Second address for Mockingjay - Part 1. The Mockingjay lives!

I got some hefty goosebumps at the end of this one.

New teaser surfaces for Mockingjay - Part 1

We are finally starting to get some teasers for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1. Today we received a message from the Capitol and President Snow. You also see a familiar face standing with him. If you read the book you will know why it makes me sad.





It's about time we started getting more than irrelevant promotional posters. I am still somewhat in shock that we haven't received a trailer yet. Give us a teaser or something! Something more than just a message from President Snow. Footage. We need footage! 
But with that said, there are whispers that a teaser will premiere before Transformers: Age of Extinction this weekend, so the wait might be almost over. We will no doubt get a trailer at Comic-Con later in July, too.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 hits theaters on November 21st. Part 2 holds a release date of November 20th, 2015.

Catching Fire soundtrack revealed; includes Coldplay, The Lumineers, and Imagine Dragons

The full tracklist for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has been revealed. It contains some pretty interesting choices, in my opinion. Check it out for yourself!

1. Atlas - Coldplay
2. Silhouettes - Of Monsters and Men
3. Elastic Heart - Sia (feat. The Weeknd & Diplo)
4. Lean - The National
5. We Remain - Christina Aguilera
6. Devil May Cry - The Weeknd
7. Who We Are - Imagine Dragons
8. Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Lorde
9. Gale Song - The Lumineers
10. Mirrors - Ellie Goulding
11. Capital Letter - Patti Smith
12. Shooting Arrows at the Sky - Santigold
13. Place for Us - Mikky Ekko
14. Lights - Phantogram
15. Angel on Fire - Antony and the Johnsons

The full soundtrack will be available on November 19th, just a few days ahead of Catching Fire's release on November 22nd.
This album is expected to do very well as the soundtrack for The Hunger Games was the best selling soundtrack for 2012. It was also certified Gold by the RIAA and became the fastest selling soundtrack on iTunes. In addition to a Golden Globe nomination and three Grammy nominations, Taylor Swift's single for the album, "Safe and Sound," won a Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

[EDIT] Check out my review of Catching Fire here. 

Evan Ross cast for Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2

The Hunger Games casting seems to be going a bit wild right now. This is the third casting announcement in the past couple of days.

We got word via Twitter today that Evan Ross (CW's 90210) has been cast as Messalla, the video production assistant to Cressida. Messalla is a Capitol native who later joins the rebellion and is part of a television crew who follows Katniss to film short propaganda films. He is valuable to the rebels because he knows the secret hiding spots of supplies within the Capitol.
I don't know anything about this kid, but after a quick Google search I learned he is the son of singer Diana Ross. That's about it.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 hits theaters on November 21, 2014 and Part 2 hits on November 20, 2015.

Stef Dawson joins Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2

Australian actress Stef Dawson has joined the cast of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2. She will be playing Annie Cresta, a former victor and love interest of Finnick Odair.

If you need some catch up on Annie:

She was the winner from District 4 at the 70th annual Hunger Games entering as a career tribute.
She went a bit insane after witnessing her District 4 partner get beheaded.
Is the one true love of Finnick.
Described to have green eyes and flowing brown hair.
She avoided the Quarter Quell (in Catching Fire) after Mags volunteered to take her place.


Not really who I pictured as Annie, but oh well. I've honestly never heard of this girl so I don't know what to expect.

Catching Fire victors revealed

The marketing for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is starting to heat up as we now have a new viral campaign to reveal our victors. To kick things off we have Katniss and Peeta.

We are supposed to get another victor team tomorrow and probably the next day until all twelve districts are revealed.

#VictorsRevealed

Catching Fire poster shows Katniss on top of the world

Well... actually she is just on top of a mountain.

There is something odd about this poster to me. I don't know if it just doesn't look real or whether it's the fact that they gave Katniss angel wings. In reality I think it just looks a little too retro for the logo and for the film itself. It takes away from the feeling the first poster gave us.

Catching Fire posters for Peeta and Gail

Peeta kind of looks like an astronaut.

Catching Fire fan contest announced!

Production has officially begun on the much anticipated film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire! Filming will continue into late 2012 and will shoot mostly in and around Atlanta, GA.
The announcement comes with a fan contest introduced by director Francis Lawrence. The contest is as follows...

Visit the official contest website to enter  May the odds be ever in your favor.

Mockingjay to be released in two parts

The release dates for Mockingjay, the third chapter of The Hunger Games, have been released by Lionsgate. And yes, if you caught the fact that I said "dates" then you are paying attention. Part 1 will be released in November 2014 and Part 2 will be released in November 2015.

This pisses me off so much. Why must everything be split into two parts? Fucking hell. The books are all equal in length so splitting the third book into two parts is unnecessary. I guarantee it will make it slow and feel dragged. I could throw eggs at Lionsgate.

Philip Seymour Hoffman WILL play Plutarch in Catching Fire

I wrote about this a couple weeks ago but we now have confirmation that Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote, Moneyball) will play Plutarch Heavensbee (aka, the new Gamemaker) in Catching Fire, the upcoming sequel to The Hunger Games.

This excites the fuck out of me. When I read this article earlier today I almost jumped out of my chair. This makes two casting choices I am really happy with, along with Jena Malone as Johanna, so hopefully they didn't skimp out when it comes to Finnick. Whoever is cast better be a good choice.

Jena Malone rumored for Catching Fire

It has been announced that Jena Malone is in the rumor mill, along with many others, for Catching Fire. If you aren't aware, this is the much anticipated sequel to The Hunger Games. Malone is being rumored for the role of Johanna Mason.
Johanna is a previous winner from District 7, along with Finnick Odair from District 4, and quickly becomes a strong opponent to Katniss. Johanna definitely has the ability to murder without thinking too much about it. She is quite the badass in the book.

I personally love Jena Malone so I would have absolutely no problem with her being cast. I actually hope it happens.

New Catching Fire casting rumors feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman

It seems that since we still have no confirmation on who will be playing Finnick Odair in Catching Fire people have moved onto the other characters who need actors. It has now surfaced that the role of Plutarch Heavensbee (aka, the new Gamemaker) could be played by none other than Philip Seymour Hoffman. Plutarch is an important but fairly small character in the book so who knows if Hoffman will accept the offer, but they are trying.

Personally, I think Hoffman could do great things with Plutarch. I hope he accepts.

http://collider.com/philip-seymour-hoffman-hunger-games-catching-fire/172477/

DVD release for The Hunger Games announced

We will have The Hunger Games on DVD/Blu-Ray on August 18th. The copies will be available for pre-order this upcoming Friday, May 25th.

The amount of special features listed for the Blu-Ray make it look it the best format to buy it on, for sure:

*    “The World is Watching: Making of The Hunger Games” – an eight-part documentary covering the “making of” the film in all aspects from the pre-production process all the way through the theatrical release and fan reactions
*    “Game Maker: Suzanne Collins and The Hunger Games Phenomenom” featurette
*    “Letters from the Rose Garden” featurette – insights from Donald Sutherland on the development of his role as President Snow
*    “Controlling the Games” featurette – stories and concepts behind creating the control center
*    “A Conversation with Gary Ross and Elvis Mitchell”
*    Propaganda Film (in its entirety)
*    Marketing Archive
*    “Preparing for The Games: A Director’s Process” (Blu-ray Exclusive)

Catching Fire release date and cast announced

It was also made official that Frances Lawrence is directing Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games. The official release date set, as of right now, is November 22, 2013. Returning cast members are:

Jennifer Lawrence
Josh Hutcherson
Liam Hemsworth
Elizabeth Banks
Woody Harrelson
Lenny Kravitz
Stanley Tucci
Donald Sutherland
Toby Jones

I'm sure we will be getting casting announcements for the new characters soon enough. Specifically the much anticipated casting of Finnick Odair.


http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3139839/francis-lawrence-officially-directing-catching-fire-for-november-2013-release-full-cast-announced/

This is amazing. Props to my friend Kiley for sending me this

http://a-is-f.tumblr.com/post/20680079454/margaretscratcher-christelynjoy-the-art-of

Just click the fucking link.

The Hunger Games - Review

I'm just going to start out by saying this will have spoilers, so don't read on if you don't want to read anything about the movie and/or the book.












We good? Good.
So... I did like the movie. I want to come out and say that. It was very well done and pretty well acted. I feel like the first half with the reaping and the training was the closest to the book this movie got, though. The games were too easy and had a lot of omissions and were very fast paced. They also had close to no explanation to little details that were in the book. They just kind of threw the audience in there. My boyfriend hadn't read the book prior to seeing the movie so I had to explain a lot to him after we got out of the theater.
I said the first half was quite close to the book and I mean that. I loved the way they did the reaping and I loved the farewell to Katniss and Peeta. The arrival at the Capitol was probably where it started to stray for me. I liked the interviews with Caesar, but I didn't like how they introduced the tributes. They made some of their names prominent but ignored others.

My main issue with this movie was the games. They were very fast paced and they were really easy. The book made the games seem legitimately brutal. The tributes lost weight, they got hurt, they struggled for food and water, etc.. In the movie everything just kind of seemed readily available to them and by the time the games were over, Katniss and Peeta seemed quite healthy and well off. And what the fuck, Peeta still has his leg. I don't understand that at all.

As far as the violence goes, people that are complaining about the PG-13 rating and claim people shouldn't take their teens and children to the movie are full of shit and they obviously didn't watch it. I was expecting a lot more violence and blood and it just wasn't there. You obviously see kids die but oddly enough I think the most graphic death was Glimmer when she gets stung by the Tracker Jackers. You see Rue get stabbed and you see Katniss kill Marvel with the arrow, but everything else was more implied with sound cues and very fast editing. The way most of the tributes were killed at the Cornucopia was very quick and you don't really see a whole lot. If you are worried about taking 11 and 12 year olds to this movie I wouldn't be too concerned. Younger than that? Maybe not. Not only would the violence that is there creep them out a bit but the overall political tone to the film would probably fly right over them. Not to mention how hard it is to keep kids sitting still for almost 2.5 hours. The movie is quite long.


Overall I did like the movie. I feel like my disappointment about any part of it is just because I read the book first. If I wouldn't have read the book before the movie I probably would have enjoyed it a lot more. I look forward to movies for Catching Fire and Mockingjay.

The Hunger Games sets a box office record

The Hunger Games earned $19.74 million at the box office last night, or this morning, via midnight premiere screenings. That set a box office record for the most earned at midnight by a non-sequel film. Overall it sits at #7 of the highest grossing midnight premieres.

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 ($43.5)
2. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 ($30.3)
3. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse ($30.1)
4. The Twilight Saga: New Moon ($26.3)
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 ($24.0)
6. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince ($22.2)
7. The Hunger Games ($19.7)
8. The Dark Knight ($18.5)
9. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith ($16.5)
10. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen ($16.0)

For a non-sequel that isn't bad at all. I can't wait to see it.

Common Sense Media warns parents of The Hunger Games

No matter what you do people will have something to bitch about. If you let your 11 year old read a book that describes children killing children then you shouldn't complain about the movie being violent. That's my opinion.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/03/20/hunger-games-common-sense-media/