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
Movie Reviews and Previews More good news for Wes Bentley I posted an article late March about Wes Bentley – how great he looked in Spain promoting his new film There Be Dragons, and how candid he’s been about how he f-cked up his life after early success. Click here for a refresher, including his candid NY Times interview in By Lainey • May 06, 2011 05:12 am
The Hunger Games What’s your District? But before that, click here to see the District 3 Tributes. They’ve also cast Katniss’s ma. Click here for more information on that. And John C Reilly is supposedly negotiating to be Haymitch? Meh. Not really into him for it. Oh … and… Kristen Bell is the latest celebrity By Lainey • Apr 28, 2011 09:45 am
Movie Reviews and Previews This is Prim Her name is Willow Shields. THR confirms that she’s officially been cast as Prim in The Hunger Games. You like? I like that she’s pretty much a total unknown. I believe that Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss would need to protect her. I am happy, so happy, that it’ By Lainey • Apr 20, 2011 07:28 am
The Hunger Games Countdown to Finnick Ok, so they just announced the District 1 Tributes. Marvel is being played by Jack Quaid, son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid. Some blonde called Leven Rambin I’ve never heard of will be Glimmer. Will you be satisfied when you watch her getting tracker jacked? OMG. I think By Lainey • Apr 19, 2011 07:42 am
Style Is this your Effie? THR is reporting that Elizabeth Banks is in talks to play Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games. Must discuss this during the liveblog. I can see what they’re going for in the sense that Effie is the ultimate packager from the Capitol. In that spirit, Effie is totally Hollywood. By Lainey • Apr 19, 2011 04:46 am
The Hunger Games Rue! Hunger Games casting update! A release was just sent out. They’ve announced the tributes from District 11. Which means Rue! Her name is Amandla Stenberg. And Thresh, also from 11, is Dayo Okeniyi. Both newcomers. There’s now actually a Facebook page for casting confirmations. Looks like they may By Lainey • Apr 18, 2011 08:46 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 with 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 my list because while By Lainey • Mar 14, 2011 02:27 am
The Hunger Games Emma’s breadcrumbs I love word mysteries! Even though I suck at them! Emma Watson is weaving one on her Twitter. (Seriously, every sentence you can make with Twitter sounds dirty.) She hadn’t tweeted since February 22nd. Then today, out of the blue, this: A new venture is starting - what can By Lainey • Mar 11, 2011 08:29 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
The Hunger Games Front Row Emma & Alex In Paris today at Louis Vuitton. You know I love Emma Stone so much. And it’s great now that she’s becoming some kind of fashion girl. And the next step I suppose is for a fashion house or a cosmetics company to sign her. That’s exactly what By Lainey • Mar 09, 2011 05:28 am
The Hunger Games Emma on hold…for Katniss? Emma Watson posted a message on her website yesterday explaining her absence from Brown: Hi everyone As you know, I love Brown and I love studying pretty much more than anything but recently I've had so much to juggle that being a student AND fulfilling my other commitments By Lainey • Mar 08, 2011 03:29 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
