The teaser comes to a close as Katniss indeed shows how good she is: arrow meeting flaming target. But all this is just a taste of what's to come, as director Gary Ross told MTV News earlier this week. "We're still shooting, so unfortunately it's just a teaser. We could only give you a little bit because we're still down here making the movie," he said. "But there's a lot of things to come that I think are going to be hugely epic and very emotional and incredibly powerful."Source: MTV
This year, you can add "The Hunger Games" to that list of milestones. NextMovie can exclusively confirm that this year's VMAs will feature the world premiere of the first ever footage from the most anticipated film event of 2012, introduced by star Jennifer Lawrence herself.Source
Read the interview with Adam Spunberg here.What happens when you decide to combine two popular works of fantasy together? The answer to that question is actually fairly simple. Take the Harry Potter series (written by J.K. Rowling) and add it to Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games trilogy and you’ll get The Potter Games! Founded by Adam Spunberg, Shylah Addante, and Sam Cushion, the games opened to the general public on July 7, 2011.
Hosted by Picktainment (a website primarily focused on encouraging “users to engage in competitions based on their picks for various awards shows”) at www.thepottergames.com, the project takes the characters from Rowling’s Harry Potter series and puts them into the world of Collins’ Hunger Games challenges. Currently, 206, 238 people have signed up to participate in the games and a Rebellion page was launched last week on August 8, 2011.
Once on the homepage, users can choose between the following the tributes: Ginny Weasley, Fred Weasley, Hannah Abbott, Colin Creevey, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown, Viktor Krum, Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson, Cho Chang, Parvati Patil, Katie Bell, Fleur Delacour, George Weasley, Neville Longbottom, Cormac McLaggen, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Cedric Diggory, Vincent Crabbe, Padma Patil, and Gregory. While on the Rebellion site, they have to pick between Team Neville or Luna and continue to follow directions until their next task. Team Luna is currently unavailable to the public, but will open sometime soon.
Here, for the first time, is Scholastic’s cover (front and back) for The Hunger Games Collector’s Edition. That’s ordinarily the kind of thing that wouldn’t make the news. But what’s so arresting about the new slipcovered volume is the way the mockingjay image—the symbol of Suzanne Collins’ whole series—has been recast. "It’s been fun for the art director and me to revisit the mockingjay images,” Scholastic editorial director David Levithan told EW. “Amazingly, we chose the mockingjay image for the first book before we knew how crucial it would be in the trilogy, and we concepted the cover directions for Catching Fire and Mockingjay before we’d read a word of either book.” He adds, “Now we have the opportunity to go back and create new icons for each book. The Hunger Games Collector’s Edition shows a mockingjay in flight holding a bow, outside of the pin image featured on the original book, teasing the active role it’s going to play.”
The book, which will cost $30, goes on sale in November.
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DWTC: Many of the Districts have created tumblr pages and facebook groups, and seem to be bent on Rebellion. Are you monitoring these pages?HG: The Capitol does have record of popular groups and is monitoring them very closely. A Rebellion does not seem likely, but that doesn’t stop us from watching over people like Tumblr’s FYD12 and The Capitol is Watching. They are aware of our monitoring systems, so we do not deny doing so.
While this certainly comes a bit of a surprise, especially given that Soderbergh isn’t exactly sitting around doing nothing (he plans to shoot Magic Mike, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Liberace before the end of next year), the team-up isn’t necessarily as out of left field as one might think: Soderbergh and Ross have been good friends for a number of years, with Soderbergh producing Ross’ Pleasantville and Ross frequently giving feedback on Soderbergh’s scripts.
"In addition to their instrumental work, Universal Republic will release collections of the songs featured in the film and songs directly influenced by the themes -- freedom, rebellion, survival, family -- and subject matter of the film.
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Burnett, billed as executive music producer, will oversee all production and will produce many of the individual tracks being recorded by new and established artists. Music for the film is still in the planning stages and releases are expected to coincide with the film's March 23 theatrical release. The film and companion music will feature original recordings, but decision has been made on how many sets will be released."
