Molly Tue, September 8, 2015 ;)
Entertainment Tonight aired a little featurette on Mockingjay Part 2 and cast members Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth last night. Check it out:
Seeing the old clips makes me a little nostalgic. I can't believe it's the beginning of the end!
Molly Mon, August 31, 2015 ;)
Image via @liamhemsworth on instagram
According to EW, ABC’s The Muppets is adding another big guest star. Liam Hemsworth is coming to the new fall comedy series.
Hemsworth will play himself on the show, slated to be a more grown-up take on the beloved Muppet characters that goes “behind the scenes” as Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest stage a new prime-time series. Liam will join his Hunger Games co-star, Elizabeth Banks on the show. No word on how many episodes either will appear in.
The Muppets premieres Tuesday, Sept. 22. And in case you haven’t already seen it, here's the full pilot presentation that Muppets executive producers Bill Prady and Bob Kushell made to convince ABC to pick up the series. Elizabeth Banks appears in the spot:
Be sure to follow Liam's new official instagram account @liamhemsworth.
Molly Sat, August 29, 2015 ;)
Film Ink recently posted a new interview with Liam Hemsworth where he talks about the end of The Hunger Games franchise, training for the films and Gale's larger role in the final 2 films.
You were involved a lot more in the last two Hunger Games movies…
“Yeah, a lot more. There’s a lot of action in these films. The most fun is when we have scenes where we’re all in the same room with Woody and Jennifer, Josh and Jeffrey Wright. There were a couple of different scenes throughout these last two films which were hard to get through because we’re all like little kids. It’s tough to get through takes sometimes.”
Who behaves the most like a little kid?
“Woody! Woody is like a little kid at all times, especially if he doesn’t have lines in a scene and the rest of you do have lines. He’ll just go all day long. He’s quite hard to work with sometimes.”
You shot both the movies back to back…
“It made the shoot a lot longer.”
Do you get on each other’s nerves working together for so long?
“No, we’re pretty lucky. You’d hate to do something for this long with people that you didn’t get along with. We’ve been together for years now, and we’re all really good friends. It makes those long days a lot easier when you enjoy being around them.”
How did you feel about the sad death of Philip Seymour Hoffman?
“Yeah, it’s very sad obviously…it was extremely sad. He was a good friend of everyone, a great actor, and a great person. It was really upsetting and very shocking.”
Gale has a much bigger role in this movie. Did you have to go, physically and emotionally, to places that you hadn’t been before?
“Yeah, physically a lot, and emotionally as well. Gale has been held back from doing anything in all these stories, and now all of a sudden he’s in a position where he’s able to fight back. He’s ready to go to war; he’s willing to do anything to take down The Capitol. I got injured so many times on these films just from doing stunts all day long. I like to do my own stunts, as much as they’ll allow me to do it. But it gets repetitive, and you get beaten up through the process. I do a lot of physical activity outside of work when I’m doing something like this. I train with all the stunt guys, and do various different sports: boxing, kick-boxing, running, sprinting and lifting things…”
Were there any new skills that you picked up from that training?
“Yeah, we did a lot of kick-boxing training beforehand with guys who have been doing kick-boxing for most of their lives. You learn a lot doing stuff like this with guys who really know what they’re doing.”
What will you miss the most about filming The Hunger Games?
“I’ll miss the relationships that we’ve all built, from the cast to the crew. The crew’s been the same since the beginning, and there are so many people that I’m really close friends with now. Towards the end of shooting, me and Jennifer would sit there and get quite emotional about the fact that it was coming to an end, and the fact that we wouldn’t be spending as much time with all these people. That’s what we’ll all miss the most.”
Read the rest of the article, including what Liam misses most about Australia at FilmInk.com.
Molly Wed, August 26, 2015 
Image via @carlyjsteel
Based on a flurry of tweets and instagram posts, it's obvious "long lead" press has begun for Mockingjay Part 2. Jennifer Lawrence is pictured above with Pop TV's Carly Steel and Laurie Feltheimer. She and Liam Hemsworth were filming a segment for an upcoming show "Jet To The Set." Fun fact: Laurie Feltheimer is Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer's wife. But we digress....
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Image via @carlyjsteel on twitter;)
photo via @lauriefelt on instagram
MTV's Josh Horowitz did a shoot with Jen, Josh and Liam. We can't wait for the crazy! His interviews with the cast are always the best.
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Can't wait for this one!
Long lead press is usually press for outlets that need a longer editorial lead time: national monthly magazines, filmed features that need time to produce (hence the green screen), etc.
And Joey Graceffa!
Photo via @JoeyGraceffa on twitter
Also leaked out in the press junket excitement, Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer are writing a screenplay and will star in said film as sisters. This we MUST see! Read about that HERE thanks to Brooks Barnes of the NY Times.
We know we won't be seeing these interviews for months to come, but the official start of press always gets us really hyped. We've got lots of fun stuff to look forward to in the months to come, tributes! Stay tuned!
Molly Mon, August 24, 2015 ;)
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins was released 5 years ago today. To celebrate, Lionsgate has released a beautiful brand-new Mockingjay Part 2 banner called "Fallen Snow." Click to enlarge the banner above and check out some of the close-ups from the image below.
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See the rest Squad 451's close-ups in our gallery here.
Molly Mon, August 3, 2015 ;)
Josh Hutcherson spoke with Huffington Post recently and (sort of) cleared the air about some comments he made to Conan O'Brien at Comic Con last month. Josh seemed to hint at the possibility of more The Hunger Games films on the special Comic Con edition of O'Brien's show.
Josh now says of future films, "Yeah, I mean the truth is I don’t know anything. I would like there to be more because they’re really fun to make, and it’s a fun character, but... afraid that I'm not clear on that one," Hutcherson said. "If it does happen, at the same time it’s like, it has to be something that Suzanne [Collins] really believes in," he continued. "It has to be something that she creates naturally. It's not just trying to make more movies out of it."
Admittedly, we're relived at this. Suzanne involved = YES! for us.
What would Josh want to see in further Hunger Games films?
The last book kind of jumps from them kind of having a final moment... and then it jumps to another point in the story, and there’s a gap there in the middle. I think that could be a start. So I don’t know what would happen exactly, but all I know is that their own country and developing nation with all kinds of turmoil and ups and downs, I feel like there’s a good story in there.
We could definitely get behind that idea!
Molly Tue, July 14, 2015 Liam Hemsworth fans rejoice! The trailer for his upcoming film The Dressmaker dropped and features a very handsome Mr. Hemsworth in all manner of rugged, tanned, beautifully-lit, half-nakedness. And the movie looks pretty adorable. Enjoy!
Here's the movie's synopsis:
Based on the best-selling novel by Rosalie Ham, THE DRESSMAKER is a bittersweet, comedy-drama set in early 1950s Australia. Tilly Dunnage (KATE WINSLET), a beautiful and talented misfit, after many years working as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, returns home to the tiny middle-of-nowhere town of Dungatar to right the wrongs of the past. Not only does she reconcile with her ailing, eccentric mother Molly (JUDY DAVIS) and unexpectedly falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy (LIAM HEMSWORTH), but armed with her sewing machine and incredible sense of style, she transforms the women of the town and in doing so gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
Molly Fri, July 10, 2015 ;)
Mockingjay Part 2 went to Comic Con 2015 with a much-anticipated final panel of The Hunger Games franchise on Thursday, July 9th. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Willow Shields, Francis Lawrence and Nina Jacobson took to Hall H for a panel moderated by Conan O'Brien. Then they were off to a press conference and loads of interviews before heading to Conan for a special Comic con edition of his show.
Here's the full press conference:
Press Conference highlights:
Here's where you'll find all the video press interviews. We'll keep adding them here as more come out.
