The Hunger Games 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.

Bizarrely dedicated Hunger Games fans, begin thy squealing: the first teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiered during the MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night.  And it contains all that you would expect from a Hunger Games ad: a stirring story about one young woman who can change the world, social decay and revolt against the...

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.

Another week, another trailer for a young adult novel adaptation about a teen girl who’s the super most special-ist gal in whole wide world and only she can rescue us all from a CGI onslaught of werewolves or aliens or demons, all while stealing the heart of a supernatural being who’s all cheekbones and 0% body fat.  Today’s contender for the “oh please please please let us be half as...

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...

The Hunger Games is shaping up to be one of the bigger young adult movie franchises ever to hit theaters. It already made waves when the first installment was released last year, making a whopping 670 million worldwide. Now we're gearing up for the second film, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and these new Victory Tour posters give us a taste of how life...

Universal Pictures really wants to get The Mummy reboot off the ground no matter what. In order to get the job done right, they've recruited a high profile screenwriter to get the job done. What we're confused about is as to why Universal is making these guys write a completely different script rather than touch up the finished one they already...

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.

Well, gang, seeing as how The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is set for a November 22, 2013 release date, you can pretty much expect a bevy of leaked images, news, and interviews from now until then as The Hunger Games frenzy begins to cook in the blood of the Young Adult market.  And so, following on the heels of yesterday’s first official pictures, comes even more images...

Now that the Twilight film series is over, it’s time for another series of Young Adult novels to be adapted into a series of franchise films to keep tween audiences busy on Friday nights.  Thus, The Hunger Games series.  And today, we’ve got our first official look at the second film in the series, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Outside of the 12-17 young woman demographic (and their moms), there aren't too many people who love the Twilight series. It's been called a disease that's contaminated movie theaters ever since 2009. And though we can do without seeing Twi-moms at this point, the films are harmless and decent at times. But more than that, the Twilight series has been...

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.

This week brings at least one masterpiece to Blu-ray, one of the year’s biggest films, the year’s best action film, some great popcorn trash, and some Criterion classics. If you want to get everything good, you might need a bigger boat, or something. New: Klown: The Movie: Home video has changed dramatically for little films. So, yes, it’s true this was...

It's a hard life out there for a franchise movie director, especially because, if you're directing a movie in a franchise, chances are that's all you're going to be doing. Take the new Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence. He's at the helm of Catching Fire, but because Lionsgate wants to give us more Hunger Games...

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.