Much like with the unwilling contestants fighting to the death in the arena in The Hunger Games movies, the odds are never in your favour when it comes to sequels. There seems to be an unwritten rule that when a first effort is great, the follow-up will be less so. Even author Suzanne Collins’ popular Hunger Games books succumbed a fraction to …
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Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen is still sitting pretty atop her throne, with all challengers to her YA adaptation crown – like The Host, Beautiful Creatures and The Mortal Instruments – crashing and burning like they were crash test dummies made of napalm. A big component of The Hunger Games‘ success was writer/director Gary Ross, but he’s no longer at the helm, with Francis …
Back in the early part of 2013, before Tony Stark and friends Hulk smashed it into kindling, the box office had one young Queen: Katniss Everdeen. Gary Ross’s adaptation of the dramatic trials of the arrow-shooting heroine became an almost overnight smash, raking in the praise as much as it did the box office records and dollars (all 686 million …
While Hollywood loves to draw on other media for their film ideas, they often times have this habit of then taking said source material and going out of their way to change whatever it was that made it popular in the first place. Did I say “change”? I meant “take a violent crap all over”. But occasionally, even after throwing …
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: January 11, 2013
Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: December 19, 2012
I would just like to categorically state that I read and enjoyed most of the Hunger Games books, thought the first film was a great adaptation and am eager to see how new director Francis Lawrence has interpreted Suzanne Collin’s second novel, after the departure of original director Gary Ross. That’s the reason why I’m posting this new series of on-set pics, …
Film classification in the UK is designed to help audiences understand what content is …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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