The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games was the link movie connecting Spider-Man 2 and X-Men: Apocalypse.
Linked through Elizabeth Banks and Jennifer Lawrence.
Both Elizabeth Banks and Jennifer Lawrence appeared in The Hunger Games.
About The Hunger Games
"The world will be watching."
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
Directed by Gary Ross
Written by Gary Ross, Billy Ray, Suzanne Collins
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The song "Safe & Sound" (performed by Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars) won a Grammy and was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Original Song. Jennifer Lawrence won the Saturn Award (Best Actress), the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award (Best Actress in an Action Movie) and the Empire Award (Best Actress), and was nominated by the New York Film Critics Circle.
Soundtrack
Score by James Newton Howard
The film's soundtrack included the song "Safe & Sound," performed by Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars; that song won a Grammy and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Original Song.
Movie trivia
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In March 2009 Lionsgate entered a co-production agreement with Nina Jacobson's Color Force, which had acquired worldwide rights to the novel a few weeks earlier reportedly for $200,000.
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Lionsgate raided budgets of other productions and sold assets to secure an $88,000,000 production budget for the film and obtained $8 million in tax breaks for shooting in North Carolina.
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Director Gary Ross expanded the role of Seneca Crane and created a Gamemakers' control center—with an antiseptic look and holograms—to convey the Capitol's manipulations and preserve Katniss's first-person perspective without voice-over.
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About 30 actresses auditioned or read for Katniss, including Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Emma Roberts, Saoirse Ronan and Shailene Woodley; Jennifer Lawrence was announced in the role on March 16, 2011.
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Jennifer Lawrence was twenty when filming began—four years older than the character—took three days to accept the role, and refused producers' requests that she lose weight because she didn't want to be a bad role model.
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Woody Harrelson initially passed on Haymitch before Ross convinced him to accept; Stanley Tucci immediately agreed to play Caesar when Ross offered the part in an Italian restaurant on New Year's Eve; Donald Sutherland wrote Ross a letter whose suggestions were incorporated.
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