With only a few months left to go before fans of the Hunger Games series get to see the first
Mockingjay film THE HUNGER...
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 is clearly made to satisfy fans, and while I really wish that we had just gotten one
Mockingjay film, this does right some of the wrongs from last time out.»
It's that nothing — not the screenplay by Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs) and Peter Craig (The Town and the two Hunger Games:
Mockingjay films),
Not exact matches
Within the first day of «The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay, Part 1» presales, the
film accounted for 80 percent of Fandango's ticket sales.
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films, like Hunger Games:
Mockingjay and X-Men: Days of Future Past, have grossed more than $ 1.4 billion.
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Mockingjay — Part 1 is a 2014 American dystopian science fiction adventure
film directed by Francis Lawrence with a screenplay by Peter Join the Revolution.
The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay — Part 2 has the technical polish and competent acting of the four -
film series, though less intensity.
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The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay - Part 1 opens on November 21st, so expect a few more glimpses at the third
film in The Hunger Games series (and first of a two - part finale) over the coming weeks.
The production design of the shimmer has invited several comparisons to Tarkovsky's Stalker, a
film whose influence on production design has most recently manifested in the most unexpected of places — dystopian YA adaptations ranging from
Mockingjay to The Maze Runner, which have taken the otherworldly designs of «The Zone» and stripped them of their initial surreality.
Last week we got our first look at Our Leader the
Mockingjay in the
film's first teaser (watch HERE) and this week we get some new and very gray character posters from District 13.
The Hunger Games ends its four - year run as Hollywood's dominant YA
film franchise with its fourth and final installment,
Mockingjay, Part 2.
Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence is also calling the shots on
Mockingjay: Part 1 & 2, so he» l be overseeing the task of working around Hoffman's death during post-production on the two
films.
Female - led high - budget flicks like «Divergent,» «The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 1» and «Maleficent» did very well at the box office, while directors Angelina Jolie and Ava DuVernay «s
films, «Unbroken» and «Selma,» respectively, are accumulating Oscar buzz as awards season is already in full swing.
I love the Hunger Games series — both the books and the
films — but even I kinda gave
Mockingjay, Part 1 some side - eye, because it really felt like the first part of a story, rather than a
film in and of itself.
Splitting the final installment of a book - to -
film franchise into two parts has always been a controversial move, and it's probably never been more questionable than with the
Mockingjay — Part 1.
And I suspect that, based on the exciting cliffhanger ending of this
film,
Mockingjay is just going to keep upping the ante.
This movie is, in - essence, a 123 - minute trailer for The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part Two as it spends a great deal of time getting us up to speed with our protagonists and accustomed to new characters whilst building toward the
film's only true reveal which is certain to have fans lining up to see the final instalment.
In November 2014, The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 1 was released and by late January 2015, it overtook the Marvel
film.
That
film, of course, is The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 1.
The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 1 overtook the Marvel
film Wednesday when it passed the $ 333.17 million Guardians grossed domestically.
Of all the
films that took home golden statues, American Sniper and The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 1 tied for the most wins, each scoring 5 separate categories.
Fans of the biggest
film of 2014, The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 1, are having a good day.
Mockingjay 1 has a 67 % on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to the 84 % of the first
film and Catching Fire's 89 %.
The latest Honest Trailer is for the current highest grossing
film of 2014, The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 1.
The Hunger Games
films veer off into a different direction with
Mockingjay, Part 1, as we no longer have a highly televised arena featuring combatants battling to the death so much as a battle for the people of Panem in terms of whether they want to stay with the oppressive regime led by the Capitol and President Snow (Sutherland, Horrible Bosses), or whether they're going to join the revolution and fight for a new way of life.
Also a new poster for the
film was released on Monday, showing a headless statue of President Snow (played by Donald Sutherland) with the
Mockingjay graffiti on the wall behind it.
Mockingjay — Part 2 isn't really a story about which prince Katniss chooses to live happily ever with though, despite what the
film's final scene might tempt us to believe.
Yes, there is plenty of narrative to work through, and the performances and events that unfold deserve the breathing space that splitting
Mockingjay into two
films allows.
«The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay — Part 1,» starring Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, another hit franchise's version of a rebel leader, finished 2014 as the highest grossing
film.
The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 2 Year: 2015 Director: Francis Lawrence By now, the economic practicality behind the
film adaptation «two - fer» — making two
films out of a single book of source material — seems both obvious and inescapable.
The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part I (Lionsgate, Blu - ray, DVD, VOD), the number one box office hit of 2015, follows the lead of the Harry Potter and Twilight series by splitting the final book into two
film installments, making this the third of four
films.
Beyond the comic book movies and Christopher Nolan's latest, «Interstellar,» my most anticipated
film of the year is «The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay — Part 1» featuring the continuing adventures of Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen becoming the symbol of the rebellion against the Capitol.
Katniss Everdeen may have come out on top of the weekend box office with an estimated $ 101 million in domestic ticket sales, but the new «The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay — Part 2» fell short of industry expectations and, unlike the «Twilight» and «Harry Potter» young - adult juggernauts, her «Hunger Games» finale fell far short of other
films in the franchise.
As expected,
Mockingjay — Part 1 had the biggest opening of the year, but its opening didn't catch fire like the previous two
films in the Hunger Games series.
So how is it that
Mockingjay: Part One emerges as the best Hunger Games
film so far by such a wide margin?
Fans will now have the chance to see the
film in any format they want, which is exciting; we recently saw the 3D version of «
Mockingjay — Part 1» before its release in China, and the new level of immersion was really fantastic.»
After the world premiere in London last week, this week saw the cast of The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part 1 walking the red carpet in Los Angeles just before the
film arrived in cinemas.
Even so,
Mockingjay Part 2 hasn't quite earned as much as any of the previous
films in...
Some were concerned that the first part of The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay, which followed the tone of early chapters in Suzanne Collins» third book, was a little lacking in action for the opening half of the
films» big finish.
Mockingjay, Part 2 is not nearly as grand visually as the first two
films, but it is a marked improvement from Part 1.
These violent exercises were mostly off screen in previous
films, shown briefly through news footage or montage, are now on full display in
Mockingjay, Part 2.
Even though «
Mockingjay: Part 2» will not be released until 2015, the three young stars of the blockbuster franchise embraced as
filming for the movie is finally over.
«The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay - Part I,» which is the third installment in the acclaimed
film adaptation series of the hit «Hunger Games» book trilogy, is set to open on November 21 in theaters nationwide.
The decision was made to split Suzanne Collins» novel into two separate
films, and while writers Peter Craig and Danny Strong have worked diligently to fill the running time with incidents and a considerable amount of deliberation,
Mockingjay — Part 1 adds up to little more than a time - wasting episode.
The winter of 2015 will receive a lot of attention for big franchise additions like Avengers: Age of Ultron, SPECTRE, The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay Part Two, and the crown jewel of geek anticipation, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but the
film I have circled on my calendar is Midnight Special.
Today, first footage debuted for the final
film in The Hunger Games saga
Mockingjay Part 2.
Fandango users have voted «The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay - Part 1» and David Fincher's «Gone Girl» as their most anticipated Fall 2014
films.
The same time Dumb and Dumber To was
filming in Atlanta, Jennifer Lawrence was in the area
filming The Hunger Games:
Mockingjay — Part 1.
Picking up where
Mockingjay — Part 1 left off, the new
film finds Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) recovering from injuries she suffered at the conclusion of the previous episode.