J-14 posted this adorable video of Jena Malone talking about her working relationship with Sam Claflin on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. "He's a giving actor, he's fun to be around, and he also just falls down all the time. We've got this whole set of actors that just fall down all the time."
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Willow Shields, Bruno Gunn, Stephanie Leigh Schlund and Lynn Cohen made in-store appearances at a few lucky Walmart stores last night to promote the release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download.
Willow was at the Walmart in Tustin, CA.
Photo by Sheila from HGGirlonFireBruno was at a Walmart in Eligin, IL. Sheila from HG Girl on Fire was there and has tons of pics and a great video interview with Bruno so make sure you check it all out HERE.
Stephanie and Lynn went to a New Jersey area Walmart.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay director Francis Lawrence spoke with USA Today about the sudden loss of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman:
The Atlanta cast and crew of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay were devastated when they learned of cast member Phillip Seymour Hoffman's sudden death, says director Francis Lawrence.
"It was obviously very rough for all of us," Lawrence tells USA TODAY. "He was a friend. He was an amazing actor, an iconic actor. He was someone I really looked up to."
On the Atlanta set, filmmakers gave shocked and bereaved cast and crew members time to process their grief. "We shut down for a day to give people time to deal with the sudden shock of it all. And to try and sort of figure things out a little bit," says Lawrence.
After coming back to work, the entire cast and crew gathered for a special moment to pay respects to Hoffman.
"We as a cast and crew definitely honored him," says Lawrence. "We gathered everyone together and had a big moment for him. We still think about him every day. It's hard not to imagine him being here."
"It's something so sudden, so shocking," Lawrence added.
Hoffman starred as head gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. The Academy Award winner had been shooting his role in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 in Atlanta. A European shoot was to follow.
Hoffman's death is not expected to affect therelease dates of Mockingjay, Part 1 on November 21and Mockingjay, Part 2 on November 20, 2015.
Lawrence said Hoffman was "mostly finished" with his work on the Mockingjay set.
"There was very, very little that was left. Even if (Hoffman) had a number of days left," says Lawrence. "Most of those moments were appearances in other scenes. Most of his dialogue was done."
Clearly, working with the loss of the key character will lead to some continued difficulties.
"We're still figuring some of that out," says Lawrence.
Happy The Hunger Games: Catching Fire DVD and Blu-Ray release day! Lionsgate has released some new behind the scnes stills from the movie to get you all warmed up for your marathon of Catching Fire this weekend. That is what you're doing, right??
If you haven't purchased your copy yet, check out our review of all the different choices for purchase here OR try your luck and enter our GIVEAWAY. We're giving away the Target 3-disc combo pak.
Thanks to Quarter Quell.org for the tip!
In a new clip from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 9-part making-of documentary, "Surviving The Game" Sam Claflin talks about the journey Finnick Odair takes in the films.
The magic of movie making. #Katniss and #Peeta on their chariot!Marian Green (District 9 female tribute) posted a couple of cool behind the scenes Catching Fire photos to her twitter today. They show Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Marian and her fellow D9 tribute, Daniel Bernhardt, filming the chariot scene.
As we learned in a recent Flickering Myth post, the actors, horses and chariots were about the only things not digitally created for the Avenue of the Tributes scene. The magic of movies, indeed!
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, available on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital HD March 7th! ORDER: http://www.CatchingFireMovie.com
Read our review of all the different versions for purchase HERE.
Bruno Gunn stopped by a few local Chicago TV shows before his appearance tonight at Walmart to promote the DVD and Blu-Ray release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Bruno on You And Me This Morning:
Stephanie Leigh Schlund and Lynn Cohen stopped by CBS New York's The Couch this morning to talk about The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Lynn and Stephanie will both be at the Walmart in Secaucus, NJ tonight for a meet and greet with fans in celebration of the film's DVD and Blu-Ray release.
See all the details on the Walmart midnight release events HERE.
Entertainment Weekly has released two new short clips from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Blu-Ray exclusive making-of documentary "Surviving The Game." Those little stinkers didn't make the video embeddable so you'll have to watch it over at EW.com or click the image above.
Concept sketch of Johanna Mason's chariot costume in Catching Fire
Jena Malone recently spoke with Jarett Wiesleman of BuzzFeed about the release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on Blu-Ray and DVD on March 7th. “Can I just fangirl out for a second?”she asked before talking about the Blu-ray as though she were one of its many admirers as opposed to one of its stars. “There is so much behind-the-scenes footage. We had so much fun on Catching Fire that I’m just excited to sit down and watch.”
Buzzfeed also has an exclusive behind the scenes Catching Fire clip all about Johanna's look. You can watch the video HERE.
“I learned so much about myself through playing Johanna. I knew I had strength as an actor, but Johanna taught me how incredibly strong I could be emotionally, that I could intimidate an entire room with just the energy I walked in with. You can really do some damage through how you carry yourself in life.”
And thanks to her 16-year-old sister, Malone is also aware of the powerful role movies play in shaping the next generation. “My sister really looks to cinema for a lot. Whether it’s purposely or subconsciously, it’s partly how she learns to be good at this or bad at that, how she learns about body issues, and how she learns to deal with friends,” she explained.
That’s why Malone wants every character she plays to have purpose, whether it’s within the film world or the real world. “At the end of the day, film has such an eternal shelf life — my movies will last longer than I’m going to last, so I might as well be making things I think are important, playing women I find inspiring, and playing characters that I would want my children to look up to.”
As a longtime fan of The Hunger Games book series, Malone chased the role of Johanna, recognizing that with its underlying themes of social equality, Catching Fire had much more on its agenda than pure, popcorn pleasures. And LGBT equality is a cause close to Malone’s heart since she grew up with two moms.
“The message of the film is amazing,” she continued. “As a society, we’re much further than where we were when I was younger and I love that people are so much more accepting and loving. Families can focus on just giving love now. That’s the most important thing. I think that’s an incredible time to be a part of.”
Now, after nearly two decades in this business, Malone is preparing her next big endeavor: releasing an album with her band The Shoe on June 3. “I think every young woman should constantly be wanting to surprise herself and constantly be pushing herself until the day she dies,” she said. “I will always be a storyteller, and I’m just excited there are now so many different ways I will get to tell my stories.”
Catching Fire is available March 7th!
Plus Check Out Some New Stills From The Film!
I think we can all agree that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire was visually stunning. Francis Lawrence delivered the follow up to The Hunger Games with grander scope and scale than the first installment, showing us a whole lot more of Panem. But you probably didn't realize just how much of Catching Fire's Panem was actually created by the visual effects department.
Flickering Myth just posted an amazing interview with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire visual effects team where they discuss all the technical aspects of creating the film's digital world. Trevor Hogg chatted with production visual effects supervisor Janek Sirrs, visual effects producer Mitchell Ferm, and visual effects supervisors Adrian de Wet, Stéphane Nazé, Paul Butterworth, and Guy Williams about bringing to the big screen a spinning island, raging monkeys and a futuristic society that stages lethal survival games.
What We Learned:
Effects in movies are a bit like magic tricks that rely on deception and misdirection; having visual effects, special effects, and stunts keep the audience guessing as to what exactly they are looking at, or how the shots are achieved.
The Arena is not really the Arena:
The jungle arena could never exist in reality or be built as a practical set, so a good amount of VFX work went into creating a virtual environment for a hyper-reality that we’re hoping people would swear was shot on location.
We couldn't have created a full-on practical spinning Cornucopia island for the scene where Plutarch rotates it, so that action sequence had to be fabricated from a full-size static set, a smaller SPFX-spinning partial set piece, and a completely digital island, all working in conjunction with one another.
We constructed a 360° blue screen around a rotating Cornucopia partial set piece [dubbed the ‘spinning biscuit’]. All that churning water is CG.
All the water-based action scenes at the centre of the Arena were shot almost entirely at a waterpark outside Atlanta, where we constructed a full-size island, two spoke-like rocky paths leading from it, and a couple of the pedestals that the Tributes emerge up into the Arena on. In the final shots, the entire surrounding ocean water, beaches, and jungle blowing in the breeze have all been added digitally. It takes a bit of will power to continually overlook Katniss running past childrens’ water slides, and ornamental fountains, for many weeks [during shooting], until the real jungle environments finally start to show up in shots, and the sequence becomes what was originally intended.
Ironically, the real Hawaiian shorelines didn’t feel tropical enough to match the hot/humid environment we were trying to convey, and their look was based more upon jungles you might find in places like Costa Rica, right down to the condensation on the wet leaves, and hanging mist rolling down from the hillsides. The challenge with creating the digital jungle was really just the sheer complexity of the foliage. Trees had to be modelled and rigged down to the individual leaf and frond detail level so that we could get them to realistically flutter, and sway in a simulated breeze [without which the jungle would have simply looked dead].”
The Avenue of The Tributes is almost all digital
The chariots in the Avenue scene were all shot in a big empty parking lot at the Atlanta Speedway, and the only pieces of physical set construction were a partial archway [and immediately adjacent bleachers] that the chariots emerge from, and the Presidential seating area. Everything else – the other archways, bleachers, crowds, and surrounding buildings were all added digitally. We only had six practical chariots so you’re often looking at digital Tribute doubles and horses/chariots in the wider shots. Only the actors, chariots, and a few small sections of bleachers for that sequence were real, shot against green containers stacked a few stories high.
All the Capitol buildings, details, road surface, skies, and mountains are digital. The cheering, waving crowd in the bleachers are a mixture of crowd elements shot over a couple of days of second unit photography, and motion captured digital extras.
And of course we created the fire effect on Katniss and Peeta’s costumes. We took our inspiration from the ornate patterns on the costumes themselves that we imagined as radiant hot metal elements. We added licks of gas-like orange flames, flying embers, and a hint of dirty smoke to complete the look.
Katniss' Arrow Count Continuity Was A Huge Task (and they sort of failed - we counted!)
An interesting continuity task involved keeping track of the arrows in Katniss’ quiver. Whilst Jennifer sometimes had a number of real arrows in her quiver on set, she could never actually fire a real arrow for safety reasons, so all of the arrow firing was mimed and CG arrows added. We always needed to make sure she had the right number of arrows in her quiver at any point in time, always accounting for ones that she had fired along the way. You’d be surprised at how long it took to lock the arrow counts down!
There is SO much information in the article, so please head over to Flickering Myth.com to read the entire thing - it's a massive article. They talk about everything from the practical aspects of making Katniss' mockingjay dress transformation believable to the holograms in the training center and the slight redesign of the hovercrafts.
Jennifer Lawrence pops up all over Ellen's behind the scenes video recap of Oscar night. take a look:
Check out another featurette from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. This one is about how they created Caesar Flickerman's look for the film. Stanley Tucci, Make-up supervisor Ve Neill and Hair Department head Linda Flowers are featured in this closer look at crafting Caesar's distinctive fabulousness.
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Check out one of the Catching Fire deleted scenes you'll find on the DVD and Blu-ray (out March 7th) thanks to MTV. "Finnick Ties The Knot"
You can order the movie at CatchingFireMovie.com. Confused about which version of the DVD/Blu-Ray to purchase? Check out our opinion on all the different options HERE.
For his annual After The Oscars special, Jimmy Kimmel enlisted the help of some of the greatest talents in the world of film to help him adapt popular YouTube videos into big-budget Hollywood movies. Here's an adaptation of the YouTube classic "Charlie Bit My Finger" starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Chris Hemsworth and Liam Hemsworth.Here's an adaptation of the YouTube classic "Charlie Bit My Finger" starring Liam Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep.
Jennifer Lawrence traded her Dior Couture gown for a dazzling Tom Ford mini before heading to the Vanity Fair 2014 Oscar party in Hollywood last night. Elizabeth Banks and Liam Hemsworth also made appearances at the most sought-after ticket of awards season.
Oh, hey there Taylor Swift!
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Luke, Liam and Chris Hemsworth outside the Vanity Fair party
Chris Hemsworth, Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan Tatum and Liam Hemsworth
Elizabeth and Reese Witherspoon inside the party