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Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon?

From the looks of the new Catching Fire Movie Poster, Katniss has. Look at her, she’s probably wondering why the grinning bobcat grinned too.

District 12… Is near a canyon?

I can’t say I wasn’t a little disappointed when the Catching Fire poster was revealed. I know a lot of people had been expecting stills or a second trailer or some sort of footage, but I was pretty excited to hear it was a movie poster. Great! Maybe we’ll see a bit of the arena, or some of the new characters!

Many of my friends see my obsession with the Hunger Games series as amusing (and, I think, a little psychotic) so I was looking forward to being able to show them a kickass poster. Instead I see Pocahontas pondering plunging into the waterfall…wait…those clouds…they kind of look like wings or something…It’s a Mockingjay! Katniss is the Mockingjay! I get it!

No one else will! Not if they haven’t read the book! It isn’t kickass like I wanted it to be so that I could show off to people who don’t know the series. It’s mellow and picturesque, and I’m afraid people are going to think it’s a Homeward Bound story where Katniss traverses Panem on foot to find her mother and Prim, who’ve gone on a vacation to San Francisco.

I saw a fan made poster that was absolutely amazing, and it’s probably the reason I’m so disappointed with the official one:

It’s just so atmospheric, and there are new characters holding weapons! That’s pretty exciting right? And two of the characters have their shirts off, something for the ladies *wink wink nudge nudge*. I mean the arena scenes are obviously the best bits of the second book, aren’t they?

Why would Lionsgate make a poster NOT using the most exciting bit of the story, but, instead, featuring the main character looking like Chief Powahatan’s daughter? It’s not like she’s a well-respected member of her society fighting against the oppression of a more technologically advanced (and rather dandy) culture… no, wait…

Ok, it’s not like she’s been trapped in an organised relationship with a guy that it seems to make so much sense for her to be with, but she has confusing feelings for another…oh no wait.

And she doesn’t have a best friend that seems to always get forgotten about in retellings of the st—wait… (Poor Madge).

I’ll admit that last one was pretty tenuous, (this is my first ever blog post and you should be nice!) but the first two strike a chord right? At least they did with me. Suddenly I DID get it. She’s the girl watching her home change. The trailer showed us the changes, all the excitement, now the poster shows us the girl that we saw go through some pretty tough stuff in the last movie, finally home like she wanted to be.

Now here she is, her arrow nocked in place, ready to struggle again, a new day dawning, a new fight ahead of her.

Actually, ok, it might be a little exciting! Who cares if she’ll never know how high the sycamore grows?!

I Bet Peeta Paints With The Colours Of The Wind,
Arowana Flounder

Interviews from the Catching Fire party at Cannes are still popping up, and this time Yahoo! Screen got around to talking to Jennifer Lawrence, Sam Claflin and Francis Lawrence– and they gave out some details about the film that you all might be very happy to hear!

Jen is very candid as always, commenting on whether or not things have changed on set after she won her Academy Award (“Everybody’s, you know, mean as usual…”), while Sam confesses that he’s not ready for the Catching Fire madness. As far as the movie goes, however, we get some new, interesting tidbits. Francis Lawrence talks about how faithful it is to the book:

“I would say there’s very little that’s been taken out. There’s some additional scenes with some of the characters, with Plutarch and Snow, so Donald Sutherland and new cast member Philip Seymour Hoffman.”

Jennifer comments on the scope of the movie:

“Visually it’s a lot bigger this time. We get a little deeper into the Capitol, and Katniss is trying to get her life back together after the Games, suffering from post traumatic stress…”

And then Sam throws the fans a bone we’ve all been anxiously waiting for when he’s asked what was his favorite moment on set:

“It’d have to be giving Josh Hutcherson CPR. My mouth touching his… was a beautiful moment that’ll live with me the rest of my life. [...] We’re meant to be together.”

Thanks to our readers Lala and Ellie for pointing us in the direction of this interview. So good to finally start getting some details about the film, how exciting! What do you think? Be sure to let us know in a comment.

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Thanks to HG Girl on Fire for the tip!

We kick things off with Aeris, aka The Girl With The Flowers, a French Tribute with a special perspective on the promotion of Catching Fire in Cannes! Take it away, Aeris!

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It’s that time of the year again. Spring? First of all, rain, wind and me hugging my hot water-bottle because the heating’s been officially turned off in my flat does not constitute spring to me. But the point is, I’m actually talking about the Cannes Festival! You know, the stuffy red carpet event which takes place near The Croisette each year in France.

Pretty, isn’t it? *sigh*

Now, I used to take an interest, because I like independent, artsy movies and the Cannes selection usually does a good job of pinpointing which ones are going to be great. Until last year that is, when Amour received the Palme d’Or. And I unsuspectingly, even anxiously went to see it. And thus lost 2 hours of my life and promised myself I would never listen to the festival’s opinion again.

I had to eat my words though, because rumors have been swirling since early April that our very own The Hunger Games: Catching Fire possibly, maybe, might be Cannes bound. Oh, not in the official competition, because Catching Fire is not the type of movie to be selected for that. I mean, even Lord Of the Rings didn’t make it so, you get what I mean. Franchise movies aren’t big in Cannes, sadly. Awful, boring, cringe-worthy, badly acted Movies like Amour are, though. Anyway, where was I? Right. Catching Fire! *channels her inner Jen and shakes like a Chihuahua in anticipation*

Imagine that in your backyard!

So we very recently got confirmation that some kind of promotion for CF was being made in Cannes, at the Majestic Barrière hotel, and let me tell you, it looks good.

Actually, no, it looks FANTASTIC. Can I have one of those for my garden please? And maybe the fiery posters too? No? Even if I say pretty please?

They are going all out on this, and then we hear that Jennifer Lawrence was in attendance at the Catching Fire party on Saturday! Why do I not live in Cannes? (Well, because I live in Paris and other than the fact that the weather is better in Cannes and yes, this year, Catching Fire is actually there, there wouldn’t be much of a point of me living in Cannes. Also the Catching Fire Premiere will take place in Paris, so I’d rather stay there).

Rumor has it they are using this to promoting Mockingjay Parts 1&2 to “international buyers”. Eh. I have to say, I’m not quite convinced about this rumor. Are there really any “buyers” left who are not convinced by the power of The Hunger Games franchise? Who still wonder if they should distribute the movie in their countries?
Europe seems pretty involved with it already. (That being said, I’m a little disappointed in my own country’s “fan attitude”. Or maybe I’m just an über-fan, as in a Tribute, and they are just normal people whose lives do not revolve around The Hunger Games. I can’t quite remember how that feels, so I’ll let it go).

Aeris + Jen = BFFL

Well, whatever the reason, being in Cannes is giving Catching Fire some cred, even though it isn’t in the running for the Palme d’Or. It also might give us news, as they’re most likely going to do some sort of presentation, or even show some footage. And of course, any Jennifer-at-an-event-where-she-will-be-interviewed-and-NAIL-it possibility is something to be thankful for. Also, she and I will be in the same country for a few days, and although I won’t see her, it’ll make the possibility of us becoming BFFs slightly (very slightly) more possible for a few days.

Who said telepathy didn’t exist?
Aeris (The Girl with the Flowers)