'Mockingjay Part 1' Worldwide Trailer Debuts

Hope truly IS stronger than fear. The long-awaited Mockingjay Part 1 theatrical trailer finally debuted today at TheHungerGamesExclusive.com.

Though the trailer is shorter than the average theatrical trailer, it still packed an epic emotional punch, showing us more of our beloved Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, and her transition from survivor to reluctant leader of Panem's rebellion.

And Everlark lovers REJOICE! We got a hearbreaking peek at Peeta Mellark in the Capitol and Katniss' first look at him. "You're alive."

The new trailer deftly illustrates what Francis Lawrence has been saying about the narrative of Part 1: “With Mockingjay – Part I it’s tricky because Peeta is out of reach for her. Obviously he becomes an objective for her, but Gale is right there, so that’s always a tricky situation. Those objectives became the motives for us."

 "Miss Everdeen, it's the things we love most that destroy us." will be haunting us forever. 

Tickets for Mockingjay Part 1 go on sale October 29th! 

Behind the Scenes of 'Mockingjay Part 1' With The Hunger Games Exclusive

The Hunger Games Exclusive Series 2 debuted today along with the Mockingjay Part 1 worldwide trailer. The new issue is packed with behind the scenes photos and exclusive interviews with the cast including Q & As with Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Natalie Dormer, character close-ups of Boggs, Pollux, Castor and Messalla, and, of course, the epic new trailer (see it HERE). 

There is far too much to post here but check out a couple of our favorite photos from the site, and some lovely quotes from Jennifer Lawrence:

Josh and Liam are my best friends. And we’ve got the best crew that we’ve known for years. I don’t have to be ‘on’ all the time in front of them because they feel like my family.”

Jennifer on what she kept as a memento from the set:

The bow! Our props master told me that he could get me a new one because they made a few of them. But I want the one that Katniss is using while we shoot. It’s all scratched up. That bow means a lot to me.”

See it all at TheHungerGamesExclusive.com. And check out our gallery for more images from 'Mockingjay Part 1.' 

'Mockingjay Part 1' Trailer Teaser #2 "Tomorrow"

We got another quick peek at Mockingjay Part 1 via the 2nd teaser clip "Tomorrow." A quick flash of Katniss and Gale taking aim, suited up in their rebellion gear with their Beetee-enhanced bows (GAH!!! District 8??) is all we get to warm us up for the big debut of the official Mockingjay Part 1 worldwide trailer, The Mockingjay Lives. Are you excited, tributes?

Tune in around 9:00am PT/ noon ET (our best guess on the time ) at TheHungerGamesExclusive.com to watch the trailer AND check out Series 2 featuring exclusive behind the scenes interviews and images!

What Memento Josh Hutcherson Kept From 'The Hunger Games' + More of His Thoughts on the Photo Hack

Josh Hutcherson spoke with KISS 92.5 in Toronto during TIFF and had a LOT to say about the Jennifer Lawrence photo hacking.

 

“These are crimes,” he said of the massive hack. “These are absolutely crimes against human rights.”

“The fact that people react the way they do and look at that,” said Hutcherson, “It’s so unbelievably embarrassing to have somebody look into your private life,” he said. “It’s really disheartening to see that this is where the world of entertainment has gone and it’s gone that way because of greed and media and people feeling like they deserve something and have a right to something that they absolutely do not.”

Hutcherson said he hasn’t spoken to Lawrence since her photos were posted online.

“Everybody deals with those sort of situations on their own, in their own ways,” he said.

“None of us signed up for our private lives to be made public,” he said. “I started acted when I was nine years old, Jen started when she was 12. You don’t have this idea of celebrity at that age. You have the idea of wanting to make movies and have a passion for storytelling. It’s what we’re good at. It’s what we do. It’s not like we just made this choice and decided ‘Oh yeah, I want to be an actor because I want to make movies but also there’s a fame element…’ No, we didn’t think like that. At least I didn’t and I know Jen didn’t.”

Josh recently saw the finished The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, which is set for release in November.

 “I loved it. I’m so proud of it. I’m so glad that they split it into two movies because there’s so much that happens in that third book that if you tried to squeeze it into one two hour movie you would have lost so much,” 

Hutcherson insisted fans will be thrilled by Mockingjay.

“It’s really dark, it’s really intense and the way you see how these characters try to recover and then build up a counterstrike against what they’ve experienced is really intense,” he said. “You’re absolutely going to love it.”

The star said it was hard to wrap production and walk away from cast and crew who worked together for a big part of the past four years.

“We’ve gone through some big changes together, just personally and professionally, that it’s hard to know that you’re not going to be 12 hours every day for months at a time with them,” said Hutcherson. “We’re still close, we’re still friends, we talk all the time — but it’s not the same so I’m definitely going to miss it.”

Did Hutcherson take a souvenir from District 12?

“I actually took the pendant that I gave Katniss — the one that opens and has the picture of her family, from that scene on the beach. I took that. It’s my one memento,” he confessed.

“It’s in my house in my desk drawer. I’m going to try to purposefully lose it — but in a way that I know I will find it in the future.”

New Photos - Jennifer Lawrence for Miss Dior

New photos of Jennifer Lawrence for Miss Dior's Fall/Winter 2014 campaign have surfaced online. 

Is it just me or do these Dior photos of Jen look just like the last set of Dior photos of Jen? I can't tell them apart. And while we're on the subject of JLaw and fashion, BazaarUK reports today that Jennifer will co-chair the Met Ball next May in New York. 

Photos are thanks to JenniferLawrenceSource.Net

New Trailer and Poster for Jennifer Lawrence's 'Serena'

Jennifer Lawrence's long-awaited film Serena finally has an official trailer and a poster.  This movie has been surrounded by so many rumors and fake posters it's hard to believe it is actually going to be released. But these come from Studiocanal, the Australian distributor for the film. 

Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper play passionate newlyweds Serena and George Pemberton, who build a timber empire. BUT, when Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, their marriage begins to unravel and things get very dark. In cinemas November 27.

More of Josh Hutcherson at TIFF - 'Escobar: Paradise Lost' Premiere, Jennifer Lawrence + His Last Mockingjay Scene

Josh Hutcherson walked the red carpet at the world premiere of his film Escobar: Paradise Lost at the Toronto Film Festival last night.

Photographer Jeff Vespa took a gorgeous black and white portrait of Josh at TIFF and posted it to his instagram. (He also took one of Sam Claflin HERE.) 

Josh also spoke with The Daily Observer while promoting the film and, of course, talk turned to Jennifer Lawrence and The Hunger Games films. 

“My reaction was anger, initially, and truly disappointment in society as a whole,” Hutcherson said of the nude photo hack over the Labour Day weekend, which resulted in the theft of hundreds of images from dozens of celebrities, most notably his Hunger Games co-star and friend Jennifer Lawrence. “You have a certain public recognition and whatnot. But it’s not about having your private life literally looked into and stolen from you,” he said. “Becoming an actor shouldn’t mean that you have to deal with being stalked.”

Hutcherson knows of what he speaks, thanks to the international stardom that The Hunger Games has propelled him into. He’s already wrapped shooting on Mockingjay – Part II, set to come out next November, but his final scene as Peeta had no dramatic thunder: it was a simple reshoot to get an angle that hadn’t been covered during principal photography.

“It’s me putting Katniss out when she’s on fire. It was literally a camera looking up at me, I had a blanket and I was throwing it at the camera,” he said with a laugh.

“It was definitely a bittersweet moment, but it was one of things where you finish it, and you’re like, ‘That was it. That was the last moment of all these movies.’ It really was anticlimactic!”

He was there the next night for the wrap of the movie, though. “It was not like of a big bang kind of ending. I think everyone was really sad,” he said. “We’d created something really special together for so many years, and the time to say goodbye was tough.”

And though he’s fast friends with Lawrence off set, he hasn’t talked to her yet about the photo hack. Because, appropriately enough, he respects her privacy. 

“I didn’t really want to bring it up to her, it’s a personal thing that she’s going through, and if she wants to talk to me, she’ll talk to me about it,” he said. “It’s hard. I feel horrible for it all.”

See more of Josh's trip to TIFF HERE.

Special thanks to JoshHutchersonNews.net for the beautiful photos. 

Sam Claflin Talks Finnick in GQ Style

 

Sam Claflin talks Finnick Odair and The Hunger Games in the latest edition of the UK bi-annual GQ Style, accompanied by some gorgeous photos shot by Matthew Brookes. 

"I wasn't in the right shape for Finnick for the audition. I had stubble and there was a picture of me at a premiere and everyone was like: who is this guy? He doesn't even have blue eyes, let alone copper-coloured hair, a tan or a six pack."
 

But he won the fans over thanks to a restricted diet of egg-white omelettes and porridge, and a brutal training regime: "Three hours a day, five days a week for four months."
 

That and his impressive performance, which I realise from our conversation, is an exemplar of the technical complexity of acting in big-budget blockbusters. As well as staying in his American accent and bearing the emotion of the scene, he had to develop a kind of muscle memory for the intricately mapped out actions sequences all "without hitting someone with the trident."
 

Technical, then, and tiring. He was mostly in Atlanta working long days for ten months shooting the last installments of The Hunger Games movies and was thrilled, when I spoke to him, to be back home in west London, which he loves.

"You can live an anonymous life here in a way that you can't in Los Angeles."
 

At the moment his fame is nowhere near the R-Patz level of hysteria and he walks about untroubled by pestering fans. Come Christmas though, I wonder if this will still be true, but either way, he doesn't have a plan for the next five years. "I'm just excited about what's around the corner."

 

These photos are courtesy of our friends at Sam Claflin Fans, so please visit their site for the full scans of the article and more pictures. 

Bonus photo: Sam Claflin portrait by Jeff Vespa taken while Sam was at TIFF promoting The Riot Club.