucky's MetroMix last year. "We had a scene where she was mad at me and I had to go in and apologize to her. We had that nice dad-daughter moment. I remember (thinking), This girl's good.' She's got it; she's got what it takes. I think she'll be holding that statuette before she's done.

While still working on Engvall, Lawrence landed her first film lead, in 2008's The Poker House, as a teenager growing up in a troubled household in poor, 1970s Iowa. She won Best Performance at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

"I was young. I hadnt done anything else and so everything that I read I wanted to do," she said about the film in a 2009 interview. "But now that Im older and actually have a point of view and I can see what an amazing, brilliant script it is and how it grabs you and it has teeth and its real and its ugly and all the things that arent usually appealing really appeal to me."

She starred in another lauded domestic drama that year, The Burning Plain, playing a troubled teenager who accidentally murders her mother and her mother's boyfriend, then moves to Mexico. Charlize Theronplayed the older version of her character. Lawrence won theMarcello Mastroianni award for emerging actors at the Venice Film Festival.

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