'Hunger Games' Is 2012's Most Anticipated Film, Poll Says

Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation tops the final installment in the hugely successful "Twilight" movie franchise.

Time for Twilight to move over.

Lionsgate's big-screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins' novel The Hunger Games, hitting theaters next year, is the most anticipated film of 2012, a new poll conducted by MTV's NextMovie.com suggests, topping the final installment of the Twilight saga.

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Hunger Games, out March 23 and starring Jennifer Lawrence, grabbed more than half of the vote from movie fans, with 51 percent going its way. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, hitting theaters Nov. 16, followed close behind with 45 percent of the vote.

Unfortunately for the rest of the pack, including The Dark Knight Rises, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Avengers, the comic book films garnered a combined 4 percent of the vote.

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Even so, Twilight's on-screen couple Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as Bella and Edward trailed Harry Potter's Emma Watson and Rupert Grint as Hermione and Ron by less than half a percentage point (49.8 percent vs. 49.4 percent).

And when asked to choose which movie was the best of the year, moviegoers opted for the last film in the Potter series: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, which tallied 52 percent of the vote. Breaking Dawn received 48 percent.

Hunger Games, directed by Gary Ross, revolves around a dysopian society, in which teenagers and children are chosen to fight to the death in what is called the Hunger Games.

The poll received a total of nearly 1 million votes.