Lionsgate has announced today its twelve week “Tick Tock” countdown for the worldwide release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire! In anticipation for the movie release, each week something new and exciting will be revealed through The Hunger Games Explorer. To start off the countdown, Lionsgate has first revealed one of the most awaited news that fans will be really happy to know. Movie tickets will go on sale starting October 1st! This means fans can mark the date and be ready to get their tickets that will be available through Fandango and MovieTickets.com on Tuesday, October 1 at 12pm ET / 9AM PT.

Along with this great news, there is also the debut of the first song from the official The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack, the track “Atlas” by multiplatinum recording artist Coldplay, available now for download via iTunes. But that is not all. Fans will have the opportunity to enter Lionsgate’s ‘Listen & Share’ contest where they will have the chance to WIN the original lyric sheet, handwritten by none other than Coldplay’s Chris Martin!

Be sure to check The Hunger Games Explorer “Tick Tock” Countdown every week from now until the movie release  nationwide November 22, 2013 for amazing reveals and don’t forget to use #TickTock12 across all social media this week.

In the mean time, listen to the new track by Coldplay “Atlas.”