Hunger Games Film: The Source For Hunger Games News: 2013

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VIDEO: The Sound of Catching Fire

Watch Francis Lawrence and Jeremy Peirson talk about the sound of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in this video!

Set Photo: Mockingjay Filming Stunt

We now have this picture from the set of Mockingjay thanks to @karen_freeman. What do you think it is displaying?

Katniss Everdeen on Time's Most Influential Characters List

Time made a list of the most influential characters of 2013.

Beyond leading Catching Fire to a gross of $600 million—and counting—the Hunger Games heroine (played by Jennifer Lawrence) is also inspiring several real-world product lines. Among them: the Nerf Rebelle line of guns, quivers and crossbows for girls, Lucas Hugh “Capitol Label” workout clothes, and a makeup line from CoverGirl.

Catching Fire Breaks $700 Million at Boxoffice

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire reached the seven hundred million dollar mark at the boxoffice in under a month. Congrats to everybody who worked on the movie!

VIDEO: New Catching Fire TV Spot 'Holiday'

We now have a new The Hunger Games: Catching Fire tv spot titled 'Holiday'. You can watch it below the page break.

Set Photos: Mockingjay Filming at Atlanta Marriot

We now have some set photos of Mockingjay from the Marriot Marquis in Atlanta, Georgia.

Catching Fire Golden Globe Nominations

The Hunger Games fandom received two Golden Globe nominations. One for Coldplay's 'Atlas' which was part of the Catching Fire soundtrack, and another for Jennifer Lawrence's role in American Hustle.

VIDEO: Jennifer on Josh Horowitz

Jennifer Lawrence interviewed with Josh Horowitz from MTV and it is hilarious. This is a must watch! Platypus face, haha. You can watch below the page break.

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Robert Knepper Cast As Antonius?

Robert Knepper has been cast as Antonius. Nobody in the fandom is actually sure who this guy is. Maybe it's a joke?

VIDEO: New Catching Fire TV Spot 'Atlas'

We now have a new trailer for Catching Fire titled 'Atlas'. You can watch it below the page break! This is by far the most compelling and emotional tv spot so far. So beautiful!

Catching Fire Makes Almost $700 Million in 17 Days

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has made $673,365,000 in only 17 days. This is 97% of what The Hunger Games made in it's entire run! Congrats to all of the people who have dedicated their time and efforts to producing this film.

Happy Birthday Jeffrey Wright

The staff would like to wish our very own Beetee a Happy Birthday. May the odds be ever in your favor!

Coldplay's Atlas Nominated for a Grammy

Coldplay's Atlas from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack was nominated for a Grammy! Congratulations to Coldplay and everybody who worked on the Catching Fire album! You can see all the nominees HERE.

Pre-Order Catching Fire on DVD and Blueray

You can now pre-order The Hunger Games: Catching Fire through different deals on both blueray and DVD platforms.

Target: LINK TO PRE-ORDER

Target Exclusive (45 minutes of content):• “ONE VISION” (A FAITHFUL ADAPTATION)–translating Suzanne Collin’s source material to the big screen• “THE ALLIANCE” (RETURNING CAST)—an inside look at the close-knit relationships of the returning actors• “FRIEND OR FOE” (NEW CAST)–finding the perfect embodiments of the new characters

Amazon: LINK TO PRE-ORDER

Happy Birthday Julianne Moore

Our very own Alma Coin aka Julianne Moore's birthday was today! May the odds be ever in your favor!

VIDEO: New Catching Fire TV Spot 'History'

We now have a new The Hunger Games: Catching Fire tv spot titled 'History'. You can watch it below the page break.

VIDEO: Josh and Liam Teemix Interview (Funny)

Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth had a pretty hilarious interview with Teemix about girls and kissing. It's pretty hilarious. You can watch below the break.

VIDEO: Capitol Propaganda Ads

MovieClips "dystopian ads" give us a look at each of the districts. You can watch all twelve below.

Catching Fire Has 5th Highest Opening Weekend of All Time

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire made around $222 million domestically opening weekend, which means that Catching Fire has the fifth largest opening weekend of all time! Isn't this exciting?

Check out Joanna Bush, the Artist Behind the Art in Catching Fire

Did anybody else love the paining of Rue or the graffiti work in Catching Fire? If so, you should check out Joanna Bush, the artist behind the art in Catching Fire.

Catching Fire Grosses $186 Million

As of Wednesday, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has grossed $186 million domestically and $333 million worldwide. We can expect Catching Fire to break a couple of records:) Congrats to all the people involved in making this film!

You Can Now Purchase Catching Fire Score

The score for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is now available to be purchased from Amazon. Click Here to purchase.

VIDEO: Sam Claflin Rolling Stone Interview

Our very own Finnick Odair, Sam Clafin sat down with Peter Travers from Rolling Stone to talk about his role in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

VIDEO: New Catching Fire TV Spot '#1 Movie in the World'

We now have a new tv spot for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire titled '#1 Movie in the World'. You can watch the movie below the break.

VIDEO: Francis Lawrence's Favorite Catching Fire Moments

Francis Lawrence sat down with Clevver TV to talk about what his favorite The Hunger Games: Catching Fire moments were. You can watch the video below the break.

VIDEO: Donald Sutherland Collider Interview

Our very own President Snow aka. Donald Sutherland did this cute interview with Collider. You can watch the video below the break.

Josh Hutcherson Hosts Saturday Night Live

Our very own Peeta Mellark aka. Josh Hutcherson hosted Saturday Night Live yesterday. You can watch the full episode starring Josh below the break.

Catching Fire Grosses Over $300 Million

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has grossed over $161 million domestically and over $146 million internationally, which makes for a grand total of over $300 million! Congrats to Lionsgate and all of the people who made this movie what it is.

Catching Fire Makes $25 Million on Thursday

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire made $25.25 million on opening night in the United States! Isn't this amazing!

Catching Fire - Staff Review

I honestly have no idea what to say, other than Catching Fire was phenomenal. To be honest I was not expecting much at all. I was not a big fan of the first movie, and I did not think anybody could pick off from that and make Catching Fire good. I was wrong. Kudos to Francis Lawrence for making this movie not only true to the book, but entertaining in it's own right.

One thing I complained about last year was that the "vibe" of the movie was off. It's was too shiny for my taste. However this movie was filmed in a certain way that made you feel the pain, the gore, etc. without really seeing anything too gory. The flash of a dead rabbit or the victors gutting fish added a realistic effect to scenes.

Overall, the movie was an exceptional adaption of the books.

Suzanne Collins Time Interview Part One

You can read the full interview here.

When I read people writing about the Hunger Games, there seems to be a split between people who read it as an allegory of the emotional experience of being an adolescent, and there are people who read it more literally as an exploration of the moral issues surrounding war and political oppression. Is it both? Are you comfortable with both?
Suzanne Collins: I have read so many interpretations. There’s a whole Christian allegory. There’s you know, I’ve seen people talk about it like Plato’s cave, which is really fun. I’ve seen an indictment of big government. I’ve seen, you know, the 99 percent kind of thing. I think people bring a lot of themselves to the book. When Hunger Games first came out, I could tell people were having very different experiences. It’s a war story. It’s a romance. Other people are like, it’s an action-adventure story.
You know, for me it was always first and foremost a war story, but whatever brings you into the story is fine with me. And then, of course, if a person interprets it as an adolescent experience or a Christian allegory, you can’t tell them they didn’t. That was their genuine response to it, and they’re going to have it, and that’s fine. You can’t both write and then sit on the other side and interpret it for people.
I can tell you that for me it was a war story. But it also has so many ethical issues because you’re dealing with war, and there’s all these other ethical issues surrounding with, you know, there’s violence, there’s war, there’s hunger, there’s the propaganda, there’s the environment’s been destroyed, there’s a ruthless government, misuse of power and all these other elements that come into play with it, and people may respond to ones that are most important to them, and you know other people came for the love story. That’s fine. Come for the love story, stay for the war.

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There’s a remarkable scene where Katniss, she’s just heard about the Quarter Quell and she runs into the forest and just feels everything all at once. Tell me about that scene
FL: Well we shot it very, very quickly. We actually shot two days just outside of the city here in the Ramapo Mountains in New Jersey. In January, when Jen was on her tour for Silver Linings, you know, the Oscar campaign, we caught up with her and shot two days in the mountains. And it was about 9 degrees. It was freezing, freezing cold. Because it was so cold and because in that scene she’s not wearing a coat, I could only ask her to do it three or four times, and she had done a few takes where she had been screaming out, “No, no, no, no, no.” Then I asked her to do that silently, and that ended up being the take that we used.

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Have you been surprised by what a big adult audience that book’s built?
SC: Oh yes. I didn’t anticipate that. I thought that I would maybe have my Gregor audience because they’d grown up into that YA audience, and then you know that handful of people who will read anything about dystopia, so it was a very pleasant surprise. I didn’t anticipate it.
Did you know when you were writing it that this was something very new and big?
SC: No.
Really?
SC: No. It’s just like writing everything else. I think of the early months, which was a lot of me sitting there reading survival books. None of which I can practice, but that I know academically now. And just, I worked on it just as I had worked on the Gregor books. I used the exact same process. And no, I didn’t have any sense of it being different.

Now you’ve spawned an entire subgenre.
SC: I don’t think I can take credit for that.
You can! Go ahead, take it.
SC: Well, I just think the dystopian stories are striking a nerve with people right now, and the Hunger Games contributed somewhat to that, but that can’t be the whole explanation for it. It’s something that’s going on within the culture. I think people respond to dystopian stories because they’re ways of acting out anxieties that we have and fears that we have about the future. And so much media’s coming at you and so much stuff comes at you over the Internet, your brain gets overloaded, you don’t know what to do with it. And one thing you can do with it is to spend a story or read a story. I mean I think of dystopian literature as being cautionary tales, and it’s a way you can kind of frame it and try to make sense and kind of set it outside yourself but look at the issues involved.

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What are you working on now, now that you’re free to work on things without financial concerns?
SC: Well, I probably have a few more rounds of notes on the last script, and the picture book has just come out, but it’s done. I have a new piece I’m playing around with, and it’s very new so I can’t give you the specifics of it, and we’ll just see where it goes. It may go nowhere. Right now it’s extremely complicated, and it would have to simplified a good deal to make it into a narrative. The world is complex. We’ll see.

VIDEO: Liam Hemsworth on Good Morning America

Liam Hemsworth dropped by Good Morning America to talk about The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Gale's relationship with Katniss. You can watch the video below the break.

VIDEO: Clip of Katniss and Peeta on the Train & Josh on GMA

While Josh Hutcherson was on Good Morning America, this awesome clip of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark was released on the show!

VIDEO: New Catching Fire TV Spot 'Countdown'

Yay! Only two more days until The Hunger Games: Catching Fire! Lionsgate released yet another tv spot, this one is titled 'Countdown'.

VIDEO: New Catching Fire TV Spot 'Review

Lionsgate has released a new The Hunger Games: Catching Fire tv spot titled 'Review'. With some new Effie and Capitol spots.

Watch Catching Fire LA Premiere Live

Watch the LA The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiere live at 9PM ET HERE via Yahoo.

Catching Fire Makes 2.4 Million in Brazil

Catching Fire has already been released in Brazil and it already made 2.4 million dollars on opening weekend! Isn't this exciting?

VIDEO: Catching Fire TV Spot 'Let It Fly'

We have yet another The Hunger Games: Catching Fire tv spot, this one is called 'Let It Fly'. Honestly, it has a lot of spoilers.

VIDEO: New Catching Fire Clip 'Convince Me'

Yay! We now have a brand new The Hunger Games: Catching Fire clip called 'Convince Me'. This clip features the discussion between Snow and Katniss.

VIDEO: Sam and Jena on Good Morning America

Sam Clafin and Jena Malone (Finnick and Johanna) appeared on Good Morning America recently. You can watch some clips of this below the break.

Elisbeth Banks Reading 'The Hunger Games'

Elisabeth Banks read passages from 'The Hunger Games' and posted it to Facebook. Isn't this just adorable? You can watch the video here.

New Catching Fire Clip: Beetee and Katniss

There is a brand new 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' clip with Beetee and Katniss talking. This clip was given to us on Good Morning America when Jeffrey Wright (Beetee) made an appearance on the show!

Catching Fire Rome Premiere Live

Watch 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' Rome premiere livestream below the break.

Lionsgate Announces Hunger Games Mobile Game 'Panem Run'

Lionsgate has announced a new Hunger Games/Catching Fire themed mobile game called 'Panem Run'.

LOS ANGELES, CA, and SANTA MONICA, CA, Nov. 12, 2013 – Reliance Games, a leading international mobile game studio, and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), a leading global entertainment company, are bringing the next chapter in The Hunger Games saga to mobile devices.

Based on the upcoming film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which opens in theaters worldwide on November 22, 2013, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Panem Run mobile game puts the movie’s action in the palms of players’ hands. The game will employ both competitive and social elements, allowing players to challenge fellow Hunger Games fans to see who can bring glory to their District, achieve the greatest distance, and attain the highest score.

“With its epic story of struggling for survival, The Hunger Games franchise lets us recreate the competitive world of Panem in a social mobile game,” said Manish Agarwal, CEO of Reliance Games. “In partnering with Lionsgate, we’ll build a community of Hunger Games fans, teaming up to face unique challenges together as they run through the Districts of Panem.”

“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Panem Run mobile game is a fun and exciting complement to the film’s spectacular action and story,” said Danielle De Palma, Lionsgate Senior Vice President of Digital Marketing.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – Panem Run will be available this November on smartphones and tablets.

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