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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games
2012
Directed by
122 min
A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and marketing. This is an amazing in-depth piece and it's notable how many women were involved in this production, from several Lionsgate executives to novelist Suzanne Collins herself. Jennifer Lawrence talks about her "hypocrisy" in not wanting to do a big budget blockbuster after having devoted herself to indies (despite X-Men, which she seems to discount somewhat). There's also a nice sequence on the strength and weight training the actors went through and the stunts that are so notable in the film, as well as having to dance around the violence implicit in the story due to the planned PG-13 rating the filmmakers were aiming for.
Ratings
3.5
Cast
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Suzanne Collins
Self - Author
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Jennifer Lawrence
Self (Katniss Everdeen)
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Josh Hutcherson
Self (Peeta Mellark)
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Liam Hemsworth
Self (Gale Hawthorne)
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Donald Sutherland
Self (President Coriolanus Snow)
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Elizabeth Banks
Self (Effie Trinket)
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Lenny Kravitz
Self (Cinna)
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Woody Harrelson
Self (Haymitch Abernathy)
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Stanley Tucci
Self (Caesar Flickerman)
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Wes Bentley
Self (Seneca Crane)
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Willow Shields
Self (Primrose Everdeen)
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Paula Malcomson
Self (Katniss' Mother)
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Amandla Stenberg
Self (Rue)
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Alexander Ludwig
Self (Cato)
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Dayo Okeniyi
Self (Thresh)
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Leven Rambin
Self (Glimmer)
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Jack Quaid
Self (Marvel)
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Isabelle Fuhrman
Self (Clove)
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Jacqueline Emerson
Self (Fox Face)
Sandino Moya-Smith
Self (Propaganda Film Tribute(
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Renae Moneymaker
Self - Stunt Double
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Gary Ross
Self - Screenwriter
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Billy Ray
Self - Screenwriter
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Chad Stahelski
Self - Second Unit Director
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Allison Shearmur
Self - Executive Producer
Robin Bissell
Self - Executive Producer
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Nina Jacobson
Self - Producer
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Jon Kilik
Self - Producer
Diana Alvarez
Self - Co-Producer
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Bryan Unkeless
Self - Co-Producer
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Debra Zane
Self - Casting Director
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Philip Messina
Self - Production Designer
Larry Dias
Self - Set Decorator
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Judianna Makovsky
Self - Costume Designer
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Ve Neill
Self - Makeup Department Head
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Linda Flowers
Self - Hair Department Head
Sheena Duggal
Self - Visual Effects Supervisor
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Scott Farrar
Self - Visual Effects
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James Newton Howard
Self - Original Music Composer.(archive footage)
Lon Bender
Self - Sound Designer
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Stephen Mirrione
Self - Editor
David Levithan
Self - Author, Nick & Noah's Infinite Playlist
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Drew McWeeny
Self - Film Critic
Crew
Director of Photography
Additional Photography
Production Assistant
Sound Mixer
Executive Producer
Details
Release Date
2012-08-18
Runtime
122 min
Original Language
English
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Production Companies
Off the Cliff Productions
Countries
United States of America
Genres
Documentary