The Hunger Games

January 19th 2010

How The Twilight Crowd Saved Lovely Bones, And Can Save Hollywood

After taking plenty of hits from critics and facing a dismal soft opening, Lovely Bones ramped up its ticket sales by playing to a new crowd: tween and teen girls. Will this spark an insurgence of thoughtful supernatural women-targeted films? In a very clever move, Paramount turned around what many were predicting to be a…

Movies Meredith Woerner Jan 19

September 10th 2009

Hunger Games 2: She’s Famous, Deadly, And Still In Fake Love

There are plenty of dystopian young-adult books out there, but Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games beat our brains into submission, in a barbaric bloodspot arena. Can the sequel, Catching Fire, capture our love all over again? Spoilers below… https://gizmodo.com/post-apocalyptic-girl-warrior-slays-her-peers-fakes-a-5063303 In many ways, Catching Fire is a sequel about sequels. In the first book, Katniss Everdeen…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Sep 10

August 7th 2009

“The Girl Who Was On Fire” Inspires An Inferno, In Hunger Games Sequel

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins was one of our favorite books last year, and the sequel, Catching Fire, looks even more insane. A new book trailer promises ramped up political intrigue, and an audio excerpt provides a major downpayment. Here’s the new “book trailer” for Catching Fire, the sequel to The Hunger Games, in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Aug 7

March 18th 2009

What’s Wrong With A Hunger Games Movie?

At first blush, a movie version of Suzanne Collins’ media-saturated death-sport novel, The Hunger Games, sounds like a great idea. Until you realize the major pitfall that movie faces, that is. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate picked up distribution rights to the Hunger Games movie, which will be produced by Nina Jacobsen and her…

Movies Charlie Jane Anders Mar 18

October 14th 2008

Post-Apocalyptic Girl-Warrior Slays Her Peers, Fakes A Love Story

The biggest young-adult science fiction novel of the fall is probably The Hunger Games – and it’s one of the best new science fiction books out there, period. Former Nickelodeon writer Suzanne Collins has written a sharp book about televised death-sports in a post-apocalyptic future. Her story pits a resourceful young hero against a media…

Books & Comics Charlie Jane Anders Oct 14

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Hunger Games 2: She’s Famous, Deadly, And Still In Fake Love

“The Girl Who Was On Fire” Inspires An Inferno, In Hunger Games Sequel

What’s Wrong With A Hunger Games Movie?

Post-Apocalyptic Girl-Warrior Slays Her Peers, Fakes A Love Story

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