Movie Reviews and Previews This is not a love story You’re goddamn right, motherf-cker. The first full length trailer for The Hunger Games has been released. I.LOVE.IT. No, it’s not perfect. Haymitch’s wig is a problem. I’m not sure about Katniss’s prom dress on American Idol there, either. But these are minor, By Lainey • Nov 14, 2011 12:25 pm
The Hunger Games Jennifer Lawrence knows Katniss? There’s a Hunger Games profile in the new Vanity Fair featuring the cast in a photo that’s rather similar to the magazine’s shoot with the then-low profile cast of Twilight in 2008. Not sure if this is intentional since people are so eager for The Hunger By Lainey • Nov 02, 2011 08:43 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The Hunger Games posters: cause for optimism We are just about 5 months away from The Hunger Games movie in March. So far it’s been one step forward, one step back, particularly as it relates to casting. Lionsgate has released 8 character posters to start building momentum. There’s a lot of photoshopping and skin doctoring By Lainey • Oct 27, 2011 04:55 pm
The Hunger Games Catching Fire 2013 The Hunger Games is due in theatres in 7 months. They’re still shooting. It kinda worries me how much time they’ll have in post, and whether or not the CGI parts will be up to level, but I suppose, if the emotional urgency of the story is properly By Lainey • Aug 09, 2011 06:50 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Katniss, Gale, Prim! From North Carolina and the set of The Hunger Games – here are Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Willow Shields, and author Suzanne Collins continuing production on the film. Good. Because with a March release date, and some work to be done in post, I feel like it may have been getting By Lainey • May 27, 2011 05:47 am
The Hunger Games Lawrence on Letterman Jennifer Lawrence appeared on Letterman last night. It was a great interview. 20 years old and she laid down an awesome interview on Letterman that earned her a kiss on the hand. Well done. She’s poised but she’s not, like, overly produced and automatic. She’s not Taylor By Lainey • May 20, 2011 04:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This is Katniss So this is what happened when I was in flight yesterday. Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive first look at Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games. Thank you for your emails and your reactions. And my reaction? Medium. Does that count as a reaction? By Lainey • May 19, 2011 03:15 am
Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence’s Oscar philly steak ELLE has a new a feature on Jennifer Lawrence. She’s starting promotion for X-Men: First Class. Remember the red Baywatchy dress she wore at the Oscars? She says she got into it with a philly steak sandwich: “Fifteen minutes before, the guy doing my hair goes, ‘If you By Lainey • May 18, 2011 02:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews They found Peeta & Gale Errr… I feel like I may have been reading a different book series. Lionsgate confirmed today that they’ve chosen the two male leads in The Hunger Games films: Josh Hutcherson will play Peeta, Liam Hemsworth Gale. Sarah from Cinesnark and I have been bbm debating this all weekend. She By Lainey • Apr 04, 2011 07:16 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Possible Peetas Written by Sarah When I wrote about The Hunger Games casting earlier this week, I noted that no one other than Alex Pettyfer had surfaced in the race for Peeta. Strike that, because we now have a Peeta three-way. First, on Monday, Josh Hutcherson mentioned he had also met By Lainey • Mar 17, 2011 03:21 am
The Hunger Games Young vs. old Hunger Games Written by Sarah I’ve been saying for the past year that sixteen-year-old Saorise Ronan should be Katniss, and after seeing her in True Grit, I also thought that fourteen-year-old Hailee Steinfeld would also make a good Katniss. I have since decided to strike Steinfeld from By Lainey • Mar 14, 2011 02:27 am
The Hunger Games Two Katnisses Well this is interesting. Today in Paris at Miu Miu, Jennifer Lawrence and Hailee Steinfeld, both vying for the role of Katniss in The Hunger Games, turned up for the show. I’m sorry…I know we’re fighting on this, but Hailee still isn’t my Katniss Everdeen. I’ By Lainey • Mar 09, 2011 06:12 am
Exclusives Katniss casting update Exclusive I was the first to report yesterday that Jennifer Lawrence has emerged as the frontrunner for the role of Katniss in the film adaptation of The Hunger Games. Several hours later, just before the end of the business day, Variety posted the same, confirming my initial story that Lawrence By Lainey • Mar 03, 2011 04:29 am
Exclusives Jennifer Lawrence & The Hunger Games: the video Exclusive Earlier today, I posted exclusive news about Jennifer Lawrence being the frontrunner to play Katniss in The Hunger Games. Click here for a refresher. I also mentioned that Ben, during etalk's Oscar red carpet broadcast, very innocently asked Lawrence's mother what she's reading By Lainey • Mar 02, 2011 04:00 am
Exclusives The Katniss frontrunner: Jennifer Lawrence Exclusive It is currently the most coveted female role in Hollywood. The Hunger Games is expected to be the next major movie franchise and casting for Katniss has been an obsession for fans and pop culture pundits as we are just about a year away from the film’s theatrical By Lainey • Mar 02, 2011 01:08 am
Bad Style Oscar Baywatch: Jennifer Lawrence I’m not saying she didn’t look good. She looked great. Gorgeous. Hot. Super sexy. But you can’t deny that’s exacly the same shade of red. And it’s cut exactly like an elongated swimsuit. She could be running in slow motion down the beach…which…well… By Lainey • Feb 28, 2011 05:42 am
