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Around the Web: George Lucas Has Seen The Force Awakens & More

Here’s some of what we’re reading today. Vulture caught up with George Lucas after hearing the news that he’d finally seen The Force Awakens. His verdict? “I think the fans are going to love it. It’s very much the kind of movie they’ve been looking for.” Hmm…as Vulture notes, he didn’t say he loved it. ...

By  |  December 8, 2015

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The Real Locations Used to Bring The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 to Life

To bring the Capitol to life in the final installment of The Hunger Games, director Francis Lawrence and production designer Philip Messina knew they needed to up the ante and look beyond Atlanta, where much of the production had previously taken place. They found locations in France and Germany that provided the unique combination of both ...

By  |  November 20, 2015
The Districts, the Capitol & Peeta Mellark: The Hunger Games Primer You Need

“Start simple, start with what you know is true. My name is Katniss Everdeen, I live in District 12. I was in the Hunger Games, I escaped. Peeta was left behind.” So begins The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, the precursor to the upcoming final installment in the wildly successful franchise following the driven ...

By  |  November 19, 2015

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2‘s Production Designer on Creating the Capitol

Translating descriptions in a book to physical places for a movie is a tall challenge, one that risks leaving faithful readers disappointed. Production designer Philip Messina performed that translation four times in a row for Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series, culminating with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2. The movie takes place as the rebel ...

By  |  November 19, 2015

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From Winter’s Bone to Hunger Games: Jennifer Lawrence’s Rise to Fame

Though it’s become increasingly difficult to think of a time in which Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t a household name, it's been only five years since Winter’s Bone kickstarted her meteoric rise to fame, but that certainly wasn’t Jennifer Lawrence’s first role for the screen. Beginning her career nearly 10 years ago in small or low profile ...

By  |  November 18, 2015
New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 TV Spot

“Today, we will watch more than a mere spectacle,” says President Coin (Julianne Moore) to a huge crowd of cheering rebels in this new TV spot. It’s not the only chills inducing dialogue in the new spot, which also includes a moment of major peril for Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). As you know by now, Mockingjay – ...

By  |  November 16, 2015
New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Photos

With just two weeks to go before the premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 on November 20, Lionsgate has been releasing all sorts of great TV spots, trailers, a virtual reality experience, and now, brand new photos. Check them out below:

By  |  November 10, 2015
Check out The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2‘s Virtual Reality Experience

Maybe you heard last week that The New York Times is stepping into the virtual reality game via their new NYT VR, which promises to “simulate richly immersive scenes from across the globe.” Times subscribers can download the app, or, they can use the Google Cardboard virtual reality viewer.” The point, virtual reality is becoming a reality across our media ...

By  |  November 10, 2015
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Clips Keep Coming

Yesterday we shared this new The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 clip with you, and nowLionsgate has released another new clip, this one showing a conversation between Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson). Titled "Real," the clip gets into Peeta's treatment by President Snow (Donald Sutherland) while he was a captive in the Capitol. Specifically, ...

By  |  November 4, 2015
Watch Katniss & Johanna Mason in new Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Clip

Lionsgate has dropped a new clip from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 onto BuzzFeed's Facebook page, and it gives us a moment between Katniss and Johanna Mason (Jena Malone) in which the Mockingbird tells the District 7 tough gal that she's got no choice but to kill President Snow (Donald Sutherland). Lawrence has said in recent interviews, ...

By  |  November 3, 2015
Watch the new The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 TV Spot

Unless you were watching game one of the World Series between the Kansas City Royals and New York Mets last night (what a game), you missed the new The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 TV spot Lionsgate dropped. Once again, it was a doozy. Like the all of Lionsgate's previous trailers and TV spots, the latest is masterclass ...

By  |  October 28, 2015

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The Explosive New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 Trailer

Lionsgate is releasing trailers and posters in a furious run-up to the premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 on November 20. Director Francis Lawrence's final dash through the districts and towards the Capitol is one of the most eagerly anticipated films of the fall, and the latest trailer is surely the most explosive yet. "He turns the ...

By  |  October 7, 2015
Lionsgate Releases a new The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Poster

The folks behind the various publicity materials that Lionsgate have put out for The Hunger Games over the years have done a fantastic job. The posters, especially, have been artfully conceived, and their latest, which we've supplied in full at the bottom, shows Katniss in full Mockingjay mode. For the last two installments of the franchise, the ...

By  |  October 1, 2015

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Meet Tigris, the New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Character

Model-turned actress Eugenie Bondurant is a tall, striking beauty who appears in the final The Hunger Game: Mockingjay – Part 2 as a character named Tigris, a former Hunger Games champion who so identifies with tigers that she has had plastic surgery to make herself look more feline. Bondurant worked with a dance choreographer to help develop ...

By  |  October 1, 2015

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Watch Brand New The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Trailer & Weep

A sister's bond is forever. That's the message in the latest The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 teaser that Lionsgate just dropped (and we mean just) on Twitter. Set to "My Tears are Becoming a Sea" by M83, this intensely emotional trailer is all about Katniss and Prim (Willow Shields), reinforcing how much of Katniss's struggle has been ...

By  |  September 16, 2015