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Giveaway · AU
Win the Limited Edition Hunger Games Crosley Cruiser Turntable
Crosley's Sunrise on the Reaping Cruiser, exclusive 7-inch included, is up for one Australian winner: tell us your favourite song from Panem on Instagram by 27 October.
Merch · AU
Lionsgate Shop Adds Flint Striker Necklace and Pin, Ships to Australia
Lenore Dove's inscribed birthday gift to Haymitch is now official merchandise, priced in AUD and shipping here. We ordered both; this is what the shipping bill looks like.
Soundtrack · lead single
Noah Kahan's 'Draw You Out' Is Out, and Sydney Got the First Live Performance
The lead single from Sunrise on the Reaping (The Album) dropped on Friday, the same night Noah Kahan played it for the first time at Afterpay Arena.
Cast · cover story
Joseph Zada and co-stars cover EW as Whitney Peak calls Sunrise "the first domino"
Zada, Whitney Peak, Mckenna Grace, Elle Fanning and Glenn Close shot Entertainment Weekly's Sunrise on the Reaping cover, with Francis Lawrence on what 48 tributes meant on set.
Marketing · AU exclusive
Stila's Sunrise on the Reaping collection is coming to Australia & New Zealand, exclusively at MECCA
The official makeup collection for the film arrives 29 September as a limited-edition MECCA exclusive, with a second drop to follow in October.
Merch · Collectibles
Haymitch finally gets a Funko Pop: new Hunger Games wave hits US pre-order on 26 August
Three new Pop! Movies figures, including the first ever Haymitch Abernathy, open for US pre-order on 26 August. The Australian date is coming in September.
Exhibition · AU
Sunrise on the Reaping is screening in IMAX in Australia from 19 November
IMAX Melbourne has confirmed the film opens on the museum screen in IMAX. The aspect ratio, the thing Catching Fire fans actually care about, is still with IMAX Corp.
Community · Giveaway
We're giving away one of 350 copies of the Tim Palen Ultimate Edition
Assouline printed 350. Three have sat in our storage for a decade. One hundred days out from the Australian release of Sunrise on the Reaping, one of them is leaving the vault.
Books · exclusive editions
The Hunger Games: Survival Edition is real — and Australia is locked out of both versions
Scholastic UK and The Works have announced a retailer-exclusive leather-look paperback of the original novel, in stores from the week of 31 August. Target has the same book listed for 1 September in the US. Neither route reaches Australia, and the structure of the two deals is the reason why.
Casting · interview
Why Cooper Hoffman isn't playing Plutarch in Sunrise on the Reaping
Francis Lawrence has addressed the casting a lot of people assumed was coming. The part needed someone who read considerably older — and it went to an actor who once played Philip Seymour Hoffman's son.
