Elizabeth Shue from H.A.T.E.S. talks working with Jennifer Lawrence

Elisabeth Shue talks working with Jennifer Lawrence on House on the end of the Street with Entertainment Weekly.

An Expert:

What was it like working with Jennifer?
It was great working with her. She’s really warm and generous. She also had a great sense of humor. I was thinking when I was hanging out with her one day, it would be great for her to find a great comedy. I don’t think people would actually see her that way yet, obviously because ofThe Hunger Games is so serious. She has a really great, dry sense of humor. We definitely laughed a lot. She’s a really great personality.
She’s starting out at just about the same age that you did, right?
Yeah, I did commercials and stuff. She was lucky. I think she got out of that stage of her career. She’s much more mature than I was, though. [Laughs] Much stronger, much more sure of herself. When I started out, I was very green, very unsure how to get my footing.

Source: hggirlonfire.com

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Jennifer Lawrence Talks About Being Known as Katniss

In an interview with TIFF Jennifer Lawrence said she wouldn't mind being known as Katniss Everdeen forever.

Did the Hunger Games mean a change in the roles you’ve been offered?
I didn’t really have any career expectations. I know that seems weird, but I’ve always been incredibly lucky, in that, the one script I read, that I fall in love with and I’m like, ‘I have to make this movie!’ or ‘I have to work with this director!’ — I’ve done it.
So that was such a rare, incredibly lucky thing that’s happened to me, that I wasn’t pining after these imaginary roles that I thought Hunger Games would satisfy. It was actually the opposite — I was afraid this one character would overpower the rest of my characters. But I genuinely liked the books and the movie and that character, and I wouldn’t be embarrassed to be known as that character for the rest of my life. Well, obviously, not only that character.

Source: Hggirlonfire.com

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Jennifer Lawrence on Cover of W Magazine

Jennifer Lawrence looks absolutely fierce on the cover of the October 2012 issue of W Magazine! Will you be buying this issue?

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Francis Lawrence Announces Sweepstakes to Visit Catching Fire Set

Francis Lawrence has announced that fans can enter to win a visit to the Catching Fire set! You can enter at CatchingFireSweeps.com.

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Jennifer Lawrence Talks Splitting Mockingjay in Two Parts

In an interview with the Washington Post Jennifer Lawrence talked about splitting Mockingjay in two parts.

Lawrence had reservations about breaking “Mockingjay” into two parts — “until I heard how much money I would be getting,” she said with a long laugh.
She said she initially thought it would be better to do the finale in a single film. When she got the news that it would be done in two parts, Lawrence was in the middle of shooting “The Hunger Games,” and she re-read the books and thought about how much had to be left out in adapting the first one.
“You want everything in there, but you don’t have enough room, and you’re trying to decide what’s going to get cut and what isn’t,” Lawrence said. “So it was a relief on the last one to know that we don’t really have to cut anything. We have enough time, we have enough room to really tell this story to the fullest, and we don’t need to cut anything.
“So that’s my artistic answer. It’s a very diplomatic answer. But what I’m really thinking is yacht, yacht. My own island.”

Source" Washington Post, Mockingjay.net

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Hunger Games #2 Of Top Selling DVDs of 2012

'The Hunger Games' has hit number two of the top selling DVDs of 2012.

• Hunger Games DVD has sold 4.6 Million Copies and has generated $79 million of revenue.

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Jennifer Lawrence Confirms Catchign Fire Shooting Will Start September 11th

Jennifer Lawrence confirmed that Catching Fire filming will being on September eleventh at the premiere of 'The Silver Linings Playbook'.

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Community Will Do Hunger Games Tribute

Entertainment Weekly has announced that the television show 'Community' will be doing a Hunger Games Tribute. Are you excited?

Joel McHale knows what you’re thinking. “Fans will see these pictures and go, ‘Dammit, they’ve tried to make this show mainstream! They’re trying to steal the Two and a Half Men audience!’” quips the Community star who plays Jeff Winger. “They’re going to be like, ‘What — is this an episode of The Middle?’”
That’s about as likely as, say, Dean Pelton entering a room in low-key fashion. Despite the exit of series creator Dan Harmon and the changing of the guard, Community apparently will still strive to be weird, surprising, and… you know, Community. In the season 4 premiere (NBC, Oct. 19), you will be treated to a parody of — or shall we say, tribute to — The Hunger Games. When the Greendale student records seem to be lost, the Dean (Jim Rash) stages a Hunger Games-like competition to determine enrollment in a class called The History of Ice Cream. (Which raises the question: There’s actually a class at Greendale called The History of Ice Cream? “Ice cream is something that people eat every day and they probably don’t know its origin story,” deadpans McHale. “F— you and your elitist I-don’t-need-to-know-about-my-frozen-treats-and-where-they-came-from attitude.”)
Jeff not only competes in the games, he even performs an elaborate tango with Dean Pelton, who dons multiple dresses in the episode. “He will repulse and arouse you all at once,” notes McHale. “Mostly repulse.” McHale also offers this tease about another part of the premiere: “It is an homage to something that kids in the late ’80s and early ’90s watched on Saturday mornings.”

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Jeffery Wright Cast as Beetee

Jeffrey Wright has been cast as Beetee in Catching Fire! Although I was looking forward to having Tony Shaloub (Monk) play this part I will be interested to see how Jeffrey Wright plays Beetee.

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Grandfather Designs Lawn in Mockingjay Design

Brian Addison did his lawn in a mockingjay design for his fourteen year old grandson who loves the Hunger Games. Note: This video is a much watch!

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Hunger Games Pitch Trailer

The Hunger Games pitch trailer has been released. A pitch trailer is basically an official fan trailer used to pitch the movie idea to businesses and such.

Years ago, Fame and Mortal Kombat: Rebirth director Kevin Tancharoen went in and pitched his take on Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. The film eventually went to Gary Ross and became a $400m+ success. I came across this video and Tancharoen has graciously allowed us to share it. Watch it now after the break. I also had an opportunity to chat briefly with Tancharoen about the process of pitching movies, how that process has changed, and the emergence of these mash-up trailer pitch reels, and that interview follows the video.

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Donald Sutherland cast in 'Crossing Lines'

Donald Sutherland (President Snow) has been cast in the new show Crossing Lines.

Filming will begin September 26 on location in France and the Czech Republic. Bernero executive produces and serves as head writer, with Rachel Anthony (Mistresses) and Oliver Hein-Macdonald (The Passion Of Darkly Noon) set as co-writers. Moritz Polter (Labyrinth), Charles Caroll (Criminal Minds), Howard Griffith (Criminal Minds) and TF1 Production will handle production along with executive producer Rola Bauer, who developed the series with Bernero.
This marks the first series for Munich-based Tandem, a leading producer of event miniseries like The Pillars Of The Earth. It also marks the first Tandem project to go into production since the company was acquired by France’s Studiocanal earlier this year. Studiocanal deficit finances Crossing Lines, which Tandem will co-produce with TF1 Production in association with Sony Pictures TV Networks. It will air on TF1 in France and on Sony Pictures TV Networks’ AXN channels across 81 countries. (The series has no U.S. distribution yet.) “The world keeps getting smaller and crime less containable; it’s time that our criminal storytelling goes global, too,” CAA-repped Bernero said.

Source: Deadline

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Woody Talks Haymitch With Huffington Post UK

Woody Harrelson did a quick Q&A with the Huffington Post UK about Haymitch Albernathy.

Q: Could you briefly describe your character in The Hunger Games?
Haymitch is a mentor for the two characters who are going into the Games. He is grizzled and not exactly a teetotaller. In some ways he’s a little bit jaded, but under all that he is a wonderful person. To begin with, though, there is definitely a conflict with Katniss, the main character. That’s true. That is how it starts out.
Q: Haymitch looks like one of the most enjoyable characters to play…
I think he is a pretty fine character. I can’t think of any other character I have played like him. He is quite a unique character. Also he’s interesting because he’s one thing on the surface but then you find he is a little bit different, further down the road. He has that thing of people not being able to quantify him. I’m not sure if it required anything new of me as an actor. It is hard to say. You’re going to have to watch it and tell me the answer to that. Deep down there probably isn’t anything new [laughs]. It’s just me doing the same old sh*t!
Q: That’s not true! He’s not a very a social character, though, and does like a tipple. How did you pitch that into your performance?
That was kind of a discussion between Gary [Ross, the director] and I, because I always wanted to make Haymitch more drunk and debauched, but Gary wanted to keep a rein on it so that it wasn’t too much like that. In other words there are times when he had to get down to business so, yes, that had to be properly pitched. Me, I am always in general ready to go over the top with it, so it is helpful to have a director like Gary bringing me back.
Q: Presumably you got to inject some levity into the performance?
I certainly did. I tried and we will see if it comes off!
Q: What did you think of Jennifer Lawrence, your talented leading lady?
I think she is an amazing girl. She is incredibly funny. I was impressed with her wit. She is a fun-loving person, as is Josh Hutcherson. I know there’s going to be a lot of success for them in the future. I get a feeling that they’re going to be able to keep a handle on it and not change their personalities, though, as sometimes happens.
Q: Why do you think The Hunger Games books are so popular?
I think there’s something about the main character Katniss that everybody relates to. It’s really a story of survival and family and in that kind of way it speaks to everyone. Almost all the people I have talked to — those who have read the books — were profoundly impacted by them. Something resonates.
Q: Have your two eldest daughters read the novels?
Yes. They read the books. They loved the books.
Q: Has your casting in the franchise made you cooler with their friends?
No, I’m still the same old dirk to them! Everybody in my family started to read them when I decided to do the role, so we all got into the books at the same time and I think they are pretty psyched that I am in it. I will say there hasn’t been anything I have been involved in where I have had so many kids come up to me. Well, first of all, I have never done a movie that you could consider a kids’ movie but this has been incredible because I have been in different places all round this country and I have had kids coming up and saying, ‘Are you playing Haymitch?’ It’s as exciting as hell how kids are so into this movie.

Source: Huffington Post UK   hggirlonfire.com

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Josh Hutcherson Talks With So Feminine

Josh Hutcherson spoke with So Feminine about the Hunger Games. Below is an exert.

Why do you think the books are so popular? I think that the characters are really relatable in a lot of ways and people can find a piece of themselves in Peeta, Katniss or Gale.
It’s almost like: ‘What would you do if you were thrust into The Hunger Games?’
 Plus there’s this cool futuristic world with an authoritarian government, which is intriguing to people, so to have a book that speaks to a younger audience that has such serious themes and real messages, I think is very gripping.

Tell us a little bit about your character Peeta?
Peeta is very similar to me. I have a very similar outlook on life, which is ‘maintain who you are as a person and no matter what the circumstance that you are in, never compromise that’.
I  feel we are very similar in that respect. I also feel he has a self-deprecating humour and that is my device as well. So we definitely have a lot of similarities.
Sounds like you connected with Peeta straight away?
When I read the book I had that connection with Peeta immediately, yeah. And the character drove me a bit crazy because I knew how badly I wanted the part.
But even as filming went on more and more I realized when playing Peeta how much I really am like him.
It certainly became a little weird and scary because I almost stopped acting and just started being myself and calling myself Peeta. 
It’s funny, I sometimes feel that maybe I am more a collection of my character than my character is a collection of me.
Where were you when you found out that you’d been cast?
I was at my house in Los Angeles and we had been waiting every single day, calling my agent and my agent calling me.
So finally I got a call. I was standing in my kitchen and there’s my agent and my mom and my manager on the phone and they were like, ‘So you have got the offer of The Hunger Games.’
And my mind was blown. It was one of those things today that is hard to believe actually happened.
I have to pinch myself because I loved the story so much, but here we are. 
You and Jennifer both hail from the same state, Kentucky. Did that make your chemistry easier to find?
Yeah, it‘s a not a huge state but there are a lot of us there! 
But it was so weird that we are both from Kentucky, which is, funnily enough, kind of where District 12 is supposed to be. It’s loosely based in the hills of Kentucky.
There is a certain kind of understanding of the South and the same upbringing that we both had. We definitely bonded over that instantaneously.
In the screen test we talked about Kentucky and Kentucky Fried Chicken and rival basketball teams and all that stuff so there was very much a connection. 
What are the defining characteristics of a Kentuckian?
I think there is a kind of hospitality thing that is understood like ‘Yes, ma’am’ and ‘No, sir’ and all that sort of thing, which I was very much brought up with. 
Other than that, I don’t know. Most people I have met from Kentucky seem to have a pretty level head for the most part and seem to be well rounded.
I love being from there. It’s a great place to go back to and to be with my friends and family.
Have you engaged with any of The Hunger Games fan sites?
Sure. I think that is one of the awesome things — that people have the right to say what the hell they want to say.
For me I don’t go online all that much, not on Facebook or Twitter or anything like that, so the only time I use the internet is to look something up on Google.
Anybody I talk to on the streets or any fans that I meet in person I will talk to, though, for sure.

Source: So Feminine, Hggirlonfire.com

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U.K. Celebrates DVD Release With Tribute Parade

On 8/31/12 a tribute parade took place in the United Kingdom in honor of the release of the Hunger Games DVD. The chariots held Effie and a couple of tributes.

See more HERE.

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