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In an unprecedented collaboration, the two music titans will take on the music for the much anticipated film adaptation of the Suzanne Collins book.

The highly anticipated film The Hunger Games, based on the first title of Suzanne Collins’s bestselling book trilogy, has locked in two giants from the music world to handle score and song ( Read more... )

'Hunger Games': Suzanne Collins talks Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss -- EXCLUSIVE


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Jennifer Lawrence talks 'The Hunger Games' -- and her love of Peeta


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Finally, some girls in pop culture with grit

I think one of the things that I love most about the Hunger Games series-Suzanne Collin’s riveting dystopian trilogy that everyone seems to have either read and loved or is currently reading and loving-is that it stars a girl.
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'Hunger Games' exclusive: What the movie will be rated, and how it feels to be called the next 'Twilight'

"It’s not going to be an R-rated movie because I want the 12- and 13- and 14-year-old-fans to be able to go see it,” says Ross. “This book means too much to too many teenagers for it not to be PG-13. It’s their story and they deserve to be ( Read more... )

'Hunger Games' exclusive: Why Gary Ross got the coveted job, and who suggested Megan Fox for the lead role

After Ross devoured the trilogy he flew himself to London over the summer to meet with producer Nina Jacobson - who was on the set of One Day, another great read! - to plead his case. “I felt very protective of the book,” says Jacobson, who ( Read more... )

The director of The Hunger Games movie, Gary Ross, talks to Entertainment Weekly about the movie and casting the perfect Katniss.

The rumors are true. Director Gary Ross (Seabiscuit, Pleasantville) will direct the Lionsgate adaptation of The Hunger Games, the first installment of Suzanne Collins’ brilliantly urgent dystopian trilogy. In his first ( Read more... )

Just found this interesting article highlighting some of the reality TV show tropes used in The Hunger Games series:

The Hunger Games is an incisive satire of reality television shows. It’s easy to compare Suzanne Collins’ series to earlier “totalitarian government/media bloodsport” stories like The Running Man and Battle Royale. But there’s a key ( Read more... )