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As we informed you previously, The Hunger Games tickets are now on sale at Fandango. Click here to book your tickets!

Between 2/22 to 4/23, anyone who purchases a Hunger Games ticket on Fandango will receive a free song download from The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond on iTunes.

So what are you waiting for – grab your tickets now!

In addition you can also buy gift cards featuring the cast members of The Hunger Games!

MovieClips.com has released the two brand new TV Spots for The Hunger Games which we had seen during the episode of Survivor and before. They’re now available in HD and you can watch below:

“Team” feature tons of new scenes including the arrow through the apple in the pig’s mouth and arena shots!

“Tribute” is mostly clips from the latest trailer:

Adorable as always, Josh Hutcherson answers some “True Or False” questions at the backstage of Ellen when he was the guest on February 8th.

Check out the brilliant video below:

We agree with Josh – he really IS Peeta!

In a new interview with Amazon, Jennifer Lawrence sits down to talk about The Hunger Games, playing Katniss and relating to the character, except having a little struggle with the iconic bow and arrow.

Watch the video below:

People magazine is releasing a collector’s special edition with “tons of fab photos” from The Hunger Games on March 2nd. Amandla Stenberg tweeted a photo of the cover of the issue, which you can check out below:

A new behind-the-scenes image of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss and director Gary Ross has also surfaced online. Check it out in the gallery here.

The Estonian poster for The Hunger Games has also been added to the gallery here.

A brand new poster for The Hunger Games has surfaced online. The poster looks to be IMAX specific.

Check out the full high resolution poster out in the gallery here.

Let’s admit it, we’re all apprehensive of the final product we will have in the theatres this March 23rd. iO9.com brings it out even clear in their new article listing out 10 plot points, scenes and characters that are probably not going to be the same in the movie adaptation of The Hunger Games – or just not at all.

Here’s an excerpt regarding the first movie:

Freaky Citizens of the Capitol

Bruce Willis’ odd futuristic robot movie Surrogates tackled the whole “in the future people will dye their skin blue, etc.” trope, and the end result was a bit silly. Let’s hope the Hunger Games movie learns from Surrogates‘ mistakes as most of the citizens of the Capitol have wildly colored skin, hair, golden face tattoos and even cat whiskers. Because we don’t know how it’s going to turn out, if they try to conjure up an entire Tiger woman with stripes and a tail. That being said, Effie looks amazing.

The Full-On Fire Dress

Before the official blood sport begins in the arena each tribute is subjected to pampering, feasting, interviews that are broadcast across all the districts, training and one very big parade. It’s at this parade that Peeta and Katniss distinguish themselves above all the rest. Katniss’ brilliant stylist Cinna (played by Lenny Kravitz) devises a “fire dress” which allows both Peeta and Katniss to be lit on fire, but not burned. Its what first turns the tide for the District 12 tributes, as they are dependent on the audience’s kindness (and therefore interest) inside the area for additional food, water, medicine (in the form of a silver parachute). This is a make-or-break moment for many fans, and we’re betting the movie will go for something way, way more subdued than the crazy fashion moment in the book. We just don’t know if they can pull this one off on screen (same goes for the exploding wedding dress and plenty other fashion moments). Then again, if they do it will be a wondrous spectacle.

Katniss Is Pretty Awful

One of the nice things about reading from the POV of Katniss is the audience gets to see what our hero is really thinking, while she puts on a performance for the cameras. Often times the hero will spit out cruel words while thinking something entirely different. While we’re confident in Jennifer Lawrence’s acting skills (she played a great conflicted Mystique in X-Men: First Class) we’re not so sure the audience won’t hate her by the second movie, if they can’t clearly see the mind-games she’s playing in order to stay alive. Fingers crossed the screenplay bridges this difficult gap, but please god no internal monologue.

Read the full list – beware of spoilers! – here.