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Catching Fire Cannes Film Festival
The Hollywood Reporter just released 50 never before seen portraits of celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival and Francis Lawrence was among them:
Francis Lawrence was in Cannes to promote The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to international buyers. The sequel to The Hunger Games will see the return of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, the strong-willed girl who won the deadly games in the first installment.
Here's video of Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence talking about the movie on the red carpet at Cannes. We love getting to see more of Francis Lawrence. He seems extremely calm and confident. We're excited to see his vision of Catching Fire!
Lionsgate hosted a beach blow-out (that was moved into a tent due to rainy weather) Saturday May 18th, 2013, to promote Catching Fire at Cannes and to celebrate their new partnership with Covergirl.
Here's a look at the invitation to the party. Notice that President Snow requires your attendance and that you have to wear the rose pin to be admitted!
Catching Fire stars Sam Claflin, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and director Francis Lawrence walked the red carpet before the festivities.
Jen being Jen on the carpet!
Video of Jennifer Lawrence on the red carpet. Her bit starts at the :20 mark.
Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, and Francis Lawrence walk the red carpet at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Image via clarksemilia.tumblr
Image via clarksemilia.tumblr
Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Claflin, Liam Hemsworth and Francis Lawrence were all on hand to promote Catching Fire at the Cannes film festival Saturday, May 18th.
It looks like Lionsgate is throwing one hell of a party Saturday night to promote Catching Fire at Cannes and Jennifer Lawrence is going to be the main attraction!
More details are coming out about Catching Fire's presence at this year's Cannes Film Festival. As we told you here, Lionsgate has taken over the Magestic Barriere Hotel and are showing Catching Fire footage to sell Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2 to international buyers.
Now Deadline is reporting:
Lionsgate is organizing a beach blow-out to promote Catching Fire even though it doesn’t release until November. Spectacularly Catching Fire is literally aflame at the entrance to the Majestic Hotel thanks to animations projected onto screens.
Lionsgate co-chair Patrick Wachsberger who’s wheelhouse is international also utilized Cannes to promote all the Twilight movies when he ran Summit. Now that the two studios are merged, he says with candor that he’s never done an event “at this level”. But because Hunger Games is a “huge, huge, huge” franchise, this festival is “the perfect place” to start talking to distributors about positioning, he notes. Cannes events “are not cheap,” notes. “And there is so much happening – like ten parties the same night – so to do something that’s really out of the ordinary, you need the movie first and the talent and the event and the money,” Wachsberger admits.
And The Hollywood Reporter adds:
The splashiest event of all is likely to be Lionsgate’s Saturday night party for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, one of the most coveted tickets in town. Freshly crowned Oscar- winner Jennifer Lawrence is sure to attract crowds in and outside of the party. All of the Hunger Games films were sold independently internationally and Saturday’s soiree is a nod to those who have supported the franchise.
Get ready for some amazing photos on Saturday night!
Video courtesy ropeofsilicon.com.
Looks like The Hunger Games: Catching Fire IS making an appearance at Cannes this year. We reported here that footage and some kind of presentation would be made for Catching Fire. It has even been rumored that some of the cast might appear at the Film Festival. Today Cannes En Live posted this little video to Vine showing an incredible Catching Fire motion poster display at Cannes.
Image by mrkorellian. Click image to follow him on InstagramAccording to Larry Richman (@Larry411 on twitter), a very reliable movie source, Lionsgate is showing Catching Fire footage at Cannes to sell Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2 to international buyers.
Hôtel Majestic Barrière in Cannes posted some photos to their facebook wall and added that Lionsgate has chosen their new in-house LED screen to promote Catching Fire at the film festival.
The Cannes Film Festival starts on Wednesday, May 15th and goes through May 26th. We'll keep you posted!
Thanks to our friends at HGFiresideChat, The Hob.org, and Majestic Barriere for the photos!
