Molly Sat, December 7, 2013 Somehow this hilarious little video slipped right past us. Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth chat with BBC Radio 1 about Catching Fire.
Molly Fri, December 6, 2013 
The 56th Annual Grammy Award nominations were announced this evening and Coldplay's "Atlas" off The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Soundtrack has been nominated as Best Song For Visual Media! Congrats to Coldplay on this exciting honor!
The Grammy Awards will take over the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Jan. 26, airing live on CBS at 8ET/7c.
Here are the rest of the nominees in the visual media category.
Best Song Written For Visual Media
"Atlas" from "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" -- Guy Berryman, Jonny Buckland, Will Champion & Chris Martin, songwriters (Coldplay)
"Silver Lining" from "Silver Linings Playbook" -- Diane Warren, songwriter (Jessie J)
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall"-- Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth, songwriters (Adele)
"We Both Know" from "Safe Haven" -- Colbie Caillat & Gavin DeGraw, songwriters (Colbie Caillat Featuring Gavin DeGraw)
"Young And Beautiful" from "The Great Gatsby" --Lana Del Rey & Rick Nowels, songwriters (Lana Del Rey)
"You've Got Time" from Orange Is The New Black -- Regina Spektor, songwriter (Regina Spektor)
Molly Fri, December 6, 2013 
Stef Dawson (our Annie Cresta) posted a lovely photo of herself with Suzanne Collins to her instagram and whosay today with the caption:
The Beautiful and Incredible Suzanne Collins and I. Forever grateful to her for Annie & touching lives with stories that matter. Love her X
We do too, Stef! We're SO happy that you're our Annie and you totally GET IT!
The bigger question here is: ARE THEY ON SET????
Molly Thu, December 5, 2013 
Jena Malone is featured in this week's Entertainment Weekly. Check out why she almost quit acting and how she feels about her Catching Fire alter-ego, Johanna Mason.
From EW:
Of all the terrifying things in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - the jabberjays, the monkey mutts, Stanley Tucci's maniacal game-show-host grin - none are a match for Jena Malone. From the moment she steps on screen, defiantly stripping down in an elevator, the 29-year-old actress brings a feral intensity to Johanna Mason, a former victor dragged back into another death match alongside hero Katniss Everdeen.
"Once Jena auditioned, it was over," says franchise producer Nina Jacobson. "Jena has this quality where you don't want to be enemies with her, but at the same time you couldn't ask for anybody more fierce on your side." Her performance throbs with aggression. "Jena," says director Francis Lawrence, "was born to play somebody like Johanna."
Thanks to Catching Fire, Malone is finally enjoying a spotlight that's eluded her for close to two decades. She made her moving debut in 1996's Bastard Out of Carolina and has been a reliable supporting player ever since. In films like Stepmom, Donnie Darko, and Into The Wild, she showed a raw vulnerability at once deep and slightly dangerous. When Zack Snyder cast her in 2011's Sucker Punch, she seemed poised to break into more mainstream work. But the splashy girl-power flick flopped hard, and Malone's phone again went silent. "I was so primed for more, and then there were no parts," she says. " I was going to quit acting."
Instead of walking away for good, she took camping trips to Big Sur. And she threw herself into photography and her two-person electro-folk band The Shoe (with Lem Jay Ignacio), jerry-rigging an elaborate instrument out of an old trunk. "We used to just go and play on street corners with my generator," she says. "It's all just freestyle-based like Townes Van Zant or Tom Waits."
Malone had mostly give up reading scripts when she was approached about playing a ruthless Kentucky girl in the Kevin Costner TV miniseries Hatfields & McCoys. "She was like the Lady Macbeth of the West," Malone says of her character. "And I thought, 'Huh, I feel like I can really get into this [character's] physical body.' I think it was Hatfields that got me Catching Fire because I'd never played such an evil, feisty girl before. I've played dark girls with problems, bit most of them were innocent to their own destructive patterns." It's that lack of innocence that makes her Johanna Mason so wonderfully ferocious. And the actress is thrilled to have the chance to inspire Catching Fire's teenage-girl fan base to embrace their own power. "Why do I want to model fearlessness for? It's 14-15 year old girls. They're the true revolutionaries."
In it's $158.1 million opening weekend alone, Catching Fire made more than Malone's past 10 years' worth of movies. (The film has since earned $572.8 million worldwide.) She is well aware of the gift of exposure. "I could make the most incredible cake in the world, but if only my friends eat it, only my friends are going to know I'm a good baker," she says. "So hell, yes, this is a giant, massive moment." She's hoping the attention might jump-start a biopic of writer Carson McCullers: she's long been attached to star in the project, but it ha struggled to find financing. Meanwhile, on Dec. 2 she gratefully reported to the set of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
"I love this character. I would play her in an after school special."
Molly Thu, December 5, 2013 
Jennifer Lawrence has two articles in USA Today in which she talks about the price of fame, The Hunger Games franchise and being a mama-cat to her kittens, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.
Read on from USA Today:
Away from the awards-season hubbub, which again envelopes her for her role as a foxy yet foolish wife in American Hustle, Lawrence is a self-aware woman trying to have some version of a regular existence. "I've built my career. I need to build my human life. I need to get a house and connect to the people around me and not work for a little while," she says.
Topping her to-do list: buying a home when she wraps the two-part Hunger Games franchise finale, Mockingjay, which shoots until June.
But for now, she does her best to retain some sense of routine in an existence that's mostly lived in hotels, fueled by room service. Her on-again boyfriend, Nicholas Hoult, helps keep her sane, away from prying eyes. "We're really good at it," she says of maintaining their under-the-radar romance.
She's infatuated with her two young nephews, whom she FaceTimes every night. She decompresses by watching reality TV, in particular Keeping Up with the Kardashians. And she keeps her best-actress Oscar, won for last year's Silver Linings Playbook, at her mom's house to avoid any weirdness when friends come over, to try to nip in the bud the possibility of people standing at attention around her.
"I just get allergic to that kind of thing. People treating you differently when you don't feel any differently is really alienating. You can see, the way they look at you. I can see if that was who I surrounded myself with, that's why you change," she says. "I find people who don't change. That's where I get my reality."
And her ability to say exactly the right thing at the right time? It's a gift. "She's an amazing study of people. She really understands the teeniest differences in people. She can read people in a second," says The Hunger Games: Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence. "She can figure you out in an instant. She does it with such ease, from the gut."
Read more after the jump!
Molly Thu, December 5, 2013 
Woody Harrelson spoke with Forbes while promoting Out Of The Furnace, but he snuck in some choice tidbits about Catching Fire along the way. From Forbes:
Having The Hunger Games as this ongoing series of films in your career, what sort of itch does Out of the Furnace scratch in comparison to that?
I mean, I don’t really compare them. I mean, it’s just – I turned Hunger Games down, twice! I’m the only one that’s such a fool to turn that thing down, and it’s been the greatest single thing that I’ve been lucky enough to be a part of, not just for the huge success of it, but for those people who are involved in it. I mean, I love those guys, man. I mean, it is like a family. It is so tight, so fun, we all love hanging out with each other outside the set, and we’re just laughing all day long on the set. I can’t imagine anything more fun. And because of it I’ve got to meet a lot of people I never would have, like tweens, coming up and wanting an autograph. I’m like, they never would have come up to me! They never would have seen anything I’d done. So it was really – that’s a cool thing as well. But it’s not like I think, I’m not one of those guys who say, “I do these… so that I can do the smaller movies.” I don’t do anything like that. I just take things as they come, and the fact that they keep coming is shocking, but I’m certainly happy to be a part of it.
You have a great character to play in The Hunger Games, but you didn’t look at that and go, this is probably going to be pretty successful?
Oh yeah, but that wasn’t my motivator, you know. I’m talking about times that I, you know, decided to do something because specifically because this is going to do well. A bad, bad decision – that’s something I would caution any actor against. It’s much better to say I liked this script and I really liked this character and I liked the director. I liked the other actors – whatever. But to say, oh, this will be successful, and that’s why I want to do it, that’s not good. But yeah, Hunger Games, everybody thought the odds were pretty good that people would go see it, and thank God they were right.
Molly Thu, December 5, 2013 
Mark your calendars! Christina Aguilera will perform "We Remain," off the soundtrack of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, on the Tuesday, Dec. 10 live episode (9-10 p.m. ET/PT) of "The Voice."
She will sing "We Remain," which she wrote with OneRepublic founder Ryan Tedder - recently named the show's in-house producer.
Molly Thu, December 5, 2013 
Kimberley Drummond, who was fantastic as Rue's aunt in Catching Fire (was I the only one who thought she was supposed to be Rue's mom?) shared some great behind the scenes pics from the set on her facebook page yesterday. Check them out and be sure to like her facebook page HERE.
Rue and Thresh's families and Peacekeepers
Kimberley with Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson
Above: A Peacekeeper on set. Below: Bruce Bundy as Octavia
Kimberley With Leon Lamar. He was unforgettable in the movie!
