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Hunger Games Star Scores Payday,With a record-breaking worldwide weekend haul of more than $214 million, The Hunger Games ' prospects seem anything but anemic -- not just for the franchise but also for stars Jennifer Lawrence , Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth . Its domestic gross of $152.5 million ranks only behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and The Dark Knight in all-time opening weekends, which should also mean a big financial windfall for its three stars.   Although Lawrence was paid only $500,000 to play Katniss Everdeen in the film, she is set to receive "escalators," bonuses that kick in when the movie crosses certain box-office thresholds (which by all accounts it already has crossed). She stands to bring in more than $1 million by the time the film finishes its theatrical run and can expect greater rewards going forward. By comparison, sources say she was paid scale -- somewhere in the range of $3,000 a week -- for her breakthrough role as ...

Jennifer Lawrence is sexy. As she’s made her way down many a red carpet since being nominated for an Oscar for her role in Winter’s Bone , she’s churned out look, proving that she has the bod of a certified Hollywood babe. But as fans flock to theaters this weekend to see Lawrence kick arena ass in The Hunger Games , there is a conversation going about the fact that she isn’t exactly sporting the body of a 16-year-old who supposedly spends her days hunting squirrels for food. The New York Times noted, “A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission.” In other words, is Lawrence too sexy to play the starving Katniss? To be clear, this particular discussion is not about Lawrence’s performance — EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum called it “as impressive a Hollywood incarnation of Katniss as one could ever imagine.” It also puts aside the appla...