Burning love – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire review

By Simon Miraudo November 20, 2013 In the arena where budding franchises battle to the death, only The Hunger Games still stands, the young, mangled corpses of non-starters such as The Mortal Instruments and The Host slain at its feet. Catching Fire, the follow-up to the hugely successful and shockingly good first Hunger Games movie, […]

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Trailer Debut: The Hunger Games – Catching Fire

The feature trailer for The Hunger Games‘ sequel, Catching Fire, debuted during the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. Handily, it is now online for legions to gawk at. Catching Fire features Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) – (spoiler alert) –  the winners of the 74th Annual Hunger Games, touring the districts […]

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Katniss looks very fancy in this new Hunger Games – Catching Fire poster

If Jennifer Lawrence struggled to make it to the podium in her Oscar dress, she’s got no chance of climbing stairs in this get up. A new batch of posters from The Hunger Games – Catching Fire have been released, with Katniss (Lawrence), Effie (Elizabeth Banks), Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), Cinna (Lenny Kravitz), and Caesar (Stanley Tucci) in fairly regal […]

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Poster Debut: The Hunger Games – Catching Fire

Besides winning an Oscar and being the most GIFable person on the planet, Jennifer Lawrence also has that hit Hunger Games franchise under her belt. Is there anything she can’t do? How about ‘be adorably starstruck by Jack Nicholson’? Yep, she’s got that covered too. The poster for its second instalment, Catching Fire, has arrived, promoting Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) […]

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Final Hunger Games book to be released as two movies

The final instalment of Suzanne Collins’ trilogy of Hunger Games books, Mockingjay, has been cleft in twain as if struck by Katniss’ arrow. Mockingjay will now hit cinemas as two separate instalments, a’la Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn before it. Lionsgate announced the two separate dates (reported by […]

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Philip Seymour Hoffman joins Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire

As if the supporting cast of The Hunger Games wasn’t already filled with beloved, acclaimed actors (Stanley Tucci, Woody Harrelson, Toby Jones, Donald Sutherland), an Oscar winner has been thrown into the fray to further legitimise the YA property. Lionsgate has announced the casting of Philip Seymour Hoffman in Francis Lawrence‘s sequel Catching Fire. Hoffman will play head gamemaker Plutarch […]

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Jena Malone cast in Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire

Jena Malone has scored a key role in Francis Lawrence‘s Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress is in talks to play former Hunger Games winner Johanna Mason; a character with even greater significance in the third instalment of Suzanne Collins’ YA saga, Mockingjay. Shooting starts late September, with Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and […]

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Robert Pattinson denies casting in Hunger Games sequel

Last week the internet, as well as the hearts of all women and most men, were aflutter with rumours that two beloved YA universes were colliding: Robert Pattinson had scored a role in The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire. Not so, says Pattinson. The Twilight star told USA Today from Cannes – where his new film Cosmopolis debuted – that even he briefly […]

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Francis Lawrence to helm Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire

Francis Lawrence sits atop the Cornucopia victorious. Lionsgate has confirmed the I Am Legend director will helm their Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire. He replaces outgoing director Gary Ross, who exited on account of not having “the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted.” Lawrence reportedly beat Bennett Miller, […]

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