MTV.com released the second promo for “The Hunger Games” VMA footage.

The exclusive glimpse of the film will debut during Sunday’s VMAs, to be introduced by star Jennifer Lawrence. It will also be available exclusively on MTV.com.

Jennifer will present the first exclusive footage of “The Hunger Games” this sunday during the VMA’s. MTV posted the promo of the first look to their website and we get a glimpse of the preview.

Exciting news, Nextmovie is reporting that the first footage of “The Hunger Games” will be shown at the MTV Video Music Awards this Sunday. Jennifer will introduce the footage so we assume she will attend the event.

Over the last quarter century, MTV’s Video Music Awards have provided the world with some of its most famous pop culture moments, from Britney’s “comeback” performance to Kanye West crashing the stage during Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech.

This year, you can add “The Hunger Games” to that list of milestones. NextMovie can exclusively confirm that this year’s VMAs will feature the world premiere of the first ever footage from the most anticipated film event of 2012, introduced by star Jennifer Lawrence herself.

Looks like this year, the odds are definitely in your favor.

For those still wondering what the big deal is, here’s a quick rundown: Based on the wildly popular series of young adult novels by Suzanne Collins, “The Hunger Games” stars Academy Award nominee Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen, a girl who is chosen to participate in a government-sponsored televised deathmatch against other randomly chosen teenage opponents.

And now the whole world will get a chance to see exactly what all the hype is about, thanks to MTV. Tune in to the VMAs when it airs live this Sunday at 9 p.m. EST — and get your first look at the movie world’s next big thing.

“The Hunger Games” doesn’t arrive in theaters until March 23, but the real countdown begins Sunday. See you there.

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MTV.com had an interview with T-Bone Burnett, the composer of “The Hunger Games” Soundtrack and he confirmed Jennifer will sing.

We’ve seen snippets of the cinematic world of Panem — Jennifer Lawrence as blood-spattered, arrow-wielding Katniss crouching in the woods, Josh Hutcherson as her battle-worn fellow combatant Peeta lying in a clearing. What we haven’t yet checked out from “Hunger Games” — and why would we, with no trailer yet released and the film not hitting theaters until March 2012? — is anything to do with the score, an all-star collaboration between T-Bone Burnett and Danny Elfman.

But that musical omission will be changing soon, as Burnett not only told MTV News that filmmakers will be releasing “Hunger Games” tuneage soon, but that one track will feature Lawrence herself.

“Yeah, we did,” Burnett said when we asked if Lawrence had recorded anything in the studio. “And it was beautiful. She did great. She’s singing great. Killer actor too.”
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The official release date for The Hunger Games sequel Catching Fire was just announced by Lionsgate Publicity. Fans can look forward to seeing this film in theatres November 22nd, 2013.

As far as why there is such a long lag time between the two releases, the statement from Lionsgate Chief Operating Officer Joe Drake only notes that “the period around the Thanksgiving weekend is such an opportunity for families and friends to make an event of going to the movies.”

Another production still was released of Jennifer as Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games“. We added the high quality version in our gallery. We also replaced the first production still released by Entertainment Weekly with an untagged HQ one.

Actor Josh Hutcherson fears his The Hunger Games co-star Jennifer Lawrence is out for revenge after he made the Oscar nominee wet her pants with a scary prank.

The Kids Are All Right star has landed the role of Peeta Mellark in the much-anticipated movie adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ bestselling book, opposite Lawrence as leading lady Katniss Everdene. The pair has formed a strong bond onset, but prankster Hutcherson admits his latest stunt is sure to have landed him at the top of Lawrence’s target list.

He tells Entertainment Weekly, “We have this fake dummy on set, this really gnarled-up scary-looking thing. The other day I put it in her bathroom in her trailer, and she told me she actually peed her pants, she was so scared. I’m sure she’s going to pay me back. I’m just terrified because she’s someone I can see taking it to the next level, and somebody could get hurt.”

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The ‘Men of The Hunger Games’ are on the cover of the current issue of Entertainment Weekly, which hit newsstands yesterday. We added the full article scans in our gallery, it includes the previous released first production still of Jennifer and a new on set still. Credit for the scans go to Hypable!

Entertainment Weekly released the first stills of “The Hunger Games” including one of Jennifer.

It was a love-fest when Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song) and Josh Hutcherson (The Kids Are All Right) learned they’d landed the roles of Gayle and Peeta, respectively. The guys first met after Hutcherson worked with Hemsworth’s big brother, Chris, on an upcoming remake of Red Dawn. Says Hutcherson, ”I sent him a text: ‘Dude, we have The Hunger Games! I’m so stoked, man, this is awesome!”’

Before arriving on set, Hutcherson hit the gym for an intense round of training to better embody a boy who’s spent his childhood heaving sacks of flour. He put on about 15 pounds of muscle in three weeks.

Director Gary Ross on Hemsworth, here with Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss: ”On first glance he’s such a hunk that it’s easy to ascribe a hunklike simplicity to him. But this is a phenomenally subtle actor, totally in control of what he was doing.”
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The first motion poster for The Hunger Games have now been released by Yahoo. It features Katniss iconic mockingjay pin and it’s on fire. I love it and it makes me so excited about the movie. The posted can be found inside.
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