Molly Sat, September 19, 2015 ;)
Josh Hutcherson made an appearance at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas last night. Josh was there to introduce Jason Derulo at the fest. The iHeartRadio Music Festival is a two-day festival held each September by iHeartRadio at the MGM Grand.
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Molly Wed, September 16, 2015 ;)
Molly Wed, September 16, 2015 ;)
A gorgeous new Mockingjay Part 2 poster debuted today on Jennifer Lawrence's facebook page (yes, she DOES have one, people! It's run by her team) along with the announcement that Mockingjay Part 2 tickets will go on sale October 1st.
The poster features Katniss and a Mockingjay with the new tagline:
A Creature As Unquenchable As The Sun
The tagline is a quote from Mockingjay, Chapter 25. It's after a very, very sad thing happens. You know what I'm talking about, book readers.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 tickets will go on sale nationally on Thursday, October 1, 2015 beginning at 12pm EST/9am PST. Buy tickets in the first 24 hours to receive a bonus digital download of Mockingjay Part 1! Mockingjay Part 2 showtimes will begin 7pm on Thursday, November 19
BONUS DOUBLE FEATURE:
Wednesday, November 18, fans will have an opportunity to screen a double feature of Mockingjay Part 1 and Mockingjay Part 2. THE HUNGER GAMES DOUBLE FEATURE will be a one night only, premium experience including exclusive on-screen content and premium giveaways, allowing moviegoers to see THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 2 a full 24 hours ahead of Thursday’s advance shows. These special showings will also be showing at IMAX theaters, so you'll be able to see both films in IMAX!
You'll be able to purchase the double feature tickets across the US starting on October 1st.
What do you think, tributes?
Molly Wed, September 16, 2015 ;)
Thanks to QuarterQuell we've got 2 new Mockingjay Part 2 stills and a look at the full, untagged versions of the Mockingjay Part 2 stills released with the Mockingjay World Tour announcement.
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Molly Tue, September 15, 2015 ;)
Up, up, up tomorrow morning tributes! It's going to be a BIG day! An all-new Mockingjay Part 2 trailer will debut on Good Morning America tomorrow morning. We just got the confirmation from Lionsgate. You'll be able to catch the trailer online after the broadcast on GMA. There's no confirmed exact time that the trailer will air on GMA but the show starts at 7:00am ET on ABC.
And stay tuned for more good things to come!
Molly Tue, September 15, 2015 ;)
Liam Hemsworth is doing a load of press at the Toronto Film Festival for his upcoming movie The Dressmaker, and luckily for us he's being asked all sorts of Mockingjay Part 2 questions in the process. Liam spoke with Salon.com about the end of the franchise and compaired his leading ladies Jennifer Lawrence and Kate Winslet.
He sees similarities between Jennifer Lawrence and his Dressmaker costar Kate Winslet:
Asked about whether his Dressmaker co-star Kate Winslet shares anything with his Hunger Games co-star Jennifer Lawrence, he acknowledged that the two leading ladies have a lot of similarities. “They’re both extremely talented people in this industry,” he said. “Both possess that spunk that you’re talking about. They can come onto a set and just change the mood of everyone: they both have a larger-than-life energy.”
The ending of The Hunger Games is bittersweet:
After an overwhelmingly successful three year run, the final Hunger Games installment hits theaters this November, and Hemsworth says the ending brings mixed feelings. “It was bittersweet for all of us on the last day of filming,” he said. “There was a realization that we all came to that we didn’t have another film to come back to. And that was sad, because we’ve established such close relationships with each other, and experienced an important part of our lives together. We’ll always hold onto that. I’m looking forward to the last press tour. I’m really proud of the last film, it’s possibly the best one. It ties up all the loose ends. It’s not quite the happiest ending for everyone.”
We might get to see a Hemsworth brothers collaboration one day, if we’re lucky:
“We’ve always talked about it,” said Hemsworth, when asked about whether he would ever make a film with his “Thor” star brother Chris. “Whether it’s a big blockbuster film or an independent artsy film, either way, it has to be something great, something with an amazing director and a great story. Because we’ll probably only get one chance to do it — I don’t know how many films you can make with your brother. But if the right project comes along and all the stars are aligned, we’d love to work together.”
Read the full article at Salon.com.
Molly Tue, September 15, 2015 Vanity Fair's Krista Smith sits down with Liam Hemsworth to talk The Dressmaker at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Molly Tue, September 15, 2015 ;)
I want to take a moment to thank Suzanne Collins for writing The Hunger Games trilogy. I’m not sure my words here will be able to express the amount of gratitude I feel for what reading her books have done for myself, for my students, and for the thousands of students who read them each year, but I will try.
The first time I had heard of Suzanne Collins' novel The Hunger Games was in September of 2008. Stephen King wrote a review of it in Entertainment Weekly, which immediately caught my attention since I both respect King's opinion and thought it was interesting he was reviewing young adult lit. So I ordered the book on Amazon based on his review and it sat on my nightstand for nearly a year collecting dust with other books I wanted to read but never had the time.
Of course, I’ve been kicking myself for not reading it sooner ever since.
Suzanne Collins helped me renew my love for teaching during a time where I didn’t think I would last in the profession another year. In 2009 I had a difficult group of students–mostly boys–in a remedial freshmen English class. I had lost all hope of ever finding any material they would even attempt to read. All my old stand-byes had been exhausted.
But then I remembered the book on my nightstand. Since my students were mostly into hunting, I thought perhaps I could at least read a little more about that world since it was foreign to me. Honestly, the description of The Hunger Games didn’t appeal to me at all. But by the time I read the first few pages, I started to care about this sad futuristic world that was a result of our present-day abuse of the planet and of each other.
Collins drew me into the story because I was truly interested in how our actions today will affect future generations. But when I shared the novel with my students, I learned that her story-telling is so much deeper, richer than I had realized.
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While I was initially interested in the world of Panem, some students were immediately drawn to Katniss and her survival skills. Some were enthralled with the concept of the Games, and some wanted to know everything there was to know about the Capitol and all its modern conveniences and gadgets. And many girls loved the idea of two good-looking boys vying for Katniss’s attention. There is literally something included in the novel to appeal to practically everyone. Nature-lovers, hunters, miners, gear-heads, techies, fashionistas, make-up and tattoo artists...everyone.
And it isn’t just the content of Collins’ novels that appeals to all readers. It is the way she tells the story. Her style of writing has a way of drawing the reader in using humor and suspense while keeping the reader engrossed with sarcastic dialogue and heart-wrenching moments. (Seriously heart-wrenching moments.)
