Catching Fire
Lionsgate announced that "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" was to be released on November 22, 2013, as a sequel to the film adaptation of "The Hunger Games". In April 2012, it was announced that Gary Ross, director of "The Hunger Games", would not return due to a "tight" and "fitted" schedule. Francis Lawrence was officially announced as the director for "Catching Fire" on May 3, 2012. The film's cast includes Jena Malone as Johanna Mason, Philip Seymour Hoffman as Plutarch Heavensbee, Lynn Cohen as Mags, Alan Ritchson as Gloss, Sam Claflin as Finnick, and Jeffrey Wright as Beetee. Production officially began on September 10, 2012 and concluded on December 21, 2012. Shooting first took place in and around metropolitan Atlanta. Several District 11 scenes were also filmed in the rural areas of Macon County, Georgia, and the rest of production took place in Hawaii. Some of the wooded scenes were filmed in Oakland, New Jersey.