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Cannes Kick-Off: ‘Gatsby’ Glitz, ‘Catching Fire’ Heat, Festival Jury’s Spielberg Meal

By NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor | Wednesday May 15, 2013 @ 5:25am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, The Great Gatsby, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

CANNES: Hollywood excess hasn’t disappeared entirely from the 66th Festival De Cannes. But it will be limited to a few studios. Warner Bros is bringing Baz Luhrmann’s lush The Great Gatsby to town for opening night and a gala event. Lionsgate is organizing a beach blowout to promote Catching Fire even though it doesn’t release until November. Fox is making a big deal of the 50th anniversary of Cleopatra, partnering with Bulgari jewelers for a reception displaying pieces from Elizabeth Taylor’s personal collection after a screening of the movie’s new restoration. Even the Cannes jury met for the first time last night, rather fittingly, for dinner at the Palme d’Or restaurant in the Martinez Hotel where the chef prepared a meal inspired by jury president Steven Spielberg’s films. And of course, billionaire Paul Allen’s yacht is expected to turn up in the bay with his annual super-exclusive party falling on May 20. But it’s not all champagne and bikinis on the boats. One exec who’s on a monster yacht each year at Cannes tells me it’s a cost-efficient way to do business rather than just a showy splurge. And even though some Cannes parties can cost $3 million, Warner Bros opened its wallets.

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One executive calls it ”a victory lap” for The Great Gatsby after grossing way above expectations in North America. Now the studio wants to generate buzz internationally for the film adaptation of this most American of novels. No problem, because the rules state a movie can be released in its own country and still have its international premiere at Cannes. So Warner Bros is using this glitzy platform to open in 49 territories on the weekend including France, UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Russia and Korea.

The full cast and filmmakers will attend tonight including Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Debicki, Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, producers Lucy Fisher and Doug Wick, and several studio bigwigs led by Warner Bros Pictures chief Jeff Robinov. In 2001 Luhrmann opened the festival with Fox’s Moulin Rouge and one of the most memorable soirées, replete with Can Can girls, trapeze artists and Fat Boy Slim as deejay. The Gatsby after-party will evoke the Roaring 20s with help from partners Samsung, Tiffany, Moët, Brook Brothers and Chivas. There’s a gargantuan structure the size of an airplane hangar set up on a jetty across the port from the Palais where locals are already lining up for the screening Wednesday night. On Thursday night, the Gatsby party structure will be home to a soirée for about 800 locals. This isn’t an official festival event; rather it’s organized by the town each year and Warner Bros agreed to leave up the Gatsby décor for it.

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Hot Trailer: ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday April 14, 2013 @ 8:16pm PDTTags: Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Lionsgate unveiled the new two and a half minute teaser trailer during the MTV Movie Awards, where Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence was up for four awards. Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, and Josh Hutcherson are back for the Francis Lawrence-directed November 22 sequel. Here’s the teaser:

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‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’: First Set Photos

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 14, 2013 @ 3:14pm PSTTags: Jennifer Lawrence, Lionsgate, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Here’s the first look at shots from Lionsgate‘s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second in the studio’s trilogy starring Jennifer Lawrence. Francis Lawrence directs the pic, which is set to open November 22.

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‘Catching Fire’ Motion Poster Unveiled

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday November 20, 2012 @ 2:42pm PSTTags: Lionsgate, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

The sequel to the first The Hunger Games isn’t due for almost exactly a year — on November 22, 2013 — but Lionsgate has released a cool motion poster on Catching Fire‘s Facebook page. Check it out but beware the autoplay: Read More »

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Lionsgate Makes Multi-Year Output Agreement With StudioCanal For Germany, Austria

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 17, 2012 @ 4:41am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Lionsgate, StudioCanal, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: In the latest of a series of deals to create an international distribution network with top-tier partners offshore, Lionsgate has made a multi-year deal with StudioCanal to release Lionsgate films in Germany and Austria. This comes after the companies … Read More »

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Sam Claflin Finally Set For Finnick In ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 22, 2012 @ 9:15am PDTTags: Sam Claflin, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Mike Fleming

This one took awhile, but Sam Claflin has finally been set for the role of Finnick, a key piece of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. He had been the favorite for the last month, but he had a problem … Read More »

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‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Adds Its Cashmere

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday August 14, 2012 @ 9:51am PDTTags: Jennifer Lawrence, Movie Casting, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

District 1 has a Tribune in the Quarter Quell. Stephanie Leigh Schlund has joined The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Cashmere. The Atlanta-based actress appeared in The Last Song and will be seen on TV in Fox’s The … Read More »

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‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Casts Chaff

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Friday August 10, 2012 @ 9:41am PDTTags: Jennifer Lawrence, Movie Casting, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

E. Roger Mitchell has joined the cast of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Chaff. The actor, who has appeared in TV’s The Shield and in films like Battle: Los Angeles and 2003’s S.W.A.T., will be … Read More »

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‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Casts Bruno Gunn To Play Brutus

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday August 8, 2012 @ 9:15am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Mike Fleming

Bruno GunnThe Hunger Games: Catching Fire helmer Francis Lawrence has set Bruno Gunn to play Brutus in the sequel. Gunn has been seen in Sons of Anarchy and Oz. Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson star … Read More »

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‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Sets Meta Golding As Enobaria

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 7, 2012 @ 10:04am PDTTags: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Mike Fleming

I’m not sure that The Hunger Games has reached the point where every cast member hire by director Francis Lawrence is worth mentioning, but just in case I’m wrong, Meta Golding will play Enobaria in The Hunger Games: Catching … Read More »

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Lynn Cohen Cast As Mags For ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’; Sam Claflin Looking Likely For Finnick

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 2, 2012 @ 9:34am PDTTags: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Mike Fleming

Lionsgate has announced that it set Lynn Cohen to play Mags in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Meanwhile, there has been an interesting behind the scenes battle for the plum role of Finnick.

Sam Claflin has been the favorite, but he had a problem with an option owed to another studio that presented date problems. Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter stars Ben Walker, Boyd Holbrook and Tyler Hoechlin were the other competitors for that role, but it looks now like things have cleared for Claflin and that he’ll play the role. You’ve seen him in Snow White And The Huntsman and Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Here’s the Mags news:

 Santa Monica, CA, August 2, 2012- Lionsgate® and the filmmakers of THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE are pleased to announce that Lynn Cohen has been cast in the role of Mags in the much anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ worldwide smash hit novel Catching Fire. A former mentor to Finnick Odair, Mags is an eighty year old Hunger Games victor from District 4.

Known to New York theater audiences for decades of memorable roles, Cohen has also appeared in critically acclaimed films such as Steven Spielberg’s Munich and Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, NY, as well as commercial fare such as Sex and The City and its sequel. She can next be seen in They Came Together, with Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler.

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TOLDJA! Philip Seymour Hoffman Is Plutarch Heavensbee In ‘Hunger Games’ Sequel ‘Catching Fire’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday July 9, 2012 @ 9:13am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Francis Lawrence, Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Mike Fleming

When Deadline revealed a month ago that Philip Seymour Hoffman had ended his Death of a Salesman run by leaving his longtime agency Paradigm, we were first to tell you that Hoffman was being courted by Lionsgate to play the role of Plutarch Heavensbee in the Francis Lawrence-directed The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Lionsgate has confirmed that he’s set to join Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson and will play the head game organizer in the film, which should be a welcome respite from his grueling nightly performances as Willy Loman in the Mike Nichols-directed Tony-winning Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s classic play. Here’s the release:

Santa Monica, CA, July 9, 2012- Lionsgate® and the filmmakers of THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE are pleased to announce that Philip Seymour Hoffman has been cast in the role of Plutarch Heavensbee, Head Gamemaker for The Hunger Games, in the much anticipated film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ worldwide smash hit novel Catching Fire.

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‘Hunger Games’ Sequel In Talks With Zoe Aggeliki For Key Role

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Thursday June 28, 2012 @ 5:07pm PDTTags: Jena Malone, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Zoe Aggeliki Hunger GamesEXCLUSIVE: Looks like we might have a Hunger Games winner. Zoe Aggeliki has the edge over Jena Malone for a role in Lionsgate‘s The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire. Aggeliki and Malone (Sucker Punch) are up … Read More »

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