Lorde to Curate ‘Mockingjay’ Soundtrack

Every book series that has been turned into a film franchise has had the good fortune of getting fantastic artists to contribute music to the soundtrack.

It was announced today that The Hunger Games–Mockingjay Part 1 has gotten one of the hottest artist of the last year to curate the soundtrack for the film; Lorde.

The New Zealand songstress announced that she would not only be working on the music for the third installation of the Jennifer Lawrence staring film, but she will also contribute an original song to the record which will also be the lead single.

“Curating the soundtrack for such a hotly-anticipated film was a challenge, but I jumped at the chance,” said Lorde in a press release.

“The cast and story are an inspiration for all musicians participating and as someone with cinematic leanings, being privy to different creative process has been a unique experience. I think the soundtrack is definitely going to surprise people.”

The soundtracks for the first two installations of the franchise (The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire) have garnered contributions from artists such as The National, Imagine Dragons, Coldplay, The Arcade Fire, Patti Smith, Ellie Goulding, Christina Aguilera, Maroon 5 and many more.

As if curating a record to one of the most anticipated films wasn’t enough pressure, the singer revealed earlier that she is currently working on a new album that will be different from her breakthrough record, Pure Heroine.

She revealed that the new sounds can be contributed to how she has grown as an artist and writer.

Watch the Newest ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ Trailer

During the MTV Movie Awards this past Sunday, Ellen Page delivered a short look at the upcoming X-Men film, X-Men: Days of Future Past which like most of the teasers that have been revealed left us excited, but still confused. Though at the current moment nobody truly knows the story line for the upcoming film, what we do know is that the film will include all the X-Men we fell in love with in the first films of the franchise and then some.

Today, the final trailer for the film which is scheduled to hit theaters next month, was released. Clocking in at under three minutes, the teaser begins with shots of Professor Xavier’s famed Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters leading way to Wolverine appearing to a young Xavier telling him that he has come from the futures (50 years to be exact). To that Xavier laughs, because who wouldn’t if someone were to tell you that.

Watch as Wolverine leads a mission by the older Professor X to bring together all the mutants to form the X-Men in the trailer below.

X-Men: Days of Future Past will be released on May 23.

J.K Rowling to Screenwrite New Wizard World-Inspired Film

Cue all the screams from the Harry Potter fans when they first found out that Warner Brothers and the mastermind behind the hit franchise, J.K. Rowling announced earlier today that they would be working with each other on a Wizarding World-inspired film.

Now before anyone calls this a sequel or prequel to the hit franchise, keep in mind, that it is in fact none of the above. The film which will be titled, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will be an “extension of the wizarding world” according to Rowling.

The titled, for those non-hardcore Potterheads, is one of the titled from Harry’s textbooks used while he attended Hogwarts written by the fictional author, Newt Scamander.  Scamander is often mentioned throughout the franchise and quirky Luna Lovegood went onto marry his grandson, Rolf, in the original series. This film will be Rowling’s first ever screen play and is expected to launch a new series of films.

While you breathe into a brown paper bag, you can read the rest of the statement below on behalf of the author and the studio behind it all.

“It all started when Warner Bros. came to me with the suggestion of turning Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them into a film. I thought it was a fun idea, but the idea of seeing Newt Scamander, the supposed author of Fantastic Beasts, realized by another writer was difficult. Having lived for so long in my fictional universe, I feel very protective of it and I already knew a lot about Newt. As hard-core Harry Potter fans will know, I liked him so much that I even married his grandson, Rolf, to one of my favourite characters from the Harry Potter series, Luna Lovegood. As I considered Warners’ proposal, an idea took shape that I couldn’t dislodge. That is how I ended up pitching my own idea for a film to Warner Bros. Although it will be set in the worldwide community of witches and wizards where I was so happy for 17 years, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is neither a prequel nor a sequel to the Harry Potter series, but an extension of the wizarding world. The laws and customs of the hidden magical society will be familiar to anyone who has read the Harry Potter books or seen the films, but Newt’s story will start in New York, 70 years before Harry’s gets underway. I particularly want to thank Kevin Tsujihara of Warner Bros. for his support in this project, which would not have happened without him. I always said that I would only revisit the wizarding world if I had an idea that I was really excited about and this is it.”