New 'Mockingjay Part 1' Images From The Hunger Games Instagram & The Hunger Games Explorer

New Mockingjay Part 1 images and cast bios are being released by TheHungerGamesExplorer.com and The Hunger Games official instagram account. Today, we got a look at Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne and Natalie Dormer as Cressida. 

Liam Hemsworth [Gale Hawthorne] has a quiet intensity that transcends the big screen. Demonstrating versatility and skill in a range of performances, Hemsworth has proven to be one of the most sought after actors of his generation. 

Actress Natalie Dormer [Cressida] stars as Margaery Tyrell, the would-be queen,in HBO's award-winning series Game of Thrones, which will soon begin production on it's 5th season. 

We'll be getting new content every day for the next 7 days - 8 days total. Some of you have suggested that this might count down to an announcement about the film. Stay tuned to find out! Be sure to follow The Hunger Games official instagram account and check back here daily for the latest. And read the full cast bios at TheHungerGamesExplorer.com. 

Behind the Scenes of 'Mockingjay Part 1' With The Hunger Games Exclusive

The Hunger Games Exclusive Series 2 debuted today along with the Mockingjay Part 1 worldwide trailer. The new issue is packed with behind the scenes photos and exclusive interviews with the cast including Q & As with Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Natalie Dormer, character close-ups of Boggs, Pollux, Castor and Messalla, and, of course, the epic new trailer (see it HERE). 

There is far too much to post here but check out a couple of our favorite photos from the site, and some lovely quotes from Jennifer Lawrence:

Josh and Liam are my best friends. And we’ve got the best crew that we’ve known for years. I don’t have to be ‘on’ all the time in front of them because they feel like my family.”

Jennifer on what she kept as a memento from the set:

The bow! Our props master told me that he could get me a new one because they made a few of them. But I want the one that Katniss is using while we shoot. It’s all scratched up. That bow means a lot to me.”

See it all at TheHungerGamesExclusive.com. And check out our gallery for more images from 'Mockingjay Part 1.' 

Hack Into The Capitol.PN and Unlock Cressida's Confidential Case File

The mobile District13.co.in site promised us 5 "hacks" and number 1 arrived today shortly after the surprise release of the new "Rebel Warrior" Mockingjay Part 1 character posters. To hack TheCapitol.PN you will need your mobile device and a desktop computer. 

First: Go to m.district13.co.in on a browser on your device. If you're outside the US, you can try going directly to m.district13.co.in/signin   if you have trouble. Connect with either twitter or facebook.

Second: Open TheCapitol.PN on your desktop computer. Enter the session ID number from the upper right corner of TheCapitol.PN into your device. 

You should then see this on your mobile device:

And your desktop will change to this:

 

Third: Touch "01 Hack Discovered" on your mobile device. You'll get this screen on your device. Touch initiate:

Fourth: Keep TheCapitol.PN open on your desktop computer screen while you complete the challenge. Lock your device screen to portrait and complete the gyroscopic challenge. (Just keep the blue line between the pie pieces):

Your desktop screen will change and start a countdown as you complete the challenge on your device. 

After successfully completing the challenge, your device will display this: 

And TheCapitol.PN will change Cressida's file from

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Looks like The Capitol didn't get the intel correct on the spelling of Castor's name yet. But, what a freaking COOL mobile site. We're looking forward to the rest of the hacks we'll be unlocking in the coming weeks. Hopefully one of them will be Katniss?!?!?

Thanks to our friends at QuarterQuell.org and WelcomeToDistrict12 for their help and advice on unlocking the hacks. They OBVIOUSLY hail from District 3, so make sure to follow them!

Meet the Rebels! New 'Mockingjay Part 1' Character Posters

Thanks to Wired we've got our first look at the "Rebel Warriors" of Mockingjay Part 1. Check out members of Star Squad 451 in uniform with the awesome new black mockingjay symbol in the background. We can't wait to see Katniss' poster with those wings looking like they're coming out of her back  - now we see where that stylistic change Francis Lawrence talked about in EW is going. It will be the warrior version of the mockingjay dress Cinna created for Katniss in Catching Fire.

The "Rebel Warriors" posters feature Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne, Natalie Dormer as Cressida, Mahershala Ali as Boggs, Wes Chatham as Castor, Elden Henson as Pollux and Evan Ross as Messalla. 

Natalie Dormer and Woody Harrelson at the Emmys

Mockingjay Part 1 cast members Natalie Dormer (Cressida) and Woody Harrelson (Haymitch Abernathy) attended the 2014 Emmy awards last night. Woody was nominated for his work in True Detective. He didn't win but was pretty fabulous while presenting the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Movie. My new motto is going to be "Just forget about it." Thanks, Woody! 

Natalie was there in support of Game of Thrones who were shut out at the Primetime Emmys yet again. Boo. 

'The Hunger Games' Cast and Crew Take The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Nina Jacobson, producer of The Hunger Games films, graciously accepted our ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Nomination and took the plunge in honor of The Hunger Games fans. Thank you, Nina!! You are amazing. Check it out:

She nominated Jennifer Lawrence, Jena Malone and Natalie Dormer to take the challenge.

Director Francis Lawrence ALSO accepted our challenge and took his icy bath in honor of the fans:

What a champ! Thanks, Francis! It means so much to the fans that you both did this. Francis has nominated Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Sam Claflin. Josh and Sam accepted and completed the challenge:

Natalie Dormer completed the challenge. You can see her video exclusively at Buzzfeed. I LOVE that she's wearing a Mockingjay t-shirt!! 

Jennifer Lawrence and Jena Malone both opted to donate in lieu of completing the ice bucket challenge. Ice or no ice, we love you, Jennifer and Jena! Thanks for donating! Jena posted a pic of her interpretation of the Ice Bucket Challenge to her social media and is donating $1 for every like/rt the photo gets on twitter, facebook and instagram by 5:30am on Thursday, 8/28/14. Go, go, go! 

 

Willow Shields took the challenge in honor of The Hunger Games fans too! This may be the cutest one I've seen. 

Liam has already done the challenge through another nomination. Love the outfit, Liam.

Check out some of our other THG cast members doing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. And find out more about this great cause HERE.  

Julianne Moore:

Elizabeth Banks:

Evan Ross:

Alexander Ludwig did it on behalf of his show Vikings:

Alan Ritchson completed the challenge with Rob Ramsey and they took it up a notch and used Slushys.

Dayo Okeniyi completed the challenge and called out Amandla Stenberg, Jack Quaid and Leven Rambin. 

'The Hunger Games' Producer Nina Jacobson Accepts Our ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Well, we always knew she was amazing but she just flew right past amazing to super-hero. Nina Jacobson, producer of The Hunger Games films, accepted our ALS Ice Bucket Challenge today.

Take a look:

Not only that, she nominated Jennifer Lawrence, Jena Malone and Natalie Dormer to take the plunge! 

So far Jena Malone has accepted:

Thank you SO much, Nina! We've just made a donation to ALS in honor of your completing the challenge. And we'll make another donation for each cast or crew member who completes it.

Thanks to our Angie for nominating Nina in the first place and to @jhutcher_ who tweeted our challenge to her. Way to go, ladies!

What about you, tributes? Are you up for the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge? Find out more here. 

'Mockingjay Part 1' Cast Presents "Our Leader the Mockingjay" Trailer at Comic Con

Natalie Dormer, Mahershala Ali, Wes Chatham, Elden Henson and Evan Ross were on hand today at Comic Con to present the new "Our Leader the Mockingjay" Mockingjay Part 1 trailer to guests at the Captiol Gallery Experience at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego. 

We were lucky enough to attend a press preview of the new trailer with some of the other Hunger Games fan sites, and got to do a meet and greet with cast members Mahershala Ali, Wes Chatham, Elden Henson and Evan Ross. They were SO generous, kind, and sweet with all of us! Thanks so much, guys!

The fansite meet & greet. I'm in the front row in a green jacket + leopard shoes.

Natalie wasn't at the meet and greet (SAD FACE) she was running in from another panel. But she did get there in time to introduce the trailer to a very excited crowd on the Capitol Gallery floor, then all of the cast members took photos with the fans there. Natalie Dormer is a queen. She said something nice to every single fan snapping photos with her today.

 

We watched the trailer in a heavily-secured room, all bags were checked, and armed peacekeepers (and real security) watched our every move. This sucker is NOT leaking - at least not from Comic Con. You watch the trailer in individual pods on Samsung devices with head-sets. 

While I'd love to spill every last detail about the trailer to ALL OF YOU, about half of you don't want to be spoiled. So we'll give you our spoiler-free take on what we saw. 

Even though it’s only 1 minute long, the Our Leader the Mockingjay trailer feels enormous. It's violent. It's epic. My favorite thing about it is the look and feel of the districts. You’ll recognize a few right off the bat, and how Francis captures them is very unique but still beautifully faithful to the books. And Katniss. We see Katniss and she breaks your heart. The “I am. I will.” line you’ve been hearing all day will give you goosebumps long after you watch it. 

Can't wait to fangirl/boy over this one with all of you! It looks like the trailer will be online this Monday, July 28, at midnight ET (that’s 9pm PT on Sunday and 5am BST on Monday).

New 'Mockingjay' Set Photos From Berlin Featuring Josh Hutcherson

There's a small batch of new Mockingjay set photos from Berlin today featuring Josh Hutcherson arriving on set and having lunch. Wes Chatham and Natalie Dormer (or her double - hard to confirm) are in another. They're pretty tabloidy, so apologies to those who hate that sort of thing. They're filming at the International Congress Center in Berlin and fans are saying that security is VERY tight there.

It's a news drought, kids, you have no idea how excited we are to see Josh having lunch. And exiting his car. Yep, we need some Mockingjay stills, promo, trailer, anything.

Josh and MAYBE Natalie Dormer (or her double)Josh and Wes ChathamTrailers on the setFilming continues at ICC Berlin

Omid Abtahi & The 'Mockingjay' Cast Give 'The Hunger Games' Salute

Omid Abtahi (he plays Homes in Mockingjay) posted a great picture to his twitter today. He and Natalie Dormer (Cressida), Michelle Forbes (Jackson) and Mahershala Ali (Boggs) from the Mockingjay cast giving the Hunger Games 3 finger salute with the caption, "Getting close to the end. This has been fun.  #mockingjay"

Photo courtesy @AbtahiOmid on twitterYou can follow Omid on twitter at @AbtahiOmid.

Sam Claflin is Glamour's Man of the Year + Natalie Dormer

Congratulations to Sam Claflin, Man of the Year at the GLAMOUR Awards 2014!

Sam walked the red carpet with his wife Laura Haddock, and talked about about the duo’s red carpet process.

“It’s a lot of shouting at one another ‘get me a cup of tea’; it’s not actually very stressful!” he shared.

Sam continued, “A guy and a girl, it’s a very different process. It’s easy for me to choose a suit but when she walks down the stairs, it’s like ‘wow’.” Cue the awws!

His Mockingjay and The Riot Club co-star Natalie Dormer was on hand to present him the award tonight.See it at the 3:21 mark in the video below.

Natalie talks a little about the Thai people adopting the Hunger Games salute as their symbol of revolution in the video below at about 1:24. Then Sam talks about Katniss Everdeen and Jennifer Lawrence at 1:39. If you're a Game of Thrones fan (guilty), you can see Sophie Turner adorably fangirl over her co-star, Natalie Dormer right after.

More video from the red carpet. Natalie and Sam talk about how nice it is to see each other dressed up instead of "running around with you in dirt and sewage and black stuff on our faces."

60 Seconds With Natalie Dormer

Natalie Dormer answers Bafta Guru's questions in a 60 second, rapid-fire format. Natalie reveals that she'd love to play a Bond girl, how she landed an agent, why she'd like a photographic memory, and much more in 60 seconds.

New Trailer & Poster for 'The Riot Club' With Sam Claflin and Natalie Dormer

 

Sam Claflin stars and Natalie Dormer has a featured role in the upcoming The Riot Club, the film adaptation of Laura Wade's critically acclaimed play, Posh. The first trailer and poster were released today.

Set amongst the privileged elite of Oxford University, The Riot Club is directed by Lone Scherfig, who most recently helmed One Day, and the Best Picture Academy Award nominee An Education.

Natalie Dormer Talks About "Doing Right By The Book" With Cressida's Shaved Head in Glamour

Photos by Nick Dorey/Edits by stormborns.tumblr

Natalie Dormer is featured in the upcoming June issue of Glamour magazine. She talks about her roles in Mockingjay and Game of Thrones and, of course, the hair thing.

"It’s fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair. But in the Mockingjay novel, Cressida is described as having a shaved head and a vine tattoo, and I wanted to do right by the book."

So how'd she feel about the dramatic cut? "Peculiar at first, but then you take a deep breath and keep everything in perspective, " she says. "It just takes some time to get used to. My fiance (writer and director Anthony Byrne) has very short, spiky hair, and I think a lot of women like the sensation of rubbing their fingers over quite short, shaved hair. I certainly do. But I've normally done that with the men in my life - not on the side of my own head! A lot of my friends ask to touch my head, I just stand there and get stroked for five minutes - it’s a free massage!" And when it comes down to it, Dormer is a no B. S. woman:

"Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back."

One of the unexpected side effects of her wild hair is a wilder fashion sense. "When half of your head is shaved, you can play more. I think sometimes people are scared of the critique. I get it - it’s terrifying when images go online within half an hour. But passing judgement on someone else is a reflection of your own insecurities. We all make mistakes. We all have a fashion faux pas, choose the wrong script, write the wrong song. But it’s only by taking chances and occasionally getting it wrong that we grow."

Natalie plays "Game of Groans" with Glamour:

See the scans at FashionScansRemastered.net

Photo edits by stormborns.

Natalie Dormer on the Similarity Between Her 'Mockingjay' & 'Game of Thrones' Roles

Natalie Dormer talked to Vulture recently about her role as Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones. She touched on the one similarity between her Mockingjay and Game of Thrones characters:

Since Margaery plays a war of words, did that help you find common ground, to play Cressida, the propaganda filmmaker from Mockingjay?

You know, that's an interesting point. Cressida is employed by the rebellion in this modern capacity that we would recognize as PR and propaganda, winning over hearts and minds in the civil war. And yeah, what Margaery does is modern PR-stunting. So yes, there would be a similarity between the two characters, that they are astute at media manipulation. But that would probably be the only similarity. [Laughs.] Margaery is not running around with a semi-automatic rifle and army boots! Which I actually quite enjoyed. There was this great scene in episode one this season between Margaery and Brienne, and they talked about the difference between fighting with words and fighting with weaponry, and a woman's lot in Westeros, as it were, but unfortunately a lot of that scene got cut. Maybe it'll end up on the extra features on the DVD.

Can you imagine if Margaery got to be more physical? After all, her brother Loras is a famed swordsman

It would be great if Margaery Tyrell could do a bit of a Katniss Everdeen, and pick up a bow and arrow! In my dreams!  [Laughs.]

Read the entire article HERE.

Natalie Dormer Completes the London Marathon

Our Cressida, Natalie Dormer, completed the London Marathon today, coming in at 3:50 which is under her goal of 4 hours. Congratulations, Natalie!

Image courtesy expressUK

Natalie ran the London Marathon on behalf of children's charity Barnardo’s.

"A lot of people apply to run it for Barnardo's so I'm just really glad that they picked me," she said of her chosen charity.

She has been training for the marathon while filming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay in Atlanta. "It has been frantic but the crew have been very supportive," she told the Daily Telegraph. "Filming starts very early when I imagine a lot of marathon runners are getting in their training before work so I have just been running whenever I can."

So far the actress has raised £6,413 for Barnardo's and will certainly receive more donations after today.

On her fundraising page, she writes: "I'm training whilst shooting 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' in Atlanta. So rest assured there will be plenty of ridiculous alarm times and running the streets after long days on set. My goal is to finish the 26.3 miles in under 4 hours! Huge thanks in advance. I am grateful for any donation no matter how big or small. Every penny makes a difference and it's going to a cause I believe has a massive impact on many childrens lives."

Thanks to ExpressUK.