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Watch Jennifer Lawrence Announce the Oscar Nominations here at The Hunger Games Arena!
Jennifer Lawrence will be up extra early tomorrow to announce the nominees for this year’s Academy Awards, and you can watch it here! The Oscars have provided a livestream of the event, which we’ve included below.
The fun starts tomorrow at 8:30 am ET/5:30 am PT, so grab a big cup of coffee and meet us back here then.
The fun starts tomorrow at 8:30 am ET/5:30 am PT, so grab a big cup of coffee and meet us back here then.
Elizabeth Banks Says Effie’s Look Is ‘Like Six Different People’s Interpretations, Mixed Together’
Although Elizabeth Banks was promoting her new film, Man on a Ledge, Crave Online was able to get in some Hunger Games-related questions (which we always appreciate!). Check out part of the interview:
I saw some stills of you in the film and you have a very distinctive look. Is that just the style in the future?
Everything that we did in the movie is based very specifically on the book. We are very faithful to the book. SoSuzanne Collins, the author of The Hunger Games, came up with all this crazy, kinky stuff for what she wanted everybody to look like, and we put it into the movie. So don’t blame me.
Oh, I’m not complaining. I think it’s hot.
We all sort of collaborated […] Everybody who reads the book has their own image in their mind and interprets it in their own way. So our version of Effie is, it’s like six different people’s interpretations, mixed together and put into this.
I’m really looking forward to seeing it. I keep looking at this book and thinking, “Oh, I should read that, but I’m so busy…”
It will take you five hours to read the whole thing. You will not be able to put it down.
Were you a fan before you signed on to the movie?
Yes, I’m actually a proud fan. I was an early adopter of the books. I read the books long before they were bestsellers. It was given to me by a publishing friend, and so I had checked them out forever ago.
Read the full interview at Crave Online.
I saw some stills of you in the film and you have a very distinctive look. Is that just the style in the future?
Everything that we did in the movie is based very specifically on the book. We are very faithful to the book. SoSuzanne Collins, the author of The Hunger Games, came up with all this crazy, kinky stuff for what she wanted everybody to look like, and we put it into the movie. So don’t blame me.
Oh, I’m not complaining. I think it’s hot.
We all sort of collaborated […] Everybody who reads the book has their own image in their mind and interprets it in their own way. So our version of Effie is, it’s like six different people’s interpretations, mixed together and put into this.
I’m really looking forward to seeing it. I keep looking at this book and thinking, “Oh, I should read that, but I’m so busy…”
It will take you five hours to read the whole thing. You will not be able to put it down.
Were you a fan before you signed on to the movie?
Yes, I’m actually a proud fan. I was an early adopter of the books. I read the books long before they were bestsellers. It was given to me by a publishing friend, and so I had checked them out forever ago.
Read the full interview at Crave Online.
Leven Rambin Talks ‘The Hunger Games’ Cast with FAULT
Last month we posted about Leven Rambin being featured on the cover of the film section of FAULT magazine’s Winter issue, including behind-the-scenes pics from the photoshoot.
Today FAULT released a bit of their interview with the actress, along with additional images from the magazine:
FAULT: Did you always know acting was something you wanted to pursue?
Leven Rambin: I knew from the time I was 13 that I wanted to be an actress. I idolized Evan Rachel Wood’s performance in Thirteen, and was so emotionally disturbed by that film. The way she connected to me through her acting in that film made me want to make people feel the way she made me feel. Then I watched The Lizzie McGuire Movie and cried because Lizzie finally realized her dreams of being a successful actress! So, I sort of owe my career to those fine young actresses.
FAULT: It sounds like there was a very big cast. What was it like working with everyone?
Leven Rambin: Everyone on the cast was a dream. We were all young and sharing a unique, thrilling, and intimidating experience together. All the tributes grew so close; I feel like their big sister. I relived my youth with those kids; their innocence and curiosity for life really rubbed off on my old, jaded heart! They still call me for advice about boys, acting, parents . . . I love it!
Find out how to purchase the magazine – digital or in print - to read the full interview at FAULT.
Today FAULT released a bit of their interview with the actress, along with additional images from the magazine:
FAULT: Did you always know acting was something you wanted to pursue?
Leven Rambin: I knew from the time I was 13 that I wanted to be an actress. I idolized Evan Rachel Wood’s performance in Thirteen, and was so emotionally disturbed by that film. The way she connected to me through her acting in that film made me want to make people feel the way she made me feel. Then I watched The Lizzie McGuire Movie and cried because Lizzie finally realized her dreams of being a successful actress! So, I sort of owe my career to those fine young actresses.
FAULT: It sounds like there was a very big cast. What was it like working with everyone?
Leven Rambin: Everyone on the cast was a dream. We were all young and sharing a unique, thrilling, and intimidating experience together. All the tributes grew so close; I feel like their big sister. I relived my youth with those kids; their innocence and curiosity for life really rubbed off on my old, jaded heart! They still call me for advice about boys, acting, parents . . . I love it!
Find out how to purchase the magazine – digital or in print - to read the full interview at FAULT.
Is There Too Much Hype for ‘The Hunger Games’?
NPR’s blog, Monkeysee, takes a look at the enormous amount of buzz around The Hunger Games movie. They wonder if too much hype will leave the audience disappointed with the final product.
The desire to build a genuine frenzy is an understandable one. How can it not seem like a good idea to get everybody talking, to keep the buzz — an unfortunate word that can apply equally to genuine substantive anticipation as well as ginned-up hot air — as high as possible? If one teaser poster gets people cranked up to a 10, surely it’s a good idea to release ten teaser posters to crank them up to 100, right? How else do you become the next Harry Potter, able to make a gazillion dollars with a single blink? …
But it doesn’t have some of the advantages that the Potter books have. It doesn’t have the whimsy — particularly the whimsy of the first movies, with their Quidditch and spell-casting and wizard school — to leaven it and make it fun. It’s a dark, dense story, full of killing and misery and sacrifice, without nearly the opportunity for playful whiz-bang that Harry Potter offered. Past hugely successful franchises, from Star Wars to the Indiana Jones movies to James Bond, have had that mix of tension and playfulness. This story doesn’t, really. Sure, neither did The Dark Knight, but that brought the entire weight of Batman to bear on the proceedings.
Eager fans have already been fed, and they have followed, every casting announcement down to Second Barrel-Wearing Peasant On The Left. Many of them are understandably excited about a tense, stylish trailer that features Jennifer Lawrence (a fantastic actress, whether she’s quite right for Katniss or not) in a bunch of iconic moments from a story they love. But nobody has seen the through-line yet. Nobody has seen what kind of chemistry Lawrence has with either of her leading men, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, for more than a couple of seconds at a time. Nobody has seen how the violence, extreme in the book, will be held to a PG-13 level, or what that will do to the weight of the story. Expectations are already so high; the cultural eagerness to pronounce ourselves underwhelmed (the tyranny of “meh,” as it were) is so palpable.
See the rest of Monkeysee’s thoughts on the subject at their blog.What do you all think about the hype? Is it too much or just right?
The desire to build a genuine frenzy is an understandable one. How can it not seem like a good idea to get everybody talking, to keep the buzz — an unfortunate word that can apply equally to genuine substantive anticipation as well as ginned-up hot air — as high as possible? If one teaser poster gets people cranked up to a 10, surely it’s a good idea to release ten teaser posters to crank them up to 100, right? How else do you become the next Harry Potter, able to make a gazillion dollars with a single blink? …
But it doesn’t have some of the advantages that the Potter books have. It doesn’t have the whimsy — particularly the whimsy of the first movies, with their Quidditch and spell-casting and wizard school — to leaven it and make it fun. It’s a dark, dense story, full of killing and misery and sacrifice, without nearly the opportunity for playful whiz-bang that Harry Potter offered. Past hugely successful franchises, from Star Wars to the Indiana Jones movies to James Bond, have had that mix of tension and playfulness. This story doesn’t, really. Sure, neither did The Dark Knight, but that brought the entire weight of Batman to bear on the proceedings.
Eager fans have already been fed, and they have followed, every casting announcement down to Second Barrel-Wearing Peasant On The Left. Many of them are understandably excited about a tense, stylish trailer that features Jennifer Lawrence (a fantastic actress, whether she’s quite right for Katniss or not) in a bunch of iconic moments from a story they love. But nobody has seen the through-line yet. Nobody has seen what kind of chemistry Lawrence has with either of her leading men, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, for more than a couple of seconds at a time. Nobody has seen how the violence, extreme in the book, will be held to a PG-13 level, or what that will do to the weight of the story. Expectations are already so high; the cultural eagerness to pronounce ourselves underwhelmed (the tyranny of “meh,” as it were) is so palpable.
See the rest of Monkeysee’s thoughts on the subject at their blog.What do you all think about the hype? Is it too much or just right?
Higher Quality Versions of Two Hunger Games Stills
We now have two previously released Hunger Games movie stills – Katniss, Effie and Haymitch sitting on the couch and Caesar Flickerman and Katniss on stage – in higher quality. Enjoy!
Both of these images have been added to our Official Images & Trailers page.
Via Hunger Games Network
Via Hunger Games Network
New Hunger Games Movie Stills from Empire Magazine
The March 2012 issue of the UK’s Empire magazine has a multi-page spread on The Hunger Games, naming 5 reasons why the film is not another Twilight. Look at all these awesome pics, and allyour favorite characters!
IMDb Releases New Still of Katniss at the Reaping
IMDb released this exclusive new movie still of Katniss at the Reaping in District 12. Katniss doesn't know it, but she is getting ready for the inevitable!
Josh Hutcherson: ‘Hunger Games Has Been a Roller Coaster’
The West Australian has a new interview with Josh Hutcherson and Vanessa Hudgens aboutJourney 2: The Mysterious Island. Josh also talks briefly about growing up as an actor and The Hunger Games.
Already a veteran of 20 films including The Kids Are Alright, Bridge to Terabithia and The Polar Express, Hutcherson is mature beyond his years while, at the same time, expressing no desire to actually grow up.
“I think in a way, being an actor is kinda like being a little kid because your job is to play make-believe and dress-up every day and most people can’t get away with that past the age of eight,” says the Kentucky-born actor who begun his own career, aged nine.
“And hopefully we get to do that throughout our entire career but definitely with a movie like this [Journey 2] where there’s a lot of physical action involved, its kinda like playtime everyday. It doesn’t get much better when you’re running through the jungle like its your playground.
“And Hunger Games has been a roller coaster from start to finish, from the beginning with the whole insane casting process to now, being finished with the movie and preparing for promotion, its been a whirlwind.”
Already a veteran of 20 films including The Kids Are Alright, Bridge to Terabithia and The Polar Express, Hutcherson is mature beyond his years while, at the same time, expressing no desire to actually grow up.
“I think in a way, being an actor is kinda like being a little kid because your job is to play make-believe and dress-up every day and most people can’t get away with that past the age of eight,” says the Kentucky-born actor who begun his own career, aged nine.
“And hopefully we get to do that throughout our entire career but definitely with a movie like this [Journey 2] where there’s a lot of physical action involved, its kinda like playtime everyday. It doesn’t get much better when you’re running through the jungle like its your playground.
“And Hunger Games has been a roller coaster from start to finish, from the beginning with the whole insane casting process to now, being finished with the movie and preparing for promotion, its been a whirlwind.”
Video: Elizabeth Banks Talks ‘Hunger Games’ with AMC
AMC Theaters talked with Elizabeth Banks during the recent Hunger Games press junket. Elizabeth talks about loving the books, Effie’s wardrobe, and which other Hunger Gamescharacter she would like to play.
Rising Hunger Games Book Sales Are a Good Sign for the Movie
The New York Times’ Media Decoder blog takes a look at increased sales of The Hunger Games trilogy books as they align with Lionsgate’s promotional activities, and suggests that this bodes well for The Hunger Games in theaters.
About 9.6 million books in Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy were in circulation in the United States when Lionsgate started production on its adaptation of the first novel in the summer, according to figures from Scholastic, which published the works.
…By early November, after a heavy online marketing push [including releasing images of characters and the teaser trailer], 16 million books from the trilogy were in print in the United States. The first full-length trailer made its debut on Nov. 18 (with “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1”), igniting Facebook and the blogosphere. There are now 23.5 million books in print in the domestic market.
That increase is book sales is fantastic! Lionsgate’s chief marketing officer Tim Palen had this to say about it:
“I’m thrilled book sales continue to rise as our campaign rolls out. Knowing that the materials and publicity surrounding the movie have inspired people to read the books is very encouraging.”
You can read the full post at Media Decoder. We love that hype for the movie is raising awareness about the trilogy and prompting new readers to pick them up. Hopefully the old fans and the new fans can help make The Hunger Games a huge success in theaters!
About 9.6 million books in Suzanne Collins’s “Hunger Games” trilogy were in circulation in the United States when Lionsgate started production on its adaptation of the first novel in the summer, according to figures from Scholastic, which published the works.
…By early November, after a heavy online marketing push [including releasing images of characters and the teaser trailer], 16 million books from the trilogy were in print in the United States. The first full-length trailer made its debut on Nov. 18 (with “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 1”), igniting Facebook and the blogosphere. There are now 23.5 million books in print in the domestic market.
That increase is book sales is fantastic! Lionsgate’s chief marketing officer Tim Palen had this to say about it:
“I’m thrilled book sales continue to rise as our campaign rolls out. Knowing that the materials and publicity surrounding the movie have inspired people to read the books is very encouraging.”
You can read the full post at Media Decoder. We love that hype for the movie is raising awareness about the trilogy and prompting new readers to pick them up. Hopefully the old fans and the new fans can help make The Hunger Games a huge success in theaters!
Video: Elizabeth Banks Tells AOL Hunger Games is a ‘Very Truthful Adaptation’
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