New 'Catching Fire' Behind The Scenes Stills

 

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!

Jennifer Lawrence and the Cast of 'Catching Fire' Up For Awards

Jennifer Lawrence is going to be hitting the awards show circuit AGAIN this year for her turn as Rosalyn Rosenfeld in American Hustle. She's just been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award (SAG) in the  Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress and Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture categories for the David O. Russel film that will be released this Friday, December 13th.

Other Catching Fire cast members nominated for SAG Awards today:

Jeffrey Wright was nominated for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series along with the cast of Boardwalk Empire.

Lenny Kravitz was nominated, along with the cast of Lee Daniel's The Butler for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Natalie Dormer, our Cressida in Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2, was nominated with the cast of Game of Thrones in the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series category.

The SAG Awards will air on Saturday, January 18th on TBS and TNT.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is up for a couple of awards as well! You guys know that "Atlas" off the Catching Fire soundtrack has been nominated for a GRAMMY Award. Catching Fire has also been nominated for BEST EDITING by the San Diego Film Critics Society: Alan Edward Ball editor, THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE. They've also nominated Elizabeth Banks as Best Supporting Actress for Effie!! And Stanley Tucci has been nominated as Best Supporting Actor by the Detroit Film Critics Society for his performance as Caesar Flickerman in Catching Fire.

Thanks to @HeartJLaw and @HungerGamesUY for tipping us off to the Catching Fire awards!

Elizabeth Banks Interviews Lenny Kravitz for Her New Series: "Ask A Badass"

Have you ever wondered what makes Lenny Kravitz such a badass? Elizabeth Banks has. Find out the answer in the world premiere of her new interview series, Ask A Badass.

VIDEO: Lenny Kravitz on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

Lenny Kravitz stopped by Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night. They talked about how Prince challenged Jimmy to a ping pong match, and then Lenny one-upped him by sharing that he and Prince have played ping pong many times (and bowled!) Jimmy and Lenny decide to challenge him to a future match, and the two discuss The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

VIDEO: Elizabeth Banks and Lenny Kravitz on GMA

Elizabeth Banks and Lenny Kravitz stopped by Good Morning America to talk Catching Fire, Effie and Cinna today.

Access Hollywood Interviews The 'Catching Fire' Cast

Shaun Robinson interviewed the cast of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Watch her interview with Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Woody Harrelson, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone, Elizabeth Banks and Donald Sutherland.

Seventeen Magazine's 10 Secrets from Catching Fire Cast

American teen magazine Seventeen recently featured an article entitled "10 Secrets from the Catching Fire Cast." 

Josh and Jennifer Swapped MAJOR Kiss Spit!

 

"When I watched the playback of the kiss between Jennifer and me, there was this slobber string and it was so gross! In the moment, I didn't realize what was going on."

—Josh Hutcherson, Peeta

 

They Played a Goofy Game!
 

"We had this funny game we used to play on set. I don't even know how it started! Basically, somebody would make the 'OK' sign with their hand and would hold it down real low, and if somebody saw it, they stuck their finger in it. It sounds ridiculous, but it went on the entire shoot!

—Lenny Kravitz, Cinna

What Josh Brought Everywhere
 

"I don't have a good luck charm I bring on set, but I did bring my speaker set! I brought my portable wireless speaker set because I have to have music everywhere."

—Josh Hutcherson, Peeta

How the Tributes Trained
 

"We did a lot of martial arts training. There's a lot of choreography where I'm spinning around and whipping these [knives] and rolling around. It was taxing, but it was a lot of fun!"

—Alan Ritchson, Gloss


 The Costume Lenny Kept!
 

"I kept one thing from the set. There's a leather jacket that Cinna wore in some scenes, and I had to have it. I made sure that it went with me."

—Lenny Kravitz, Cinna


 Peeta's Makeup Prep Routine
 

"It took 20 minutes [to do my face makeup] on days where I had a bad breakout—which happened a lot on set! Covering up my tattoos adds another hour and a half.

—Josh Hutcherson, Peeta

How They Bonded Off Camera
 

"We had a lot of down time on set, so the Tributes and I would all hang out together and watch movies. Alan Ritchson [who plays Gloss] and I shared a trailer, so people migrated toward us. Our trailer always had someone in it!"

—Stephanie Leigh Schlund, Cashmere

 

The Longest Scene to Film
 

"The Cornucopia scene took us weeks and weeks to shoot. It's kind of funny because what could be just five seconds on-screen in the movie probably took us a week and a half to film. For me, it's a month of memories, but some of the segments are going to go by so fast!" 

—Alan Ritchson, Gloss

You can read it for yourself here, at Seventeen.com. 

Lenny Kravitz on Cinna's Exit From 'The Hunger Games' Series

Our Cinna and renaissance man, Lenny Kravitz was just featured in an article on THR.com in which he discusses his design firm Kravitz Design, Inc and his new set design for Queen Latifah's upcoming talk show. While we absolutely LOVE Lenny's design sensibility, we were REALLY intrigued by the tiny Catching Fire tidbit at the end of the article. SPOILER ALERT!

In Catching Fire, out Nov. 22, his fashion-designer character, Cinna, will meet a violent end.

"After my death scene, everyone's like, 'Oh shit, you're not coming back!' But you move on," he laughs. "It was fun while it lasted." While filming, he also was recording a new album, due out in the spring, at night. "Basically, I didn't sleep for about a month. But I was high off of the creativity," he says. "That sustained me."

Be sure to read the rest of the article and catch up on all of Lenny's design projects here.

Lenny Kravitz: 'Catching Fire' was like "Going Back To Summer Camp"

Lenny Kravitz spoke with Moviefone while promoting The Butler, and he gave us a few tidbits about Catching Fire.

I was at the Catching Fire panel at Comic-Con this year, where you brought up something really interesting: that younger kids are now recognizing you as Lenny Kravitz the actor and not Lenny Kravitz the musician.
Yeah, it first started on a street in Paris. This little kid came up to me and said "Oh, Lenny. Oh, my god! I love your work." I am thinking, You're seven. I was like, "Oh, really, you have the records?" And he said, "No, Hunger Games. I have been getting more of that. A guy came up to my table recently and said, "My daughter would really like a picture with you." Over walks a nine-year-old who has no idea.

So are you finding time to record music, too?
I just finished an album while I was doing Catching Fire -- I had no plan to do this; I was in Atlanta and I like to work in my own studio -- I went in the studio and ended up recording an album at night. So I would be filming Catching Fire all day, go to the studio, work all night, either get no sleep or get an hour or two, and then go right back to work. I did that for, like, three weeks.

How do you think that affected your creative output for each -- doing two things at once and not getting sleep?
It worked! It really did. I should've been so tired. I mean, I was tired but I was so charged creatively that it just worked.

Did you have more confidence going into Catching Fire, since this was your second Hunger Games?
Well, it was really fun. It was like going back to summer camp a second year and seeing all your friends again. The cast, we really have a great chemistry together -- we really dig each other. We have a new director, Francis Lawrence, so there's an unknown there. But from the first day, it was great. He took charge and was wonderful to work with. We had a lot of fun, as we did on the first one. I am looking forward to seeing it myself.

VIDEO: Lenny Kravitz On GMA

Lenny Kravitz stopped by GMA this morning to talk about his role in The Butler. 

He doesn't get a chance to talk about Catching Fire, but does say being a part of The Hunger Games franchise is "an amazing gift."

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Lenny Kravitz Appearances Promoting 'The Butler'

'The Butler' press conference Image courtesy @SuzyByrne

Lenny Kravitz (Cinna) is making the press rounds to promote his new movie The Butler. He attended a press conference for the movie today and the premiere of the movie in New York City tonight.

Lenny Kravitz at 'The Butler' premiere. Photo courtesy Zimbio

He'll be a guest on LIVE With Kelly & Michael on Thursday, 8/8 and will headline the opening ceremonies of the US Open tennis tournament on Mon, 8/26.

Lenny Kravitz Plays Pictionary on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon

Lenny Kravitz (Cinna) made an appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon last night and played an all-star version of Pictionary with Jimmy, Jennifer Aniston and Cee-Lo Green. He also sat down with Fallon and talked about his acting career and got a surprise viewing of a very old commercial he did as an adorable little guy. 

VIDEO: The 'Catching Fire' Cast Speaks to High5 About The Movie

Interviews of the Catching Fire cast from Comic Con keep popping up all over the place. Here are a couple we haven't seen before from Germany's High5tv. They speak with Jennifer Lawrence, Jena Malone, Jeffrey Wright, Francis Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Lenny Kravitz and Willow Shields. 

Francis Lawrence says there's going to be an HOUR of the arena in the movie (and say goodbye to shaky-cam - hooray)! 

Via our friends at The Hob

VIDEO: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Willow Shields, Lenny Kravitz, Jena Malone & Francis LAwrence Talk to Empire

Still the interviews roll in from Catching Fire's big appearance at Comic Con in San Diego. This new video features Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Willow Shields, Lenny Kravitz, Jena Malone and Francis Lawrence speaking with with Empire Magazine about the movie.

Beware, there's a 30 second ad before the video will play, but it's worth the wait. 

VIDEO: Lenny Kravitz on Cinna's Style

We all know that Lenny Kravitz is one stylish man. The singer and actor opened up about his costumes for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as he returns to the role of Cinna. And it sounds like Cinna is a lot more like Lenny Kravitz, as far as the "look" goes.

"The clothing this time was more in line with how I dress," he told HitFix during Comic-Con. "I felt like I was wearing my own things throughout the film."

VIDEO: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson & Lenny Kravitz Talk 'Catching Fire' With EXTRA

Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson talking to EXTRA about Catching Fire at Comic Con. Check out Jennifer's total fangirl moment as she videobombs Jeff Bridges at the 2:30 mark!!

VIDEO: 'Catching Fire' Cast Talks to Access Hollywood

The videos from Comic Con are still rolling in. Access Hollywood just posted their interviews from the Catching Fire panel red carpet. They spoke with Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Lenny Kravitz:

Today Is The Day! 'Catching Fire' Trailer & More at Comic Con

 

The day we've all been impatiently waiting for is here!! It's Catching Fire trailer premiere day!! Today, the cast of Catching Fire will sit down at 1:35 in Hall H for a panel moderated by Dave Karger from Yahoo Movies. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Willow Shields, Jena Malone, Lenny Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, and Francis Lawrence will take the stage to answer YOUR questions, submitted with the hashtag #CatchingFireComicCon.

During the panel, Yahoo Movies will have the exclusive premiere of the Catching Fire trailer on their website at 2:15pm PT/ 5:15pm ET. 

Right after the Catching Fire panel, Willow Sheilds, Jena Malone and Jeffrey Wright will be signing autographs at the Lionsgate booth (4029 B). 

Then, at 3:30pm PT/ 6:30pm ET, MTV will live stream an interview with Josh Horowitz and some of the Catching Fire cast members. Specific cast members not confirmed yet. 

 

That's not all! Catching Fire costume designer Trish Summerville will delve into Catching Fire fashion at the panel, "Poppin' Some Tags" 4:30pm PT in Convention Center Room 24ABC. She'll sign autographs after the panel at 6:00pm PT in Autograph Hall. 

Tweet us your pics from Comic Con and we'll share them @panempropaganda! 

Important links: Yahoo Movies, MTV

VIDEO: Lenny Kravitz at the CMT Music Awards

Lenny Kravitz performed "American Woman" with Jason Aldean at last night's CMT Music Awards. Here are videos of the performance and a clip of Lenny giving an interview backstage before the performance. Lenny also presented 'Female Video of the Year" to Miranda Lambert and she said as she accepted her award, "I just got a kiss from Lenny Kravitz. That's an award in itself!"

You can watch the entire show HERE. 

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Lenny Kravitz To Perform on the CMT Music Awards

It's a Lenny Kravitz kind of day today. Lenny (Cinna) is scheduled to perform at the CMT Awards Wednesday, June 5th at 8/7c on CMT:

Lenny Kravitz and Nelly will perform Wednesday (June 5) during the 2013 CMT Music Awards. With Kravitz performing with awards show co-host Jason Aldean and Nelly teaming with Florida Georgia Line on their crossover hit "Cruise," the performances continue the history of cross-genre mashups at the CMT Music Awards.