Tag: The Hunger Games
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Elizabeth Banks Is Great in Comedies, but She Was Stellar in This Drama
Elizabeth Banks isn’t just a funny actress; she’s a bona fide force of nature in the world of comedy. Banks has starred in comedies like Zack and Miri Make a Porno and Role Models, earned awards acclaim for her role in 30 Rock, lent her voice to several animated projects, and begun directing satirical films…
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Jena Malone ‘Maybe Sold Her Soul to the Indie Film Devil’ — and Lived to Tell Many Tales
It’s a long, treacherous road for child stars. Many don’t make it to adulthood unscathed, and rarely with a respected career to show for it. Much like Kristen Stewart or Daniel Radcliffe, however, Jena Malone has comfortably moved into a mature body of work that runs the gamut from auteur-driven indies (to stay relevant) with…
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Jennifer Lawrence Was Asked to Lose Weight for ‘Hunger Games’: ‘I Can’t Let that Seep Into My Brain’
Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t going to starve herself for “The Hunger Games.”Lawrence has spoken about being asked to lose 10 pounds for the YA novel adaptation franchise she starred in from 2012 to 2015. She went further during Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, telling Viola Davis about how she was asked to lose weight…
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The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes: Rachel Zegler Gives Us A Look At The Set Of The Hunger Games Prequel
Just because Katniss Everdeen led a revolution to end the Hunger Games, doesn’t mean that our time in the dystopia of Panem is over. Following the massive success of Suzanne Collins’ YA novel adaptations, it was only a matter of time before Lionsgate seized an opportunity to get the blockbuster franchise up and running again.…
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Jennifer Lawrence Joins BFI London Film Festival’s Screen Talks Series, Will Appear in Person
Jennifer Lawrence will participate in the BFI’s series of Screen Talks at the London Film Festival next month.She will make an appearance at the festival alongside a special presentation of her upcoming film “Causeway,” directed by Lila Neugebauer, in which Lawrence plays a traumatized U.S. marine. She will talk about her career, from her Oscar-winning…
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Stanley Tucci: ‘We could all potentially kill somebody. I do believe that’
The food-loving actor and author on playing an evil genius in Inside Man, the brilliance of Whitney Houston and running out of space for boozeThe actor Stanley Tucci, 61, was born in Westchester, New York, to parents of Italian descent. His debut film role was in John Huston’s Prizzi’s Honor (1985). He later starred in…
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What Went Wrong with the Handmaid’s Tale Movie?
From the literary and cinematic success of The Hunger Games to George Orwell’s 1984 becoming a best-seller following Donald Trump’s inauguration, the 2010s were a prime decade for dystopias. It was a time of rampant climate emergency and the global rise of right-wing extremism, and our anxieties were reflected in the media we consumed. The…
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Nicole Kidman’s Legendary AMC Theatres Ad Is Getting A Sequel
Screenwriter Billy Ray has confirmed that a sequel to Nicole Kidman‘s viral AMC Theatres ad is already in the works.“I got a text from the chairman of AMC about a month ago asking me if I would write the next one, and of course the answer to that is yes,” Ray told Vanity Fair. “It’s…
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Horizon Casts Michael Rooker in Kevin Costner’s Western Film
The wild west just keeps getting wilder. Per Deadline, Kevin Costner’s western epic Horizon has added four more names to the already loaded cast including Guardians of the Galaxy star Michael Rooker. Joining the film alongside him are Jena Malone (The Hunger Games franchise), Alejandro Edda (Narcos: Mexico), and Tatanka Means (Killers of the Flower…
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Tom Hardy’s Tight Schedule Puts The Screws On Peaky Blinders
With popular actor Cillian Murphy in the lead role as gangster Tommy Shelby and a formidable ensemble cast backing him up, “Peaky Blinders” has never shied away from star power. From the series premiere in 2013 to this year’s grand finale (an upcoming feature film will continue the adventures of the Shelby clan), every season has…