Showing posts with label Suzanne Collins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Suzanne Collins. Show all posts

Sunday, February 5, 2012

March 23rd is just around the corner!

The movie version of The Hunger Games will be opening on March 23rd, much to the delight of rabid fans everywhere.  See the trailer here:
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=33038

In case there is anybody still left wondering what the film (adapted from Suzanne Collins' books) is about, Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen, a young woman living in an apocalyptic, ruined future America. With the majority of its citizens living in poverty in rural Districts, she has to hunt to supplement her sister and mother's meagre rations. Then her sister is chosen for the Hunger Games, an annual contest that keeps the fractured country under the iron fist of the technologically advanced Capitol.

The Games pits youngsters from each of the Districts against each other in a battle to the death, so Katniss volunteers to take her sister's place and fight alongside Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson). She'll have to outwit and outfight highly trained Tributes who have been preparing for the games her entire lives. And, as Katniss says in the new trailer, "24 go in, but only one comes out..."

This new promo is a chance to see several of the main cast: Elizabeth Banks, Donald Sutherland, Stanley Tucci, Liam Hemsworth and Lenny Kravitz all feature here.

We get the chance to see the whole thing on March 23.



http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/

http://www.thehungergamesmovie.com/intl/uk/

Suzanne Collins fans, rejoice!



A new collection has been created: The High-Demand Youth Fiction Collection!  At the moment, this collection consists of 30 books --- 10 each of the 3 books in the Hunger Games trilogy.  These books are shelved in the Quigley Youth Room and circulate for 3 weeks with no renewals.  If you've been searching for a copy of these incredibly popular titles, stop by the WFL today!