Production Starts On 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the shoot will take place in and around Atlanta before moving to Hawaii, and will wrap sometime in December. Which would seem to make for a pretty tight post-production schedule, until one realizes that "Catching Fire" won't be coming out in March like "The Hunger Games" did, but will be seizing upon the plum pre-Thanksgiving slot previously occupied by heavyweights like "The Twilight Saga" and "Harry Potter."

The film will also star Elizabeth Banks, Stanley Tucci, Jena Malone, Toby Jones, Woody Harrelson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Donald Sutherland, Lenny Kravitz and Jeffery Wright, amongst others. The premise? Katniss and Peeta are forced to go on a celebratory tour of the districts following their controversial win (as seen in the first movie), all while a rebellion quietly simmers around them... But you probably knew all that already, because you read the (quite excellent) books like any sensible person would.