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. Then again, as the Washington Post reported in their profile of Lucas,
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 futuristic and historic backdrops necessary to create the wartime metropolis that serves as the setting for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 2.
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 and intense Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) as she battles the powers in the Capitol, run by the fear mongering President Snow.
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 forces, including heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), storm the Capitol and seek to kill its leader,
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 parts on television and film, the Kentucky-born actress moved to Los Angeles at the age of 14 and has been acting ever since.
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 – Part 2 comes out this Friday, November 20. As the final installment in the epic franchise,
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:
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 landscape, and when the paper of record is betting big on the technology,
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, the way Snow and his henchmen poisoned Peta's memories with venom.
The clip captures—as if she needed any more—yet another reason why Katniss will take the fight right to Snow in the final
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, including one with ScreenSlam, that at this point in her life,
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 in giving us just enough new stuff (images,
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 best of us against each other" Katniss says of President Snow (Donald Sutherland) in a voice over.
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 posters have become a part of the Hunger Games story,
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 tiger-like movements and “just a rhythm for this character. I looked on YouTube and went to the zoo and did things like that but really the main thing is working with the choreographer because she helped tremendously.”
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 about, first, protecting Prim,
