Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay is 398 pages long. Lionsgate split Mockingjay into two movies because Lionsgate is a business that wants to make money. When a single short book gets made into two movies, ...

In the Book: We open with Katniss standing amid the ruins of District 12. She fills us in on how she got here. She says she made it a condition of her cooperation that they taker her to District 12 ...

Instead of sending in Peeta's childhood friend to help him recover, the team chooses Prim. In the book, Katniss is much more uneasy about Gale's soldier attitude, but in the movie, it takes her longer ...

Spoiler alert! The following contains major spoilers for both the book Mockingjay and the movie The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1. Lovably clueless Effie is all but absent from the final Hunger ...

10.) In the aftermath of the District 2 ‘Nut’ mine-bombing scene, the film cut to the Capitol with President Snow hosting an extravagant dinner for personnel. He has one of his advisers, Antonius, ...

Francis Lawrence said he "realized it was frustrating" for fans to have to wait a year between each movie. By Carly Thomas Associate Editor “What I realized in retrospect — and after hearing all the ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. One of the best surprises of last year, for me ...

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” is only half awesome because it is only half a movie. Suzanne Collins’ final book in the trilogy has been segmented into two films, massacring the momentum the ...

It was an accident, or at least an anomaly, when it first happened about five years ago. J.K. Rowling’s final Harry Potter book, suffixed “The Deathly Hallows,” would get the two-movie treatment. As ...

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A Paris photo call for “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2” draws Woody Harrelson (left, in pajama pants and socks), Josh Hutcherson, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and director Francis Lawrence ...