Three ‘HG’ webmasters break down film adaptation for MTV News. By Kara Warner Josh Hutcherson in “The Hunger Games” Photo: Lionsgate Did you know that “The Hunger Games” is finally out in theaters? That’s a rhetorical question — of course you did! We’ve all been following the hugely anticipated film since the beginning, and now we can bask in the glow of its predicted success and the general delight of fans everywhere , not to mention the very positive reviews . Now, MTV News turns to our most trusted “Hunger Games” experts to find out what they think about the adaptation: Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss “If anyone had any lingering doubts about whether our Oscar-nominated leading lady could do the role of Katniss Everdeen justice, those doubts took an arrow to the heart. There were a lot of standout moments in her performance — her soon to be iconic ‘I volunteer!,’ her emotional breakdown after the loss of Rue — but for me, the highest mark of Jen’s understanding of Katniss came at the end when ( spoiler ) she and fellow tribute Peeta are about to commit a double suicide on live TV. In that scene, everything we know about Katniss — her strength, her desire to protect the people she loves, her bravery and the first flicker of rebellion — show through. Unlike the lovelorn Peeta, who uses his final moments of life to appreciate the girl he loves, Katniss has eyes only for the Capitol, looking not at Peeta, but into one of the invisible cameras. This isn’t about love, it’s about survival, and Jen gets that.” — Shylah Addante, Down With the Capitol “Jennifer was fabulous! Every moment she was onscreen, which was a lot, was just phenomenal. She did a great job of showing how much Katniss cared about her family but was emotionally blank to everyone else.” — Jessica McKenna, The Hob “Jennifer as Katniss is beyond amazing. The depth in which she portrayed Katniss is unlike anything I’ve seen before. It was all about the subtle things Jennifer would do that made the biggest impact. Whether it was Jennifer visibly trembling right before the arena, getting this panicked look in her eyes when Prim’s name is called at the Reaping, her grief at the death of Rue or her look of defiance when giving the three-fingered salute to the people of District 11, I found myself feeling how Katniss must be feeling and left utterly speechless at Jennifer’s portrayal of this character. I’ve said it before, but I think it’s definitely worth saying again: Although this fandom doesn’t like to identify itself with teams, if I did have to pick, I would definitely be Team Katniss all the way.” — Sheila Cordero, HG Girl on Fire Josh Hutcherson as Peeta “Insofar as Jen is Katniss, Josh Hutcherson is Peeta. I believed everything he did was motivated by his character’s signature pure-of-heart naivet
‘We’re talking about the possibility of having another kid right away and then getting married,’ former ‘Hills’ star tells Glamaholic. By Christina Garibaldi Kristin Cavallari and Jay Cutler Photo: Getty Images Kristin Cavallari has certainly come a long way since stirring up trouble on “The Hills.” The reality-TV star and her fianc
‘This is OUR ALBUM,’ the singer tweets about Believe after fans choose art that will appear on single’s cover. By Jocelyn Vena Justin Bieber’s Boyfriend Photo: Walmart/ Island Justin Bieber invited his fans to get involved in helping him pick the artwork for his first Believe single, “Boyfriend,” and the time has come to reveal which photo fans chose. And the pop singer is giving his fans a lot of bang for their buck for taking the time to vote in the cover-art contest. After fans voted on Twitter for their favorite of two photos, the shot of Bieber tousling his hair (also known as #JBboyfriend1) won as the single’s cover. But that doesn’t mean that other shots won’t also be used in one form or another. “But it was so close that …” Bieber tweeted . “We are still going to use #JBboyfriend2 for press and even took one of the FAN MADE submissions and have decided that … we are going to sell an exclusive #BOYFRIEND fan single package in WALMART and the cover will be the one U the fans made! “So here it is … the cover of the Walmart #BOYFRIEND SINGLE COVER … made by U the fans! thank u! This is OUR ALBUM!” he tweeted before revealing the photo, which blends #JBboyfriend1 and #JBboyfriend2, the latter of which is just a shot of him looking off into the distance. “Boyfriend” officially drops on March 26. Believe will drop later this year. Produced by Mike Posner, the track features a bit of Bieber rapping lines like “Tell me what you like, dear/ Tell me what you don’t/ I could be your Buzz Lightyear/ Fly across the globe/ You don’t even need to fight, dear/ You already know/ I can make you shine bright/ Like you’re laying in the snow, brrr.” Related Videos Happy Birthday, Justin Bieber! MTV First: Justin Bieber Related Photos Justin Bieber’s Birthday: Celebrating 18! Related Artists Justin Bieber
Stylist Linda Flowers tells MTV News that blond wig ‘gives his character a little bit of a push.’ By Amy Wilkinson Woody Harrelson in “The Hunger Games” Photo: Lionsgate Stylist Linda Flowers had run with Vince’s “Entourage,” played with “Angels & Demons” and even primped a “Social Network” tycoon for his profile picture, but the Hollywood veteran took on her hairiest project yet with the eye-popping adaptation of ” The Hunger Games .” As the film’s hair department head, Flowers, in harmony with director Gary Ross’ vision, crafted the iconic, and frequently candy-colored, ‘dos of Effie Trinket and more than 500 Capitol citizens. We hopped on the phone with Flowers to chat about the meticulous mentor’s look, Woody Harrelson’s unconventional Haymitch style and where exactly all that hair went after Ross yelled, “Cut!” MTV News : What was your experience reading “The Hunger Games” for the first time? Did you start formulating looks as you read? Linda Flowers : When I read it, I fell in love with it, and I read all three of them very quickly. It’s such a great story, and it’s gonna appeal to so many different demographics. Anytime you get to read a book with colorful characters and they’ve got pink hair and blue hair, I’m in. My imagination was going crazy. I mean, how often do you get to put pink hair on somebody? MTV : What did you and Gary discuss during your initial conversation? Flowers : Gary’s main concern was with all the colored hair. He wanted people to take the Capitol seriously, and he wanted the looks to be couture. So when you’re talking about orange and aqua and pink and blue hair, the first place people go is very young, and they think it is more a street look or an urban look for kids. But the challenge was to put it on all age groups and make it look couture. MTV : Logistically, this had to be a grand-scale production. Describe a typical day on set. Flowers : When we were at the peak of all of our Capitol people, I had 45 hairdressers working because everyone had to go through hair and makeup. Each person had an individual look. When you do period movies, the hair is already set, the period has already been set, but there was nothing established for the look of this because it’s in the future. Each person that sat down, a look had to be created for them even if they were, like, #500 on the call sheet. So that was a real challenge, and plus, not just the hairdressers to do their hair, but we had to have a clean-up crew come in when we wrapped to take everyone’s hair, wigs and pieces off to reset them and get them ready for the next day. So it was an around-the-clock deal because we have 30 to 40 people doing hair and 10 to 15 to come in when we wrapped and take everyone down so the hairdressers could go home and sleep to get ready for the next day. MTV : Who had the most time-consuming look? Flowers : It was Effie, but the good thing was I could do Effie’s hair when she wasn’t in the trailer. Her hair definitely took the most time. From start to finish it was about 45 minutes, and I’m really fast. I constructed it slowly. She’s one of those people who’s so completely and purposefully put together that her wig would be an accessory just like a purse or a pair of shoes. So she has three wigs in the movie, and we’re going to have more for her in the next movie. She wears three different looks, and they’re all the same shape. I picked a classic shape, which has a ’30s finger-wave bob, and I took that and I really brushed it out, but it kept the finger waves, and I gave it a lot of volume. And then I took really heavily textured hair and put it in between the layers of her finger waves. MTV : It sounds like you’re already planning ahead for “Catching Fire.” Flowers : Yes. I prepped five or six wigs, and she only wore three in the first one, so we do have some for the second one, and I will prep more. I think everyone was afraid; they didn’t want people to be taken out of the movie with it being too over-the-top or too colorful, so that’s why I chose a pastel palette to start her off with in the movie. When you see her in the Capitol, it gets brighter and she gets a little more extreme. MTV : The hairstyle that’s probably raised the most eyebrows is Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch look, which he fashioned after his brother. What did you think when he approached you with the concept? Flowers : Well, he originally wanted it longer. He brought in a photo of his brother, and his brother looks just like him with the wig on. It was really what he wanted, and then, you know, I showed it to Gary, and he looked at it. He goes, “You know, I think that would be a good look for him, we just need to make it a little shorter.” It looks like the period. The District 12 people kind of have a ’30s-period haircut because they’re very poor and they work in the mines. It kinda looked like that but really grown out. The thing, too, when you’re trying to give a character a kind of character look — someone that has hair like he does — you can make it a little dirty and a little disheveled and make it look like you haven’t shampooed it recently, and it gives his character a little bit of a push. When you have no hair, you can’t really give that push. You can’t really see a passage of time; he’s normal, then he’s drunk and he woke up, and he’s hungover. You can articulate that and express that through the hair. With no hair, you really can’t express that. It really helped me help him with his character. MTV : I can only imagine what some random warehouse in North Carolina must look like with hundreds of wigs lying around. Flowers : You gotta remember, we used over 500 wigs in this movie. There is a warehouse full of trunks with wigs and stuff like that. I keep the cast wigs in a more secure — I don’t keep them in a warehouse. They’re actually in a very secure place that Lionsgate has. Check out everything we’ve got on “The Hunger Games.” For young Hollywood news, fashion and “Twilight” updates around the clock, visit HollywoodCrush.MTV.com . Related Videos Live From ‘The Hunger Games’ Red Carpet Premiere MTV Rough Cut: ‘Hunger Games’ Related Photos ‘Hunger Games’ World Premiere Red Carpet The Hunger Games
The reviews are in for the Todd Phillips-produced uber-party comedy Project X , and three out of four critics agree: It is the douchiest, most mean-spirited debauch of the year. (To date, anyway; we’ll see what kind of revisionist zest Steven Spielberg and co. bring to Lincoln .) Hop aboard Movieline’s scorched-earth golf cart and let’s go for a spin… 9. “You’ve got to hand it to Warner Brothers and producer Todd Phillips: They have painstakingly engineered the perfect film for today’s attention-impaired audiences. Are you a texter? A talker? Have at it. There is no way you could make this movie stupider or more pointlessly noisy than it already is.” — Sara Stewart , NY Post 8. “It would be easy to say Project X objectifies women, if the word ‘object’ didn’t imply too much dignity.” — Keith Phipps , AV Club 7. “Although it behaves as if its closest antecedent is a John Hughes teen movie, Project X plays more like a blend of music video, College Rules-style porn, and apocalypse-gazing. It’s all hyper-sensory flash and amateur titillation, ain’t it cool party-dogging and an ecstatic taxonomy of all the different ways you can drink a beer.” — Michelle Orange , Movieline 6. ” Project X ’s title has no bearing on its premise: a teenage house party in a quiet Californian suburb that spirals out of control. Nor is it connected to the 1987 film of the same name in which Matthew Broderick rescues a band of tormented chimpanzees, unless perhaps the chimpanzees wrote it. Overall, it’s flamboyantly loathsome on every imaginable level, and a great many unimaginable ones besides.” — Robbie Collin , The Telegraph 5. “[Oliver] Cooper’s brash, bragging Costa, in particular, is the most annoying movie character since Jar Jar Binks. You’d never tire of punching him. Let’s take all prints of the film, and bury them. Don’t bother marking the spot with an X.” — Chris Hewitt , Empire 4. “How bad is it? It kicks off the proceedings with the soundtrack blaring the 2 Live Crew classic ‘Hey, We Want Some Pussy,’ and that winds up constituting the closest that it comes to both quiet dignity and quality writing. It is so bad that it deploys a running gag featuring shenanigans involving a pet dog that even Michael Vick might take offense at.” — Peter Sobczynski , eFilmCritic 3. “It is not normal adolescent rebellion depicted here: it is sociopathic insurrection. It’s an orgy of destruction that is meant to be cool. And it’s not a cautionary tale. It’s not a warning that recognizes that real-life teenaged boys can indeed be colossal idiots sometimes, and perhaps we need to work together as a society to minimize the damage they can do, like perhaps training up our sons to be responsible citizens. It’s a celebration of colossal adolescent idiocy as something we should all aspire to, and would do, if we could only be as awesomely cool as a horny 17-year-old boy.” — Maryann Johanson Flick Filosopher 2. ” Project X is classless, mean-spirited, repugnant, deplorable, off-puttingly sleazy, and thoroughly contemptible. It is also searingly depressing — there isn’t a true laugh in sight — as well as worthless on every cinematic level one could name, imagine, or dream up.” — Dustin Putman , DustinPutman.com 1. “[A] certain self-justifying, feel-good impulse compels the filmmakers to imply that, even if [the characters] do nothing further of note in their lives, they’ll always have this. Herein lies the film’s lack of point-of-view, leaving it to the viewer to decide if the import of the evening is a joke, a tragedy, an irony or a victory. Despite a couple of unconvincingly upbeat tacked-on moments at the end, Project X basically reads as nihilistic, as not believing in or standing for anything. Not even fun.” — Todd McCarthy , The Hollywood Reporter Reviews via Rotten Tomatoes . Browse more of Moveline’s Scathing Critical Response features here . Follow S.T. VanAirsdale on Twitter . Follow Movieline on Twitter .
With only three weeks to go until YA adaptation The Hunger Games hits theaters, Lionsgate has released the first actual clip from the Gary Ross-directed film, and it’s a memorable moment Hunger Games fans should recognize: Forced to show off her skills for the Capitol’s boorish, drunken Gamemakers — the designers of the Games, headed by Wes Bentley ‘s Seneca Crane — Katniss ( Jennifer Lawrence ) lets an arrow fly in an act of defiance that finally gets their attention. It’s a smart scene choice to unveil, as the barrage of trailers and TV spots released so far have offered only snippets from the film; this clip, meanwhile, gives more of a sense of Ross’s sense for tone and pacing within scenes, not to mention how he might treat iconic moments from the book. Katniss’s arrow flying at the pack of vulgar Gamemakers, in whose hands the fates of the Games’ tributes lie, is one of one her first impulsive displays of rebellion against the Games and the government that created them — the perfect way to get fans’ attentions, too. This scene also demonstrates Ross’s stylistic approach, sound design, and visual interpretation of Suzanne Collins’ Panem, and while I expected to see a little more outrage on Lawrence’s face at the :30 second mark, it works for me. What say you, Movieliners? The Hunger Games is in theaters March 23.
As The Hunger Games ‘ March 23 release fast approaches, Lionsgate is churning out a steady stream of stills and goodies and tie-ins to stoke the fires of fandom and they’ve put a surprising bit of marketing muscle behind not only star Jennifer Lawrence , but co-star Elizabeth Banks and her supporting character, Effie Trinket. On second thought, maybe that’s not so surprising; Effie’s strikingly gaudy visual look, representative of image-obsessed Capitol culture in the fictional nation of Panem, offers more in the way of marketing opportunities than Katniss Everdeen’s tomboy-turned-teen warrior ensembles. To wit: Effie, as played by Banks, is the face of the official Hunger Games nail polish line , comprised of different shades representing the districts of Panem. (“The odds are never in favor of homely nails,” she preaches on the Hunger Games offshoot site CapitolCouture.pn .) Ironically, Capitol fashions are thought of as ridiculously garish within the Hunger Games world, which explains Banks’s clownish getups as Effie, District 12’s government-assigned escort. The message gets a bit muddled when Lionsgate and its corporate partners sell ” Capitol Couture ” to fans with a positive spin to be coveted and replicated, but fans have a soft spot for Effie and the sentiment suggests more of a cosplay vibe than any legitimate espousal of Capitol culture. (Right?) Anyway, don’t be surprised if you see Effie’s garish styles mimicked IRL sooner or later; Halloween 2012 should be rife with Effie-inspired fan fashions, if the franchise’s enormous popularity is any indication. Here are a few of Effie’s looks to get you started — she never wears the same makeup with more than one outfit, airbrushes on pink foundation, and wears butterfly-adorned falsies, so we obviously already have that in common. [ Facebook , CapitolCouture.pn , Glamour ]
The 2012 BRIT Awards are underway, and so far in the ceremony, Adele is (unsurprisingly) picking up some major awards – though she’s not receiving nearly the same kind of respect she had at The Grammys. The 21 songstress has won Best British Female Artist, and threw up her middle finger when her speech was … More » Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Idolator Discovery Date : 21/02/2012 22:15 Number of articles : 2
2012 Feb. 20 • Silent Protest for Women’s Rights • Virginia State Capitol • Richmond, Virginia from Silver Persinger on Vimeo . Over 1,000 demonstrators assembled outside of Virginia’s Capitol on Monday. Standing silently in the cold, they lined the walkway used by the legislators who have been voting on — and voting away — women’s rights in Virginia. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that a… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Crooks and Liars Discovery Date : 22/02/2012 02:52 Number of articles : 2
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