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The Hunger Games official instagram account will be posting exclusive content for the next 8 days. The first image is Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne:
From hunter to soldier. Liam Hemsworth returns as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
Check back every day around 9:00am for the latest.
Willow Shields spoke with InStyle.com about her Hunger Games on-screen sister and real-life friend and confidant, Jennifer Lawrence.
“She’s done a great job of supporting me in a way that helps to keep my life balanced while staying grounded like she is,” Shields says. “Jen has an Oscar and she’s one of the most famous people in the world, but she’s still super humble and down to earth. She’s really taught me to stay that way.”
Jen has also set an example for Willow with her focused work ethic. “People always talk about how Jen’s so funny, and she is. She lightens the serious on-set mood in a great way,” Shields says. “But they don’t see the fact that when they say ‘action,’ she’s serious about her work and portraying her character the right way. I love that about her—it’s inspiring that she can balance having fun on set while also being serious.”
Their already close bond strengthened during Mockingjay filming “She really is like a sister to me, and when my mom’s not traveling with me, she’s like a mom to me,” Shields says. “She’s so protective over me, and somehow we’ve become even closer while filming Mockingjay, which I didn’t know was possible!”
Willow also found out that there are LOTS of Hunger Games fans in New York, “I was walking around Lincoln Center, and people started yelling, ‘I volunteer as tribute!’"
We got another quick peek at Mockingjay Part 1 via the 2nd teaser clip "Tomorrow." A quick flash of Katniss and Gale taking aim, suited up in their rebellion gear with their Beetee-enhanced bows (GAH!!! District 8??) is all we get to warm us up for the big debut of the official Mockingjay Part 1 worldwide trailer, The Mockingjay Lives. Are you excited, tributes?
Tune in around 9:00am PT/ noon ET (our best guess on the time ) at TheHungerGamesExclusive.com to watch the trailer AND check out Series 2 featuring exclusive behind the scenes interviews and images!
Josh Horowitz got to spend a little time with Elizabeth Banks at Tiff while she was promoting her film Love and Mercy and, excellent fanboy that he is, Josh asked about Mockingjay wrapping up for good.
"It's done. I never get to play that role again, it's so sad. I cried my eyes out. I love, love, love Effie so much. I really love her and, yeah, it's over."
Horowitz said he was relieved that we get to see a little bit more of Effie in the last two films than the book would dictate. Banks replied, "They did [write a little bit more of Effie into the films]. I got lucky. It was VERY flattering and fun story for her actually. REALLY fun. To go from The Capitol to District 13 is a shock for anybody. I like how I talk about it like it's real life. (laughs) Anyway, she's there. She's the fish out of water. It's fun."
Sam Claflin has been promoting The Riot Club at the Toronto International Film Festival, but MTV's Josh Horowitz snuck in a couple of questions about The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (and that's why we love ya, Josh!)
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“It was bizarre,” Claflin said. “I think I’d said goodbye, and done all my goodbyes, and I remember feeling a little sad and anxious, kind of going, I don’t know what I’m going to do with myself for the rest of my life, I’m never going to work again.”
But Claflin’s fears were put to rest, pretty much immediately.
“After I said the final goodbye, they go, oh actually we need you to come in tomorrow to fill in this pick up,” Claflin said. “So I saw everybody the next day, and then I sort of left, and kind of felt a little weird.”
To add to the awkwardness, Claflin also left a week early, before most of the stars had wrapped on the movie.
“I got out early and avoided the whole heartbreak,” Claflin told us. But he added, “It’s really sad.”
According to Billboard.com, Lorde spent Labor Day weekend in New Jersey's Lakehouse Recording Studios working on the new single for Mockingjay Part 1. The yet-unmamed song, which will be played over the ending credits according to studio owner Jon Leidersdorrf, is "moody, dark and powerful."
As we reported yesterday, Lorde teased the first line of the new song to social media soon after the release of the new Katniss Everdeen character poster:
Lakehouse Recording Studios owner Leidersdorrf also confirms the tune's opening line.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 soundtrack is scheduled to be released three days before Mockingjay hits theaters on Nov. 21.
Elizabeth Banks has been making the rounds to promote her involvement with Doritos Crash The Super Bowl Contest. E Online got a little bit of Mockingjay Part 1 and Effie information out of her during their recent interview.
“Effie really is a fish out of water in District 13 and they do not have anywhere near the resources that the Capitol does. So Effie really finds herself having to what I like to call ‘Project Runway her way’ through the wardrobe that’s given to everyone. Everyone gets sort of standard wardrobe in District 13 and she of course has to put her own twist on everything…she can make anything fabulous."
“Well she [Effie] doesn’t make an appearance in District 13 in the actual book, but Suzanne Collins and Francis [Lawrence] and I…everyone sort of came to me and said ‘We really feel like Effie…it would be really fun to keep her involved in the story’ and of course I’m thrilled to be a part of it and get to go to 13 and take care of Katniss a little bit longer.”
“I’m really thrilled with the way it’s turned out. I think Francis [the director] has a really interesting take on the material and it’s a continuation of the story of Katniss and she’s one of my favorite heroines of all time. The scope and scale is huge. It’s really a true action film now, we’re not just in the Games anymore, we’ve really upped the stakes of the movie. It’s really about a full scale rebellion and a war between the Capitol and the Districts. So all the action sequences are just amazing and upgraded…action-movie level stuff going on, not just the story of a small-town girl.”
“I mean we really have a lot of comradery. We’ve been through a lot making the movies. It’s very rare in this business that you get to spend this much time with the same people, over and over again on something that we all care about a lot. And we really want to make a great product every time and we want to have fun while we do it and we just have really great shared perspective on the whole thing."
A new Mockingjay Part 1 character poster of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen was released today via the Our Leader the Mockingjay app.
The poster is BADASS. Katniss is our leader - and from the vantage point of the poster - we are following her. I love it. We may not have too long to wait to see that beautiful face, however. Under the Katniss poster is a little sentence. It says:
Our Leader The Mockingjay Arrives 9/10.
Perhaps in that long-awaited trailer?? Stay tuned.....
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.
Entertainment Weekly published a few more tidbits from their recent interview with Mockingjay director Francis Lawrence yesterday (see the scans of the Fall Movie Preview Issue HERE).
Having gone through the games one more time and having lost Peeta and having been run through the wringer, she’s even more damaged. So you find her in a more agitated place. She’s distraught, confused, angry.”
Collins’ final book presents a gritty narrative about Katniss’ role in the rebellion to overthrow the Capitol, with grim scenes of wartime brutality as the teen heroine struggles with the psychological consequences wrought by violence. But, says Lawrence, the upcoming installment won’t be entirely somber.
“There’s definitely some battles. There’s some of the first glimpses of real war in this movie. And the scale gets quite big,” he reveals. “There’s an atonal shift from some of the last movies, but they’re still very emotional, very sweeping, [on a] grand scale with some levity and humor.”
“Instead of changing the plot and changing characters what we did was have the opportunity to show scenes that could have been happening at different times in the book,” Lawrence says. “For us it’s world expansion instead of changing things. I think it’s exciting for the fan to see certain things. So we’ve been able to open the world up in this and see some new places. We get to see some new districts this time and the scope gets quite large.”
There’s also the addition of cast member Julianne Moore as rebel President Alma Coin, a character whose role has been expanded for the upcoming films. President Coin—who becomes reluctant allies with Katniss Everdeen in the rebellion’s efforts to overthrow President Snow—was written by author Suzanne Collins through Katniss’s perspective as narrator; she is perceived as ambitious and egotistical. But with Moore’s involvement, Lawrence says, the gray-haired politician’s role in his two-part finale has expanded significantly beyond her portrayal in the bestselling Hunger Games series..
“She actually sort of tracked us down and had an interest in the books through her kids,” Lawrence says. "She didn’t audition. Once we knew she wanted it, that was it—done,” Lawrence says, laughing. “I sat down with her, she had great ideas, we got along and that was it.”
“What’s interesting is although she’s a huge character in Mockingjay the book, there’s actually very little of her in it,” notes Lawrence. “There’s more of her in this than in the book and because of that, there’s some development. I think the character has developed into something pretty amazing. And Julianne was a big part of that.”
But one thing thing that won’t change? That’d be the love triangle between Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence), Gale (Liam Hemsworth), and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson).
“With Mockingjay – Part I it’s tricky because Peeta is out of reach for her,” notes the director. “Obviously he becomes an objective for her, but Gale is right there, so that’s always a tricky situation.”
While Lawrence won’t reveal how he divided the final book in Suzanne Collins’ trilogy (“That’s going to be one of the really good surprises,” he says), he shares that the films will have “two different, very distinct stories.”
“Those objectives became the motives for us,” Lawrence explains. “This is where the meaning of the entire series comes into play. The answer to why these books exist exists in Mockingjay, and that’s really been exciting to me. That’s been kind of what I’ve hung on to through these stories.”
Many thanks to QuarterQuell.org for the untagged still.
A new still of Katniss Everdeen and details on her grittier new appearance in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 are featured in Entertainment Weekly's latest Fall Movie Preview issue. EW talked with Francis Lawrence about Katniss' transition to reluctant rebel leader and some of the visual aspects of the film.
The digital issue has an interactive photo with additional details on Katniss and Mockingjay:
OK, who else is dying to get their hands on one of those matte black Mockingjay pins? Someone please make them immediately.
The digital issue is available now and the magazine hits newsstands Friday.
Many thanks to our friends at QuarterQuell.org for the larger and untagged version of the Katniss still at the top of the article!
And so it begins... The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 had its first press day yesterday! Both Lionsgate and Elizabeth Banks posted this cute shot of Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth and Jennifer Lawrence to social media last night.
Elizabeth shared another angle of the shot (above) today to tumblr.
Willow Shields posted this snap to her instagram with the caption, "Feeling fancy. Press day for Mockingjay Part 1!"
A couple additional shots of Elizabeth and Willow were also shared around social media:
Photos thanks to @HGNewsChannel
Tara Bennett tweeted that she interviewed Francis Lawrence (@Hibbits on twitter) for a Sci Fi Magazine article. We'll be looking forward to that one, Tara!! FYI, last year Tara wrote the cover story on Catching Fire for Sci Fi's December 2013 issue. It hit newsstands October 13th - ish if you're trying to figure out when we'll see all of this press.
Thanks to our friends at @HGNewsChannel and @Larrs9325 for the tips.
We're getting an earlier than expected look at six new Mockingjay Part 1 District 13 character posters. President Coin, Haymitch Abernathy, Beetee Latier, Effie Trinket, Plutarch Heavensbee and Finnick Odair are featured in their District 13 finest. And by finest we mean their drab grey uniforms. Looks like Effie is making the most of what she's been dealt in 13. You go, Effie.
The posters debuted on various websites tonight after they were leaked a bit early online right after the District 13 mobile site launch.
We assume this is the first wave of District 13 citizen posters and we're very excited to see Katniss in one of them, hopefully in the near future. Because District 13 is alive and well and so is the Mockingjay.
Those District 13 rebels are really taking over. A new District 13 website site launched today and SIX new Mockingjay Part 1 District 13 citizen posters are set to be revealed tomorrow.
Head to TheCapitol.PN and synch to reveal the mobile District 13 site and clues to where the 6 new District 13 citizen posters will be revealed.
Go to TheCapitol.PN/OnePanem, click the diamond under the words "One Panem" to get to the next page (triumph, lead, etc), and type in "OLTM" which will reveal the new site:
We speak for those who do not have a voice.
Then scan the QR code (above) with your mobile device and connect to the mobile site with your fingerprint, facebook or twitter, and session ID from TheCapitol.PN.
Beetee has been a very busy rebel this week. Yesterday, The Hunger Games social media accounts were taken over by the rebels and today they've hacked TheCapitol.PN.
This message went out over The Hunger Games social media today:
It’s time we break apart the fist, grain, & shield. Find them & commence the “hunt-&-peck.”
-B
When you head over to TheCapitol.PN's One Panem page and navigate to one of the symbols (Triumph, etc. press the diamond shaped button at the bottom under the words "One Panem") you can activate Beetee's message by typing in OLTM, Mockingjay, Katniss, Coin or Beetee. Alternatively, you can press the following keys for the reveal:
Click for full size.
The most important part of the message? Today we assemble. Tomorrow we will rise.
WHAT is happening tomorrow, Wednesday, August 6th????
STAY TUNED!
Thanks to our friends at QuarterQuell.org and our follower @TheguyfromTV for decoding Beetee's message.
Beetee is at it again! The Hunger Games posted this Beetee photo edit to their social media accounts today:
Then changed all of their social media profile photos to a new District 13 logo:
It looks like District 13 has full control of The Capitol media. NOW WHAT?!
Follow The Hunger Games on twitter, facebook, instagram and tumblr to stay current. And, of course, we'll keep you posted here!
Lionsgate announced today that multiplatinum GRAMMY Award-winning recording star Lorde will curate the soundtrack album for the upcoming third installment of The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1. In addition to hand-picking the artists for The Mockingjay – Part 1 soundtrack, Lorde will provide the first single for the highly anticipated film and album. The soundtrack will be available via Republic Records this fall.
Mockingjay director Francis Lawrence said of the collaboration:
I sat down with Lorde on the set of ‘Mockingjay’ this spring and I was immediately struck by how she so innately understood what we, as both fans and filmmakers, were trying to accomplish with the film. Her immense talent and keen understanding of Mockingjay’s characters and themes not only have enabled her to create a song of her own that completely captures the film’s essence, but her insight and passion for our project make her the perfect creative force to assemble the other songs on our soundtrack. I can't wait to share what she's done with the fans -- it is truly remarkable.”
"Curating the soundtrack for such a hotly-anticipated film was a challenge, but I jumped at the chance,” said Lorde. “The cast and story are an inspiration for all musicians participating and, as someone with cinematic leanings, being privy to a different creative process has been a unique experience. I think the soundtrack is definitely going to surprise people.”
The LOOOONG awaited The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 "Our Leader The Mockingjay" teaser trailer finally made it's debut online tonight on The Hunger Games official facebook page! We got a preview of it at Comic Con (see our thoughts about the trailer HERE) and many fans went to participating Best Buy locations over the weekend to catch a preview. But we're so excited the EVERYONE can finally see the short but very sweet teaser.
We get a look at Francis' violent yet gorgeous vision of the districts in rebellion, a peek at Natalie Dormer as Cressida, Robert Knepper as Antonius and Patina Miller as Paylor, plus we finally get a glimpse of a heartbreaking Katniss. Her pivotal line still leaves us with goosebumps, "I am. I will."
Fire burns brighter in the darkness. The all-new "Our Leader The Mockingjay" Mockingjay Part 1 Teaser Trailer debuts TONIGHT at 9p PT/12a ET. Watch it on The Hunger Games Facebook page!
