VIDEO: Josh Hutcherson Gets Personal With Esquire

In honor of Esquire Magazine's 80th Anniversary on September 23rd,  Josh Hutcherson recorded a short video about the best piece of advice he's ever gotten.

“Fame doesn’t change you, it just magnifies who you are. And through my MANY years of experience (laughs) I’ve definitely seen that firsthand with all different types of people. Great people become even more great. Shitty people become crappy people. People who are bad become even worse.”

Stef Dawson Talks About Joining the 'Mockingjay' Cast - "It's Going To Be A Wild Ride"

 

Stef Dawson spoke with her hometown Australian paper Canberra Times about her new role as Annie Cresta in Mockingjay Parts 1&2:

Being part of The Hunger Games phenomenon produces instant results - earlier this week former Canberra girl Stef Dawson had about 100 followers on Twitter, when news broke she had been cast in the latest movies, that number exploded to more than 5000, and counting.

"I think it’s going to be a wild ride,’’ she said, from Los Angeles.

The former Canberra Girls Grammar School and Radford College student auditioned only three weeks ago for the part of Annie Cresta in the upcoming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2 films.

“I did one audition and that was enough. Apparently, they were blown away, they didn’t have to see any more,” she said.

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Victors Revealed: It's Enobaria

 

Enobaria is the latest Victor to appear on the Victors Revealed banner at the Hunger Games Explorer!

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'Catching Fire' Gets an Early PG-13 Rating

No surprises here, but The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has been given a PG-13 rating from the MPAA according to Rope Of Silicon. The reason for the rating was lengthy:

Rated PG-13 For intense sequences of violence and action, some frightening images, thematic elements, a suggestive situation and language.

Release Date: November 22, 2013

A suggestive situation, hmmmm? Let's guess which scene that is (I'm looking at you, Johanna).

The exciting thing about this to US is that SOMEONE HAS SEEN THE ENTIRE MOVIE!!!!

Thanks to our follower Steph Johnson (@Midwest1989)  for the excellent tip!

HQ Versions of 'Catching Fire' Stills from The NECA Calendar

We've got scans of the 2014 Catching Fire NECA Calendar for you! Here are the NEW stills from the calendar. The rest you've seen before HERE and HERE.

Purchase the calendar HERE.

OFFICIAL: Evan Ross is Messalla in 'Mockingjay Parts 1&2'

The Mockingjay casting news keeps coming! Just announced today, Evan Ross joins the cast of Mockingjay as Messalla. For those of you scratching your heads trying to remember who the heck Messalla is, he's described as: Cressida’s assistant, “a slim young man with several sets of earrings. On careful observation, I see his tongue has been pierced, too, and he wears a stud with a silver ball the size of a marble.”

Ross has done lots of work in movies and on television, including 90210. Check out some of his work here.

Fun trivia fact: Evan Ross is music legend Diana Ross' son! He's also a musician himself. You can find Evan on twitter at @realevanross, Facebook HERE, and he's also got a website.

Victors Revealed - Brutus Is Here!

Brutus is the most recent addition to the Victors Revealed banner on the Hunger Games Explorer! Check out our Bruno Gunn looking mighty fierce as Brutus.

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Jena Malone is an Indie Queen in V Magazine

Jena Malone is featured in the September issus of V Magazine in the feature "Indie Queens."

Photo by Jamie Hawkesworth

Remember when Jena Malone made America cry in Stepmom? She’s been pulling power moves ever since: the neo-cult classic (Donnie Darko), the civil war epic (Cold Mountain), Japanimation (Howl’s Moving Castle), high-camp horror (The Ruins), and even a Zack Snyder comic book fantasy (Suckerpunch). Yet somehow she’s managing to raise the stakes even further, by next appearing in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice.

First big break: working on Bastard out of Carolina when I was 10 years-old. Eighteen years later I'm still working, so I guess I'm doing something right.

My favorite character to date: Rocket in Sucker Punch. 
 
Next project: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire playing Johanna Mason and Angelica, a film based on the adapted novel.  Also Inherent Vice directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.  
 
Big budget films are: More relaxed. There is less under-the-gun kind of energy as with independent films.
                                                                                 
If I wasn't acting, I'd be: Taking photos and making music or helping build a more sustainable world.
 
Ever work in an office? Never.
 
Most surreal experience in Hollywood: Probably when I was hanging upside down 30 feet in the air while having to fire my ump—a semiautomatic assault rifle—on a sound stage for Sucker Punch.
 
Tell us an uncomfortable personal secret. It's a secret. 
 
Any unusual habits? It's not a habit but I have an unusual skill of balancing things on my head.
 
Work philosophy: Trust your instincts and always do what scares you.
 
Character philosophy: How much time do you have?
 
Advice for the working woman: “If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. Work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.”― J.G. Ballard, Super-Cannes