The Hunger Games
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From the Wire: Reading 'Hunger Games'' Romance
A lot of people have compared "The Hunger Games" and "Twilight" -- one critic takes a closer look.
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Guest Post: Trouble in Hollywood - Hunger Games Fans Resort to Racist Tweets
The first installment of the highly anticipated The Hunger Games trilogy finally made its way to the silver screen, earning an historic $155 million its opening weekend. While fans cheered on Katniss Everdreen—the strong and self-sufficient blue-eyed, blond hair Anglo heroine fighting for her ...
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Hunger Games Backlash: Jennifer Lawrence Doesn't Look Hungry Enough
As of two days ago The Hunger Games' domestic gross was up above $173 million dollars. It will clearly be above $200 million before the weekend. It's a success so the nitpicking has started. We've seen the posts on the racist tweets and now there are people complaining ...
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From the Wire: Books to Films and Back
How important is faithfulness to the success of a cinematic adaptation of a popular novel?
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The Connection Between Big Opening Weekends and Good Reviews
Investigating the claim that critics can positively impact a movie's opening weekend grosses.
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THE HUNGER GAMES: The Conversation
Now that "The Hunger Games," the new film adaptation of the first book in Suzanne Collins's hyper-popular young adult book series, has raked in $68 million dollars on its opening day alone, it seems especially prudent to take a somewhat harder look at the film, both as a stand-alone work and as an a...
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Women and Hollywood11 commentslike17tweet5
The Hunger Games
I spent most of the beginning of The Hunger Games kind of holding my breath in hopes that the movie would live up to all the hype I put on it. I loved the books A LOT. I also put a whole heap of unjustified responsibility on it and felt that it just had to hit a certain level so that the...
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Are Female Critics More Likely to Enjoy 'The Hunger Games' Than Their Male Counterparts?
One blogger says female critics are more inclined to like "The Hunger Games." We looked at the statistics to see if he's right.
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The Pros and Cons of the Critic of Everything
Should critics have opinions about every movie? Should you have an opinion about this?
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Interview with Nina Jacobson: Producer of the Hunger Games
Nina Jacobson is poised to have a really great weekend. She's about to open The Hunger Games which if tracking and advance sales hold will be one of the best opening weekends ever. She answered some questions by phone as the film gets ready to roll out
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