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Box Office: The Hunger Games Stays On Top Four Weeks Straight
“Hunger Games” becomes the first film since “Avatar” to spend four straight weekends at No. 1, while fellow Lionsgate pic “Cabin in the Woods” opens third with $14.9 million; “Battleship” debuts to $58 million overseas.
‘The Hunger Games‘ remains at the top of the box office, raking in a total of $337.1 million domestically and $531.1 million globally. The film, which has been out for over four week now, continues to stay ahead of the new releases. It is the first movie since James Cameron’s “Avatar” to achieve such a feat! This week it beat out “The Three Stooges”, “Cabin in the Woods” and “Battleship.”
It seems people everywhere can’t get enough of The Hunger Games!
Source: THR
New HQ Stills: Peeta, Gale, Prim, Mrs Everdeen and More!
Fan-Made Photo: Katniss and Peeta
Fathead Launches Line of Hunger Games Wall Graphics
You can now decorate your walls with official Hunger Games graphics from Fathead. These will dress up any space much better than a poster can! Check them all out at Fathead.com.
Here is press release from Fathead with all the details:
Fathead, the leading brand of officially licensed and custom wall graphics, releases THE HUNGER GAMES Collection of Fathead wall graphics. The special edition of eight, vibrant, action-packed images feature the larger-than-life characters from the blockbuster film adaptation of the bestselling book by Suzanne Collins.
THE HUNGER GAMES Collection of Fathead wall graphics include; a stunning mural close-up of Katniss Everdeen and life-sized, die-cut REAL.BIG’s of Katniss and friend Gale Hawthorne along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. A one-of-a-kind REAL.BIG die-cut of all 3 characters on one sheet and a powerful replica of THE HUNGER GAME insignia complete the REAL.BIG collection. There are also two more space-friendly images available of Katniss and the insignia in the Fathead Junior size. Continue reading
Video: The Civil Wars Perform ‘Kingom Come’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live
The Civil Wars were the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and performed “Kingdom Come,” their song from The Hunger Games soundtrack.
Variety: What Lionsgate Needs to do to Meet ‘Catching Fire’ Deadline
A new article from Variety takes a look at the 19-month window Lionsgate has to get Catching Fire from script to theater. Filming needs to wrap by the end of the year since Jennifer Lawrence is needed on X-Men beginning in January 2013, and according to Variety, “Lionsgate is holding firm to its Nov. 22, 2013 release date for Catching Fire, a spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.”
The good news is that Variety doesn’t think Lionsgate will have any problem meeting this deadline, provided that they clear these hurdles:
- It needs to sign a director whose late-summer schedule is open and can immediately begin working with “Slumdog Millionaire” screenwritier Simon Beaufoy, who’s still crafting the “Fire” script.
- Though Lionsgate has the lead actors (Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth and Woody Harrelson) locked in for the sequels, the stunning performance of “Hunger Games” means the company may feel the need to sweeten their deals — even if it’s not contractually obligated to do so.
- Once a director is on board, he or she needs to cast about two dozen additional actors who were not in “The Hunger Games.”
Variety notes that “none of these tasks is insurmountable, and bizzers expect Lionsgate to meet its deadlines.”
“I don’t think it’s a big problem,” said one tenpercenter who covers Lionsgate. “It would have been a problem if it were the first film, but now you already have the infrastructure in place for the next film.”
You can read the full article at Variety (though it requires a subscription).
Fan-Made Photos: Katniss, Peeta and Rue
The Pros and Cons of Gary Ross Leaving The Hunger Games
In the wake of the news that Gary Ross has exited The Hunger Games franchise, Vulture has made a list of Pros and Cons for the director switch for Catching Fire.
Pros:
Does this mean less shakycam?
Ross certainly brought a novel visual approach to this nascent franchise, eschewing carefully composed shots for a jittery, handheld feel. That said, would anyone be mad if the new Catching Fire director found a tripod? Our commenters were in full revolt against Ross’s shakycam, complaining, “I haven’t left a movie feeling this sick since The Blair Witch Project,” and ”That camera literally made me ill … If the second movie is like that, we won’t be going.” Which brings us to our next point …
The next director may be better at shooting action.
Ross has a background in scripting populist films like Dave and Pleasantville, and the best moments in The Hunger Games are the ones that come before the titular games begin, when Ross can simply put Jennifer Lawrence in a room opposite someone else and have her effectively sell the movie’s emotional stakes with that resolute stare. Unfortunately, when Katniss is finally forced to play the Games, Ross has no particular flair for shooting them. His protagonist’s usual strategy is to climb the nearest tree to avoid her competitors, but since Ross stubbornly refuses to give us wide shots, he’s got no way to convey even a simple establishing detail like how high up she’s climbed. The other action beats fare no better: The camera is so agitated that we can barely even tell what’s going on, let alone where each character is in relation to one another. If Lionsgate could somehow land a new director who’s talented at conveying space in an action sequence — Robert Zemeckis would be our dream choice, and he’s available — we might actually look forward to the Games, instead of dreading them like Katniss does.
Less fidelity to the source material may be a good thing.
Ross worked very closely with Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins on his adaptation, and she’s credited as a co-writer. Though it was good of him to include her, and the film pleased many Hunger Games diehards by being so faithful to the book, we’ve read the screenplay that Billy Ray wrote before Ross came onboard … and it’s notably better. Ray took a few liberties with the source material — his version has a brief prologue set a year before the main story, which lets him begin with action and introduce Katniss in a far more striking way — but he actually manages to nail some plot points that Ross muddled (like the ambiguity of the Katniss-Peeta showmance) by adapting the book in a less literal-minded fashion. Lionsgate was smart to hire Simon Beaufoy to script Catching Firewhile Ross was still busy working on the first movie, and let’s hope that the new director benefits from a similarly fresh perspective.
Cons:
They just pissed off the actors.
Ross was beloved by series stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Elizabeth Banks, and by replacing him just a few weeks after The Hunger Games opened, they’ve destabilized a cast that was previously eager to reteam with Ross. While his visual sense was divisive, Ross did a great job with casting the franchise, and he directed Lawrence to give an already iconic performance. Will the actors be as capable in the hands of a hastily hired replacement, and might they resent the studio for it? (Certainly, we don’t need this crew to start acting as surly on their publicity tours as the cast of the Twilight franchise, which never had a single steward to keep them humble.) Continue reading
Fan-Made Photo: Peeta & Katniss
“The count of three,” he says
We stand, our backs pressed together, our empty hands locked tight.
“Hold them out. I want everyone to see,” he says.
The Hunger Games 