No matter what form they come in, fairy tales made up a large part of our childhood. Hollywood has always been fascinated with these fantasies and taken a keen interest in spinning these tales in hopes of making them relevant and successful again.
The Hunger Games has arrived and it’s the biggest movie of the year. Along with a review and discussion, Steven, Sam and Simon look into what upcoming young-adult-geared films and optioned books could be the next big thing.
With the second entry in the “Hunger Games” series, Catching Fire, already greenlit for a November 2013 release, screenwriter Simon Beaufoy has a lot of opportunities to expand on the first film’s foundation. While “Games” did get a number of things right, there’s always room for expansion.
Consider this your official Panem travel brochure. We’ll take you from the mines of 12 to the multi-colored sidewalks of the Capitol, all in an effort to understand the Hunger Games and what motivates those involved in them
Our guide to The Hunger Games continues with a breakdown of all the main combatants in the 74th Annual Hunger Games, people that Katniss Everdeen will have to kill before they kill her.
Kids killing kids makes for a spicy enough tagline, but it can’t hurt if the characters at the core of your story have a little personality or at least possess some trait(s) that makes audiences want to know more. Our guide to The Hunger Games continues this week with some insight to all of the main characters.
Two recent trailers for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus broke and we have the entire set, as well as Snow White and the Huntsman, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and finally Chernobyl Diaries, from Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli.
On the verge of what could be a record-breaking weekend for The Hunger Games, the gang run down its potential, along with our trailer roundup (Prometheus, Dark Shadows and Snow White and the Huntsman) and cover Sin City 2, Jurassic Park 3D and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles news. Lastly, John and Simon review 21 Jump Street.
Hunger what? All week we’ll be giving you a crash course in “Hunger Games” phenomenon. We’ll begin by taking a look at the world of The Hunger Games, a dystopic future where appointment TV is a bloodsport that pits 24 teens against each other in a battle to the death.
Tim Burton fans rejoice! The cult director has two movies coming out in 2012, one of which we’ve seen a trailer for in the stop-motion animated Frankenweenie, and the other is this week’s featured clip, Dark Shadows, starring frequent muse Johnny Depp.
