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The revolution has been sparked. In this week’s cover story, EW traveled to Waikiki, Hawaii where cast and crew were in the final days of production on the eagerly anticipated Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire (in theaters Nov. 21). Just as the revolution that could embolden the people of Panem rests on young Katniss Everdeen’s shoulders, the success of the franchise depends largely upon Jennifer Lawrence. After spending the day outrunning death in a nearby jungle, the 22-year-old actress ordered herself a Budweiser and kicked back in the Trump balcony lounge to discuss the sequel, her life now as a blockbuster star, and her willful inability to behave like the nice sound-bite machine Hollywood might expect her to be. “It’s almost like I subconsciously don’t want to work anymore so I’m trying to ruin my career,” she says with a laugh at one point, before leaning in close to the reporter’s tape recorder. “I’m pregnant!” she joked.
From her first meeting with new director Francis Lawrence (“I spit egg inside his mouth when I was talking. Into his mouth”) to the raucous party she hosted for the Catching Fire cast and crew (“When Sam walked in I was chasing Woody and we’d flipped over my couch and Woody had a sock all the way down my throat…”), Lawrence was frank and funny and self-aware. “I’m so aware of all the b.s. that surrounds Hollywood,” she says, “and how everyone gets on this high horse and thinks that they’re curing cancer and it makes me so uncomfortable every time I see it. So I go in the exact opposite direction and end up saying something like ‘I’m pregnant!’ when I’m in two franchises.”Source: EW
Then in an exclusive conversation, director Francis Lawrence described his vision for the sequel, his immediate three-day pow-wow with series writer Suzanne Collins to ready a script, and how one of his inherited cast members had a particularly hard time adjusting to the loss of Hunger Games director Gary Ross. (Woody Harrelson, who plays Katniss and Peeta’s wry and PTSD-ruined wreck of a mentor Haymitch.)
EW also sat down with Sam Claflin, the green-eyed, dimpled Brit who won the role of District 4′s charming and enigmatic golden boy Finnick Odair, for his first Hunger Games interview. He described filming the infamous sugar cube scene, in which Finnick teases Katniss while wearing nothing beyond some strategically placed netting, as “the scariest moment of my life. I’m on Twitter and so many people have been like ‘Don’t mess this up, or we will kill you.’”
Haxbee, Inc. announces the Hunger Games Costumes
Exhibit &Auction. The exhibit encompasses original
screen-worn costumes worn by Jennifer Lawrence as
“Katniss,” Josh Hutcherson as “Peeta,” Elizabeth Banks
as “Effie,” Stanley Tucci as “Caesar,” Liam Hemsworth
as “Gale,” Woody Harrelson as “Haymitch,” Lenny
Kravtiz as “Cinna,” Donald Sutherland as “President
Snow,” Wes Bentley as “Seneca,” and many, many
more.
To kick off the tour, Haxbee and its subsidiary,
Blacksparrow Auctions, will be providing a special
sneak preview at The Hollywood Show in Los Angeles
from January 11 to 13. The Hollywood Show, a popular movie and television memorabilia convention that features over a hundred celebrities at each of its four annual shows, will be held at the Westin Los Angeles Airport Hotel.
Additional dates and locations will be announced in the future. The exhibit winds up in New York City, where ReedPOP--the largest producer of pop culture events in the world—will host a live
auction at New York Comic Con. Over 200+ costumes will be on the auction block. Interestedbidders will be able to bid live in-person, by telephone, via absentee, and on the Internet as facilitated by iCollector. A print catalog will be available for purchase in April.
Haxbee, Inc. and its Blacksparrow Auctions subsidiary have a collective number of 80 years’ experience dealing with Hollywood memorabilia and collectibles. For more information about the company and the Hunger Games Costumes Exhibit & Auction, visit haxbee.com.
"Hunger Games” movie buffs and other sightseers will no longer be allowed on a property that served as the home of the movie’s heroine.Wade Shepherd said people will no longer be allowed on the property of Henry River Mill Village without his written consent.
Shepherd made the decision after dealing with brazen vandalism.“Because of theft and destroying things, I don’t want anybody else on the village,” he said.Rather than just sightseeing from the safe distance of the sidewalks of the property, folks have been taking everything from wood boards from the old store to window frames from homes.
Shepherd said he found six girls from Raleigh each taking a window frame from houses and putting them in their cars. He told them to put the window frames back and said they initially refused. Only after he threatened to call police did the girls put the window frames back, he said.It doesn’t stop there, however. Shepherd said people are even crawling under the houses now to take mementos. The old mill village houses aren’t safe, Shepherd said. “They’re everywhere they’re not supposed to be,” Shepherd said. “They’re just pilfering through everything.”
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