LOS ANGELES — The Hunger Games”is getting a limited IMAX run, Lionsgate said on Thursday.

The hotly anticipated adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel will only unspool in the big screen format for one week, starting on March 23, 2012.

The film will be remastered for IMAX screens.

Set in a post-apocalyptic future, the film centers on a group of young people who are forced to battle to the death in televised combat.

Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone), Josh Hutcherson (The Kids Are All Right), and Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song) star in the Gary Ross film.