Topic: Wes Bentley

It Makes Perfect Sense For The Hunger Games Stars To Join Abigail Breslin’s Dark Comedy Final Girl

Muttations and nightlock berries will seem like child’s play for Alexander Ludwig and Wes Bentley once Abigail Breslin is through with them in Final Girl. More »

The Ironic Mustache Necklace Gets Replaced With The Geekier Hunger Games Seneca Crane Beard Necklace

Here’s the simple, quick way to rocking your own pleather version of only the most important geeky facial hair in the zeitgeist right now. More »

5 Facts About Catching Fire Director Francis Lawrence

From his start making music videos for the likes of Britney Spears and OK Go to how he made Christoph Waltz‘s morally ambiguous character in Water for Elephants sympathetic, here’s what you need to know about Catching Fire‘s new director Francis Lawrence. More »

All The Seneca Crane Beard Memes You Could Hope For

This weekend marks The Hunger Games’ third week as number one at the box office. While most would argue an intense fan base, a well developed heroine, and some impressive action shots are what makes the struggles of the tributes so popular, I would argue at least some of it is due to Seneca’s beard. I mean, just look at it! More »

Our 8 Favorite Video Interviews From The Hunger Games Premiere

Couldn’t make it to the Hunger Games premiere last night in LA? Yeah, neither could we. But with these sweet, funny, down-to-earth videos of Dayo Okeniyi, Jennifer Lawrence, and others, it’s almost as if you were there. More »

Everyone At The Hunger Games Premiere Emulated Panem Fashion

At last night’s The Hunger Games premiere, both the movie’s stars and the random celebrity guests in attendance seemed to have pulled their clothing inspiration from District 12, the Capitol, and even specific Hunger Games characters. More »

Gallery: Fans Go Wild On The The Hunger Games Mall Tour

The Hunger Games mall tour kicked off in Los Angeles on Saturday, March 3rd; check out photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth signing merchandise for ecstatic fans. More »

Video: Katniss Shoots The Gamemakers’ Pig In Infamous Hunger Games Scene

You’ve long wondered what it looks like, and here it is, a pivotal pre-Arena scene from The Hunger Games: During her evaluation, Katniss is frustrated when the Gamemakers don’t care about this District 12 runt. So she decides to get their attention. More »

Meme Alert: The Hunger Games Pick-Up Lines

More like the return of a meme: The Hunger Games pick-up lines were a thing long before Lionsgate cast the movie. But now that we have hot actors like Josh Hutcherson and Wes Bentley in the film, you get funny image macros like these. More »

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Wes Bentley Would’ve Loved To Keep His Much-Beloved Hunger Games Seneca Crane Beard

The breakout star of The Hunger Games won’t be one of the actors, but rather Wes Bentley‘s elaborate Seneca Crane beard! The actor talks about how the idea came to be, and why he doesn’t wear it in his daily life. More »

Is Woody Harrelson Hooking Up with One of His ‘Hunger Games’ Co-Stars?

Oh, Hunger Games! We had high hopes that you would bypass all of the Hollywood behind-the-scenes bullshit and keep on with illustrating the perils of war and reality TV. But instead, two actors are boning even though one of them is married, and we have to figure out who they are. Yesterday Crazy Days and Nights posted a blind item about two stars on the Hunger Games set hooking up, teasing that it’s an older (married!) man and a much younger female co-star. More »

Wes Bentley Cast as Seneca Crane in ‘The Hunger Games’

Wes Bentley, perhaps best known as stoner filmmaker Ricky Fitts in 1999′s American Beauty, has been tapped to play Seneca Crane, the Head Gamemaker in The Hunger Games. Though they engineer the look and fake weather of the Arena, the Gamemakers are portrayed as less cruel than simply indifferent to the fates of the tributes they sabotage during the Games. I had always envisioned Crane as an older, tired man, but actually the idea of a thirtysomething Gamemaker fits into the motif of the Capitol and its residents as forever youthful beauties. More »