9/04/2014

New Posters for 'The Hunger Games: Mockingjay', 'Camp X-Ray', and 'The Maze Runner'


We got a look at the rebellion Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) would be leading in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay part 1 in a series of character posters, and now she finally gets one of her own. Lionsgate has released this new one-sheet showing the battle hardened Katniss, all suited up in black and ready to take the fight to the President Snow.  Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Natalie Dormer, Julianne Moore, Stanley Stucci and Donald Sutherland also star in the adaptation of Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel, directed by Francis Lawrence and opening November 21st.

While many reviewers took issue with the military drama Camp X-Ray, the solid buzz surrounding Kristen Stewart's performance is a very real thing. Is it enough to gain the ex-Twilight thesp some Oscar buzz? I certainly think it's a possibility, but we'll find out when the film opens on October 28th. She plays a Guantanamo Bay prison guard who forges an unlikely friendship with an inmate, and it's a bond that makes her rethink everything she's been taught.


Is it crazy that The Maze Runner is the YA film I'm most looking forward to and not Mockingjay? The trailers and clips we've seen from the film, set in a massive maze populated by kidnapped boys with no recollection of their pasts, have been extremely intense and could make a superstar out of Teen Wolf's Dylan O'Brien. He stars alongside Kaya Scodelario (Wuthering Heights), Will Poulter (We're the Millers), and Thomas Brodie Sangster (Game of Thrones) with Wes Ball directing. Here's the synopsis to go along with the gritty new character posters: Based on the young-adult novel by James Dashner, “The Maze Runner” centers around teen Thomas (O’Brien), who awakens in a rusty elevator with no memory of who he is. What he does come to find out is that he’s been delivered to the middle of an intricate maze, along with a slew of other boys, who have been trying to find their way out of the ever-changing labyrinth — all the while establishing a functioning society within the enclosure they’ve come to call “The Glade.”