On Friday some little movie you've probably not heard a thing about called The Hunger Games opens. No big deal, it has already sold out at 2,000 screenings. And last night some of the stars of the movie were in town to hit up David Letterman, a book signing at Union Square and a screening on 17th Street. Of course, the fans were out in force, making Union Square North a tween encampment not-too-dissimilar to the Occupiers to the South.
No, really. Here's the line yesterday afternoon (the signing wasn't until 8 p.m.):
You can see the remainder of it after the signing here. And then, of course, there was the screening itself at which pretty people stood around looking pretty and pretending that they weren't all about to make buckets of cash from a series of PG-13 movies about children slaughtering other children for sport. Anybody else remember when the similarly plotted Battle Royale couldn't even get a distributor in the U.S.? Memories.
Anyway, those kids sure do look pretty. Though we aren't sure which is more distracting, Jennifer Lawrence's décolletage or Josh Hutcherson's tiny stature. Whatever, we'll probably still end up seeing it.
