FROM MTV NEWS: Get your fire extinguishers ready, because the world is going to be "Catching Fire" on November 22, 2013.
Lionsgate announced the release date for the second installment in the "Hunger Games" film series Monday (August 8), following two new stills from the first flick hitting the Web. "The Hunger Games" is still in production and is slated for a March 23, 2012, release. "Catching Fire" is the only movie slotted for the prime 2013 Thanksgiving weekend spot.
No word yet on whether "Catching Fire" will maintain Gary Ross as director or whether it will follow "The Twilight Saga" and "Harry Potter" trend of getting new directors for its four installments. But, considering "The Hunger Games" is close to wrapping, the timing of the announcement leads us to assume that Lionsgate is attempting to maintain some continuity from the first movie to the second.
The new photos from "The Hunger Games" show that the cast is well into filming. The first still shows off Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in the middle of the titular Hunger Games. It is a familiar image from the previously released photos, but the "X-Men: First Class" star looks ready for battle with her quiver full of arrows. If you look close enough, you can even see her mockingjay pin peeking out on her jacket.
The casting announcements are coming as surely as winter for season two of 
Winter is coming 
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'Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes': Rooting For The Other Guys
Posted 8/8/11 11:00 am EST by Terri Schwartz in Commentary
"Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is one of those movies that, unless you've been oblivious to major nerd pop culture over the past 40 years, you walk into the theaters with a good idea of what to expect. Spoiler alert: the apes rise, and they do so in glorious fashion. Though as we're sitting in the cinema cheering on what has got to be some of the most epic troop-rallying that we've seen in recent years, there's a certain level of unease that is attached to it. After all, by cheering on the apes, we're cheering on the demise of mankind.
It seems to be an interesting moral question that has been popping up in films a lot more frequently -- one that Tom Felton wants to you to think about -- and it isn't the first time a movie has put us in this predicament. After the jump, we look at some other movies that make you choose between your species and the other guys.
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