Jennifer Lawrence undergo eight hours of makeup, as Romijn had done on the other films. She was intimidated in the role as she admired Romijn. Writing for "USA Today", Claudia Puig considered the film to be a "classy re-boot" of the film series, and believed that her "high-spirited performance" empowered the film. With worldwide earnings of $350 million, "X-Men: First Class" became Lawrence's highest-grossing film at that point. In 2012 she played Katniss Everdeen in "The Hunger Games", an adaptation of the first book in author Suzanne Collins' "Hunger Games" trilogy. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the series tells the story of
Dr. Who (Dalek films) Dr. Who (Dalek films) Dr. Who is a character based on the Doctor, the protagonist featuring in the long-running BBC science fiction television series "Doctor Who". The character, portrayed by the actor Peter Cushing, appeared in two films produced by AARU Productions; "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965) and "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." (1966). Plans for a third film were abandoned following the poor box office reception of the second film. Cushing made no mention of the films in his autobiography, although he kept a collection of newspaper clippings about them in a scrapbook. Whereas the contemporary television incarnation