Lionsgate released a full blown trailer at last night's MTV Movie Awards — more than a "teaser" indeed — that put the revolutionary spirit of the second book, and, blessedly, some of its most adult moments, on full display.
This afternoon we became excited because we heard some rumblings about a trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. How exciting, we thought to ourselves. Might we get a peak at Katniss and Peeta's victory tour? At new characters Finnick Odair and Johanna Mason? At the arena for the Quarter Quell? Then a teaser for a teaser broke our hearts.
Lionsgate has released The Hunger Games: Catching Fire images, and they've finally shown us Sam Claflin as Finnick, the sexiest tribute of all. He ain't ugly, but is he the Finnick we all had pictured in our heads?
A new year, a new Hunger Games movie.
Time can have its real person of the year, but not-real people can influence us, too, and in 2012, fake characters mattered. From Katniss to Bane and Zero Dark Thirty's Maya, here's our alternative list.
What with climate talks sounding scarier and scarier, it would be nice to know what's going to happen years in the future. Well, this chart might provide some clues, at least if you trust the predictive minds of its authors.
Today in celebrity gossip: The Brangelina nuptials are nigh, Justin Bieber is getting sued for noise, and The Hunger Games takes a turn for the worse.
The Giver is one of the books you probably read as a kid, somewhere between late elementary or middle school and early high school, depending on your school and curriculum. Two of us hadn't, though, and finally did.
Today in showbiz news, everyone's favorite downtown diva is heading out West, Catching Fire has once and for all declared its Finnick, and Paul Haggis assembles an A-team.
Don't worry, you'll be watching Katniss and friends kill people until 2015. Also don't worry about Seth Meyers, he's probably not replacing Regis. But do worry about Savannah Guthrie. She's not exactly a hit.
Today in the world of entertainment: American Idol might put a former contestant behind the judges' table, Philip Seymour Hoffman heads off to kill some children, and Michael Fassbender, well, heads off to kill some people, too.
Today: Jena Malone heads into battle, Spider-Man is gonna be one rich kid, and Dunder Mifflin may have a new employee.
Consider this a PSA: The Huffington Post has made last month's iPad-only piece about Politico's Hunger Games-like newsroom available on the regular ole Web, so if you didn't buy it the first time around, have a look. [The Huffington Post]
Today: Tyler Perry tries a new genre, a Canadian show gets another American season, and Jena Malone is in the running for a big role.
The Hulk (and his cohorts) smashed the all-time box office opening weekend by pulling in over $200 million since opening for midnight shows Friday morning.
The Hunger Games finally fell from the top of the box office to a movie based on a Steve Harvey book.
Welcome back to Box Office Report, where we hold a butter-substitute-coated finger to the wind and take a reading on America's moviegoing habits.
The ironic and rather wonderful thing about banning books is that the act doesn't, actually, do much to keep the books from being read. If anything, it inspires further interest in them, and sometimes sales, too.
Today: The two cool guys are putting something together, AMC gets back in the comic business, and LMFAO is trying to make it official.
Now that The Hunger Games director Gary Ross is officially not directing the second movie in the series, Catching Fire, it's time to start speculating about who Lionsgate might hire. Or rather, who they should hire.
Kristen Wiig sure sounds like somebody who is ready to leave Saturday Night Live, Republicans need a new pitcher for this year's Congressional Baseball Game, and John Kerry is a grandfather.
The Hunger Games rolls for another week, fending off the 90s nostalgia of a young Leo in Titanic 3D and the familiar jokes of American Reunion.
Today: Katniss has no leader, Nicole Kidman is to become a princess, and an injured actor gets litigious.
The Hunger Games is still the only game at the megaplexes. Elsewhere, Sam Worthington continues to work, and a non-prostitution-related Julia Roberts fairy tale fails to ignite interest. It's the Box Office Report.
Benefiting from the Midas touch of the label "The Hunger Games"—the movie raked in $155 million in its opening weekend for Lionsgate—is the soundtrack, titled The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond, which reached number 1 on the album chart this week.
Perhaps the most brutal, most shocking thing about The Hunger Games is not the squalid conditions of District 12, not the callous monsters of the Capitol, not the pile of dead children lying in a field.
Also: Miley Cyrus is not engaged, and her ring is just topaz.
Today: Justin Bieber's new song sounds awfully grown-up, ABC Family makes a big buy, and Will Ferrell is trying to get his kid into college.
It's bigger than Spider-Man. Bigger than Twilight. It's The Hunger Games, and it's making Lionsgate very, very happy.
The movie is on track to have the fifth-biggest opening weekend ever.
Let us not forget, in the whiplash-inspiring build-up to the Hunger Games movie cumulating in exhausting midnight showings (and screenings for normal people at normal times), that this all was sprung from a far more humble entity.
Oh the agony of being a fan! Specifically a fan of those gotta-read serial books that recapture a youthful ardor for deep, long reading that we’d mostly thought gone in these quick-burst internet times.
Once upon a time, we innocently went about our lives, casually looking forward to a movie coming to the multiplex near us. Things are different now.
Today in books: Vintage has acquired rights to the James Bond books, The Hunger Games sends Scholastic stock soaring, and Dante is under siege in Italy.
Jennifer Lawrence might have a scheduling conflict, Scott Wolf is back on TV, and Keira Knightley makes a terrible decision.
ABC's marriage show hits a new low, Bear Grylls is out of a job, and the return of Tempestt Bledsoe.
Despite advance tickets selling like crazy and hype for the books and film rivaling that of Twilight and the Harry Potter franchise, Lionsgate is worried that young men won't see The Hunger Games.
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of YA classic A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle's famous book that brought science fiction to girls (and boys, too!) and introduced the awesome girl character of Meg Murry.
Today: Something new from Panem, Katherine Heigl doesn't recognize your face, and Octavia Spencer heads into the snow.
Today: Charlie Sheen is looking for ladies, Victoria Grayson gets a new man, and Anne Heche gets some work.
Independent film studio Summit Entertainment, famous for wooing many a teenage girl with its Twilight films, has been wooed itself, as it reportedly will be bought by Lionsgate for $700 million.
Holy Haymitch, it's here. The first teaser trailer for the upcoming Hunger Games movie, based on the hugely successful book series, has arrived! And it looks good!
It's almost time to go nuts about Twilight again, it's almost time to be civilly excited about The Hunger Games, and Ricky Gervais wants back in.
Plus: Take a Claritin before watching the first 'Hunger Games' trailer
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