Rachel Zegler opened up about the various connections she shares with Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence.
The 22-year-old’s most obvious connection to Jennifer is that she is starring in the Hunger Games prequel movie The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The latter famously played Katniss in the original movies.
However, she revealed another way that the two are bonded in an interview. She also reflected on running into Jennifer at a recent event.
Read more to see what Jennifer Lawrence had to say…
Speaking to People, Rachel explained that the connection had to do with Jennifer‘s movie No Hard Feelings.
“One of my good friends is Andrew Barth Feldman, who she just did No Hard Feelings with,” she explained.
Both Rachel and Jennifer have also worked with Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, who Rachel said is “obsessed” with Jennifer.
In regards to meeting Jennifer at a Paris Fashion Week event,...
The 22-year-old’s most obvious connection to Jennifer is that she is starring in the Hunger Games prequel movie The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The latter famously played Katniss in the original movies.
However, she revealed another way that the two are bonded in an interview. She also reflected on running into Jennifer at a recent event.
Read more to see what Jennifer Lawrence had to say…
Speaking to People, Rachel explained that the connection had to do with Jennifer‘s movie No Hard Feelings.
“One of my good friends is Andrew Barth Feldman, who she just did No Hard Feelings with,” she explained.
Both Rachel and Jennifer have also worked with Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence, who Rachel said is “obsessed” with Jennifer.
In regards to meeting Jennifer at a Paris Fashion Week event,...
- 11/10/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
The Hollywood Music in Media Awards (Hmma) today announced the 2023 nominees for scores and songs in film and other visual media categories. The awards will be presented Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. (Pst) at The Avalon, 1735 Vine Street, in Hollywood, CA.
Song nominees include Oscar-winners Billie Eilish and Finneas for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie, Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro for “Can’t Catch Me Now” from Hunger Games: The Ballard of Songbirds & Snakes. Justin Timberlake, Alan Menken, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lenny Kravitz, Diane Warren, Metro Boomin, and A$AP Rocky also received nods for their original songs in films.
Composers nominated include Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino, Ludwig Göransson, Laura Karpman, Branford Marsalis, Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard, Daniel Pemberton, John Powell, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Robbie Robertson, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, Hans Zimmer (The Creator), among many others.
Films nominated in score, song, onscreen performance, and in...
Song nominees include Oscar-winners Billie Eilish and Finneas for “What Was I Made For?” from Barbie, Olivia Rodrigo and Dan Nigro for “Can’t Catch Me Now” from Hunger Games: The Ballard of Songbirds & Snakes. Justin Timberlake, Alan Menken, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lenny Kravitz, Diane Warren, Metro Boomin, and A$AP Rocky also received nods for their original songs in films.
Composers nominated include Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino, Ludwig Göransson, Laura Karpman, Branford Marsalis, Thomas Newman, James Newton Howard, Daniel Pemberton, John Powell, Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Robbie Robertson, Mark Ronson & Andrew Wyatt, Hans Zimmer (The Creator), among many others.
Films nominated in score, song, onscreen performance, and in...
- 11/2/2023
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
David Lebensfeld, founder and president of Ingenuity Studios, has assumed the additional role of president of Ingenuity’s sister company Ghost VFX.
Together, both companies make up Streamland Media’s visual effects business. Streamland Media is also the parent company of post house Picture Shop, sound company Formosa Group and marketing unit Picture Head.
Ghost VFX — which has earned credits on titles such as Star Trek Discovery, The Mandalorian and Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes — maintains bases in various cities in North America and Europe, and is in the process of moving its Pune, India studio into a new facility. It was previously led by Patrick Davenport, who is no longer with the company.
Acquired by Streamland in 2022, Ingenuity Studios’ credits include One Piece, Hacks and Many Saints of Newark. It’s headquartered in Los Angeles and has locations in New York, Vancouver, London and Atlanta.
“Bringing these two incredible,...
Together, both companies make up Streamland Media’s visual effects business. Streamland Media is also the parent company of post house Picture Shop, sound company Formosa Group and marketing unit Picture Head.
Ghost VFX — which has earned credits on titles such as Star Trek Discovery, The Mandalorian and Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes — maintains bases in various cities in North America and Europe, and is in the process of moving its Pune, India studio into a new facility. It was previously led by Patrick Davenport, who is no longer with the company.
Acquired by Streamland in 2022, Ingenuity Studios’ credits include One Piece, Hacks and Many Saints of Newark. It’s headquartered in Los Angeles and has locations in New York, Vancouver, London and Atlanta.
“Bringing these two incredible,...
- 10/3/2023
- by Carolyn Giardina
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Samuel L. Jackson was so excited to do Snakes on a Plane that he did the feature without even reading the script. But after reading the script, he felt the film might have had too many restrictions for a horror flick.
Samuel L. Jackson didn’t want ‘Snakes on a Plane’ to have the same restrictions as his movie ‘S.W.A.T.’ Samuel L. Jackson | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
Jackson’s Snakes on a Plane and S.W.A.T. couldn’t have been any more different from each other. The latter was a 2003 movie based on the 1975 television film of the same name, which centered on a team of LA police officers. Meanwhile, Snakes saw Jackson playing an FBI agent hunting down snakes. But Jackson felt he helped Snakes avoid a mistake that might have crippled S.W.A.T..
Initially, Snakes on a Plane was rated PG-13, which Jackson couldn’t have been more against. He...
Samuel L. Jackson didn’t want ‘Snakes on a Plane’ to have the same restrictions as his movie ‘S.W.A.T.’ Samuel L. Jackson | Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images
Jackson’s Snakes on a Plane and S.W.A.T. couldn’t have been any more different from each other. The latter was a 2003 movie based on the 1975 television film of the same name, which centered on a team of LA police officers. Meanwhile, Snakes saw Jackson playing an FBI agent hunting down snakes. But Jackson felt he helped Snakes avoid a mistake that might have crippled S.W.A.T..
Initially, Snakes on a Plane was rated PG-13, which Jackson couldn’t have been more against. He...
- 8/5/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Samuel L. Jackson had some pretty high hopes for the creature feature Snakes on a Plane. But the film didn’t meet certain expectations after its release, and Jackson theorized this was because it was perhaps too good.
Samuel L. Jackson thought ‘Snakes on a Plane’ would be a bigger success Samuel L. Jackson | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Jackson was eager to do the movie Snakes on a Plane. He personally attached his name and star-power to the project, believing the film would be a solid time at the theaters. Up until the film’s release, there seemed to be much interest in the film, especially on the internet. The growing expectations for the film, Jackson believed, played a part in switching the film from rated PG-13 to rated R.
“Somebody woke up. They said, ‘Wait a minute.’ And it’s a better film. C’mon it makes no sense to...
Samuel L. Jackson thought ‘Snakes on a Plane’ would be a bigger success Samuel L. Jackson | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Jackson was eager to do the movie Snakes on a Plane. He personally attached his name and star-power to the project, believing the film would be a solid time at the theaters. Up until the film’s release, there seemed to be much interest in the film, especially on the internet. The growing expectations for the film, Jackson believed, played a part in switching the film from rated PG-13 to rated R.
“Somebody woke up. They said, ‘Wait a minute.’ And it’s a better film. C’mon it makes no sense to...
- 7/26/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Ever since Chinese production companies have discovered the principles of the blockbusters, it seems like every year we are bombarded with a new feature about heroes facing a catastrophe or other odds. While the genre itself varies, many of these features feel as if they are throwbacks to US-American productions such as “Earthquake” or “The Towering Inferno”, as their focus lies on a group of people, their dynamics and the heroics with which they eventually overcome whatever is in their way. “Restart the Earth” by filmmaker Zhenzhao Lin, who also directed the trashy “Snakes”-franchise, goes in a similar direction, with a few nods to production such as “The Last of Us” thrown in for good measure, and there is also the ideological aspect in the mix.
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After a world-wide catastrophe which saw plants growing disproportionately large after an experiment gone horribly wrong,...
- 5/9/2023
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Over the next several days, He would create the evening and the day, the light and the dark, the waters and the firmament, the movies and the Military Industrial Complex and various corporate marketing divisions.
On the fourth day, He created Hasbro, a collective maker of toys, and watched as it dreamed up many ideas for figures of action. One was a line of large, burly soldiers of various types, some with beards and some without, all with scars upon their cheeks.
On the fourth day, He created Hasbro, a collective maker of toys, and watched as it dreamed up many ideas for figures of action. One was a line of large, burly soldiers of various types, some with beards and some without, all with scars upon their cheeks.
- 7/22/2021
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Among the many genre-busting worldbuilding details of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games series, the character of President Coriolanus Snow has proven to be a rather unforgettable villain. In the whole of dystopian Ya, few baddies contain as many disturbingly specific details as the elderly yet vicious President of Panem: His obsession with roses, less for the symbolism of their petals’ blood-red color than for their grisly perfume, which mask the scent of blood on his breath. The blood comes from ulcers in his mouth, caused by a lifetime of drinking poison—at first unwittingly, and then intentionally, challenging would-be assassins by ingesting it and living anyway. There’s also the plastic surgery that gives him his oddly full lips, a creepy attempt at imitating youth when he so clearly reeks of death.
But that’s The Hunger Games’ Snow. The 18-year-old Coriolanus whose perspective drives The Ballad of Songbirds and...
But that’s The Hunger Games’ Snow. The 18-year-old Coriolanus whose perspective drives The Ballad of Songbirds and...
- 5/20/2020
- by Kayti Burt
- Den of Geek
Twihards, rejoice! The long-dormant Twilight Saga is reawakening as author Stephenie Meyer is releasing a new novel featuring everyone’s favorite sparkling, brooding teenage vampire Edward Cullen and his human soulmate Bella Swan. In the early hours of Monday May 4th, Meyer announced that her latest book, titled Midnight Sun, is officially on the way. And it’s arriving as soon as August 4th, which is just three months away.
The unique hook of Midnight Sun is that it’ll revisit the events of the original Twilight novel from Cullen’s perspective instead of Bella’s. For more, here’s the press release for the book, which teases a “dark twist” on the classic story that will delve into the “devastating consequences of immortal love.”
“This unforgettable tale as told through Edward’s eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting beautiful, mysterious Bella is both the most...
The unique hook of Midnight Sun is that it’ll revisit the events of the original Twilight novel from Cullen’s perspective instead of Bella’s. For more, here’s the press release for the book, which teases a “dark twist” on the classic story that will delve into the “devastating consequences of immortal love.”
“This unforgettable tale as told through Edward’s eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting beautiful, mysterious Bella is both the most...
- 5/4/2020
- by Christian Bone
- We Got This Covered
The Hunger Games franchise is once again set to volunteer as tribute for the big screen, set to take audiences back to the deadly bread and circuses of dystopic Panem with an adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’s upcoming prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Lionsgate is officially moving forward with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as a feature film. The announcement arrives as readers still await the book’s scheduled May 19 release. Auspiciously enough, the studio is sticking with what worked by bringing back director Francis Lawrence, who handled the majority of the 2012-launched film franchise—Catching Fire (2013), Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015). He’ll work off a script by Michael Arndt, who worked on the Catching Fire screenplay, along with notable films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Inside Out, Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine. Nina Jacobs is onboard as a...
Lionsgate is officially moving forward with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes as a feature film. The announcement arrives as readers still await the book’s scheduled May 19 release. Auspiciously enough, the studio is sticking with what worked by bringing back director Francis Lawrence, who handled the majority of the 2012-launched film franchise—Catching Fire (2013), Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014) and Mockingjay – Part 2 (2015). He’ll work off a script by Michael Arndt, who worked on the Catching Fire screenplay, along with notable films like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Inside Out, Toy Story 3 and Little Miss Sunshine. Nina Jacobs is onboard as a...
- 4/21/2020
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
The Hunger Games are soon set to return!
Lionsgate announced Tuesday that the series is officially getting a prequel movie based on author Suzanne Collin’s forthcoming novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Series filmmaker Francis Lawrence, who previously directed the last three films in the series — The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Parts 1 and 2 of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — will return to direct the new film, according to Entertainment Weekly. Collins is set to adapt the screenplay with one of the Catching Fire screenwriters, Michael Arndt, and will also take on an executive producer role.
Also returning...
Lionsgate announced Tuesday that the series is officially getting a prequel movie based on author Suzanne Collin’s forthcoming novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
Series filmmaker Francis Lawrence, who previously directed the last three films in the series — The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Parts 1 and 2 of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — will return to direct the new film, according to Entertainment Weekly. Collins is set to adapt the screenplay with one of the Catching Fire screenwriters, Michael Arndt, and will also take on an executive producer role.
Also returning...
- 4/21/2020
- by Nicholas Rice
- PEOPLE.com
The Hunger Games movies were record-breaking smash hits, receiving critical and audience adulation. But since The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 closed out the story back in 2015, we’ve heard only whispers about future installments. Until now, that is.
THR is reporting that Lionsgate is officially reuniting with Catching Fire and Mockingjay director Francis Lawrence for a prequel. This will adapt Suzanne Collins’ soon-to-be-released novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, due to hit shelves on May 19th, 2020. The book is set 64 years before the events of the previous movies, around the time of the Dark Days. At the core of the story will be the aftereffects of the war, in which the citizens of Panem try to reassemble a new society that will eventually give birth to the Hunger Games.
The focus of the story will reportedly be a younger version of the villainous President Coriolanus Snow, as played by Donald Sutherland in the movies.
THR is reporting that Lionsgate is officially reuniting with Catching Fire and Mockingjay director Francis Lawrence for a prequel. This will adapt Suzanne Collins’ soon-to-be-released novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, due to hit shelves on May 19th, 2020. The book is set 64 years before the events of the previous movies, around the time of the Dark Days. At the core of the story will be the aftereffects of the war, in which the citizens of Panem try to reassemble a new society that will eventually give birth to the Hunger Games.
The focus of the story will reportedly be a younger version of the villainous President Coriolanus Snow, as played by Donald Sutherland in the movies.
- 4/21/2020
- by David James
- We Got This Covered
Nearly five years after the Hunger Games movie franchise wrapped up, we're officially going back to Panem. Following news that author Suzanne Collins would be releasing a book prequel in May, it was recently announced that Lionsgate is adapting the book as a movie. Francis Lawrence - who previously directed Catching Fire, Mockingjay: Part 1, and Mockingjay: Part 2 - is already on board to direct, so it's safe to say the latest installment is in good hands.
The upcoming novel titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will follow an 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (aka President Snow) and document his rise to power. Seeing that it will take place during the 10th Hunger Games, we can't help but wonder if we'll see some familiar faces pop up. Plus, who will play the infamous Snow? They certainly have some big shoes to fill after Donald Sutherland's portrayal in the original movies. So far,...
The upcoming novel titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will follow an 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (aka President Snow) and document his rise to power. Seeing that it will take place during the 10th Hunger Games, we can't help but wonder if we'll see some familiar faces pop up. Plus, who will play the infamous Snow? They certainly have some big shoes to fill after Donald Sutherland's portrayal in the original movies. So far,...
- 4/21/2020
- by Kelsie Gibson
- Popsugar.com
Hunger Games series filmmaker Francis Lawrence is returning to helm the Lionsgate prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes based on Suzanne Collins’ new Scholastic novel which will be available for sale on May 19 in the Us, Canada, the UK and Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Lawrence directed the last three Hunger Games movies: Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1, and Mockingjay Part 2. No word yet on casting, but this is a big project to prep up once production can safely resume post the Covid-19 pandemic.
Also returning are franchise producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. Collins will write the film’s treatment and Michael Arndt, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine will adapt the screenplay, after previously serving as one of the writers of Catching Fire. Collins also will serve as an Ep.
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Also returning are franchise producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. Collins will write the film’s treatment and Michael Arndt, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine will adapt the screenplay, after previously serving as one of the writers of Catching Fire. Collins also will serve as an Ep.
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- 4/21/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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