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“Every revolution begins with a spark”   It’s here! The first real teaser trailer for the second Hunger Games movie, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, has arrived, debuting during the 2013 MTV Movie Awards. This first good look (MTV had debuted a tiny clip prior to the awards show) at one of the year’s most [...]

Elizabeth Banks not only has one of the best, most interactive celebrity websites which she updates on a daily basis, but she’s also a terrific actress. And her acting skills are being saluted at the 2013 CinemaCon with the announcement of Banks as the recepient of the CinemaCon Award for Excellence in Acting.   CinemaCon [...]

The latest poster to emerge in the Victory Portraits series for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is of Josh Hutcherson (‘Peeta’) looking very handsome. The poster debuted on PerezHilton.com.   The Hunger Games: Catching Fire stars Hutcherson, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Woody Harrelson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amanda Plummer, and [...]

The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises, and Snow White and the Huntsman really didn’t stand a chance when put up against The Hunger Games in the Favorite Movie category, did they? No, they didn’t. The Hunger Games wound up the evening’s big winner at the People’s Choice Awards 2013, collecting trophies in [...]

The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook star Jennifer Lawrence picked up one of her first major awards of 2013 when she accepted the People’s Choice award for Favorite Movie Actress from presenters Stephen Amell and Morena Baccarin. Lawrence, looking gorgeous, said she was going to drop the award because she was sweating (that’s pure, [...]

Jennifer Lawrence is having a terrific 2012. With outstanding performances this year in The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook, Lawrence has solidified her place as one of the best actors of her generation. And the Santa Barbara International Film Festival is recognizing her talent with the Outstanding Performer of the Year Award. Lawrence will [...]

Elizabeth Banks (‘Effie’ in The Hunger Games film series) sent out an email to her website followers alerting them not only of this ‘Bad Lip Reading’ video, but also revealing how much both she and The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence liked it. Banks, who learned of the Bad Lip Reading version from Lawrence, says [...]

Do you want to see your name in the credits of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire? That’s the prize up for grabs in Lionsgate Films’ new Share the Spark contest. 12 lucky Hunger Games fans will be chosen and their names will appear in a ‘special thanks’ section of the credits of The Hunger Games: [...]

Amazon reports that Suzanne Collins’ bestselling The Hunger Games trilogy has taken over the top spot as the best-selling book series of all time on Amazon.com. Combining print and Kindle sales, Collins’ Hunger Games three-book series has now surpassed J.K. Rowling’s seven-book Harry Potter franchise.   “Since debuting in 2008, Katniss Everdeen and the Hunger [...]

The 2012 London Olympics have millions of viewers riveted to their televisions, with the networks attempting to shine the spotlight on just about every sport involved in the Games (although not all make it to primetime). But it was The Hunger Games that actually helped thrust one often-ignored Olympic sport into the spotlight. Archery has [...]