Soon, you too will be able to fight for your life like Katniss Everdeen: The Hunger Games movie franchise is getting its own ride at a new Hollywood theme park in Dubai.

No, your eyes do not deceive you. You are, in fact, looking at a life-sized Jennifer Lawrence in costume as Katniss Everdeen, made of sponge cake.

The Hunger Games... On Ice! hasn't happened yet, but it's only a matter of time. The lucrative film franchise surrounding a bloody dystopic children's competition — Rue, we still miss you — is heading to a stage in London.

Dystopia continues in the new Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1 teaser trailer featuring a pensive Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, and the voice of Plutarch Heavensbee, played by the late Phillip Seymour Hoffman, in the background. Between the imagery of a bombed-out District 12, Lorde's haunting song…

Yesterday we saw an official portrait of Effie Trinket; today we've got Katniss, Cinna, and Haymitch. Look closely at the silver structure on Katniss's gown — it's in the shape of a Mockingjay. If you think her gown looks very McQueen, you're right — although apparently it's a knockoff? The Telegraph reports that the…

Behold, Katniss, looking wary and making some kind of speech or presentation, and Peeta, square-jawed and vaguely morose, in this new still from the second Hunger Games film, Catching Fire. Do the colors and tones here seem a lot more somber and subdued than the ones we saw in the first film? Or is it just that we're…

So. Here is an exclusive sneak peek at Finnick and Katniss getting up close and personal in Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Cool? Cool. Although: It would be so much hotter if that were Jesse Williams, right? Right. Not gonna let that go.

If you have a sleepover at the BAMF Girls Club, just remember that Lisbeth Salander will probably fuck with you while you're sleeping. So don't sleep — stay vigilant through the wee small hours of the morning and wait for Katniss Everdeen to make some squirrel fur pancakes. She uses real bits of squirrel so you know…

Whenever a new fad takes over pop culture, social scientists take note. They host conferences, teach courses, and write popular pieces trying to tie the newest thing to their favorite area of research. Consider this post a humble attempt to take that trend to its epic, nerdtastic next level.

Entertainment Weekly as an exclusive first look. The good news? She doesn't have Barbie's perma-high-heel foot or toothy smile, which would be inappropriate for a teenager being forced to play a "game" that involves killing other kids. The bad news? Well, if you're a purist, this Katniss doesn't really have that…

Trends usually emerge when a big event movie (or book, but who reads anymore?) strikes a chord with a large audience, like when Harry Potter inspired real people to start playing quidditch, a fake sport, or when a cocaine and porn craze swept the nation after the release of Boogie Nights. Now, in the wake of the…

The good news? The Hunger Games made $155 million at the box office its opening weekend, making it the third-best debut in North American box office history. The bad news, however, reflects a level of idiocy that we weren't really expecting.

Before the games, Peeta Mellark goes in front of the crowd and answers questions posed by Caesar Flickerman. "Is there a special girl back home?" Flickerman asks. "No, not really," Peeta replies. Flickerman presses, and Peeta says, "There is this one girl that I've had a crush on forever." Flickerman declares: "You…

Jeez, you expect this sort of thing from a men's magazine. Et tu, Glamour? Or maybe this is something Cinna whipped up for archery training in The Capitol? (Yes, we know this is Jennifer Lawrence and not Katniss, but seriously, with the bow, lines are blurred.) [Buzzfeed]

Kind of upsetting, actually.

Fans of the books are eagerly anticipating the March 2012 release of The Hunger Games. But just because it's a teen-oriented romantic and violent fantasy project doesn't mean it will draw the same kind of freakish crowds the SparkleVamp did. Or, at least, that's what Jennifer Lawrence has been telling herself. Here's…