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Alfonso Cuaron is on the shortlist of directors for Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire. May the odds ever be in his favour!

By Kervyn Cloete
April 13, 2012
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Now that it’s officially been confirmed that Gary Ross will no longer be behind the camera for Catching Fire, the sequel to current king of the box-office, The Hunger Games, everybody has been wondering who Lionsgate Studios will get to take over the director’s chair. Well according to 24Frames, three names have floated to the top of the studio’s wishlist, …

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It's official: Gary Ross has bowed out of directing the Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire

By Kervyn Cloete
April 11, 2012
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Speculation had been rife for days that this would happen, and now it’s finally become a reality. Despite The Hunger Games currently devouring all competition, director and co-script writer Gary Ross has decided to call it quits on the franchise. But as it turns out, his motivation for quitting is not a financial one, as some had been reporting, but …

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Director Gary Ross not returning for Hunger Games sequel?

By Kervyn Cloete
April 10, 2012
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Well, here’s a shocker. Gary Ross’s adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games has been a rip-roaring success both critically and financially and with the hiring of Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours) to adapt the second book in the trilogy, Catching Fire, everything seemed to be moving ahead swiftly. But now word has come out that there appears to …

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Director Gary Ross says Hunger Games' sequel will never go 3D

By Kervyn Cloete
March 16, 2012
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I like Gary Ross. He is the guy that introduced the world to a child-like Tom Hanks in Big, and for that single accomplishment he’s earned himself a lifetime’s worth of free drinks at my (non-existent) bar. Now he’s been put in charge of The Hunger Games, a franchise which has tons of potential, and it appears he’s doing a …

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