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Yahoo Movies has just released a new Catching Fire DVD featurette from the Blu-Ray bonus features on the look of the film. Producer Nina Jacobson and Director of Photography Jo Willems discuss some of the technical aspects of filming the movie. It's fascinating!
The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films announced the nominations for the 40th Annual Saturn Awards and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Jennifer Lawrence, Jena Malone and Francis Lawrence are among them. Catching Fire has been nominated for Best Science Fiction Film and Francis Lawrence also picked up a nomination for Best Director. Jennifer Lawrence is nominated for Best Actress while Jena Malone grabbed a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Catching Fire also received noms for Best Editing (Alan Edward Bell), Best Production Design (Phil Messina) and Best Costumes (Trish Summerville).
The Saturn Awards will be presented in June.
Best Science Fiction Film:
Ender’s Game
Gravity
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Pacific Rim
Riddick
Star Trek Into Darkness
Best Actress:
Halle Barry – The Call
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Martina Gedeck – The Wall
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks
Mia Wasikowska – Stoker
Best Supporting Actress:
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Nicole Kidman – Stoker
Melissa Leo – Prisoners
Evangeline Lily – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Jena Malone – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Emily Watson – The Book Thief
Best Director:
J.J. Abrams – Star Trek Into Darkness
Peter Berg – Lone Survivor
Alfonso Cuaron – Gravity
Peter Jackson – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Francis Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Guillermo del Toro – Pacific Rim
Best Editing:
Peter Amundson, John Gilroy – Pacific Rim
Alan Edward Bell – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Alfonso Cuaron,Mark Sanger – Gravity
Mark Day – About Time
Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill Rush, Christian Wagner, Kelly Matsumoto, Dylan Highsmith – Fast & Furious 6
Best Production Design:
Dan Hennah – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Philip Messina – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Andrew Neskoromny, Carol Spier – Pacific Rim
Andy Nicholson – Gravity
Jan Roelfs – 47 Ronin
Robert Stromberg – Oz The Great and Powerful
Best Costume:
Gary Jones – Oz The Great and Powerful
Michael Kaplan – Star Trek Into Darkness
Wendy Partridge – Thor: The Dark World
Beatrix Aruna Pasztor – Great Expectations
Penny Rose – 47 Ronin
Trish Summerville – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Francis Lawrence directs Woody Harrelson and Lenny Kravitz and extras on the Catching Fire setWe're less than 2 weeks away from the DVD release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on March 7th. To help us celebrate, Lionsgate sent us two new behind the scenes photos from the set of Catching Fire featuring Francis Lawrence at work.
There will be a lot of news coming your way in the next few days so stay tuned!
Pre-order your Catching Fire DVD HERE.
Favorite Movie:
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
Oz the Great and Powerful
The Smurfs 2
Favorite Movie Actress:
Sandra Bullock
Mila Kunis
Jennifer Lawrence
Jayma Mays
Favorite Female Buttkicker:
Sandra Bullock
Jennifer Lawrence
Evangeline Lilly
Jena Malone
Favorite Book:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Harry Potter series
The Hobbit
The Hunger Games series
The Jameson Empire Awards are coming up on March 30th in London. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Jennifer Lawrence and Sam Claflin are among the reader-chosen nominees for several awards this year. Have a look at the list of nominees below and then you can vote for the winners HERE.
BEST THRILLER
Captain Phillips
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Now You See Me
Prisoners
Trance
BEST SCI-FI/FANTASY
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Pacific Rim
Star Trek Into Darkness
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Daniel Brühl (Rush)
Michael Fassbender (12 Years A Slave)
Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
Richard Armitage (The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug)
Tom Hiddleston (Thor: The Dark World)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Evangeline Lilly (The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug)
Jennifer Lawrence (American Hustle)
Lupita Nyong’o (12 Years A Slave)
Mia Wasikowska (Stoker)
Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine)
BEST ACTRESS
Amy Adams (American Hustle)
Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)
Emma Thompson (Saving Mr. Banks)
Jennifer Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)
Sandra Bullock (Gravity)
BEST FILM
12 Years A Slave
Captain Phillips
Gravity
The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
According to Box Office Mojo, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire now ranks 10th in the top grossing movies of all time domestically! Catching Fire has brought in $423,628,000, behind movies like E.T.:The Extraterrestrial, The Dark Knight Rises and Star Wars. The movie's international take stands at $863,070,723, which is 35th worldwide.
Trish Summerville took home the "Excellence In Fantasy Film" awards for Catching Fire at last night's Costume Designer's Guild Awards in Beverly Hills. Congrats, Trish! Much deserved.
“I kind of lost my voice because I’ve been shooting for a 100+ days and we finished today,” Summerville said with some hoarseness in her speech. “I’m really honored to be here. I really am humbled because there’s a lot of talent in this room. I’m honored because it’s our peers. It’s nice to be recognized for the hard work we do. I’d like to thank a lot of people, especially my crew. It takes a tribe and a village to get work done in film these days. I’d like to thank the cast, who was lovely and let me torture them, especially Elizabeth Banks. I want to thank my family and my friends who are always there for me. And my mom and dad, who taught me about hard work. And my wife, who puts up with a lot of shit.”
Via Deadline.com
Catching Fire costume designer Trish Summerville shared a great behind the scenes set photo of Elizabeth Banks as Effie on her instagram yesterday.
Banks is wearing what they called Effie's "Snow Queen" outfit and looks like she's ready to head to the set.
Summerville is up for a Costume Designer's Guild Award for Catching Fire tonight. Good luck, Trish!
The Costume Designers Guild Awards are coming up on Saturday, February 22nd (tomorrow!) and Jarrett Wieselman from Buzzfeed spoke with Trish Summerville (nominated for Excellence in Fantasy Film) about her favorite costume from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Who: Trish Summerville
What: Johanna Mason’s District 7 Tribute
When: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’s chariot scene
Where: Custom-made
Why: Because Johanna has to make an immediate impact and isn’t given pages of dialogue to do so, Summerville had to ensure the character’s clothes spoke volumes. “She had to project a strong sexuality and she had to have this attitude because she’s a previous victor,” Summerville said. “She knows the game and she spends a lot of time in The Capitol, so she’s schooled and aware and knows the drill. She knows she’ll be paraded about, she knows people need to fear her, and be intimidated from the get-go.”
A task made infinitely more difficult since, in this scene, Johanna had to represent lumber, District 7’s chief industry. “Whenever you hear, ‘Dress someone like a tree,’ you think of a school play,” Summerville said, laughing. “I wanted her to be more like a streamlined, threatening warrior. That’s why I did her in a bodysuit and not a dress because she doesn’t have a feminine soft quality.”
Johanna's chariot costume is currently on display at the FIDM Museum in Los Angeles. Photo by Joe Kucharski/Tyranny of StyleTo create the killer couture (which is only seen from the waist up in the final film), Summerville incorporated pieces of actual bark into a tightly constructed leather corset, which was accented with three-dimensional green paint. That was paired with Eddie Borgo bracelets that resembled thorns, and Alexander McQueen boots that had vine detailing down the heel. “All of those pieces worked so well together,” she recalled. “Johanna’s dramatic and, in her mind, thinks she’s the tribute who stands out the most in that moment.”
Wiseman talks to 16 other nominated costume designers from tv and movies in his article HERE.
The 15th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards will be held on Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
You can see Johanna's costume on display at The Art of Motion Picture Costume Design Exhibit at the FIDM Museum in Los Angeles through April 26th.
Thanks to our friends at THG Australia, we have our SECOND behind the scenes Catching Fire clip of the day! This new clip, a full 5 minutes long, is about the production in Hawaii entitled, "The Quell: On Location in Hawaii." Check it out and be sure to find out everything you need to know about the Australian release of the Catching Fire DVD at THG Australia!
See the behind the scenes look at Katniss' wedding dress HERE.
SheKnows.com has released an exclusive, short behind the scenes video today from the Catching Fire DVD special features. The clip focuses on Katniss' wedding dress and features commentary from producer Nina Jacobson and costume designer Trish Summerville and some great shots of Jennifer Lawrence and Stanley Tucci getting ready to film the interview scene.
SheKnows has pulled the clip from their site so watch it while you can! We may get the same instructions soon!!
Target recently shared this Catching Fire behind the scenes video featuring Jennifer Lawrence and Sam Claflin. The video is presumably from the Special Features off the Blu-ray set of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Target's edition has 45 minutes of exclusive movie content. You can pre-order it HERE.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire DVD and Blu-Ray comes out March 7th.
We just found a couple of Catching Fire DVD trailers that we haven't seen before and wanted to share them with you.
This trailer has a beautiful and haunting piano score:
We're pretty sure the trailer below is fan made - we weren't able to find it anywhere else online. But we still enjoyed watching it!
You can own The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on March 7th. Here's where to buy it.
The Catching Fire DVD will be out on March 7th (buy it HERE), but we've got some early details on the much anticipated deleted scenes. We reported earlier that there will be 5 deleted scenes on the Catching Fire DVD. But thanks to one of our savvy followers, we've got a few more details on what you'll be seeing in each scene.
There will be 5 deleted scenes, totaling about 5 minutes in length:
THE HOB - SCENE 8 (00:21) - A short scene with Gale and Katniss at The Hob.
TRAIN STATION - SCENE 62 (00:23) - Katniss comes back from the victory tour and tells Prim and her mother they need to leave District 12.
A WRINKLE - SCENE 81 (01:42) President Snow talks to Plutarch Heavensbee about Jabberjays. Extended scene.
SWITCHING ENVELOPES - SCENE 84 (01:04) Plutarch Heavensbee switches Quarter Quell envelopes and destroys the original envelope.
FINNICK TIES THE KNOT - SCENE 119 (00:56) Finnick Odair teaches Katniss to tie knots in the training center. Finally the scene that represents this still:
Just to clarify, the 5 deleted scenes will be included with every basic version of the Catching Fire DVD (and Blu-ray.) The Target Deluxe edition and the UK Limited Deluxe Edition contain additional exclusive content as follows:
Additional 45 minutes of exclusive content:
• One Vision (A Faithful Adaptation)—translating Suzanne Collin’s source material to the big screen
• The Alliance (Returning Cast)—an inside look at the close-knit relationships of the returning actors
• Friend or For (New Cast)—finding the perfect embodiments of the new characters
We've had a LOT of questions about the Peeta/morphling scene and the short rooftop scene Francis mentioned back in November, but we don’t have any info on those scenes being included in any editions yet. There's a possibility that snippets of these scenes are nestled within the 45 minutes of addtional content but it's not confirmed. Just a guess on our part. We’ll keep you posted!
What do you think of the deleted scenes? Were they pretty much what you expected or are you surprised?
We're THRILLED at the prospect of additional Philip Seymour Hoffman scenes. And we're pretty excited to potentially see some more jabberjay and mockingjay history on screen!
Thanks to Brett Vickerman for the info!
Access Hollywood shared a tiny teaser of some behind the scenes Catching Fire footage featuring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. The teaser is to celebrate the Target exclusive Catching Fire special features available on March 7th.
If you missed it, see the official Catching Fire DVD trailer and Target exclusive DVD trailer with behind the scenes footage HERE. See the Entertainment Tonight behind the scenes sneak peek of Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson goofing around on set HERE.
You've probably never heard of Alabama hairstylist Ann Bray, unless you follow the wild world of hair shows. She’s been in the business for 54 years, and is the first American to win the World Championship of Hairdressing. She was even knighted by the Intercoiffure in Paris for her international accomplishments (yes, that's a real thing.) But what caught Catching Fire Hair Department Head, Linda Flowers' attention was The Golden Rose, a hairdo that Bray came up with using a model's real hair. Flowers felt the 'do would be a perfect fit for Effie Trinket, and asked Ann Bray to join the Catching Fire team. AL.com talked with Bray about her experiences on the set:
Ann Bray and daughter Shelby Zimmerman with Effie's golden rose wig. Photo by Matt Wake. Ann Bray thought it was a joke at first when Catching Fire hair department head Linda Flowers contacted her about working on the sequel to the 2012 blockbuster The Hunger Games.
"I said, 'Come on," Bray says. On a recent afternoon, she's seated near a row of Belvedere chairs inside Huntsville salon The Masters, which she opened in 1974.
"And they said, 'We're serious.' So I talked with them about it. They sent me a story board of what they wanted to do, and I think all but three things were photos they'd collected of mine throughout the magazines. It was really wild. That was really how it came about, through this one photo, because this rose went viral."
Ah yes, the rose.
An image of Bray's "golden rose" hair design, shot during a session with photographer Luis Alvarez, had caught Flowers' eye. Actress Elizabeth Banks can be seen wearing the post-modern style in her role as larger-than-life character Effie Trinket, in Catching Fire.
The otherworldly hairdo is aptly named. While she fashioned a golden rose wig for Catching Fire, the style captured in the Alvarez photo featured a model's actual hair. "It takes a long time," Bray says of that original 'do. "I can do the actual rose easily in an hour, but to do all the prep work on it you're talking a couple of weeks because the hair has to be processed a certain way. It has to be built a certain way."
Asked what it was like to work so closely with a star of Banks' wattage, Bray fondly recalls Banks hanging out during lunch, "standing in line with the crew and wearing her little cut-off jeans with holes in them and her little tied-up shirt."
Then Banks sat down for lunch with Bray and Bray's daughter Shelby Zimmerman, who also worked on the Catching Fire hair team. "We had a good ol' time. She's very, very nice and outgoing," Bray says. Banks signed the pink-pages of an autograph book Bray brought to the set "Ann, stay happy. You rock. XOXO Elizabeth Banks Effie".
Bray describes the Catching Fire set as "very secret' before recalling a scenario in which a Lionsgate helicopter was used to chase off a paparazzi helicopter hovering over leading lady Jennifer Lawrence.
Lawrence's autograph in Bray's souvenir book is a little more business-like, although her bubbly-shaped handwriting is very reminiscent of an average schoolgirl's yearbook scribble. Bray remembers Lawrence being "very wonderful, beautiful and sweet" on-set. "One day there was an older car that pulled up (on set), not a raggedy car but nothing you expect a star to be in, and it was Jennifer. So they could take her back and forth from the hotel without being seen."
Sometimes the extras weren't too fond of their wild hair designs. "If [one of the extras] had their hair done the day before, they kept a little picture in a file, and they brought the picture back to you and you're supposed redo whatever was done the day before, because it might be a different stylist working on you. Some of those girls didn't like what they wore the day before and they tried to sneak in and do something really different, and they got busted a few times, some of the extras."
Bray's work on Catching Fire actually began a few months before film began shooting. She was flown out to Los Angeles to instruct other hairstylists on the avant-garde looks for the film and also to lead advance preparation of hairpieces. Bray estimates the Catching Fire hairstylists used about 500 wigs and hairpieces on the movie, most of which was filmed in Atlanta, except for the jungle scenes which were shot in Hawaii.
When filming began around fall 2012, there would be anywhere from 20 to 65 hairstylists on-set working on Catching Fire. While the hairstylists would never work for more than eight hours straight, sometimes the day began at 2 a.m. - if that's the light the director and cinematographer were looking for. A bus would pick the stylists up and take them to locations such as Atlanta's historical district or a racetrack outside the city, where the Catching Fire chariot scenes were filmed.
Bray recently received a text from Flowers asking about her working on another genre film, although she hasn't been told the project's title yet. She's also considering an opportunity to train film hairstylists, and hoping to work on the final installments of The Hunger Games, MockingjayParts 1 & 2.
Thanks to HGGirlonFire for the tip!
The reveal we've been waiting for from the Hunger Games UK has been announced - it's the official UK release date of the Catching Fire DVD: March 17th, 2014.
Head over to the official site to pre-order the DVD, Blu-ray, Triple play version or the deluxe limited edition.
Target's Exclusive 3 disc combo pack trailer with BTS:
Get ready, tributes! Catching Fire officially arrives on DVD, Blu-ray combo pack, digital HD, video on demand and pay-per-view in the US on March 7th. The DVD is packed with over two hours of extensive, must-see bonus materials that include a Blu-ray-exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film, “Surviving the Game: Making Catching Fire,” deleted scenes (YAY), an audio commentary with director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson as well as a sneak peek at the highly-anticipated theatrical action film Divergent from Lionsgate’s Summit label. The Blu-ray Combo Pack and DVD will be available for the suggested retail price of $39.99 and $29.95, respectively.
Go to CatchingFireMovie.com to see all buying options including Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Xbox, Best Buy, Walmart and Target!
BLU-RAY COMBO PACK SPECIAL FEATURES
• “Surviving the Game: Making Catching Fire” – 9-part feature-length documentary
• Audio Commentary with Director Francis Lawrence and Producer Nina Jacobson
• Deleted Scenes
• Sneak Peek of Divergent
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
• Audio Commentary with Director Francis Lawrence and Producer Nina Jacobson
• Deleted Scenes
• Sneak Peek of Divergent
Entertainment Tonight aired a snippet from the upcoming Catching Fire DVD behind the scenes special feature footage on their broadcast this evening. The sneak peek clip reveals the close working relationship of stars Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson and also shows the two cracking each other up on-set.
BTW, the official release date of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on DVD and Blu-Ray is March 7, 2014!
