Ah, with The Hunger Games quickly approaching our own movie theaters, on March 23, 2012, the viral campaign is marching forward. And it’s pretty entertaining actually.
Since I’m a “citizen of Panem,” via the virtue of signing up for The Hunger Games Facebook page (Or one of the pages associated with the movie), I get intermittent updates. In this case, I received an email for the ‘Capitol Couture’ newsletter from Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker for the 74th Hunger Games.
(Seneca Crane is played by Wes Bentley)
In this newsletter, is a leader image with a link off to the “newsletter” and one fictional newsletter ad in the content urging citizens to get ready to buy their tickets!
The newsletter is based on learning about the fashion, trends and lifestyle of Capitol within the fictional world of The Hunger Games that was created by Suzanne Collins. (It must be neat for her to see so much stuff being made for and about her creation.)
Lionsgate released the first movie trailer for what I am calling a highly anticipated movie, The Hunger Games. I don’t know about you, but I am anticipating the release of this movie, which is due out on March 23rd, 2012.
The Hunger Games is directed by Gary Ross (The Tale of Despereaux, Seabiscuit, Pleasantville). Gary also had a hand in working over the screenplay, as did the book’s author, Suzanne Collins, and Billy Ray (State of Play, Breach). Just looking at the combined credits of these three alone makes me start to get wound up about what we could possibly see on the silver screen for The Hunger Games.
The cast seems well chosen for the different characters from the Collins novel, and if anything, the movie trailer seems to show that the movie is following the book very closely. At least, that’s what it looks like. And such being as it may, then The Hunger Games book is being brought to life grander than ever, as fans watch their favorite characters step out of the pages of the book and their imaginations and given form.
In this first movie trailer for The Hunger Games, we pretty much are seeing the front or opening stages of the story that get set for the ensuing drama that unfolds within the narrative of the book. If you’re uninitiated into the franchise of the book trilogy, after the trailer, I’m about to explore the details of what we see here in the movie trailer… in other words, after the trailer that’s embedded here, are HUGE SPOILERS for the story, so proceed past this point, at your own risk.
The first movie trailer for The Hunger Games is finally here! And it’s rather fulfilling. This trailer pretty much covers the front part of the novel/movie of the book trilogy of the same name, The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins.
These are preview scenes leading up to and showing how Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) & Petta (Josh Hutcherson) find themselves thrust into the games. We specifically see exactly how Katniss ends up volunteering, to take the place of her little sister, Prim.
From there, bits of the preparation for the live-televised games in Panem, and the start of the games, when all contestants in each of their tubes, is raised out into the playing field that the Capitol has set up for the Hunger Games.
In the trailer we get glimpses of Katniss’s best buddy, Gale (Liam Hemsworth). We see Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks) selecting the District 12 names at what is called The Reaping. That’s when young citizens are selected to participate in The Hunger Games. We also see glimpses of Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), Cinna (Lenny Kravitz) and President Snow (Donald Sutherland).
It looks, almost exactly as I had hoped things would look, after having read The Hunger Games trilogy!
Recently Lionsgate released character posters from The Hunger Games. Eight of them to be exact. The character posters are for your favorite citizens of Panem.
The Hunger Games posters released are of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), Cinna (Lenny Kravitz), Rue (Amandla Stenberg), & Cato (Alexander Ludwig).
Check out the character posters and short descriptions of each below and the NEW movie synopsis:
Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), our hero, who for reasons of which you will discover in the movie, volunteers to be a tribute in The Hunger Games;
Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), a baker’s son and an unlikely looking tribute for the games who develops a complicated relationship with Katniss;
A viral website supporting the upcoming movie, The Hunger Games, has popped up.
For now, all that has seemed to happen at the website is that I can sign in and I was assigned to a district. And crap, I was assigned to district 2.
If you’ve only read the first book, you’d think that’s good news… As far as the movie goes, then I’m in like flint with a favored district, as district 2 supplies the security forces to the Capitol.
The Hunger Games, being produced by Color Force studios & distributed by Lionsgate, will finally get into production starting this month (May 2011) and is slated for a late March 2012 release date in the theaters.
I’ve been watching casting news for The Hunger Games come out just about every day for quite some time, but I think they’re done, more or less.
Woody Harrelson, Alexander Ludwig (Race to Witch Mountain) and Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan) were the last to be cast and news is that there are only two more major roles to be cast for the movie that’s based on a series of novels aimed at young adults.
I’ve been seeing the news reports for this project for some time but don’t know a thing about it, so I took a look…
This is a review of an “On Demand” viewing of The Uninvited.
The Uninvited is a movie directed by The Guard Brothers (no real previous projects) and written by Craig Rosenberg (Lost, After the Sunset), Doug Miro (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) & Carlo Bernard (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice).
It starred Emily Browning (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, upcoming: Sucker Punch) as Anna, the daughter. Arielle Kebbel (Vampire’s Suck) plays Anna’s sister, Alex. David David Strathairn (The Bourne Ultimatum) is their father, Steven and Elizabeth Banks (The Next Three Days) plays Steven’s girlfriend, Rachel.
Anna gets out of the funny farm and comes home to her sister Alex, dad and dad’s girlfriend, Rachel. The family has a slight bit of a bad piece of history where the ill mother had died in an explosive accident. As Anna returns home, she finds herself discovering little details about her mom’s death as she and her sister tackle not only these issues but also their potential soon-to-be step-mom, Rachel.
This week the opening movies for this Friday, 11/19/10, include Harry Potter with Emma Watson & Daniel Radcliffe, The Next Three Days starring Russell Crowe. Check it out below.
But first, let’s take a quick peek at last weekend’s box office performance.
Megamind worked over the competition in its second week in the theaters, raking in just over $29M. Unstoppable premiered last weekend and ranked 2nd with a near $23M weekend, Due Date pulled in over $15M and Skyline brought in almost $12M.
From almost a blanket perspective from every single person I know, Skyline was reported to be a horrid film event. I’ve been told by my in-theater agent that people were laughing at scenes that were poorly constructed and others were leaving the theater. That can’t be good.
Elizabeth Banks has been nabbed to not only guest star on 30 Rock, but she’ll be guesting in at least 4 episodes, and doing so as the love interest for Jack. (Alec Baldwin)
Jack will also be hitting it up starting this week with his high school crush, played by Julianne Moore, who will also be in a multi-episode appearance.
Da man is having a great time on 30 Rock it sounds like!
