VIDEO: Lorde VEVO Interview On Katniss

“I liked the idea of the film ending on this close-up of Katniss’ face, and then this very creepy, cracked hum kind of signaling your entry into her head, her deepest thoughts and secrets,” says New Zealand singer-songwriter Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor, better known as Lorde. “I’d been listening to a lot of spirituals, songs like ‘Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child,’ and I loved the crackling, flawed sounds, both of the old recordings and the delivery of the vocals, so that definitely had some influence.”

The song captures the extreme ambivalence of Jennifer Lawrence’s protagonist as she decides whether to allow herself to be used as the rebellion’s figurehead in the coming civil war at the heart of the blockbuster franchise’s penultimate installment. Although Katniss’ sympathies rest firmly with the 99% in the film’s dystopian world, she struggles with the stresses of her newfound notoriety and its dreadful responsibilities.

It wasn’t completely unfamiliar ground for the 18-year-old songwriter.

“This was my first time writing for a film, and it was important to me that it still felt like my song, not something that would feel out of place at one of my shows,” Lorde says via email. “I wanted the song to feel almost stream-of-consciousness, very much Katniss’ innermost thoughts, and when writing it, I could feel the lines blurring, my authorial voice overlapping with hers.”

And my necklace is of rope / I tie it and untie. People talk to me, but nothing ever hits home / People talk to me, and all the voices just burn holes.

There were palpable intersections for the songwriter.

“Obviously I’m not angry in the way that she is at the end of the film, but I could identify with that feeling of everyone wanting Katniss to do a certain thing, and the pressure of that expectation.”

She contributed a wildly revisionist cover of Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” to the series’ second film, “Hunger Games: Catching Fire.” When it was time to put together the music for “Mockingjay — Part I,” the powers that be asked her to “curate” its songs.
“I was very fortunate to have been 100% left alone for the curation,” she says of a soundtrack that includes the languid indie pop of singer-songwriter Bat for Lashes, Kanye West reworking “Yellow Flicker Beat” into something even more menacing, and updated electronica from ’80s icons Grace Jones and Simon Le Bon. “I had a very clear idea of the kinds of artists I wanted for this project, and the kinds of songs from each.”

Still, Lorde’s key contribution is “Yellow Flicker Beat,” which catches the Girl on Fire on the verge of stepping into a holocaust. The quiet of that hum explodes into a chorus declaring, “This is the start / Of how it all ends.”

“Katniss has so much swirling under the surface, so many different voices both internal and external telling her what to do. A storm isn’t smooth, a fight isn’t quiet, and I don’t think Katniss is just one thing at once,” she says.

“I also liked the ‘fingers laced together and I made a little prison, and I’m locking up everyone who ever laid a finger on me’ part — it alluded to the ‘playing God’ nature of Katniss’ role as Mockingjay and is probably the most empowering line I’ve ever written.”

Source: VEVO via. hggirlonfire

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Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the hungergamesfilm.net staff. We wish you the best, and may the odds be ever in your favor!

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RUMOR: Mockingjay DVD Release Dates

The rumor mill has been telling us that the release dates for the Mockingjay Part 1 DVD are February 24th and  March 16th, 2015 for the United Kingdom.

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Nina Jacobson Reveals Filming Info Regarding Epilouge

Although it has already been hinted at by Francis Lawrence, producer Nina Jacobson confirmed on twitter that the reason they did not film the Mockingjay epilogue was due to weather conditions.

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Katniss Everdeen Wax Figure Unveiled

Madame Tussads Wax Museum has created a Katniss Everdeen wax figure featuring Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of Katniss in Catching Fire.

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More Hunger Games Movies???

DigitalSpy reports that Francis Lawrence may create a movie that goes past the third book. Not sure how I feel about this.

The Hunger Games film series could extend past Suzanne Collins's original trilogy. 

Director Francis Lawrence has said that more films are being considered for the hit young adult franchise. 

"Everybody is thinking about it, and talking about it," the Mockingjay director told MTV.

"I just think that one has to go into that world carefully. Because I think a huge part of what makes the stories great is that it was really built on this idea of the consequence of war, and you have an amazing character like Katniss at the center of it.

"And so to just say, 'Oh, we're still in the Hunger Games world', I think is really risky, and you need to make sure that you have something new to say, and either new characters need to be created that are just as compelling as Katniss."

He continued: "It's a tricky thing, but I'm definitely open to talking about it, and I think everybody's thinking about it. Everybody loves the world and the ideas."

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MASTERPOST: Cast Awards

Congratulations to Julianne Moore won the Best Actress award for Gotham Awards.

Also, Kudos to Natalie Dormer for winning a New Now Next Award for Best New Lead Actress (Mockingjay Part 1).

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Mockingjay Earns $480+ Million Internationally

Mockingjay has earned nearly $500 million internationally and over $230 million domestically.

With a somewhat leggier-than-expected holiday weekend and a still-robust five-day frame, The Hunger Games is pulling a Phantom Menace, casting off doubts over a smaller-than-expected debut with a stronger-than-expected second weekend. The Lions Gate Entertainment LGF +2.28% actions sequel earned $56.875 million over its Fri-Sun frame, down “just” 53% (different era, different expectations) and a robust $82.6m over the holiday frame. That’s the third-biggest Wed-Sun totals respectively, behind The Hunger Games: Catching Fire ($74m/$109m) and Frozen ($67m/$93m) last year. It’s actually the fifth biggest Fri-Sun Thanksgiving frame as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and Toy Story 2 both made $57m over their Fri-Sun frames but ended up with $82m and $80m respectively over the long frame. Mockingjay part I will end the frame with $225.692m domestic, which is close enough to The Hunger Games‘s $248m ten-day cume to give hope for decent holiday legs. 

I now have no idea how well the film will hold up over the next month, although it has smooth sailing until Exodus drops on December 12th. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was at $296 million at its tenth day, so obviously any hopes of catching the second film’s $423m domestic, or really the first film’s $408m domestic haul, is something of a pipe dream. But this strong holiday hold, stronger than the recent Harry Potter and Twilight November debuts which topped out at $281m-$296m domestic. So yes, I now think that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part I will get to $300m domestic. Whether or not it ends up approaching the $330m domestic total of Guardians of the Galaxy (which had 3D and IMAX advantages that Hunger Games 3 lacked), but I imagine it will at-worst put up a decent fight for second place in America alongside The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies which drops on December 17th. 

The film is doing quite well overseas and it actually crossed $480 million worldwide today and should hit $500m worldwide over the next few days. With $270m and going strong, it may well trump the $440m that Catching Fire earned overseas, as it’s still outpacing it and won’t even open in China until early next year.This may be yet another “relative domestic disappoint/overseas smash” franchise entry which is sadly becoming par-for-the-course. But even if it doesn’t quite hit the $440m of Catching Fire, a $400m overseas total and a $300m domestic cume would still mean $700m worldwide for this third Hunger Games film, which is still higher than the $691m earned by The Hunger Games back in March of 2012.

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