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First Look at Catching Fire from EW! UPDATED!

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EW released the first official photos from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire today! The latest cover features Finnick and Katniss in their arena uniforms.

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Another photo of Finnick and Katniss was also released!

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”Pressure, pressure, the pressure is on,” says good-natured Sam Claflin about stepping into the net of District 4′s charismatic golden boy. ”I’m on Twitter and so many people are like, ‘Don’t mess this up, or we will kill you.’ People are just worried that I’m not going to be as sex god enough as Finnick should be. I’ve literally had four months of eating nothing but chicken and asparagus. I just want a burger and a beer.”

Late this afternoon, they released even more photos! This time featuring Katniss, Peeta, and Gale.

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”Jen and Liam have amazing chemistry,” says director Francis Lawrence of his young stars. ”They have a nice moment right before Katniss is reaped that is the very first thing we shot. And then when Gale has been brought in from the whipping, that’s another really nice moment they have alone.” ”This the book where you have to understand the pull Katniss feels to both Peeta and Gale,” say producer Nina Jacobson.

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”These are kids growing up in war who physically, emotionally can’t love somebody,” says Jennifer Lawrence about the uncomfortable triangle between District 12′s battle-weary Katniss, Peeta, and her childhood friend Gale that began in The Hunger Games. ”Katniss thinks she can’t have a crush on a boy because she’s worried about survival every single day. And she can’t be a normal 16-year-old meeting her friend out in the woods and practicing kissing because that’s not the world that they live in.”

This is certainly an exciting day fans! What do you think, Tributes? To read excerpts of interviews from cast and crew members, head over to EW!

UPDATE: Even more photos have been released! This time we see Plutarch Heavensbee and Haymitch, Prim and Mrs. Everdeen, and President Snow! I don’t know about you, but my inner fangirl is going insane right now!

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Source: EW

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Alicia Keys thinks SHE’s the Girl on Fire

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Who is YOUR Girl on Fire: Katniss Everdeen or Alicia Keys? As far as we knew, it was Katniss, but now Keys seems poised to try and take the mantle. See this story from EW.com about Keys’ new album and how it relates to The Hunger Games:

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For our Fall Music Preview, on stands tomorrow, we spoke to Alicia Keys about her upcoming album, Girl on Fire, due Nov. 27  — and she had plenty to say about the recording process, getting the tiniest member of her family in the studio, and why that title is not a reference to a certain bow-and-arrow-wielding girl warrior. Read on:

EW: Let’s start with your album title, Girl on Fire. I know that you wrote that you wanted to make a change in your life and represent a new journey and a fresh start, but is the title also influenced by The Hunger Games?

Alicia Keys: You know, the funny thing is that it’s actually not. It was such a shock when I heard about The Hunger Games — I wasn’t aware of the book at that point. And I didn’t realize that, I guess, that’s what they call the one girl. So we tried very hard to make it all work and put the song in — and to put parts of what I was developing in with the movie. Anyway, obviously it came out way too early, so the timing wasn’t right. But, no, it has nothing to do with The Hunger Games. That powerful feeling is what it’s all about.

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If it was an innocent coincidence — and we’re inclined to believe Keys when she says that — then no harm, no foul. It does make us wonder, though: Would an Alicia Keys song have been nice on the “Songs from District 12 and Beyond” soundtrack? We know Keys can do New York, but could she have done District 12?

Let us know your thoughts!

The Hunger Games outperforming Harry Potter

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Preliminary box office reports are in and The Hunger Games came in fourth place earning an estimated $11.3 million.  Not bad considering it’s only a 23 percent decline from what it made last weekend.  This moves it up to the 17th highest grossing film of all time, domestically.  Also, we are currently out pacing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 which after six weeks had made $366 million, The Hunger Games have currently grossed nearly $372.5 million.  If The Hunger Games makes more than $381 million by the time it is out of theaters it will have officially out grossed all eight Harry Potter films! I think we can do this!!

Here’s a weekend box office rundown from Entertainment Weekly.

In this case, the under-performance of The Five-Year Engagement wasn’t the only big story this weekend. Think Like A Man notched a very strong sophomore frame, The Hunger Games reached a truly remarkable milestone, and The Avengers flexed their muscles internationally. Oh, and Safe andThe Raven also entered theaters. We’ve got a lot to talk about! Here’s how the box office shook out:

Ensemble comedy Think Like A Man, an adaptation of Steve Harvey’s famous advice book, Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, dropped by 46 percent to $18 million — enough to easily top the box office for a second frame in a row. Compared to other comedies with predominantly African-American casts, Think Like A Man‘s second weekend drop is quite strong. Recent titles like Jumping the Broom and Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds fell by 55 percent and 54 percent, respectively, in their sophomore frames.

Think Like A Man maintained a robust per theater average of $8,933, which was over twice as much as the average for any other film in the Top 20. After ten days, Think has earned $60.9 million, and it now seems headed for a finish near $90 million. Not too shabby for a film that cost Sony just $12 million to produce!

There’s another Sony title in second place. Aardman Animation’s The Pirates! Band of Misfitsearned $11.4 million over its first three days. The $55 million stop-motion animation has already earned $63.7 million overseas, so it didn’t need a gigantic debut Stateside to sail to profitability.

The film, which earned  a “B” CinemaScore grade benefited greatly from the lack of other family films at the box office. 76 percent of Pirates‘ audience were children under 12 (49 percent) and parents (27 percent), and it’s big Friday-to-Saturday jump from $2.8 million to $5.1 million (85 percent) is indicative of family playability. Interestingly, despite the beardy cast and swashbuckling storyline, only 46 percent of the audience was male, though, which means that women made up the predominant audience for the Top 5 films at the box office this weekend.

The Zac Efron/Taylor Schilling romance The Lucky One finished in third place with $11.3 million — a drop of 50 percent. After ten days, the Nicholas Sparks adaptation has earned $39.9 million — already a much better total than the last Efron-led picture, Charlie St. Cloud, which grossed just $31.2 million in its entire 2010 run.

Close behind, The Hunger Games dipped by a tiny 23 percent and earned $11.3 million in its sixth weekend on the chart. With a running total of $372.5 million, the franchise-launching blockbuster is now officially performing ahead of the highest-grossing Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, which had earned $366 million at the same point in its run.

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MAD magazine meets The Hunger Games

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Have you seen this yet?  Entertainment Weekly has an EXCLUSIVE first look at the The Hunger Pains, it’s parody of The Hunger Games of course!

See the story below and click on the image to see the full size version so you can read all the descriptions.

It is a tradition that stretches back decades, a ritual of ruthless public mortification that children and children-at-heart have gleefully gobbled up from sea to shining sea. I’m speaking, of course, of the MAD Magazine parody, the venerable humor magazine’s take-no-prisoners tweak of massive pop-cultural events in which nothing is sacred. And in this exclusive first look, we can see what happened when MAD‘s Alfred E. Neuman set his sights on The Hunger Games — or, as MADputs it, The Hunger Pains.

First thing I noticed from this parody, written by Desmond Devlin, and drawn by artist Tom Richmond: MAD‘s Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark — sorry, that’s Katfood Aspercreme and Meatwad Stretchmark — look like the Capitol fashioned a “muttation” of Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson crossed with Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The result, as one would expect, is horrifying. Check out the first four pages of the parody below — keeping in mind it comes from the April 24 issue of MAD, entitled “The 50 Worst Things About America.”

Tell us what you think about this in the comments section below!

Can ‘The Hunger Games’ win an Oscar?

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Will the Academy embrace The Hunger Games?  After the great Harry Potter Oscar snub, that is the new question on everyone’s mind.  Entertainment Weekly has made an attempt to determine whether or not it has a shot, read below for the reason’s for and against The Hunger Games’ Oscar success.

Here’s why it can:

Jennifer Lawrence:  Last weekend when Lionsgate execs wanted to focus on The Hunger Games‘ opening-weekend success, and not awards season, they still couldn’t help but name-check one of Lawrence’s stellar reviews.

Her buzz is as undeniable as her Academy credentials are solid.

Lawrence is a former Best Actress contender (for Winter’s Bone), who was tapped to help announce the nominations this past January. And as Katniss Everdeen, she’s earned critical blurbs worthy of a first-rate Oscar campaign: “Luminous” (New Yorker); “Astonishing” (Rolling Stone); “Carries the whole film on her sturdy shoulders” (Slate).

To be sure, Daniel Radcliffe rated with critics, too, but the Harry Potter movies were not the showcase that The Hunger Games is for Lawrence. (Among Potter actors, Alan Rickman arguably got the most serious Oscar buzz, and even he failed to make the finals.) Also, Radcliffe probably was just too young to generate much heat in a category, Best Actor, that skews years older than Best Actress.  

All in all, the 21-year-old Lawrence is a legit candidate. After all, they gave Sigourney Weaver a nomination for Aliens, didn’t they?

And why it probably won’t:

They’re the Oscars, Stupid: The Hunger Games is a female-led, female-driven movie, which means demographically it has almost nothing in common with Academy’s predominantly old, male voters.

Also, it’s futuristic. And before you say, Avatar and District 9, ask yourself, “Were those female-led, female-driven movies?” (No, they were not.)

Remember: The Academy likes its female-led, female-driven movies, when it likes them, that is, in corsets. (Four words to remember for next year’s Oscars: Keira Knightley‘s Anna Karenina.)

Viewed as either a kids’ movie or a spectacle, Harry Potter had its own Oscar problems, and it never figured into the glamour categories—and, Lawrence or no, neither will The Hunger Games.

After all, Weaver didn’t win for Aliens, did she? (No, she did not.) And she wasn’t even nominated for Alien, was she? (No, sadly, she was not.)

If it’s any consolation to The Hunger Games, becoming the next Harry Potter isn’t so bad—even if that means no Oscars. Ever.

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‘What If’ Posters

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Entertainment Weekly came out with an intriguing and often humorous article about what the Hunger Games poster would look like if directed by someone other than Gary Ross.  You can see how a director’s style is often portrayed in their movie poster, and some of these are just great, while others are just plain ludicrous, but still fun to look at.  Here are some of the most interesting ones (if not funny), in my opinion.

Director: Woody Allen

 

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Director: Roger Corman

 

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Director: Nicolas Winding Refn

 

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

 

Director: Michael Bay

 

Obviously, the most ridiculous one has to be the Michael Bay poster.  I couldn’t help but just laugh about it.  So, what do you think of them?  Can you see how poster can change the way a movie is portrayed?  If you want to check out more posters, including David Fincher, Peter Jackson, Disney, and Garry Marshall, go to EW.com.

Hunger Games on the Cover of EW!

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Break out your piggy banks, this Friday is going to be pricey!  Not only are People and US Weekly releasing their Hunger Games Special Editions, but Entertainment Weekly is as well! Hooray for weekend reading material!

Here’s some of what we can look forward to.

Concerning the violence in the film:

“Is it violent?” says director Gary Ross of his PG-13 film. “Yes. Do we back off from what it is? No, we don’t.”

On Lenny Kravitz being cast as Cinna:

Perhaps no bit of casting news was met with greater surprise than Lenny Kravitz taking on the role of Cinna, hero Katniss Everdeen’s deeply cool and compassionate stylist. Kravitz was working on his album, living out of a trailer in the Bahamas and oblivious to the Hunger Games phenomenon, when Ross first approached him to offer him the part. The director had been moved by the musician’s gentle grace in Precious and was further intrigued by the fact that Kravitz already felt a nurturing bond with star Jennifer Lawrence, who had become close friends with his daughter Zoe during the filming of X-Men: First Class. “I love that girl,” says Kravitz. “The minute I met her she became a part of the family.”

And what about Woody Harrelson’s commitment issues?:

It took one sleepless night of reading a downloaded version of The Hunger Games in his trailer for Kravitz to commit. But Woody Harrelson, who initially turned down the role of Katniss and Peeta’s sodden wreck of a mentor Haymitch, was a harder sell. “Listen, I’m nuts,” he explains. “It was just a stupid thing where I hadn’t read the books yet. I didn’t see that there was enough for me to do in the script. But then Gary called me back and said ‘You got to do this, I don’t have a second choice for the role.’ And of course flattery always gets the best of me so I read the books and really saw the depths of this guy. Holy s—, I would have been bummed to miss this.”

So until Friday when this issue hits stores, you can read more over at EW!

The Hob’s 8,000 Twitter Follower Giveaway!!

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In celebration of reaching their 8,000 follower milestone on Twitter, our friends over at The Hob are giving away some prizes! Go check it out!

From The Hob:

Over the weekend we surpassed 8,000 followers on Twitter – a milestone we had to recognize with a little giveaway to say thanks to our fabulous followers :)

So we’re giving you the chance to win a magazine featuring The Hunger Games! We’ll have three winners, and each winner will have their choice of one of the following magazines:

  • Entertainment Weekly – Jennifer Lawrence/Katniss cover
  • Entertainment Weekly – Men of The Hunger Games cover
  • Vanity Fair – Hunger Games cast feature

All you have to do to enter the contest is:

  • Follow us on Twitter: @TheHobOrg
  • Tweet this phrase once during the contest: Follow @TheHobOrg and RT this for a chance to win a magazine featuring #HungerGames
  • Contest is open to international fans

The contest ends at 10:00 PM ET on Wednesday, January 25, when we’ll pick 3 winners using random.org. Those 3 winners will then get to choose which magazine they want as their prize.

Click here to enter.