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‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1′ First Teaser

By Jack Gattanella on Thu 26 Jun, 2014

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 is almost half a year away from release, but that hasn’t stopped the filmmakers from getting people worldwide a glimpse of what’s to come. The first teaser for the movie, which is a minute and a half long, is more of a “promotional video” via the Capital and President Snow (Donald Sutherland, in all white, with a white backdrop).

The video is basically a (to put it lightly) passive-aggressive statement to the citizens of Panem – “”If you resist the system, you starve yourself. If you fight against it, it is you who will bleed.” – with Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta standing by his side (who as you may recall from the end of Catching Fire was taken by the Capital).  It’s a clever piece of marketing that fans of the books will recognize and works tremendously as satirical propaganda in the world of the story.

The film opens this November via Lions Gate.  Check it out below.  Excited for the next installment?  Think they got the tone right?  Let us know in the comments or on Twitter @

Jack is a graduate of film studies from William Paterson University in Wayne, NJ, and is currently seeking his MFA in Screenwriting at the Academy of Art. He is a screen-writer, film critic, director, and editor, and has also done camera-work for web-series, doccumentaries and shorts. Currently Jack is seeking distribution for his feature film drama, “Green Eyes“, co-produced a sci-fi feature, Audrey Lorea‘s ‘Heaven is Now.‘, as well as a comedy pilot called ‘Losers’ which is being shopped around to networks. He is also a contributing writer for the sites FocusFilm.co.uk, Film Forward, and some of his other reviews can be found on his blogcinetarium.blogspot.com. Jack is a vociferous fan of films and will watch anything interesting, foreign and domestic. He survives by his wife, a political science professor, and currently resides in Little Ferry, New Jersey, USA.
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