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Haywire’s Gina Carano First Cast In Female Version Of The Expendables

  By: Eric Eisenberg Earlier this year Gina Carano proved in Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire that she can kick just as much ass as any male action star and doing so has landed her a lead role in an upcoming project described as an all female version of The Expendables. The former MMA fighter, who will next be seen alongside Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne … Continue reading Haywire’s Gina Carano First Cast In Female Version Of The Expendables

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Harry Potter Producer Snatches Up Rights To Shadow And Bone

By: Sean O’Connell Mention Harry Potter and big-screen adaptation, and the bean counters at the major Hollywood studios are going to feel their pulses race. But Jo Rowling doesn’t have a new chapter in the boy wizard’s story to tell (not yet, anyway). Instead, Potter producer David Heyman has gone looking for the next big YA fantasy sensation, and he believes he has found it … Continue reading Harry Potter Producer Snatches Up Rights To Shadow And Bone

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Casts Jeffrey Wright As Beetee

By: Katey Rich Jeffrey Wright, the character actor and theater veteran who seemingly shows up in every other movie, has become the latest– and quite possibly the last– actor added to the massive lineup for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Lionsgate announced today that they’ve cast him as Beetee, the former tribute from District 3 who has knowledge about electronics that becomes very, very valuable … Continue reading The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Casts Jeffrey Wright As Beetee

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Sam Claflin Confirmed As Catching Fire’s Finnick

By: Katey Rich After weeks of casting announcements about minor characters even diehard Hunger Games fans probably didn’t care about, we’ve finally snagged the final bit casting notice about Catching FIre— and it’s exactly what you’re expected. Sam Claflin, last seen in Snow White and the Huntsman, will play the dreamboat tribute Finnick, who competes alongside our heroine Katniss in the Quarter Quell. The news … Continue reading Sam Claflin Confirmed As Catching Fire’s Finnick

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Finds Its Cashmere

By: Kristy Puchko Whether or not you’ve read Suzanne Collins’ wildly popular YA trilogy, the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games made clear that not all the districts of Panem are equal when it comes to their tributes’ chances in the Capital’s cruel competition. While the film’s romantic leads, Katniss and Peeta, scraped by in the squalid District 12, Districts 1 and 2—known for industries … Continue reading The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Finds Its Cashmere

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Adds Two More Tributes

By: Katey Rich Usually when a movie begins casting its smaller roles, it announces them in one big batch, or doesn’t announce them at all, allowing you to discover once you peruse IMDB which character actors will be filling the frame behind the main stars. But The Hunger Games is not most movies, as Lionsgate discovered when fans shrieked with anticipation every time a new … Continue reading The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Adds Two More Tributes

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Casts District 2’s Brutus

By: Katey Rich At some point I might just set up a template for announcing minor Hunger Games: Catching Fire casting news, since at the rate this news is coming in there will be something to say every day. For what feels like years we’ve been getting updates on who will play minor new characters in the film, while still anxiously waiting for the only … Continue reading The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Casts District 2’s Brutus

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Casts Brutal Tribute Enobaria

By: Katey Rich We’ve still got tons of casting updates coming in about The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and still, they’re not about the most interesting new role, Finnick. But Meta Golding, who has just been cast to play Enobaria in the hotly anticipated sequel, will still have a lot to chew in her new role, playing a former Hunger Games winner who’s famous for … Continue reading The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Casts Brutal Tribute Enobaria

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Adds A New Peacekeeper

By: Katey Rich Man, the guy who’s going to play Finnick in Catching Fire must be holding out for a seriously huge paycheck. That’s the only way I can explain the drawn-out casting process for the Hunger Games sequel, which is set to go into production this fall in time for its November 22, 2013 release, and has been adding cast members at a lightning … Continue reading The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Adds A New Peacekeeper

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Mags Cast In Hunger Games: Catching Fire

By: Kristy Puchko Since The Hunger Games opened huge, blowing away even the highest expectations of its box office projections, movie fans have been giddily speculating on who might be cast in its sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Based on the second novel in Suzanne Collins bestselling YA trilogy, the film follows Katniss on a new adventure, where the fame and prizes from her … Continue reading Mags Cast In Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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