Catching Fire Reviews, Interviews & More
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire promo engine keeps on revving its way towards the film’s November 22, 2013 release date—today, we get a new poster for the film. And if you like your posters for Young Adult novel film adaptations to be so cheesy they represent gaudy romance paperback covers, well, we have got a poster for you.
Lionsgate is really kicking things up a notch this week—not only will the studio be releasing the first trailer for the highly anticipated The Hunger Games: Catching Fire this Sunday, April 14th on the MTV Movie Awards, but the studio has also set up a TheHungerGamesExplorer.com website, one in which fans can unlock new content from the film.
Though The Hunger Games: Catching Fire won't hit theaters until November 22, Lionsgate and everyone involved know their target market, and want to get them pumped for a film they can't see for quite some time. And so the film will premiere its first teaser during the MTV Movie Awards. And, for now, we have a preview of that teaser.
Yesterday, The Hunger Games sequel The Hunger Games: Catching Fire bestowed upon the word a series of character portraits for the improbably-named characters Haymitch Abernathy, Effie Trinket, and Caesar Flickerman, all of which appropriately looked like the kind of creepy and kitschy paintings you’d find in your oddball grandmother’s attic. Now, series hero Katniss...
As we slowly yet inexorably inch ever closer to the inevitable release date of the Hunger Games sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, we must brace ourselves for the ceaseless onslaught of promotional media that will be hurled in our direction as the November 22 release date becomes more and more near. Today, we have a series of creepy promotional portraits of three...
As we noted last week, you can pretty much expect some kind of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire news update at least once a week from now until the film’s November 22, 2013 release date. Last week we saw a handful of official stills from the film, this week we’ve got the official teaser poster for the film.
Gary Ross established the tone of the filmed versions of The Hunger Games trilogy with the first movie, but when push came to shove, he felt he didn't have enough time to get the sequel Catching Fire readied for its November 2013 release. Francis Lawrence got the job, and it looks like he's staying put to finish out the franchise. He's been...
It feels like we should be finally done with all the big casting stories for The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire - or as it is now known The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - but casting news keeps trickling in for the film, which is due to start shooting shortly. The latest is that Jeffrey Wright has joined that cast,...
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has been throwing out casting announcements big and small, but the one fans were really waiting for concerned who going to play Finnick Odair. The wait is over: it's some guy.
Say this for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire casting: They're not going with easy names. Catching Fire just added Amanda Plummer to its roster as Wiress, who's nicknamed “Nuts,” and is a veteran tribute from District 3 who's put back into the games by the "Quarter Quell" - The Hunger Games version of a Battle...
Though he's already won an Oscar, Philip Seymour Hoffman has only dipped his toe in big mainstream films, and hasn't really chased franchises. But it looks like he's going to be one of the stars of the next two Hunger Games movies, as Hoffman has been added to the cast of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Plutarch Heavensbee.
Though it seemed as if Zoe Aggeliki would portray the character of Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, it appears that reports of her casting were a little premature. Rather, it turns out that Jena Malone is now set to play the role. Details below.
IMAX is the way of the future for blockbuster movies. There's no way that The Avengers could have made $200 Million in its opening weekend without it (or 3D). As such, today both Star Trek 2 and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire announced new IMAX developments.
Speculation over casting for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire seems to be finally picking up a little heat; so far most early rumors have been focusing on who’ll play the handsome fan favorite Finnick Odair, but now new reports are in that Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman could be joining the line-up as Plutarch Heavensbee, who plays a small yet pivotal part in the new film.
Francis Lawrence has been confirmed as the director of Catching Fire. We told you this was rumored to be happening last month, but now it's official. Such is the way the industry works now, and how information like this is parsed. We guess that means that everyone had about two weeks to change their minds.
A story of left-turn plot twists just as interesting as anything in the film in question, the ongoing saga of who will and who won’t be directing Catching Fire (the sequel to the mega-successful The Hunger Games) looks to have finally reached its conclusion. And, like many endings to epic tales, it can’t quite live up to what came before it, and is something of a...
The loss of Gary Ross as a director of The Hunger Games sequels has been absolutely devastating for devoted fans of burgeoning franchise. As a rabid fan myself (and as a friend of many other rabid fans), I can’t even begin to tell you how crestfallen we are. Ross was truly one of us – an ardent admirer of the series who happened to also don a director’s cap. His respect...
In a back and forth that’s been as tense and harrowing as The Hunger Games itself (ok, not really, but hey, I needed an intro), ever since the release and wild hyper-success of The Hunger Games films, one of the big questions regarding the film’s planned sequels would be whether or not director Gary Ross would be returning to helm the remainder of the franchise. First...
It's hard to say this is surprising, but it was confirmed today (by Indiewire) that Gary Ross will not be directing the sequels to The Hunger Games. Shooting is to commence this fall, so we should see a shortlist or a replacement sometime next week. Ross - having signed up for one film - was in negotiations to come back, but they appear to have fallen apart.
