The Hunger Games trilogy held down the top three spots for the month of January on both the physical bestseller list and the Kindle paid bestseller list for Jan 2012. The Hunger Games also appears on the U.S.A Today’s best seller.
The Hunger Games came in 1st place for Amazon and Kindle sales
Catching Fire came in 2nd on Amazon Top 10 and 3rd on Kindle Sales
Mockingjay came in 3rd on Amazon Top 10 and 2nd on Kindle Sales
This book series seems to be taking the world by storm. Congrats Suzanne Collins!
The Hunger Games Examiner released some fan created Hunger Games Trilogy book covers. The covers include minimalist drawings and simple designs, but each of them bears a significant importance to the book. Make sure to click HERE and go see the rest of these amazing fan created covers!
Director of The Hunger Games, Gary Ross couldn’t be more proud of Jennifer Lawrence playing the lead role of Katniss. Ross has told EWthat it’s possible that she could come up for a nomination at next year’s Oscars.
“It’s such an intensely physical role and an emotional one. She carries the entire movie. To be able to do that at that age is so kind of incredible that I was in a little bit of awe. Do I think she should be nominated? Absolutely.”
As for Jennifer, she has nothing but praise for her director. She says Ross would tease her that he might leave her in the hands of a new director.
“He wanted me to worry about it, because he enjoys my anxiety,” she says with a laugh. “That was a huge, huge thing that he used to lure over my head. Like a bastard!” Lawrence says that because of the tremendous rapport enjoyed by the cast and crew, she always assumed Ross would sign on again for Catching Fire, … “I still don’t know for sure,”
Ross did tell Fandango that he has signed on for the sequel, Catching Fire, but there’s still no official confirmation about his involvement. He tells EW though, that he loves the idea of Catching Fire.
“The moment she (Katniss) was willing to give her life for something larger than herself, she set off a chain reaction that was at once bigger than her and also because of her. That’s a very exciting movie to make because you’re seeing the emergence of a leader. It’s the birth of a revolution so it has context that’s larger than just the Games themselves.”
Jennifer told EW that she can’t wait to do it all again giving away just where the next movie might be shot (or is it just wishful thinking?).
‘We need to start training in July,’ I was like ‘Woohoo!’ I can’t wait to get back … Though I don’t know if that’s because I think we might shoot in Hawaii.”
We all know that the Catching Fire movie, the sequel to The Hunger Games, is due out November next year.
Today, E! Online confirmed that Josh Hutcherson, who plays Peeta Mellark, has signed on to make the next movie. He told them that they might start filming Catching Fire next fall.
“They want to wait and see how this comes out and does and how much fans like it, and then hopefully we’re going to start on the next one next fall,” Josh Hutcherson told us at the People’s Choice Awards in L.A.
But are Hutcherson’s Hunger Games costars Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth on board for another flick?
“Oh, for sure,” he said. “What I’ve seen of the first one I’m in love with, so I’m on board for however many they want to make.”
Hutcherson says he hasn’t seen the final cut of the flick. “I’ve seen little bits,” he dished.
MTV has had a chat with Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games movie about her new film Man on A Ledge but decided to check in with her about being the “official face” of the Capitol Colours nail polish line.
They also asked her about any upcoming actors that might make it into the next movie in the series, Catching Fire.
“It’s weird because it’s like, ‘Is it real?’ They are real nail colors, but this whole ‘Capitol Colours’ thing, I sort of love that we’re creating the Capitol in a real way for fans,” she said. “I am so nerded out on the whole thing. I’m just so excited about the whole thing and the image is really neat.”
Banks went on to say that her time spent in the makeup chair wasn’t that extensive, it’s just the extreme detail on those fancy fake eyelashes that makes everything look so complicated.
“It was really fun, and the eyelashes, we were all so enamored with them, so I’m really glad there’s a great still close-up of that because they actually feature a deer with antlers, and a butterfly has landed on the antler, so you need to look a little bit closer,” she advised. “It’s a full forest of creatures on my eyes!”
We asked Banks if she’s been paying attention to celebs like Kristen Bell who have been campaigning to be a part of the next few films.
“I’m supportive of anyone who’s a fan,” she said with a smile. “A lot of people don’t make it out of The Hunger Games — I hope I’m not surprising anyone. So, every book requires a new set of recruits, so it’s going to be really fun to see who ends up in the next edition.”
You can’t help but read Catching Fire and try to visualise what the arena for the 75th Hunger Games looks like.
One of the keys to survival for Katniss and Peeta was working out that the arena for the Quarter Quell acted like a clock.
alternatecoppa has created this amazing map that shows what they think it would look like.
You can click on the image above for a bigger view, but I recommend heading to alternatecoppa‘s page and hitting the download image button to see it in its full res size (it’s massive, but worth it as it’s detailed and… well… awesome!)
Here’s what they had to say about their creation:
The thing I loved most about Suzanne Collins’ Catching Fire (sequel to The Hunger Games) was the new arena she created to throw her characters into. It’s symmetrical, therefore easy to map out, extremely creative in it’s “clock-trap” concept, and far more detailed in it’s environmental descriptions & feature locations than the arena described in the first book. Therefore, more map-able! I felt I better do just that right now before a movie comes out and eclipses this version which I’ve based solely on the novel’s literary description.
I created the overall topography of the map, both endless jungle and beach with sea zone through assembly of real satellite photos pulled from Google Earth. It was actually a lot harder to pull off than the idea first seemed to make it. I had to locate beach & sea features such as atolls to help contribute to the curved edges of the beach line and stitch it all together in a way that didn’t cheaply repeat. However I knew using real photos was the only way I knew I’d be satisfied with achieving a realistic “Google Map” style for the final look.
I promise you I have done my homework on this map! Both distances, topographical features & their placements all correspond as best they can to the text presented in the novel, though I concede this is a fictional place and of course an error could have been made on my part by missing some small detail. I fully welcome friendly pointers/debate/corrections on the layout. I made extensive notes on all descriptive references in the novel to the arena along with what page numbers in the book that they appear on. I’d be happy to provide any detail of choice and page number I found it on if anything is suspected to be incorrect. I was actually going to type them all up and post them right here but while it may be hard to believe from looking at this thing, I do have a life and I really do need to get back to it at some point soon.
Only two numerical distinctions I have made on the map are the product of my (educated) guess work and deduction based on what’s written in book and not from direct mention by the author. I have very detailed and thought-out reasons for making the decisions I did when factoring them and again instead of writing a book about it all I think I’ll wait and see if anyone catches on to them and then go from there.
For the first time ever, The Hunger Games has reached #1 on the USA Todays best seller list.
Previously, the novel had only reached the number two spot. The boost to number one is the likely combination of holiday gift-giving, and the anticipation for the theatrical release on March 23rd.
The rest of The Hunger Games series also made it on the USA Today’s list. Catching Fire came in at #7, followed by Mockingjay at #8. The boxed set of all three books was #27.
The folks at Mainstay Productions are working on a short film – an adaptation of a scene from Catching Fire. As something of a Thanksgiving gift, they’ve just released a teaser for the Hunger Games fan web series, that they say will get underway on December 8, 2011.
and I really do need to get back to it at some point soon.
