Molly Mon, January 6, 2014 
Variety predicts that, by week's end, Catching Fire will beat out Iron Man 3 to become 2013's top grossing film domestically. Catching Fire has grossed $407.5 million stateside, and $423,400,000 internationally for a whopping $830,888,000 worldwide through Sunday.
Molly Mon, January 6, 2014 
Trish Summerville poses with the Net-A-Porter Mockingjay dress and costume designer Michael Wilkinson (American Hustle). Photo by Joe Pugliese
Costume designer Trish Summerville revealed some of the inspiration behind the looks she created for Catching Fire in a recent THR.com article.
Trish Summerville and one of President Snow's suits. Photo by Joe PuglieseSummerville jumped from styling music stars (Pink, No Doubt) to big-budget movies in 2011, when she nailed the punky garb for David Fincher's The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, for which she won a Costume Designers Guild Award. Now she's gone futuristic for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, with jaw-dropping ball gowns for Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), Cerre leather moto jackets for Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and hyper-designed Alexander McQueen dresses (including one with trembling butterflies) for Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks). The biggest challenge? Outfitting the Games contestants, who all are in unitard-like sweatsuits that had to fit 24 different body types ranging from age 19 to 79. Says Summerville, "The shoes also had to be things they could swim in and run on lava rock."
Molly Mon, December 30, 2013 
Katniss and Peeta Win MTV’s Best Movie Couple of 2013
From MTV.com
MTV asked their faithful, good-looking and pop-culture savvy readers (that would be you) who the best couple in 2013 movies was. The competition was heated — could the dark horse McBride/Channing pairing come from behind? Would Team Gale win a tangle with Team Peeta? — but in the end, there could only be one winner.
The votes are in, and the people have spoken: Katniss and Peeta, the star-crossed victors/lovers of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire have won. As it turns out, the odds were ever in their favor. Ever in your favor, at the very least.
Molly Mon, December 30, 2013 
According to Yahoo Movies UK, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has made a more than significant contribution to what seems a bumper year for Hollywood.
2013 will be the most successful in commercial terms for Hollywood in its entire history, with the takings in the United States alone exceeding any figure ever achieved. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has made a massive contribution to the roughly $11 billion worth of takings that Hollywood managed in 2013, the biggest in the history of cinema in the United States.
The second Hunger Games movie has been a significant part of this success story, with the US takings for the Francis Lawrence directed movie nearing $400 million. The film will finish 2013 as the second most successful movie of the year in commercial terms, and may yet top the $1 billion barrier worldwide which was considered an extremely optimistic and ambitious target for the movie.
Additionally, the performance of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire worldwide has been excellent, with the film penetrating major markets all over the globe. For example, it was announced this week that Catching Fire was the second most successful movie in Australia this year, just passing the third movie on the list, Despicable Me 2, with literally days left in the calendar year.
After initially experiencing something of a soft landing in the Far East, Catching Fire has also started to make good money in Japan, which has helped the movie exceed the $400 million in international takings, and the $800 million overall. Catching Fire remains in the top five or six movies in most countries in the world, showing that is has been an extremely durable performer.
With takings in Hollywood having sunk in recent years, the excellent takings from 2013 will be a great relief to studios who now have to compete with a multitude of other entertainment. With Catching Fire having done so well in 2013, it will be hoped that Mockingjay makes a similarly big splash next year.
Reporting by Christoper Morris - YahooUK
Molly Tue, December 24, 2013 
People's Choice Awards have added a new category this year, Favorite Year End Movie, and Catching Fire is among the eligible movies. You can vote for Catching Fire through the first hour of the People's Choice Awards, which airs Wednesday, January 8th at 9/8c on CBS.
Click HERE to vote for Catching Fire!
Molly Tue, December 17, 2013 SoundWorks Collection talks with Catching Fire Director Francis Lawerence and Jeremy Peirson (Re-recording Mixer, Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor) about the sound teams work to create the sounsdscape of the film, and why they chose Dolby Atmos. Dolby Atmos creates a more lifelike audio experience with localized sounds in front, beside, behind, and on top of the audience. According to Lawrence, Atmos is “the best sound system out there, the best system to work in, and the best soundscape.”
Molly Mon, December 16, 2013 
The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) has announced the nominees for The 19th Annual Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has been nominated for three awards: Best Action Movie, Best Actress in an Action Movie (Jennifer Lawrence) and Best Song for Atlas by Coldplay. Jen is also nominated in the Best Supporting Actress and Best Acting Ensemble categories for American Hustle.
The winners will be announced live at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards ceremony on Thursday, January 16, 2014 from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. The show will be broadcast live on The CW Network at 8:00 PM ET/PT. Two hour pre-show coverage will also air in various local markets before the awards ceremony.
Good luck! And hopefully this means another opportunity to gaze upon our lovely Jennifer Lawrence! Yeah, I said it.
BEST ACTION MOVIE
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
Lone Survivor
Rush
Star Trek into Darkness
BEST ACTRESS IN AN ACTION MOVIE
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Evangeline Lilly – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Gwyneth Paltrow – Iron Man 3
BEST SONG
Atlas – Coldplay – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Happy – Pharrell Williams – Despicable Me 2
Let It Go – Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez – Frozen
Ordinary Love – U2 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Please Mr. Kennedy – Justin Timberlake/Oscar Isaac/Adam Driver – Inside Llewyn Davis
Young and Beautiful – Lana Del Rey – The Great Gatsby
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Scarlett Johansson – Her
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
June Squibb – Nebraska
Oprah Winfrey – Lee Daniels’ The Butler
Molly Sun, December 15, 2013 
We haven't confirmed this with Lionsgate yet, but the Catching Fire page on Moviefone's website lists the US DVD release of the movie as March 7, 2014. This would make perfect sense since there is a preview of Divergent on the DVD, which hits theaters on March 21, 2014, giving fans a couple of weeks to check out the preview prior to the movie's premiere.
The official Hunger Games UK Twitter page tweeted a link from Zaavi, where you can pre-order a limited edition Catching Fire DVD Steelbook Edition, and Zaavi had a release date of April 28, 2014 listed for the DVD in the UK. If this seems a little late to you, remember The Hunger Games was also released a few weeks later in the UK than the US last year.
We'll keep you posted when the release dates are confirmed!
Thanks to Mockingjay.net and THGAustralia.
