Metallica goes three dimensional

Helmer Nimrod Antal continues to be drawn on to direct a three dimensional film featuring thrash metal cornerstones Metallica. The as-yet-untitled project is going to be created by Charlotte now Huggins.Based on the announcement, the film will mix concert footage with narrative elements starring the band's four people, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo. The film will start shooting in August, striving for any summer time 2013 release.First emerging around the fest scene with "Kontroll" in 2003, Antal has additionally directed British-language actioners "Vacancy" and "Potential predators." Huggins most lately created "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island" captured. Metallica lately ended a slew of fest dates with fellow 1980s metal titans Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, then a skill-rock collaborative release with Lou Reed titled "Lulu." This guitar rock band can also be curating its inaugural "Orion Music and much moreInch festival this June in Nj. Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

Fowler upped at RCA

Jennifer Fowler remains promoted to senior v . p . of online marketing for RCA Records, the The brand new the new sony Music Entertainment label introduced today. Formerly v . p . of marketing for your RCA Group, which was consolidated in to a single label late a year ago, Fowler will oversee digital and mobile marketing for completely new releases. Fowler grew to become part of J Records as new media manager in 2001, carrying out a stint at Emusic.com. She'll are still accountable to RCA leader/COO Tom Corson. "Jennifer is constantly give you the stellar RCA Records' roster with excellent support and dynamic campaigns across all digital platforms," mentioned Corson in the statement. Contact the number newsroom at news@variety.com

IFC Night time nabs 'Grabbers'

IFC Night time has acquired North and Latin American privileges to director Jon Wright's monster comedy "Grabbers," which performed at Sundance. The film, having a script by Kevin Lehane, stars Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey, Lalor Roddy, David Pearse and Bronagh Gallagher. Film is created by Tracy Brimm and Kate Myers of Forward Films, Martina Niland of Samson Films, Eduardo Levy and James Martin of High Treason Prods. and Piers Tempest from the Salt Co. "Grabbers" is occur a sleepy fishing village from the coast of Ireland, where two mismatched cops make an effort to safeguard the islanders in the giant, bloodsucking, tentacled aliens which are to have them -- with booze his or her only weapon. IFC intends to release "Grabbers" later this season. The offer was discussed by Arianna Bocco, senior Vice president of purchases and productions for Sundance Chooses/IFC Films with Samantha Horley for that Salt Co. and Jay Cohen for Gersh with respect to the filmmakers. IFC Night time is really a sister division to IFC Films and Sundance Chooses and it is possessed and operated by AMC Systems. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com

West End eyes Olympics

The advance for 'War Horse' during the Olympic period is almost double that of a year earlier. The massive summer influx of U.K. and foreign tourists traditionally spells bonanaza at the London legit box office. But this summer all bets are off - thanks to the London Olympics.Of all those fans flooding into town for the Games (July 27-Aug. 12) and the Paralympics (Aug. 29-Sept. 9), how many want to see West End shows?Initially, the mood was grim. Andrew Lloyd Webber was the first to fire warning shots, telling the BBC in late December, "I think the theater will have a bloodbath of a summer."According to him, the expected tourist audience was already down by 10% and he would have to close some of the theaters he owns. "That's partly because people can't get into hotels, partly because the hotels are so expensive - they've all put their prices up - and people who want to go to the theater or concerts are not the same sort of people who really want to go to sport."Cameron Mackintosh, also a theater owner in addition to being a producer, was more circumspect. "You sort of veer from fear to optimism depending on who you talk to. I mean, producers are worried," he says. The Society of London Theater, however, has built a marketing strategy to capitalize on the influx of foreigners. According to figures projected last December by the government-funded national tourism agency VisitBritain, there will be 30.7 million visitors to the U.K. in 2012, the same as the previous year. But a chunk of the Olympics tickets sold went to overseas buyers. Additional pop-up TKTS booths will appear across the West End, and Olympics guides and staffers at information centers have been given free tickets to shows over January and February in order to encourage sales. "The message is that you haven't really seen London unless you've been to the theater," says Julian Bird, SOLT exec director. The preparations aren't the only reason some legiters have been taking a more upbeat view. The National Theater's exec director Nick Starr announced in January that the West End production of "War Horse" had already experienced a spike in sales over the Olympics period. That's underlined by Sarah Hunt, the National's director of marketing, who notes that the advance business for the Olympics-Paralympics period for "Horse" is almost double that for the same period in 2011. Hunt cannot report figures for the same period at the National's home, since booking has not yet opened. But she sees potential crowd magnets in the building's starry programming for the period, including legit fave Simon Russell Beale headlining a new production of Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens," Julie Walters starring in a new play, and "War Horse" co-director Marianne Elliot helming a hotly anticipated adaptation of international bestseller "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time."Another reason Hunt remains upbeat: "I cannot believe people will come here and only see, say the 100-meter final," she says. "Why not take in London's attractions and culture?"At the moment, nobody knows what the effect of the Olympics will be on theatergoing - and that's because no real model exists. "There is no precedent for an Olympics in a capital city with the kind of nighttime economy that we have," Bird says. He remains, however, convincingly confident. "The vast majority of London theaters will be open," he notes. The only exception thus far is "Sweeney Todd." However, its prdoucer, Matthew Byam Shaw, explains that the two-week Olympic break is due in part to the contractual necessity to give stars Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton a statutory paid holiday. "We realized it would be best for the show if they took their holiday at the same time," he says. "It made sense to do that over the Olympics."The other key focus of SOLT's strategy has been to address widespread fears about potential transportation chaos. "We know from customer feedback that this is a fear that people have," says Bird. "But we've now seen the detailed planning and it shouldn't be a problem."Detailed traffic mapping for each Underground station has been done for every day of the Olympics. According to these projections, the two stations closest to the majority of London theaters will experience no problems at all. And even if audiences avoid the subway, 95% of theaters are less than a 15-minute walk from an above-ground train station.All of which suggests a potential to maximize sales. Everyone recognizes that audiences for legit and sports may not traditionally overlap, but looking across the sector, legiters are cautious but hopeful.As happens on Broadway during big holiday frames, it may be the highest-profile properties and actors that benefit most during the Olympics. "Big titles or shows with big stars may fare very well," Byam Shaw suggests. "Homegrown stuff with less international appeal may struggle."Bird points to this year's record advances. "We have every reason to be optimistic," he says. Contact David Benedict at benedictdavid@mac.com

Fox News Blasts The Lorax for Pushing Left Wing Agenda and Creating 'Occu-Toddlers'

With Universal's colorful animated tale The Lorax, "the President's liberal pals in Hollywood [are] concentrating on a far more youthful demographic using animated movies to promote their agenda to children," mentioned an annoyed Lou Dobbs now on Fox News. Animated movies! A liberal agenda! HOW DARE THEY. What's the reason behind enabling this "insidious nonsense" to the vulnerable minds within our nation's youth? Bad being a parent, clearly. As conservative radio host Matt Patrick bellowed within the commentator pit, "We are creating Occu-young children!Inch Inside the classic Seuss story -- modified in to a 3-D animated adventure which hits screens inside a couple of days -- an awesome creature referred to as Lorax attempts to intervene becoming an industrialist, driven by avarice, ravages an entire ecosystem. This might seem to produce the Lorax a lot more "dangerous" than previous Fox focus on the Muppets, which needed becasue it is villain a considerably bigger and clearly unlikeable capitalist The Lorax is built to show audiences simply how much they potentially share while using unwitting forest-killer The Once-ler, which explains why it's so effective to begin with. The most popular factor relating to this madness occurs when Patrick advocates intentional littering in movie theaters as a means of protest in the Obama-introduced agenda espoused with the Lorax (as well as the Studio Ghibli animated pic The Important Thing Arena of Arriety, that may lead youngsters lower the slippery slope of talking about things). Throwing popcorn containers on the ground would fly when faced with everything else Dr. Seuss's anti-deforestation, professional-atmosphere tale means, nevertheless it would also lead you to look absurd before your individual children. In my opinion the Lorax's face above states everything. Make the Occu-young children! The Lorax hits theaters on March 2. [Media Matters with the Film Stage]

China seafood story hooks Canada firm

'Back towards the Ocean,' is co-created by Vancouver's IndustryWorks, with animation completed in China. Vancouver-based indie production company IndustryWorks' leader Evan Tylor never likely to be co-creating an animated feature, not to mention one with China. However when he was given the chance to leap onboard "To the Ocean," that was already being produced, he leaped in the chance. Operating with China reveals a massive, quickly growing share of the market and use of financing. Even though China includes a limit of just 20 foreign photos annually which are permitted to become launched theatrically, photos having a Chinese production company involved are thought domestic, and therefore are exempt out of this limitation. "This woke me up to and including whole other possibility," Tylor states of IndustryWorks' first co-production with China, via close ties with Glory & Dream Digital Animation and also the Jiangsu Broadcast Co., the 2nd-biggest broadcaster in China. Helmed by Glory & Dream co-founder Thom Lu, "To the Ocean" follows Kevin, an adventurous youthful flying seafood in the NY Harbor who's taken with a fishing ship and shipped straight to the aquarium of the restaurant in NY's Chinatown. There, he meets a basic Chinese boy that has exactly the same desiring excitement and adventure as his finned friend. The 2 attempt a mission to come back Kevin to the ocean. The voice cast includes Christian Slater, Tim Curry, Mark Hamill and Tom Kenny ("SpongeBob SquarePants"). Pic opened up wide across Canada in 2D and three dimensional on Jan. 27. You will find plans ultimately to produce the film on the wider scale within the U.S. Jiangsu will distribute and broadcast the named version in China. Even though pic (allocated at $8 million-$ten million) already had funding from Jiangsu, producers were keen to obtain a United States company involved to be able to help breech that market. Like a partner, IndustryWorks oversaw completing deliverables, publish-production, distribution, marketing, and contracts with SAG to accomplish casting, connecting up Slater and Currey. In exchange, they now own worldwide ancillary privileges outdoors China. Tylor thinks the pic will find a crowd inside the United States market in addition to China, because of its mix-cultural story. "They produced a tale that's very Western," Tylor states. Lu confesses that Glory & Dream considered the marketplace when plotting the pic. "We believe NY Chinatown has got the perfect mixture of Eastern and Western culture," he states, "this background won't be too Chinese for United States audiences as well as much less American for Chinese audiences." Because the Chinese creative industry keeps growing and are designed for branching out in to the world market, Lu sees more co-productions with Canada and/or even the U.S. "In the artistic side, The United States helps make the best animated films on the planet also it sets the conventional,Inch he states. "Audiences happen to be accustomed to this standard, so it can help us discover the rules from the United States market sooner." Because the animation industry in China is simply getting began, there's deficiencies in professional talent and things are compressed, Lu states. "Should you take a look at our credits because they roll, you will notice what they are called repeating again and again." Even though actual animation for "To the Ocean" was completed in China, with United States partners like IndieWorks, Trigger Music, Technicolor, along with a identifiable voice cast, Lu hopes china animation industry can improve by association simultaneously it finds a brand new export market. In lots of ways, Vancouver appears to become a natural fit for China-Canada co-productions. It hosts a sizable Chinese population and it has extensive existing companies ties to China. Several official visits from Chinese delegations to Bc in the last couple of years have specific collaboration. The China Canada Script Competition was revealed in the 2011 Whistler Film Festival in December. The initiative is headed by Telefilm Canada and China Film Group, China's biggest and many influential condition-run film enterprise, and also the sole importer of foreign films. "Iron Road" (2009), was the very first co-created Canada-China film in 22 years within treaty established within the sixties. Since that time, there has been miniseries' for example "Marco Polo" and "Boy from the Dragon," several features and documentaries, in addition to a quantity of feature film projects presently being developed. And although IndustryWorks does not have anything within the pipeline at this time, it's already exploring future possibilities to co-produce with China. "Culturally these were very eager, very accommodating, sincere, and very polite to utilize -- I've rarely when run into that in United States marketplaces," he states having a laugh, "It had been a pleasant change." Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

SAG, AFTRA prexys make official push for merger

HowardReardonThe presidents of the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists have made their first official push for the proposed SAG-AFTRA merger.SAG National President Ken Howard and AFTRA National President Roberta Reardon sent a letter to members Sunday, touting the combo. SAG's board approved the deal Friday and AFTRA's followed Saturday.The letter featured the new "SAG AFTRA One Union" logo and said a pro-merger Web site would go live Friday. The missive arrived as the SAG Awards were about to take place at the Shrine Auditorium.The letter: Dear Member,This weekend, the SAG and AFTRA National Boards took a decisive step to strengthen our future by overwhelmingly endorsing a plan to merge Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. If members approve the merger, the new union will be called SAG-AFTRA.The vote of the unions' National Boards came after more than a year of focused effort to hear from members about their needs for stronger union representation and to develop a merger plan to meet those needs. With the enthusiastic approval of our boards, the decision now rests in the hands of AFTrA and SAG members.Merger referendum ballots are scheduled to be mailed on or about February 27th - but all members of both unions will have access to the complete merger documents within the next couple of days on the SAG and AFTRA websites. Full printed merger documents will also be mailed to each voter with the referendum ballot, which will be due for return on March 30th. This will give each member ample time to make a thoughtful and well-informed decision. We're also excited to announce that on Friday, February 3rd, we will launch a new joint website to provide members all the information they'll want to consider before casting their votes. The website will include complete merger details, FAQs, and a comprehensive calendar of events to alert members nationwide to informational meetings and other opportunities for learning about the plan. Watch your email later this week for details of the website launch.After more than a year of intensive work, we are extremely proud to bring you this historic opportunity. We also want to acknowledge the ceaseless dedication of the AFTRA and SAG members and staff who came together as the Group for One Union (G1) to produce this remarkable plan. We look forward to sharing all the details and answering any questions you may have. Finally, we are confident that SAG and AFTRA members will embrace this singular chance to harness the true power of unity, and that SAG-AFTRA will protect members and shape the entertainment and media industries for decades to come.In unity,Ken HowardSAG National PresidentRoberta ReardonAFTRA National President Contact Dave McNary at dave.mcnary@variety.com

Alley Mills Will get Busted around the Bold and also the Beautiful

Alley Mills Add The Bold and also the Beautiful's Pam Douglas towards the listing of the country's unemployed. The bipolar spinster, performed with hilarity and heartbreak by veteran actress Alley Mills, will ultimately get caught at her latest plan - stealing designs from her sister Stephanie's fashion house, Forrester Masterpieces, and providing them with towards the competition. Their must-see confrontation (airing Jan. 30-31) finishes with Pam, the receptionist at Forrester, being fired by Stephanie and escorted in the building. TV Guide Magazine spoken with Mills to request the large question: Ok now what? TV Guide Magazine: What is going to occur to poor, pathetic Pam once she will get busted?Mills: This might take her to some very dark place. It never happened to her that she'd get caught. She does not have anybody left in her own existence. No buddies. No males. This really is bad. The shocking factor is the fact that Stephanie does not blow when she discovers Pam's the crook. She's disappointed and extremely hurt, as well as for someone as fragile as Pam that's devastating. [Laughs] A minimum of Stephanie does not throw Pam off a balcony. She has been recognized to handle issues that way! TV Guide Magazine: None of the might have happened if Pam had not become mad at Stephanie for disregarding her relationship with Stephen.Mills: Pam feels totally justified in stealing individuals designs. All she wanted ended up being to be validated by Stephanie. Pam finally found a guy and her sister wouldn't provide him the time. She never gave Pam any support. She never asked them over for lunch. Nothing. TV Guide Magazine: Hell-oooo! Stephen was Stephanie's arch enemy. What is did Pam expect? I really like your cleaning soap-opera amnesia. Mills: Stephanie must have attempted harder to simply accept Stephen. Finally that rare guy arrived who could love her sister and she or he did not care. That's all I am saying. Stephen and Pam were built with a romantic relationship going. These were speaking about going for a romantic visit to Fuji or something like that. [Laughs] They can had the literature. TV Guide Magazine: I suppose it counts for something which Pam did not sell the designs. She just gave them to Jackie and Nick. Mills: Though she ended up getting compensated in different ways. She got a few great kisses from Nick. And that is a great deal for Pam! She does not need cash. Betty Whitened left her with lots of money! TV Guide Magazine: Well, whether it's any consolation, Pam's crime is going to be forgotten, most likely earlier than later. Nothing lasts forever on B&B.Mills: It's correct. Betty Whitened explained they have requested her revisit the show despite the fact that her character is dead. I'm not sure how they may do this. She'll most likely be haunting Pam within the mirror. TV Guide Magazine: I really like how Pam's all pissed at Steph but does not appear in your thoughts that they had been utilized by Nick, who all of a sudden began coming onto her as some kind of sick reward for that thievery. Mills: Nobody was using anybody there. The truly amazing factor about Pam is the fact that she knows precisely what Nick's about. Their flirtation would be a lark. She only agreed to be getting fun. And that he really had fun together with her! He wasn't moving his eyes on and on, "Ugh! I must hug Pam." He really loved it. Pam is really a hoot to spend time with, therefore it wasn't such as the worst factor that ever happened to him. And what made the entire factor focus on-screen is the fact that Jack Wagner wasn't moving his eyes while he needed to hug me. He'd fun, too! And Pam likes Jackie because Jackie does not treat Pam as an idiot, that is what everybody at Forrester does. She's type of a tale there. TV Guide Magazine: You do not think it is creepy of Nick to become play-acting with someone who's manic-depressive?Mills: No! It's terrible will be able to connect with this. [Laughs] I suppose I am that desperate sometimes! Hey, should you have had a crush on someone and also you understood it might never exercise, both of you may still possess a fling anyway should you provided some kind of plan to your partner - like should you authored about the subject in TV Guide. TV Guide Magazine: What? You mean individuals will have sexual intercourse along with you should you talk about them in TV Guide? News in my experience. And, incidentally, what type of slut do you consider I'm? Mills: I am just saying you are able to justify plans such as this! Pam never was the victim. She's several occasions stated, "I am no fool" if this involves Nick. She understood what she was engaging in. TV Guide Magazine: Well, ultimately, I suppose her punishment might have been worse. What she did was illegal, no?Mills: Well, you cannot arrest her! [Laughs] Have you not ever encountered forgiveness? It simply appears so unfair even going to fire her. TV Guide Magazine: There is not a business in the usa that wouldn't oust her ass for stealing like this.Generators: There may certainly happen to be a much better solution than termination. TV Guide Magazine: For example...?Generators: Stephanie might have put Pam on probation. [Laughs] Or she might have put her lower within the basement with Thorne! Sign up for TV Guide Magazine now!

Quentin Tarantino unveils his favourite films of 2011

Quentin Tarantino has revealed his favourite (and least favourite) films of 2011.The Quentin Tarantino Archives get their at work the director's rundown of year, which yields some surprising results.His #1 movie was Woodsy Allen's Evening amount of time in Paris. It is really an unforeseen choice, while not underserving: it absolutely was smart, sweet and pretty damn funny, having a couple of place-on portrayals of '20s symbols with the supporting cast.Elsewhere, his list mixes the mainstream while using offbeat (The Artist and Our Idiot Brother match tenth place!), and you'll find some shocks (The Three Musketeers? Surely an ironic joke...) which he appeared to become kind enough to supply lists of other films he loved, his favourite scripts, and also the worst films of year.Look at the lists entirely below:Quentin Tarantino's official Top 11 of 20111. Evening amount of time in Paris2. Rise In The Planet In The Apes3. Moneyball4. The Skin I Live In5. X-Males: First Class6. Youthful Adult7. Attack The Block8. Red-colored-colored State9. Warrior10. The Artist / Our Idiot Brother (tie)11. The Three MusketeersOthers considered in no particular order50/50BeginnersHugoThe Iron LadyCarnageGreen HornetGreen LanternCaptain AmericaThe DescendantsMy Week With MarilynFast FiveThe Tree Of LifeThe Hangover Part IIMission: Impossible - Ghost ProtocolThe BeaverContagionThe SitterWar HorseNice Try AwardDriveHannaDrive AngryReal SteelBest DirectorPedro AlmodovarBennett MillerWoody AllenJason ReitmanMichel HazanaviciusBest Original ScreenplayMidnight In ParisYoung AdultRed StateAttack The BlockOur Idiot BrotherBeginnersBest Modified ScreenplayMoneyballThe Skin I live InCarnageRise In The Planet In The ApesHugoX-Males: First ClassWorst FilmsSucker PunchPotiche (Trophy Wife)MiralInsidiousRampartStraw DogsParanormal Activity 3Meek's CutoffQuentin Tarantino's Django Unchained opens on 26 December 2012 (and that we are thinking about come in several our Top lists...)

Michael Patrick King: 2 Broke Women Is not Racist It's "Classy-Dirty"

Michael Patrick King desires to make something apparent: 2 Broke Women is not a racist show. Its the inappropriate jokes, they're just "classy-dirty," OK? The 2 Broke Women creator met with reporters at CBS' winter TV previews Wednesday, throughout they was asked for to safeguard the show's ethnic stereotypes and off-color humor, particularly in no time such as the figures with whom lower-on-their luck waitresses (Kat Dennings and Jesse Behrs) focus on a Brooklyn diner. "I have thought it was comic to think about everybody lower," King states. "In my opinion our show can be a large ballsy comedy, but it provides a bigger heart laptop or computer has balls. It's broad and brash and extremely current... The big story about race on our show is always that lots of are represented. We type of represent what NY used to be, that's presently still alive in [Brooklyn]." Han, the girls' Asian boss (Matthew Moy), Oleg, a sexually aggressive Ukrainian line prepare, (Jonathan Kite) and Earl, a laid-back Black cashier (Garrett Morris) are regular targets of jokes that focus on their ethnicities. King defends these figures. "In the event you discuss stereotypes, every character, when it's born, can be a stereotype. This show started with two stereotypes: a blonde together with a brunette. Hopefully if you've got the journey that everybody wish to dress yourself in a collection, that's time, you are in a position to shape the figures to ensure that they become rounded and a little more grounded." Convey more scoop inside your favorite shows inside our Winter TV preview The show also regularly trades in anatomy-based humor. (Someone inside the writers' room really loves saying the word "vagina.") Still, King states the comedy evolves from the good way. "I consider our jokes really 'classy-dirty,'" according to him. "They're high low-brow. In my opinion they're fun and complex and naughty but everybody likes an excellent naughty joke." Do you want 2 Broke Girls' naughty jokes? Hit should be genuine along with your ideas. 2 Broke Women airs Mondays at 8:30/7:30c on CBS.

Fox's 'Chronicle' cues QR code blitz

Having its ticking clock and situated footage-style hooks, a clip for 20th Century Fox's "Chronicle" created plenty of internet buzz if the first demonstrated in October. Now, the studio is striving to develop on that interest throughout Sunday's opening round in the Nfl 2010 national football league 2010 nfl playoffs. Fox Network will air a five-second "billboard" clip from the QR code through the Atlanta Falcons-NY Leaders wild-card game. The code, which might be scanned on mobile items, links the customer to have an online clip in the Max Landis-composed film. "We're really searching toward the film, so finding an additional way to interract while using audience is certainly the goal,Inch Fox prexy of domestic theatrical marketing and chief marketing officer Oren Aviv told Variety. Aviv mentioned that the amount of social-media buzz created with the pic's trailer brought to careful analysis supply the film one more push on Sunday. Studio is expecting greater than Thirty Dollars million people to start to see the billboard. "Facebook mentioned they'd never observed anything appreciate it,In . Aviv mentioned, watching the internet networking site told the studio it saw about 15 million interactions across the movie. "When Facebook states 'Wow,' you listen." "Chronicle" is docu-style account of three Tigard teens who develop superpowers after being uncovered with a mysterious substance inside the forest. Pic also provides attracted attention for showing the talents of several fresh faces. Film marks the feature directorial debut of Josh Trank and stars relative beginners Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly and Dane DeHaan. Author Landis offered the project to Fox a year ago. Scribe also optioned spec "Good Time Gang" to Robin Schorr's RCR Pictures which is presently in the office around the Frankenstein work with Fox-based Davis Entertainment. "Chronicle" opens Feb. 3. Contact Rachel Abrams at Rachel.Abrams@variety.com

'Hunger Games' Photos: New ('New') Photos Highlight Jennifer Lawrence, Woodsy Harrelson, Liam Hemsworth and Lenny Kravitz

Because 'The Hunger Games' is just one of the 2011 most long awaited releases, any scrap of news will get scooped up through the near-hysterical fanbase just like a breadcrumb tossed towards the floor by Peeta's parents. Knowing that, let us take a look at newer and more effective pictures from 'Hunger Games' that you have most likely seen online for days! Thanks to Lionsgate, and in some way pinging round the Internet now despite seeming ready availability since December, are new pictures of Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Woodsy Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz and Josh Hutcherson within the new film. Also, an incredible shot of Elizabeth Banks in her own Effie Trinket regalia. So! Not necessarily news, but who needs "news" being an excuse to look at photos from 'Hunger Games'? Thought so. 'The Hunger Games' Photos See All Moviefone Art galleries » [Photo: Lionsgate] Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook