With less than two months to go before the March 23 premiere of The Hunger Games, the first installment of Suzanne Collins’ breathlessly addicting  trilogy, director Gary Ross is already predicting the possibility of another nomination for his 21-year-old star Jennifer Lawrence come next year’s Oscars. “The range in this performance, the emotional terrain that she investigates, the demands of what this role are,” he raves of Lawrence’s portrayal of series heroine Katniss Everdeen, a 16-year-old forced alongside other children into a televised fight-to-the-death. “It’s such an intensely physical role and an emotional one. She carries the entire movie. To be able to do that at that age is so kind of incredible that I was in a little bit of awe. Do I think she should be nominated? Absolutely.”

via Hunger Games: Jennifer Lawrence, Gary Ross talk Catching Fire | Inside Movies | EW.com.

Fans have been jumping on news about the original score for “The Hunger Games,” ever since the first whispered rumor that Jennifer Lawrence herself would be singing a song on the films soundtrack—an appropriate level of enthusiasm considering how much music becomes the language of the Panem revolution. So its no surprise that the stars of the film, all “Hunger Games” fans themselves, are also a seriously musical bunch.

via ‘Hunger Games’ Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson Are Musically Minded.

If you’re as obsessed with The Hunger Games style as we are, today’s your lucky day! The studio behind the hotly anticipated movies has launched the Capitol Couture site, an inside look at all things fashion and beauty in the seriously chic city of Panem. Issue #1 includes a style profile of District 12 escort Effie Trinket, a look at designer clothes and shoes that could go straight from the runway to the Capitol, and a selection of amazing fan art from the Tumblr community. As you count down the days until the March 23rd opening of The Hunger Games, stay tuned to the site for more Capitol fashion tips, tricks and trendspotting.

via First Look: The Hunger Games Capitol Couture Site : InStyle.com What’s Right Now.

EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that after some protracted negotiations Summit Entertainment co-chiefs Rob Friedman and Patrick Wachsberger today signed their respective employment contracts with Lionsgate. Until that happened there was nothing binding the pair to Summit’s new parent company. An announcement will come down tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’ve also learned that Lionsgate’s current movie chief Joe Drake has decided to stay and continue shepherding The Hunger Games, the studio’s hoped-for blockbuster franchise whose first installment comes out on March 23rd. Drake will be reporting to Lionsgate chairman Jon Feltheimer and vice chairman Michael Burns. The two independent movie studios will operate separately for some time with Summit a standalone label not unlike New Line and Warner Bros. Friedman will run domestic and Wachsberger will run foreign along the same division of labor they had at Summit and together run the movie division for Lionsgate. The new product pipeline of Lionsgate-Summit will be 10 to 14 movies a year. Meanwhile Friedman and Wachsberger are still very busy with Summit business: the studio’s Now You See Me starts production immediately, while Man On A Ledge releases January 27th, followed by the Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 DVD selling February 11th.

via Rob Friedman & Patrick Wachsberger Sign Lionsgate Employment Contracts; Joe Drake Stays To Run ‘The Hunger Games’ – Deadline.com.

The Web nearly caught fire Thursday (January 19) when Entertainment Weekly debuted the first image of “Hunger Games” characters Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) in their parade costumes, snapped mere moments before District 12′s heroine becomes (quite literally) the Girl on Fire (we see you with that lit fuse, Cinna!).

Of course, fans of Suzanne Collins’ best-selling novel know that the textured black suits are meant to reflect the duo’s coal-mining community, brought to sartorial life by their savvy stylist (played by Lenny Kravitz).

“This is one of those moments where Cinna’s character syncs up with the creativity of our costume designer Judianna Makovsky,” director Garry Ross told EW.

As if sitting front row at a Capitol-sponsored fashion show, fans have slowly but surely been treated to the growing catalog of Makovsky’s “Hunger Games” looks — from Effie Trinket’s lavender, silk brocade gown recently revealed on Capitol Couture to Katniss’ and Peeta’s futuristic training uniforms.

Read More:  ‘Hunger Games’ Girl On Fire Outfit: Meet The Designer – MTV Movie News| MTV.