[southern_style]

Ok, I'll admit I've become just a tad obsessed about The Hunger Games; now that I've finished the series, my obsession has moved on to the movies! Sounds like the director is vey, very pleased with Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of Katniss. So much so that he's predicting she'll receive an Oscar nomination next year!

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/01/30/hunger-games-jennifer-lawrence

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.”

Do you think The Hunger Games has the potential to become as successful as the Twilight or Harry Potter series?

[southern_style]

Ok, I'll admit I've become just a tad obsessed about The Hunger Games; now that I've finished the series, my obsession has moved on to the movies! Sounds like the director is vey, very pleased with Jennifer Lawrence's portrayal of Katniss. So much so that he's predicting she'll receive an Oscar nomination next year!

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/01/30/hunger-games-jennifer-lawrence

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.”

Do you think The Hunger Games has the potential to become as successful as the Twilight or Harry Potter series?

[shelbell3]

I think it definitely has the potential to become the next big thing, Lucy.  Especially now that the HP series is finished and Twilight is winding down.  

[sportschic21]

Good point, Shelley.  They have to have the next teen thing in the wings

Have you guys seen all of the stuff that is out preparing for the movie?  T-shirts, a cookbook, the new Tribute guide (I was able to flip through that in half hour - it's kinda neat b/c it gives background info all from the perspective of the Capitol), stickers...it's not HP overloaded, but it's quite a bit.