The Mother Lode: 250 Hunger Games Products For Sale —

March 12, 2012 by 6 Comments

At one web site, CafePress! From the GalleyCat article on this veritable cornucopia (ahem) of Panem t-shirts and bling:

The online marketplace CafePress has launched an official store for merchandise promoting the upcoming adaptation of The Hunger Games.

The store stocks 250 items, ranging from dog t’s to aprons to stadium blankets to $18 teddy bears. If you visit the Hunger Games Facebook application, fans can create a free ID card and pretend they are doomed characters inside the popular book series.

Need that District 12 stainless steel Tribute Water Bottle? It’s here for only $28. [The stein is a little more.] How about a ‘Mellark Bakery’ hoodie? $34, in any of six colors. Your very own Mockingjay symbol embossed iPad with “May the Odds Be Ever In Your Favor!”? Oh, yeah, they have one. If you have to ask “how much?” you cannot afford it.

After the jump, a set of links to the more than 250 Hunger Games products you can order to help lock-down your identification with the coolest Capitol franchise since The Beatles… to include thongs, boxers, and briefs. Don’t miss out!

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Why Wait for the LionsGate Hunger Games Movie? Part 2

March 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment

Why wait, indeed, when you can watch the ‘Finnick and Annie’ reels or a captivating ‘Katniss and Rue’ film? Check out “The Making of ‘Katniss and Rue'” and a Hunger Games Trailer parody after the jump…

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ET: Behind the Scenes of ‘Hunger Games’ Filming (Etc.!)

March 12, 2012 by 5 Comments

The Hunger Games movie premiere is tonight in Los Angeles, believe it or not; Check out the live Red Carpet action on MTV, the Capitol’s main line to the heartland of Panem! Any bets that the three principal players show up dressed for a District 12 Reaping? They should, though, right?

Continuing with our ‘Hunger Games Month’ coverage of the run-up to the first movie’s general release for us out in the Districts on 23 March, below are film clips from Entertainment Tonight about the making of the film. We’ll be talking about the expanded role for Seneca Crane in the first part of the story soon; please feel free to check in with your thoughts on that subject or others in the comment space provided below! Surprise about Sutherland and Seneca after the jump …


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Another ‘Hunger Games’ Media Contact: 14 Questions For You

March 11, 2012 by 3 Comments

Last Monday, The Oklahoman published an article on the series of three lectures I am giving this month at Full Circle Bookstore in Oklahoma City (read that story and watch the video here). The talk was a blast and I hope the Full Circle SRO audience re-appears tomorrow for my exploration of Catching Fire. Part of me has to wonder if they will, of course, because there won’t be a big push in the capitol city’s only news daily.

I was interviewed last week, however, albeit an interview that you are invited to participate in as well. A serious reader of the first rank on the Left Coast — she has organized fandom conferences for both Harry Potter and Twilight, the latter, incredibly, held at Forks High School — sent me fourteen hunger Games questions for Panem Parishioners (the true believers?) a reporter had asked her to share with those in the know. I complied (the questions and my answers are below the jump) and I pass them on to you. If you’d like the reporter to get your feedback for a Hunger Games story going out before the movie premiere, send your answers to me at john at HogwartsProfessor dot com. I’ll pass them on!

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Scenes from District 12 and Great Tourism Opportunities

March 10, 2012 by 6 Comments

This past week, I had the opportunity to visit the abandoned Henry River Mill Community where many of the District 12 scenes were filmed for the upcoming Hunger Games film. Here are a few of the photographs we snapped. I was prepared for surly security guards, police officers, even, but it was a lovely day, and the only person we encountered was a delightful gentleman who had been wanting to photograph the site and was aware of the film only as something that blocked up traffic back in the summer. I was hoping for dandelions, but had to settle for daffodils, which, as Katniss would tell us, are completely inedible, but I like them because they linger on long after people have left a house or town site, beautiful yellow reminders of a past that is long gone. [Read more…]

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