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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games (2012)

8.2 | Aug 18, 2012 (US) | Documentary | 02:02

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.

Featured Crew

Writer, Producer, Editor
Executive Producer
Sound Mixer
Production Assistant
Director of Photography
Production Assistant
Additional Photography

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