Molly Mon, June 3, 2013 Lenny Kravitz (Cinna) was featured on Oprah's Master Class on Sunday, June 2nd. He spoke intimately about his life, his family, and the challenges of growing up in a multi-racial household. It's a real pleasure to get such a heartfelt glimpse into Lenny's life!
Molly Sun, June 2, 2013 
The Hollywood Reporter just released 50 never before seen portraits of celebrities at the Cannes Film Festival and Francis Lawrence was among them:
Francis Lawrence was in Cannes to promote The Hunger Games: Catching Fire to international buyers. The sequel to The Hunger Games will see the return of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, the strong-willed girl who won the deadly games in the first installment.
Molly Sat, June 1, 2013 
Happy 13th birthday to our Prim, Willow Shields!
Molly Sat, June 1, 2013 
Suzanne Collins and Walter Dean Myers at BEA
Stop the presses! Or start them - please! Suzanne Collins is at BookExpo America in New York this week to promote her upcoming children's book Year of the Jungle, and she revealed to USA Today that she has plans to write another teen series. But first she has to work on a couple little projects called Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2:
Suzanne Collins, author of the best-selling The Hunger Games trilogy, plans to write another teen series but isn't ready to reveal more.
First, she says, she's consulting on the scripts for the third and fourth film adaptations of her dystopian series that has more than 50 million copies in print. (Catching Fire, the second movie, again starring Jennifer Lawrence, will be released Nov. 22. And nearly four years after the book's publication, the paperback of Catching Fire finally hits stores Tuesday. Mockingjay, the series finale, will be split into two films, out in 2014 and 2015).
On Sept. 10, Collins releases an autobiographical picture book, Year of the Jungle, illustrated by James Proimos, about her memories of 1968, when she was 6, and her father had "to go to something called a war…in a place called Vietnam." At a discussion Thursday night on writing about war for young readers, sponsored by her publisher, Scholastic, Collins said if kids "have no idea what propaganda is, how will you ever know when it's being used against you?"
She was joined by Walter Dean Myers, whose World War II novel, Invasion (out Oct. 1), is a prequel to Fallen Angels (about Vietnam) and Sunrise Over Fallujah (Iraq). Myers, whose brother was killed in Vietnam and whose son served in Iraq, was asked why he keeps writing novels that depict the horrors of war. He replied, "because we keep having wars."
Molly Fri, May 31, 2013 
Empire Magazine has a feature in their July 2013 Issue called, "Hungry For More? Director Francis Lawrence on Katniss' Return in Catching Fire." Here are the magazine scans:
Molly Thu, May 30, 2013 Well, there may have been no one, other than Lionsgate execs or something, more distraught than me when Gary Ross left. I was REALLY distraught because I love that guy. But I gotta say, Francis, he's fantastic. He's just a real gentleman, he's a super fun guy, and a great, great director. I mean, really knows what he wants, really understands action. Believe me, the whole Hunger Games franchise will not suffer from having him at the helm. He's just great. I haven't seen the second one so I better save these comments 'til later. But I heard it's great.
Molly Tue, May 28, 2013 
Sam Claflin's lovely fiance, Laura Haddock, talked to Empire Magazine (June issue) about Sam, his fans, and his new sex-symbol status:
Professionaly, Haddock is presently juggling a number of future projects. Personally, though, the future is set - she's engaged to Sam Claflin, who will shortly best his parts in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Snow White & The Huntsman to go stratospheric as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire's revolutionary sex bomb, Finnick Odair.
"Sam being a pin-up is funny," says Haddock. "We have this big monthly session where we sit down with his fan mail, him with a big marker pen and me and his mum with a cup of tea, and he signs all these things that have come in. The other day he got a bracelet from this girl who's a fan of The Hunger Games. It had his district on it. And he put it on and took a picture of it and sent it to her by Twitter, which made her day. But he's not taken it off! He loves it!" She laughs. "Otherwise he gets all of these pictures of him, where he's looking all sexy and serious..."
And her point is? "Well he IS very sexy," she says. "But he's really not very serious. You know, he looks gorgeous in that film. But if you said that to him he'd say, 'What? Me? I'm from Norwich!'"
Here's the bracelet she was referring to in the article! Lucky @Tanyelala
Molly Tue, May 28, 2013 
Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, and Josh Hutcherson on the Catching Fire set in Hawaii
The July issue of Empire Magazine has a brand new still of Effie and Peeta, along with an interview with Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence. Lawrence talks about the scope of the movie and the theme of the trilogy being the consequence of war:
The tone and scope of Catching Fire
“Everything opens up in this one … I think that without the second and the third book, the first movie would feel like a relatively small story, but the mythology opens up and the stakes ratchet up. You realise that this is about so much more than one person and that a whole country and a rebellion and loads of people’s lives are at stake.”
Revisiting the Games and Tributes
“Any time leading up to the Games you’re gonna go to the Capitol, go through training, go through the chariots and the interviews. So we had to be really vigilant about how to make those moments feel different. These tributes are like war veterans. One of the great things about all the books is just the theme of the consequences of war. All these people, and they how it all in different ways, have some form of PTSD, and the ones that you get to know, you start to see the cracks in their veneer. And once we got into the arena – ours is tropical so the geography was wildly different – it was easy.”
Thanks to The Hob.org for the details!
