Jennifer Lawrence plays Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games."
"Mockingjay," the concluding book in the popular "The Hunger Games" trilogy, will be divided into two movies, arriving in 2014 and 2015.
The studio producing the films had previously announced that the second book in the series would be released as "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" on Nov. 22, 2013.
Lionsgate announced Tuesday that "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1" will be released Nov. 21, 2014, with "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2" to follow on Nov. 20, 2015.
The move to split the final "Hunger Games" book's story follows a strategy previously followed by the "Harry Potter" movie series with its final book, "The Deathly Hallows," and with this November's "Twilight" conclusion, "Breaking Dawn, Part 2."
The young-adult sensation written by Suzanne Collins, starring Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen, who must compete in a dystopian society's televised reality show of teens fighting to the death, reached a fever pitch this spring.
"The Hunger Games" movie was released in March and became an international hit. In that week, the movie was No. 1 at the box-office, while the book topped the best-seller charts and the film's soundtrack was atop the Billboard sales chart.
"The Hunger Games" has grossed $678.3 million at the worldwide box-office, with more than $404 million of that coming from North America alone.
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