Molly Thu, September 26, 2013 Check out the scans from Empire Magazine's November issue featuring Catching Fire!
This image is a motion poster in the iPad edition of Empire
Click the thumbnails for full size!
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Marina Chekov Thu, September 26, 2013 
This press release from Lionsgate, featured on The Wall Street Journal (among other sites) goes into deeper detail about the upcoming Catching Fire Soundtrack:
NEW YORK and SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) and Republic Records today announced a powerful, star-studded lineup for the soundtrack to the motion picture The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, mixing established music icons including seven-time Grammy(R) winning band Coldplay, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Patti Smith, and Grammy Award winning Christina Aguilera, along with some of the hottest Billboard chart topping newcomers in the music business.
Also top-lining this exceptionally talent-rich collection are The Lumineers, whose self-titled debut album achieved platinum sales status in the US, Canada (3x), UK, Ireland and Australia and Gold in Germany and France, with their hit single "Ho Hey" selling over 4.5 million single downloads in the US. Lorde, whose debut single "Royals" just made her the first female artist to top the Billboard Alternative Songs chart since Tracy Bonham in 1996, will also be featured on the soundtrack.
Marina Chekov Thu, September 26, 2013 
#TickTock9 is here and it's fully loaded. The FULL artist and track list for The Hunger Games:Catching Fire Soundtrack is finally here!
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1. “Atlas” – Coldplay – Watch the lyric video!
2. “Silhouettes” – Of Monsters and Men
3. “Elastic Heart” – Sia (ft. The Weeknd & Diplo)
4. “Lean” – The National
5. “We Remain” – Christina Aguilera
6. “Devil May Cry” – The Weeknd
7. “Who We Are” – Imagine Dragons
8. “Everybody Wants To Rule The World” – Lorde
9. “Gale Song” – The Lumineers
10. “Mirrors” – Ellie Goulding
11. “Capital Letter” – Patti Smith
12. “Shooting Arrows At The Sky” – Santigold
13. “Place For Us” – Mikky Ekko
14. “Lights” – Phantogram
15. “Angel On Fire” – Antony & The Johnsons
The soundtrack can be pre-ordered HERE.
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ETA: You can preview Christina Aguilera's song "We Remain" here!
The Chorus reads as an ominous warning to those in the Capitol:
Burn me with fire
Drown me with rain
I'm gonna wake up
Screaming your name
Yes, I'm a sinner
Yes, I'm a saint
Whatever happens here
Whatever happens here
We remain
Marina Chekov Thu, September 26, 2013 
Vanity Fair.com has an interview with Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence. It also includes several beautiful photos of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss (in her wedding gown!), as well as images of Gale, Finnick, Peeta, and Effie. These are, in part, from the October issue of Vanity Fair magazine.
“One of the big overarching themes for all the books is this idea of the consequences of war, and one of the unfortunate consequences of war is post-traumatic stress,” explains Francis Lawrence, who directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, out this November. (His previous films include I Am Legend and Water for Elephants.) In the new movie, not only have young leads Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson aged nearly two years, but also their characters, Katniss and Peeta, have returned to their home district haunted by what they’ve seen and done. “That’s one of the first things you see in the movie,” the director adds. “They’re changed people because of having been in the Games.”
Molly Thu, September 26, 2013 
I really loved how the world opens up in the second book. The mythology opens up, the story's much more complex, you see more of the Districts and Capitol, and you really start to get a sense of the meaning of things. This one's very different. The arena's much more active. and the movie's about different things, thematically: it's about the beginning of a rebellion, and Kat is becoming a symbol, and there's much more love story. She's been in the Games, and so we had a lot of discussions about what that means, how one can be haunted by taking part in violent acts and witnessing violent things."
- Francis Lawrence on Catching Fire in Total Film Magazine
Molly Thu, September 26, 2013 
Looks like Jennifer Lawrence and Gary Ross are teaming up again for an adaptation of East of Eden.
From Variety:
Based on the John Steinbeck novel, the story revolves around a father and two sons in California’s Salinas Valley, and the dark secrets about their mother, whom they thought dead. The book was originally adapted by director Elia Kazan, and the classic film starred James Dean.
Lawrence will play at an earlier time in her life the role of the mother who was played by Jo Van Fleet in the 1955 version. Some may wonder why the studio would cast the role that isn’t exactly seen as the most important but you may have heard of Lawrence’s interest in working again with Ross and did not want to miss out on the opportunity given her busy schedule.
Molly Thu, September 26, 2013 
Here's the cover and the article from the Variety "10 Brits To Watch" we told you about here.
In a few short years since graduating from The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 2009, the actor has seen his career take off, thanks to a series of modest yet effective roles in films and tv productions, both local and international. They include the BBC's United, and Channel 4/Starz miniseries Pillars of the Earth, and the features Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Snow White and the Huntsman.
Of course, all that success now pales in comparison to the global super stardom promised by his latest role - that of heroic heartthrob and fan favorite Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, due out in November.
The 27-year-old Brit reportedly beat out such higher profile names as Taylor Kitch and Armie Hammer for the part of the tall, toned, blond and tan Odair, despite showing up for his audition "with a stubbly face and very pale English skin, long brown hair, and, to be honest, out of shape," as he told Elle Magazine
Claflin, whose fast growing resume now includes The Quiet Ones, Love Rosie, and the next installment in The Hunger Games franchise, quickly hit up the gym and the hair dye to achieve, as he's wryly described his transformation, "a semblance of that perfection" fans are expecting.
Marina Chekov Tue, September 24, 2013 
It's official: Christina Aguilera has written a song for the Catching Fire soundtrack! She is the third artist to be announced, behind Coldplay and The National.
Her song is titled We Remain.
