LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — A new “Hunger Games” novel set decades before the original best-selling trilogy will be published next year, its publisher said Monday, with plans for an accompanying film already under way. The book will revisit the macabre post-apocalyptic world of Panem created by Suzanne Collins’ young adult novels, which were adapted into one of Hollywood’s biggest movie franchises starring Jennifer Lawrence. The original books, which sold more than 100 million […]
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Hunger Games’ actor Donald Sutherland to get lifetime Oscar
LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) — Donald Sutherland, the star of “MASH,” “The Hunger Games” and more than 140 other movies, is to get a lifetime achievement Oscar, along with Belgian director Agnes Varda, Oscar organizers said on Wednesday (September 6). Sutherland and Varda will be joined by African-American indie film director Charles Burnett and cinematographer Owen Roizman in receiving honorary Oscars at a ceremony in Los Angeles in November, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts […]
“Hunger Games” – closer to reality than expected
QUEZON City, Philippines (Eagle News Service, December 3) – The second part of “Mockingjay” hit the theaters recently, and with it, the famous “Hunger Games” franchise came to an end. One would like to note the astounding parallelism of the broken society depicted in the films to the real world. Especially here in the Philippines, where as a matter of amazing coincidence, the film opened near the 2016 elections. For those living under a […]
As “Hunger Games” cast bid farewell, some say keen for more
The stars of “The Hunger Games” walked their last ever London red carpet together on Thursday (November 5). But while bidding farewell to the hugely successful franchise, some of the cast said they would be keen to continue the adventure should author Suzanne Collins decide to write a spin-off. “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” brings to an end the series of films which have grossed more than $2 billion at the global box […]
A Minute With: Sam Claflin on horror, heroes and ‘Hunger Games’
(Reuters) – Sam Claflin has fought pirates, fallen in love with Snow White and participated in a “Hunger Games” battle-to-the-death, but in his latest film, the British actor takes on the frightening consequences of the supernatural. “The Quiet Ones,” out in U.S. theaters on Friday, sees Claflin play Brian, a cameraman hired to document “the experiment,” where an Oxford professor tries to make a young girl manifest a supernatural being that haunts her. The role […]





