Elizabeth Banks Talks About the Capitol in Catching Fire

During the 5th Annual Power of Women of Variety, Elizabeth Banks talks about the Capitol and the fashion in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Watch it at the video below:

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Director Francis Lawrences Talks Love Triangle and CGI Effects in Catching Fire

In an interview with New York magazine, director Francis Lawrence opened up about the love triangle, shaky cam, and CGI effects of Catching Fire. Find out below:

Does Jennifer Lawrence still do the karate-running? She hated how she looked running before?
She said she always made this stupid face when she ran, and I had to specifically watch out to make sure she didn’t. So I was always checking. I would tell her, “You made the stupid face!”


Will you be using the shaky cam, like in the first movie?
No! [Laughs.] No shaky cam. I think a lot of people will be happy to hear that.


The first film skimped a little on showing us the strategy behind the Katniss-Peeta love story.
I felt the same. I felt the love story in general was, um, a bit buried in the first one. I wanted to bring the love story to the surface. And when I say love story, I mean the triangle.



Will this one have better CGI?
Uh, yeah. I think the effects are phenomenal. If you know the book, there’s a monkey-mutt attack, and Weta, who did Rise of the Planet of the Apes and King Kong, did the monkeys for us.

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Dolls Includes Effie and Finnick

Take a peek at Mattel's dolls of the main characters of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. You can pre-order them at Barbie Collector. You can view a video featuring these dolls at Entertainment Weekly's website at http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/10/08/hunger-games-catching-fire-barbie-dolls/.

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Set Photos of Mockingjay Movie

This page will be a compilation of set photos for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and 2.
 

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Bruno Gunn and Stepahnie Leigh Schlund Talks About Being Part of Catching Fire

In a separate interview, Bruno Gunn (Brutus) and Stephanie Leigh Schlund (Cashmere) talked about their experiences in being part of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

Bruno Gunn - The Repository interview:

“You get to the set and look around and it’s just one great actor after another,” he said. “The first night there I was having dinner with Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jennifer (Lawrence), Josh (Hutcherson), Stanley Tucci, Jeffrey Wright, Amanda Plummer. Not just great actors but good human beings.

“I’d be in makeup talking art with Woody Harrelson,” Gunn recalled. “Watching Stanley Tucci act was like a master class in acting. That goes for Jennifer and Josh, too. I’d hang back, watch and learn as much as possible.” …

After receiving the news that he’d been cast as Brutus, Gunn first made an ecstatic phone call to his fiancée. But as fate would have it, he was flying to Italy that very day to visit with friends and family, and decided to wait until he arrived to tell them.

“Here I am with this life-changing news and I’m stuck on a plane for nine hours,” he said. To his amusement, the majority of his fellow passengers were watching the first “Hunger Games” as the in-flight movie.

Stephanie Leigh Schlund - Hydrogen Magazine interview

HM: Let’s talk about The Hunger-Games: Catching Fire. First of all, what does it feel like being
caught in the eye of this crazy storm, with the fans and the huge success of the film?

SLS: It’s been a wild ride! When I got the role, I had to keep it my little secret until I was announced but nothing could have prepared me for this. It’s been my life for last year solid but honestly, our fan base is amazing. They are so sweet and warm and it’s been such a blessing.

HM: You play Tribute ‘Cashmere’ from District 1. And Cashmere and her brother Gloss (Alan Ritchson) battle Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson’s characters for the title in the 74th Annual Hunger-Games Quarter Quell. Tell me all about Cashmere.

SLS: Cashmere is a mass manipulator who uses her -beauty to get what she wants. She is from District 1 and has been trained from birth to fight, and she is also a natural born killer, so, kind of a double dose. She fears little and that confidence may get best of her. It was great working with Jennifer [Lawrence] one on one. She is Cashmere’s nemesis because Katniss is winning hearts and Cashmere is trying to do the same as she needs votes to stay in the game.

HM: Do you see any of yourself in Cashmere?

SLS: I wouldn’t have very many friends if I did [laughs]! I can relate on a fashion level, but that’s about it!

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New Stills of Catching Fire Plus EW Covers of Main Characters

Below are some new stills released of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as well as Entertainment Weekly's exclusive issue of the movie.

Peeta and Katniss in the training center (Catching Fire)

Effie

Caesar Flickerman interviews Peeta

Mags and Finnick in the training center

Entertainment Weekly Covers

a behind the scene photo of Jena Malone as Johanna

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an excerpt from EW's Catching Fire exclusive:

Jennifer Lawrence on the funniest thing that happened on set of Catching Fire, on Sam being the accident-prone person, and their experiences in Hawaii.

As Lawrence tells it, there was just as much falling down on the set of Catching Fire as there was at the Oscars. “Let me tell you, Sam [Claflin, the actor who plays Finnick Odair] is the clumsiest, most accident-prone person in the world. He broke his hand within the first week. He walked into a twig, and his eye was bleeding. He fell every single scene.”

Lawrence’s co-star, Josh Hutcherson, was almost as bad. “The funniest thing that happened was when Josh got down on one knee to propose to me—and his pants ripped,” Lawrence says.

As it happens, Lawrence’s favourite memory from the Catching Fire shoot also involves falling down. “In Hawaii one night, we were having a party at Josh’s house and we all held hands and ran into the ocean,” she says. “We would run as fast as we could into the water and we’d keep running until we fell, but we were all scared because we didn’t know where the reef was because it was dark.”

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New Stills of Catching Fire Features Katniss and Johanna Plus The Final Poster and Video Featurette/TV Spot of the Movie

Below are some new stills of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire released via the latest issue from Entertainment Weekly. The final poster of the movie can also be seen below with a video featurette from Fandango.

To view the exclusive behind the scene featurette of Catching Fire from Fandango, go to this page.
TV SPOT

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