Hunger Games - HG Movie News/S&S #7: THG to be released March 2012, CF November 2013. Mark your calendars!

water lilies · 08-09-2011, 07:27 PM

Hunger Games Movie news thread #7
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The Hunger Games (March 23 2012)

Budget $75 million
Director Gary Ross
Cast:

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen (District 12)
Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark (District 12)
Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne
Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy
Willow Shields as Primrose Everdeen
Paula Malcomson as Mrs. Everdeen
Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket
Wes Bentley as Seneca Crane
Stanley Tucci as Caesar Flickerman
Donald Sutherland as President Snow
Lenny Kravitz as Cinna
Toby Jones as Claudius Templesmith
Amandla Stenberg as Rue (District 11)
Dayo Okeniyi as Thresh (District 11)
Alexander Ludwig as Cato (District 2)
Isabelle Fuhrman as Clove (District 2)
Jack Quaid as Marvel (District 1)
Leven Rambin as Glimmer (District 1)
Jacqueline Emerson as Foxface (District 5)
Ian Nelson as Tribute Boy (District 3)
Latarsha Rose as Portia
Brooke Bundy as Octavia
Amber Chaney as Lavinia the avox
Kimiko Gelman as Venia
Nelson Ascencio as Flavius

Catching Fire (November 22 2013)

Latest News/Specs

Elizabeth Banks on Effie
Catching Fire to be Released November 22 2013
Elizabeth Banks: Only One Week Left of Shooting
Josh Encounter on Set
Steven Soderbergh joins THG
First Look at Peeta and Gale - EW
New edition of books to come out; Official movie companion information
Lenny Kravitz on Cinna
Danny Elfman will score THG
Donald Sutherland Joins THG
Message from Suzanne on the script
Jen Lawrence to sing in THG

Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson Inching Close To ‘Hunger Games’ Leads? – Deadline.com
‘The Hunger Games’ Snags Josh Hutcherson And Liam Hemsworth In Today’s Dailies MTV Movies Blog
'The Hunger Games' filmmakers respond to casting of Peeta & Gale - National The Hunger Games | Examiner.com
Liam Hemsworth reads opposite brother, Chris for The Hunger Games audition
Team 'Hunger Games' talks: Author Suzanne Collins and director Gary Ross on their allegiance to each other, and their actors -- EXCLUSIVE | Inside Movies | EW.com

Larry Dias: HG set decorator
SXSW: 'Detention' star Josh Hutcherson wants to play some 'Hunger Games' | Inside Movies | EW.com
The Imminent Whitewashing Of The Hunger Games’ Heroine
Hunger Games' Casting is Continued Evidence Hollywood has Gotten Lazy – RopeofSilicon.com Movie News, Trailers, Reviews and More
EXCLUSIVE: Jennifer Lawrence Gets Lead Role in 'The Hunger Games' | The Wrap Movies

The 'Hunger Games' movie begins under ravenous scrutiny - USATODAY.com
Woody Harrelson is Haymitch
Nelson Ascencio and Kimiko Gelman as Flavius and Venia
Amber Chaney as Avox Girl
Final draft written by Suzanne Collins and Gary Ross
Toby Jones as Claudius
Lenny Kravitz joins as Cinna
Latarsha Rose and Brooke Bundy as Portia and Octavia
Jennifer of Liam and Josh
Jennifer video on HG and bonding with Josh

Latest Set Pictures/Media

Read the scans

Stills

water lilies · 08-09-2011, 07:33 PM

New thread! I think I got everything in the OP.

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Elizabeth Banks on Her Roles in The Hunger Games, Our Idiot Brother, and 30 Rock

8/9/11 at 2:00 PM

Elizabeth Banks landed her first feature role ten years ago, as Paul Rudd’s slobbery make-out partner in Wet Hot American Summer. Now the two are onto their fifth collaboration with Our Idiot Brother (in theaters August 26). In it, Banks plays a cutthroat journalist named Miranda who is trying to impress her bosses at Vanity Fair with a good story. Rudd is the movie’s idiot brother, Ned, a guy who’s just out of jail for selling pot to a cop in uniform and reentering the lives of his three putatively more “together” sisters (Banks, Emily Mortimer, and Zooey Deschanel). Jada Yuan spoke with Banks for a New York Magazine feature shortly after the actress finished shooting her first scenes for what is sure to be her most watched movie to date: The Hunger Games, the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’s hugely popular dystopian trilogy. Banks stars as Effie Trinket, the pink-haired “mentor” to teenage heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) as she’s forced to fight other kids to the death on TV. Here is more from their wide-ranging conversation.

It's so cool that you're playing Effie.
I can’t wait for people to see her. The makeup is incredible. We were actually shooting in North Carolina. It’s 100 degrees, like 98 percent humidity. There’s, like, 400 extras, or some crazy number. They’re all little kids. They’re standing in the hot sun. We felt so badly. We’re, like, handing out Popsicles to keep their strength up and they’re just dropping like flies.

Are people going to have brightly colored skin?
All I can tell you is that Effie does have pink hair. When the hair and makeup was finished, we had all these people in the trailer and it was like everybody just got giddy all at once, like, “We did it!” and “This is Effie! It’s going to be awesome!” We were so happy.

Did you tone down her look from what's described in the book?
Yeah, you know, it was like, “What’s the shape of the hair? Is it long? Is it curly? Is it short? Is it straight?” And I know Suzanne Collins had ideas, so it was all about like, “What can we do tonally right in the movie?” You can get away with a lot of things in a book that you can’t get away with when you’re visually watching kids kill each other. So we just wanted to make sure that she didn’t look too clownish. And that we honored the solemnity of what’s going on in the book. I wouldn’t say we toned it down at all, but it’s very specific.

Had you read Hunger Games before you got the part?
I read the book a long time ago. I was a very early adopter. I’d actually just read a book called The Maze Runner, which is another great book with a similar theme, but it has a male protagonist … my husband and I are always looking for properties to produce. So we had an advance reader’s copy of The Maze Runner.

You have a production company?
Yeah, Brownstone Productions. So we looked at that book and someone said, “If you liked Maze Runner, you’ll really like The Hunger Games.” And I think Lionsgate or Nina [Jacobson], the producer, already had the rights. She got it really early. So anyway, I read the first one and I was like, “Oh my God!” I devoured it in, like, five hours. And partly I think I liked it because it has a female protagonist. And then I immediately got on the list to get Catching Fire and then preordered Mockingjay, like, a month in advance. So then I started talking to the head of production over there [at Lionsgate], about the book. Like, “I would pay to be Effie.” So I planted the seed way back then.

She was the part you saw yourself as?
Oh yeah, totally. It’s the only part that I’m right for. The movie is about 20-year-olds.

Sixteen-year-olds, actually.
Yeah, the cast is all 20.

There’s brouhaha about that.
Yeah, but if people had to deal with the labor laws that we have to deal with, they’d understand why we can’t cast 15-year-olds. Anyway, Jen [Lawrence] is perfectly cast. She’s amazing. The real deal. Honestly, when we shot the Reaping, I wept.

How did you get the part?
Oh, so Gary Ross [the director] and I did Seabiscuit together, and I sent him an e-mail and said, “I want to be Effie!” Again, planting the seed. I was working on something else at the time — I’m always working — but I knew he was up for the directing gig. And then he got the gig, and I was like, “Hey, if you want to make life easy, I’m here.” I think I probably sent him one e-mail and then we had a phone conversation. I called him and said, “Let’s just talk about it, just so you know where I’m coming from and see if we’re on the same page.” Because Gary has his process and it’s his movie and if he didn’t think I’m right, there’s no pushing anything on Gary. And so, you know, we had a great conversation. I know he looked at other people. He did his process. I was not privy to it. And he just called me one day and he was like, “Okay, if you want to do it, let’s do it.” And I was like, “YEAH! Finally! Let’s do it!”

What are you doing with the production now?
Not much since they’ve been shooting all the battle sequences. So it involves all the kids that go into battle. I’m going back for the first time on Friday [post-dated to last week]. I'm excited because all of the adults will be there, so it will be me and Woody Harrelson and Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland, and we're going to be in Charlotte doing all the scenes that take place at the Capitol, which will be really fun. I’ve never been to Charlotte because when I went for Hunger Games [the first time], I immediately flew into the airport and drove to the country.

Is Charlotte going to double as the Capitol? It doesn't seem gaudy enough.
I actually have no idea. I know we’re shooting on stages and some stuff on locations, but I have no idea. I’ve seen all the boards and I can tell you it looks really cool.

Elizabeth Banks on Her Roles in The Hunger Games, Our Idiot Brother, and 30 Rock -- Vulture

**dive into you** · 08-10-2011, 02:52 AM

Thanks for the new thread, Belle

**pink velvet** · 08-10-2011, 06:21 AM

thanks for starting!

water lilies · 08-10-2011, 07:29 AM

You're welcome.

2 more from EW's website:

***dancing in the rain*** · 08-10-2011, 02:20 PM

TFTNT

So glad we're still getting new stills!

Shannon25 · 08-10-2011, 03:38 PM

Omg Peeta looks amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why haven't I checked back more often?!!! I am so excited that Danny is scoring this film. He's my favorite composer. Everything he's done from Oingo Boingo to the Alice in Wonderland score is amazing!!!!!!! I can almost hear "Ice Dance" playing while they kiss in the cave while it's raining. Oh I love it!!!!

water lilies · 08-10-2011, 06:12 PM

Better quality of the picture of Gale at the Reaping:

Shannon25 · 08-10-2011, 06:52 PM

Ooo nice

**dive into you** · 08-11-2011, 03:36 AM

Thanks for the new stills

Shannon25 · 08-11-2011, 12:13 PM

Come on Lionsgate, release more!!!

water lilies · 08-11-2011, 04:17 PM

They've been good to us these past two weeks.

**dive into you** · 08-12-2011, 02:24 AM

They have

**pink velvet** · 08-12-2011, 07:55 AM

hello Gale

these photos are all wonderful.

MiniAnneBoleynx8 · 08-12-2011, 07:59 AM

Those pictures are gorgeous

Liam/Gale's stare is particularly hot in that photo from the Reaping


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