The Mockingjay App Relaunch/Update

Lionsgate has relaunched The Mockingjay App (Powered by Samsung). Download the app if you don't have it (Apple or Google Play) or update your existing app to get new features!

CAPITOL CAMOUFLAGE - Use face recognition technology to snap a selfie with the red Mockingjay face paint. There are also dozens of pre-set makeup effects inspired by Effie Trinket and her Capitol looks, so fans can mimic the extravagant fashions from the films. There are more than 100 billion(!) possible makeup combinations.

 Check out some examples from our team:

GRAFFITI MARKS - Post AR graffiti anywhere in the real world, featuring new designs and taglines like the 3-finger salute, Katniss on the throne, the Revolution.pn logo and more. Graffiti can be easily shared and geo-tagged on a world map so other fans can find your mark.

Of course many of the original app's features are still available too like the augmented reality 3D hovercraft (as featured in our post here).

Let us know what you think of the app!

Mockingjay Part 2 COUNTDOWN - Week 3

Greetings and welcome back to the Mockingjay Part 1 Countdown! It is week 3, so naturally we will be talking about Chapter 3.

Chapter 3 begins with Katniss unable to sleep and finally getting out of her bed to go through her drawer, itemizing all the things she left the arena with. Because The Hunger Games: Catching Fire included Peeta giving Katniss the pearl on the beach, I’m confident we will see the pearl again, specifically in this scene. If, as we suspect, Part 1 will be focused on getting Peeta back, the pearl is an important physical tie to Peeta for Katniss, and it will help remind audiences what he means to her.

Then Prim rouses to ask Katniss what is wrong, and Katniss tells her that she will agree to be the Mockingjay and explains her worries about the repercussions of it. Here we have Prim giving Katniss some smart advice, similar to the extra Katniss/Prim scene in the CF movie. I’m hoping that Prim will still be the person that advises Katniss, since it shows change and growth in Prim’s character and Katniss’s relationship with her.

The next day, Katniss and Gale go to Command, and she makes her demands. First, they make arrangements for keeping Buttercup and for hunting in the woods above District 13. Then, a conversation about what Gale would be to her both flusters and angers her, which, though unlikely, I hope is kept in to drive home the point that the focus of this story does not lie with the love triangle but the revolution (Booyah, popular media!).

When Katniss stipulates that Peeta, Johanna and Enobaria will not be punished and that Coin will promise this in public, it is the first intimation of Katniss as the Mockingjay, with Fulvia commenting to Plutarch that that is their vision. On the subject of Fulvia, she will most likely not appear in the movies since no casting announcement has been made for her character, and it is highly speculated that Effie’s inclusion in Mockingjay will fill that role. Whether or not she will be in Command with them at this point or will be kept with the prep team (more on that in a little bit), we can’t say for sure. And finally, Katniss says that she will be the one to kill Snow, which somewhat impresses Coin.

Once Coin leaves, Plutarch hands Katniss the all important and feels-inducing Cinna’s sketchbook. Cinna had designed the Mockingjay uniform, and Katniss reads a message written by him: “I’m still betting on you.”

With the knowledge that Cinna wanted this for her, Plutarch takes Katniss and company down to the 39th floor. A guard blocks them, telling them they have the wrong floor. Katniss and Gale create a distraction so that Katniss can push past the guard to find her prep team, abused and chained to the wall.

Would Effie be revealed here with the prep team? I think it’s a real possibility. It isn’t clear so far how they are incorporating Effie into these two movies. If Effie is as unaware of the rebellion as she seems, it would be logical for the rebels to have kidnapped her at the same time as the prep team, especially considering she is not on the hovercraft with Haymitch and Plutarch at the end of Catching Fire. Some food for thought. Effie’s inclusion in the movie is a change that most fans are in favor of, but we know very little so far about how exactly she will be incorporated outside of how she is styled in her character poster:

Tune in next week for Chapter 4.

HQ Still of Effie and Peeta

Check out this HQ still of Effie and Peeta! Looks like it could be from the big Capitol party scene. Click to enlarge.

A LQ version from the July 2013 issue of Empire magazine has been making the rounds so it's great to see it in all it's high-quality glory.

Source: Hunger Games Network

Capitol Couture Relaunches: Spring Issue!

CAPITOL COUTURE was founded prior to the release of THE HUNGER GAMES in January 2012 and has been established as the preeminent source for Capitol Fashion and Culture.In March CAPITOL COUTURE released the Special Edition: Capitol Portraits, an exclusive first look at Effie Trinket. And today’s launch of Issue One: Chroma Nouveau marks the first of many seasonal issues to come. Exciting to note that the featured designers showcased on the site are actual designers from the film including the costumer Trish Summerville too! Be sure to peruse the Spring Issue for exclusive new looks at CATCHING FIRE, Cover Stories, Capitol ‘Inspired’ Looks, Designer and Character Profiles, Guides, and more. We hope you agree that Capitol Couture Issue One: Chroma Nouveau is #OhSoCapitol!

It seems no Hunger Games marketing campaign is complete without a new relaunch of Capitol Couture!

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EW: How Elizabeth Banks Brought Effie To Life

It was Banks who first reached out through a mutual friend to director Gary Ross, whom she’d worked with on Seabiscuit. “I love Effie Trinket,” she said. ”So tell Gary that if he’s talking to Lionsgate about the movie that I want to do it.’” When Ross invited her to his office to talk about the role, she came prepared with a fully fleshed-out vision for Effie. “I always saw her as a very three-dimensional, very unique character,” she said. “Even in the book she can be written off as sort of comic relief.”“But what I love about Effie,” Banks continues, “is she’s this great representative of the Capitol and all the Capitol stands for. She drank the Kool-Aid. So essentially she’s a villain — a really fun villain, but a villain nonetheless. The challenges for me were how to make her theatrical and larger than life but also fit into the tone of this movie, which is very serious. How do we make decisions where she can be overly effusive and positive about everything but at the same time be telegraphing to you that this is a horrible thing that’s happening? She’s not unknowing. Once Gary knew that I wasn’t going to come in and do a funny voice and make jokes, that I took this world as seriously as a fan should, frankly, then he was like ‘Okay, well I’d love for you to do it.’”

Ah, the voice! It positively trills and clangs in Collins’ pages, like a creepy pop song being played as the Titanic goes down. “The voice took a long time for me,” says Banks. “Suzanne Collins talks about the Capitol accent the whole time and I just wanted to make sure I honored that without doing something too silly. And I’m really happy with where we ended up. I sent Gary a lot of recorded samples of myself — everything from super British to super Southern to impressions of Christine Baranski. Ultimately I looked at movies from the ’30s and ’40s and theatricality was at its height in the movies of the ’30s and ’40s. I looked to the Philadelphia Story, Katharine Hepburn, and Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame.”

Next came crafting Effie’s thoroughly unique appearance. “There was two days in the trailer of putting the look together,” describes Banks. “The hair’s pink. Is it dark pink, light pink? What’s the shape of it, what’s the texture? What’s the shape of her generally: Is she big, is she small? Super white skin and then not white skin, a lot of color, no color. And the jumping off point was Joel Grey in Cabaret. And what that meant to us partially is that you feel like Effie’s striving for her ideal, her vision of perfection, but she’s missing it.”

As these last few days of wait tick by before the March 23 premiere, Banks assures fans that they’ll be pleased by everyone’s sincere attempts to do Collins’ world justice. “It’s everything that the books are,” she says of the film. “It’s the essence of the book and that’s the best you can do.”

 Source: EW

WtoD12's Effie Desktop Wallpaper

I made a desktop wallpaper with the Effie image from the Capitol Couture page and wanted to share it with you all. Click to enlarge.

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Please do not repost anywhere. Comment here or like/reblog the tumblr post if you would like.

Celebuzz's 100 Days of The Hunger Games: Effie Trinket

Finally we are jumping on the Celebuzz bandwagon. There has been so much news in the past few months, it's hard to keep track of it all! Whether you are new to Celebuzz's cool feature: 100 Days of The Hunger Game or not, today's character guide is Effie Trinket!




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Elizabeth Banks talks about skeptics and her understanding of Effie and the Hunger Games series

In a recent interview, Elizabeth Banks discusses skeptical Hunger Games fans, developing her character and the darkness of the series.

About Hunger Games ... is your work totally done, except for promotion?
Yeah, we’re done. We’re getting ready to put it out in the world.

Have you seen any of it yet?
I’ve seen enough to know that the movie is amazing, but I haven’t seen any finished cuts.

I saw that you responded to a Twitter skeptic who hoped you wouldn’t “ruin The Hunger Games.” Are you ready to take on criticism from fans who might second-guess your portrayal of Effie?
I absolutely am, because here’s my answer: I worked with amazing Academy Award–nominated people in figuring out who Effie is, and most importantly, [author] Suzanne Collins blessed everything we did. So as long as Suzanne Collins is happy … I would say if fans wanna fight about it, they can fight with her.

I loved your response to the tweet: “I know, right?”
Oh yeah, well I love those kinds of things.

Did you yourself feel some trepidation about playing a character in a book you adore so much?
I didn’t. I was just so excited. I’m really excited about my portrayal. I like the voice — I worked really hard on the voice. The hair and makeup didn’t happen immediately. It was a couple days of playing and tweaking, and she really kind of suddenly appeared to us. If I could remove myself from the situation, I would be really excited by my portrayal of Effie.

As a fan, did you make any specific contributions to her character?
All the makeup was very collaborative. It was like, “Hey, when I read the book, I always imagined she was like this.” Everybody was like, “Yeah, I always thought she was this,” or “I thought she was this,” or “This would look better.” It was really a bunch of fans sitting around discussing what our visions were for everything. And then of course there are practical things, like I imagined District 12 — and they pretty much nailed it — like it was in the south in an old mining town. And that’s what we shot. And the Games actually blew me away. What I was imagining was too small.

Did you go as far as designing undergarments for Effie?
Judianna Makovsky is an Academy Award–nominated costume designer and she thinks of everything. We talked a lot about restriction. Even though Effie is sort of a free person, she is still contained and restrained and controlled by her life, so all my clothes are very cinched waists. There’s no full corset in anything, but they’re pretty corseted. And there was a lot of talk about making the shape of her look as good as possible. And despite the fact that I’m asked repeatedly if I’m wearing a butt pad, that was all me underneath the behind. My director was like, "Wow, you guys padded the butt?" I was like, “No, that’s my butt. That is 100 percent my behind.”

How dark does the movie get? Is it darker than Harry Potter at its darkest?
I think it’s appropriately toned for a PG-13 movie. You have to remember this isn’t a G. It’s not Disney. The book had a lot of adult themes, but we were very cognizant of making sure that what you’re connected to are the characters, that you understand it’s life or death for this girl. She wants to go back to her family and she wants to take this boy with her. And it’s also the message that you matter, that the act of a single person can set off a revolution. I think we’re seeing that all over the world right now. It’s very timely, and I think it’s such a great message to give.

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I kind of teared up at the end because I got that she really is a fan of the series and has a great understanding of it. I find myself becoming more and more of an Elizabeth Banks fan.

Elizabeth Banks Talks About Her Effie Trinket Voice

From Lucky Magazine (via Crushable):

And in her role as Effie Trinket in next month’s Hunger Games—based on the dystopian young adult trilogy that has a cult following of Twilight proportions—Banks collaborated with the producer and director to ensure that her character would be uniquely hideous. Playing the upbeat mentor to children who battle to the death on live television, she sports shaved eyebrows, cotton-candy hair and a bleached-white face that emphasizes every wrinkle. And then there’s Banks’ special contribution, the voice, which sounds like a demented ’50s schoolmarm: “It’s based on my heroes, Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame and Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story.”

We love Katharine Hepburn (Ever seen Bringing Up Baby? It's hilarious.), and your two admins just so happened to have been in a high school production of Mame back in the day, so we're digging this news.

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Effie Trinket Is the Face of the Capitol Colours Collection from China Glaze.

Hey folks! We've got some nail polish news straight from The Capitol!

The Capitol announced today that Effie Trinket is the official 'face' of China Glaze by unveiling the ad campaign for the upcoming line of nail polishes CAPITOL COLOURS.

Here's the fullsize ad featuring our beloved Effie Trinket!

Check out those eyelashes! Just wondering where Effie's nails are.