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Jul 3 2012 06:47 PM ET

Jena Malone to play Johanna Mason in 'Catching Fire'

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JENA-MALONE

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One down, one more to go. The role of Johanna Mason — one of the most anticipated new characters in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire — may be taken. Lionsgate has reportedly already offered the part — a cunning, sarcastic Tribute from District 7 — to Malone, star of Saved!, Sucker Punch, and, most recently, the A&E mini-series Hatfields & McCoys. EW reported last week that Malone was in the running for the role.

Mason, who eventually allies herself with Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss and Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta, also appears in Suzanne Collins’ third book Mockingjay, so we can probably expect to see Malone in forthcoming sequels. Still to be cast is the role of Finnick Odair, another Tribute that aids the series’ protagonists, even though production is expected to begin in September with Francis Lawrence directing.

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Jun 25 2012 09:12 PM ET

Jena Malone in the running for Johanna Mason in 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' -- EXCLUSIVE

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JENA-MALONE

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Actress Jena Malone (Sucker Punch) is in the running for the pivotal role of strong-willed tribute Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, EW has learned exclusively.

The character is described in author Suzanne Collins’ best-seller as possessing “a wicked ability to murder,” winning her Hunger Games by pretending to be weak and then picking off the other tributes. One open question about the character is whether director Francis Lawrence will keep Johanna’s introduction from the book, in which she first meets heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) naked — save for her green slippers.

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Jun 25 2012 05:59 PM ET

'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire': Mia Wasikowska NOT in the running for Johanna Mason

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Alice will not be entering the arena.

Contrary to a report last week, Mia Wasikowska is not vying for the role of headstrong tribute Johanna Mason in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. According to the Alice in Wonderland star’s reps, Wasikowska has neither been approached for the role, nor would be able to play it given other film commitments she has for 2012.

Model/actress Zoe Aggeliki was also mentioned as a potential candidate for the role, but when reached for confirmation, Lionsgate had no comment.

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Jun 11 2012 10:52 PM ET

'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire': Philip Seymour Hoffman offered the role of Plutarch Heavensbee

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While rampant speculation on who is or is not in the running for the role of Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire continues to set the Internet ablaze, producers have reportedly made their first offer for another pivotal role in the sequel.

According to multiple reports, Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman has been asked to play Plutarch Heavensbee, the new Gamemaker at the Capitol after Seneca Crane (Wes Bentley) was creatively executed at the end of The Hunger Games. Plutarch is a far savvier political animal than his predecessor, and he plays a crucial role in the events of Catching Fire.

Hoffman just ended a widely acclaimed run playing Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman on Broadway, so why not take the summer off and then hop onto one of the biggest movie franchises in Hollywood? Should the deal go through, it will be the first major new role cast in Catching Fire. Director Francis Lawrence is due to begin shooting the film later this fall. Lionsgate had no comment.

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Jun 6 2012 12:33 PM ET

'Catching Fire' has not yet cast Finnick Odair; Generalissimo Francisco Franco still dead

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You know what they say, “No news is news.” Nina Jacobson, producer of The Hunger Games films, told the Los Angeles Times that previous reports/rumors/aural hallucinations that the filmmakers were close to casting someone as Finnick Odair were incorrect and the role is still wide open. For those not familiar with the Catching Fire novel, the part requires an actor who can pull off both abs and sarcasm — like, say, Ryan “Abs-and-Sarcasm” Reynolds. Unfortunately, the part also requires the actor to not be as famous as Ryan Reynolds because it’s just a supporting role.

“People are like way ahead of where we are,” Jacobson told the Los Angeles Times at Sunday’s MTV Movie Awards. “We’ve not narrowed things down by any means. It’s funny to see how things can take on a life of their own.” So all you hopefuls out there can just keep sending in those pictures of yourself wearing only a net to Lionsgate: This could be your big chance!

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May 31 2012 08:00 PM ET

'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire': Count out Taylor Kitsch as Finnick Odair

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When the report broke that Taylor Kitsch in the running to play the dashing, love-sick, oft-nearly-naked Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, I was dubious. While starring in the sure-to-be-a-hit Catching Fire would help brighten Kitsch’s tarnished star power thanks to the one-two punch of John Carter and Battleship, Kitsch is already committed to director Peter Berg’s Navy SEAL drama Lone Survivor. That film will likely be shooting at the same time that director Francis Lawrence is in production on Catching Fire.

If there was any doubt as to whether Kitsch would abandon his close buddy Berg for Finnick’s golden trident, Kitsch himself laid that idea to rest today. When reached by The Los Angeles Times about playing the Hunger Games champion, Kitsch had a typically terse response: “Not going to happen.”

So there you have it. Armie Hammer, Garrett Hedlund, generic unknown dreamboat, the competition just got more intense!

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May 28 2012 10:44 AM ET

Robert Pattinson addresses 'Catching Fire' rumors

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Contrary to Internet chatter, Robert Pattinson will not star as handsome Finnick Odair in the Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire. “I woke up this morning and saw all these things about me being cast in The Hunger Games,” Pattinson told USA Today at Cannes on Saturday. “I was kind of curious for a second. So I called my agent.” And? “My agent was like, ‘No,’” Pattinson said. “(My agent) was like no one’s going to offer you that part. I was like, thanks for the reassurance.”

In an EW poll in March after the release of The Hunger Games, 35 percent of readers said they think True Blood‘s Ryan Kwanten should land the role of Finnick.  READ FULL STORY »

May 24 2012 05:08 PM ET

Update your calendars: Lionsgate renames 'Catching Fire'

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Today in Hunger Games news: The blockbuster film’s upcoming sequel now has a slightly tweaked title. Lionsgate will officially name the second movie The Hunger Games: Catching Fire rather than just Catching Fire, the title of Suzanne Collins’ second dystopian YA novel.

The studio’s strategy echoes the one Summit Entertainment has used for its Twilight films; while the first was simply called Twilight, subsequent titles are all prefaced with The Twilight Saga and a colon. This tweaked title should also set straight moviegoers who have been anticipating a Lionsgate adaptation of Kay Nolte Smith’s 1982 mystery novel.

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May 3 2012 05:17 PM ET

Francis Lawrence confirmed as 'Catching Fire' director

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FRANCIS-LAWRENCE

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A little under a month after Lionsgate and director Gary Ross cited irreconcilable differences and went their separate ways, The Hunger Games franchise has gotten a new stepdad. Francis Lawrence, who has previously tackled action thrillers and literary adaptations — I Am Legend and Water for Elephants respectively — has been named the successor to the series.

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Apr 19 2012 09:05 PM ET

Francis Lawrence offered 'Catching Fire' director gig

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FRANCIS-LAWRENCE

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Barely a week after Gary Ross bowed out of directing Catching Fire, the sequel to his blockbuster megahit The Hunger Games, Francis Lawrence has been offered the hotly contested job, EW has confirmed.

The I Am Legend helmer — no relation to star Jennifer Lawrence — won the gig over reported contender Bennett Miller (Moneyball), whose commitment to a fall shoot for the biopic Foxcatcher likely ultimately put him out of the running. (The Hollywood Reporter first broke the story.)

Catching Fire is set on a much larger, more exotic canvas than The Hunger Games, and the choice suggests Lionsgate was keen on Lawrence’s ability to handle large-scale visual effects sequences while also giving them a sense of style. He’ll have precious time to prepare; Catching Fire already has a set release date (Nov. 22, 2013), and needs to finish shooting by December, in time for Jennifer Lawrence to begin production on the sequel to X-Men: First Class.

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