Film Franchises
Hunger Games Franchise - Details
IP? Produced by Color Force (Nina Jacobson, also Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Distributed by Lionsgate
Hunger Games - Author
Suzanne Collins
Hunger Games - Directors
Gary Ross (1), Francis Lawrence (2, 3, 4, 5)
Hunger Games - Novels
The Hunger Games (2008)
Catching Fire (2009)
Mockingjay (2010)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2020)
Hunger Games - Films
The Hunger Games (2012)
Catching Fire (2013)
Mockingjay - Part One (2014)
Mockingjay - Part Two (2015)
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023)
Hunger Games Franchise - Release Time
Thanksgiving
Hunger Games - Continent
Panem
Hunger Games - Capitol
Location in the Rocky Mountains, Wyoming + Utah Border
Hunger Games - Districts
1. Wyoming, Montana . . . - Luxury Goods
2. Colorado . . . – Stone Masonry
3. Oregon, N. Cal – Electronics
4. S. Cal – Fishing
5. Midwest/Great Lakes – Electricity
6. Michigan, Wisconsin – Industrials
7. Washington State – Lumber
8. South Carolina – Textiles
9. Dakotas . . . – ?
10. Texas . . . – Livestock
11. The South – Cotton, Grain
12. North East – Coal Mining
13. New England – Nuclear?
Hunger Games - Annual Ritual
Pre-Games: The Reaping, Journey to the Capitol, Tribute Parade, Training, Tribute Interviews
Games: Pre-Launch, Cornucopia Bloodbath, Nightly Death Toll, (Feasts)
Post-Games: Remake, Victory Ceremony, Journey Home, Victory Tour
Hunger Games - Love Triangle
Katniss Everdeen, Peeta Mellark, Gale Hawthorne
(Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth)
Hunger Games - The Little Sister
Primrose Everdeen
Hunger Games - Katniss' mother
Carine
Hunger Games - Katniss' cat
Buttercup
Hunger Games - Finnick Odair (Actor)
Sam Claflin
Hunger Games - Mentor, Chaperone, Stylist
Effie Trinket, Haymitch Abernathy, Cinna
(Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz)
Hunger Games - Katniss' protector (MJ)
Boggs (Mahershala Ali), replaces Cinna (her stylist, in HG/CF)
Hunger Game - President
Coriolanus Snow (Original - Donald Sutherland, Prequel - Tom Blyth)
Alma Coin (District 13 - Julianne Moore)
(?) Ravinstill (Prequel)
Hunger Games – Host
Caesar Flickerman (Original - Stanley Tucci)
Lucretius (Lucky) Flickerman (Prequel – Jason Schwartzman)
Hunger Games - Gamemaker
Seneca Crane (HG, forced to eat berries)
Plutarch Heavensbee (CF, MJ - Philip Seymour Hoffman)
Volumnia Gaul (B - Viola Davis)
Hunger Games – Tribute (74th)
Foxface (5. killed by Peeta, self-defence)
Rue (11. killed by Marvel)
Thresh (11. eaten by wolves)
Career Team:-
Glimmer (1. killed by Katniss - bees)
Marvel (1. killed by Katniss, killing Rue)
Clove (2. killed by Thresh, revenge for Rue)
Cato (2. killed by Katniss, while being eaten by wolves)
Hunger Games - Tribute (75th)
Quarter Quell
Beetee & Wiress (3)
Finnick & Mags (4, in place of Annie)
Joanna (7)
Career Team
Gloss & Cashmere (1)
Brutus & Enobaria (2)
Hunger Games - Film crew in MJ
Cressida (director), Messalla (assistant), Castor & Pollux (camera team)
Weapons in Hunger Games
Katniss - Bow (from Glimmer after bees)
Marvel - Spear
Cato - Sword
Peeta (CF) - Long Knife
Finnick - Trident
Johanna - Axe
(In books: Rue (slingshot), Thresh (rock), Mags (awl)).
Only winners of Hunger Games from District 12 (before Katniss and Peeta)?
Lucy Gray (10th Games) and Haymitch Abernathy (50th Games)
Three Finger Salute
Hunger Games, then protest symbol in Thailand (2014 coup d'état) and Hong Kong (2014 umbrella movement, 2019-20 protests)
First seen in HG after the Reaping (inciting incident); then break into Act 3, Katniss gestures to the camera after death of Rue, crowd in the district gestures back and riots; CF, in the protest and crackdown in District 11 in CF, accompanied by mockingjay song (inciting incident); . . .
Hunger Games - Word for propaganda
PROPO
Hunger Games - What happens to a rebel?
You have your tongue cut out and work as an AVOX, enslaved in the Capitol.
Reason for the Hunger Games
1. Opening Scene - Seneca Crane to Caesar Flickerman: At first it was a punishment, but now it is what knits us all together.
5. Volumnia Gaul's repeated question to the academy students. Penultimate Scene – Corio Snow: We do it because life is an arena.
Most Violent Scene in 'The Hunger Games'
The Cornucopia Bloodbath (exact mid-point)
Hunger Games - Opening Scene
white text on black, origin of the Games – televised interview between Flickerman and Crane, reason for the games (join us all together), 'and what defines your personal vision of the games' – a scream, district 12, primrose waking from a nightmare she has been chosen, comforted by katniss
Hunger Games - Final Scene
Katnis and Peeta, back in District 12, cheered by the crowd - Katnis sees smiling mother, sister, and Gale – Peeta reaches for her hand, after a hesitation, they raise it (as in the Tribute Parade) - Coriolanus Snow, seeing this victoriousness on his TV, walks off
Catching Fire - Opening Scene
Katniss ––traumatised by the HG–– almost shoots Gale while she is hunting. He walks with her as she embarks on the Victory Tour.
Catching Fire - Final Scene
On the craft to District 13, just told Gale -- "there is no District 12" -- Kitniss stares up
Mockingjay 1 - Opening Scene
Overblack - "Start with what you know is true." BCU of Katniss, very low fill, rocking in fetal position. "My name is Katniss Everdeen. My home is District 12". She's hiding in the corner of a cavernous duct. A torchlight, "Miss Everdeen. . . . You need to sleep. We can help you sleep . . .". She's grabbed and manhandled away.
Mockingjay 2 - Final Scene
As AC announces --today the victors, tomrrow an attack on District 2's military facility-- K walks down a corridor and stops in front of a window. K's face is partly reflected in the glass as she looks at Peeta strapped writhing to a stretcher.
Mockingjay 2 - Opening Shot
Katniss' neck brace being removed
Mockingjay 2 - Final Shot
Katniss nursing her baby son (Rye), looking at Peeta playing with their toddler daughter (Willow).
Hunger Games - Act 1s
HG: (Opening Interview) - Life in District 12 - (II) Reaping/Substitution for Primrose - Journey to the Capitol - (B) Tribute Parade
CF: K's Meeting with CS - (II) Riot on Victory Tour, admission - (B) Announcement of Quarter Quell
MJ1: K's Meeting with AC - K sees destruction of District 12 - (II) K watching P's interview - (B) AC's Announcement of K as Mockingjay
MJ 2: (II) K shot at in District 2 - AC wants her out of action - K secretly into airplane - (B) joins "Star Squad" for final attack on Capitol (Finnick: "Welcome the 76th Hunger Games")
Hunger Games - Inciting Incidents
HG – Katniss taking Primrose's place at the Reaping
CF – The protest and crackdown in District 11 on the Victory Tour, K. admitting to P and MA that CS has said she needs to show their love (so not seen as rebellious defiance)
MJ1 – Peeta's TV interview watched in District 13
MJ2 – Katniss shot in District 2
Hunger Games - Breaks into Act 2
HG - Tribute's Parade (beginning of week in Capitol)
CF - CS's announcement of the Quarter Quell
MJ1 - AC's announcement of Katniss as Mockingjay
MJ2 - Having secretly got on plane to Capitol, K joins Bogg's Star Squad. Finnick: "Welcome to the 76th Hunger Games!"
Hunger Games - Acts 2
HG: 2(i) Preparations (Pinch - K shoots at Seneca) - (MP) Into the arena - (2ii) Learning to Play (Alone - (Pinch) Rue helps - Together) - (B) Death of Rue
CF: 2(i) Preparations [Relational] - (MP) Interviews/Into the Arena (Cinna) - 2 (ii) Learning to play [Relational] (Pinch - Peter almost dies, "One day I want to love someone that much") - (B) Suicide of Mags (i.e. K+P*&*F)
MJ1: 2(i) K learning how to perform real as MJ - (MP) Showing of the first MJ propo inspires violence - 2(ii) mediated/real back-and-forth with P - (B) War begins (Capitol bombs District 13)
MJ2: (MP) Sewers, death of Finnick - (B) Bombing, death of Primrose
Hunger Games - Midpoints
HG - (Physical) entry into arena, Cornucopia Bloodbath
CF - Interviews on the eve of the Games, character building of the tributes (character-relationship/performative aspect of the game), building to entry into the arena
MJ1 - Screening of K's first 'propo' (Finick: "You don't like hearing a fight song at a funeral, huh?")
MJ2 - In the sewers under the Capitol and pursued by mutts, Finnick is killed.
Hunger Games - Breaks into Act 3
HG: Death of Rue
CF: Suicide of Mags (?)
MJ1: Strike on District 13/Blast Doors
MJ2: Death of Prim in the bombing
Hunger Games - Holes filled by Ballad
How the ways Coriolanus interpets Katniss is informed by his relation with Lucy Gray.
1. Conversations with Crane in his white *rose* garden -> ... -> dropping white roses after bombing in MJ1 (K: "He's going to kill Peeta") -> Roses to cover smell of sores in his mouth (from poisoning)
1. Corio with Crane (after the girl from 12 attacks him)- Why do we have a winner? The only emotion stronger than fear is hope. A little hope is effective, A lot of hope is dangerous.
1. Corio with Crane (after the boy and girl from 12 get-it-together) – I don't like an underdog. Have you been out there, 10, 11, 12. I have. Lots of underdogs. ... And I think if you could see them, you would not root for them either.
1. Victory Ceremony – "What a lovely pin?" "It's from my district" "They must be very proud of you"
2. Corio with Katniss – What she thought of as an act love (winning) was seen by the districts as defiance (winning).
3. Poisoned his way up - (Finnick: "Poison, the perfect weapon for a SNAKE").
4. Corio: "Miss Everdeen, I thought we had agreed never to lie to each other?"
Katniss vs Lucy Gray
Katniss was a fighter who had to perform. Lucy was a performer who had to fight.
Katniss-Peeta vs Lucy-Corio
Katniss thinks Peeta is performing, but finds his love was real. Lucy and Corio's relationship is a maze of deceits - yet they trust each other (not love).
. . .
remember (2. Finnick) / remind her (3. Heavensbee to Coin) who the real enemy is
Hunger Games and Star Wars Trilogies
Endings:-
1. New Hope - 'Triumph of the Will' award ceremony, subverted by the sniggering gang. Hunger Games - the victory parade. Hunger Games - authoritarian victory ceremony in District 12, the play of looks among the love triangle.
2. Empire - Luke in the hospital wing of a spacecraft, between places. Catching Fire - Katniss among the stretchers and IVs of a hovercraft, between places.
Structure:
Order x Anarchy - SW: Empire x Rebellion - HG: Capitol x Districts (NB. Empire, technocracy/reflective surfaces/Alphaville vs Capitol, ?).
Maze Runner - Books/Films
Maze Runner - The Scorch Trials -Death Cure
Books: 2009, 2010, 2011
Films: 2014, 2015, 2018
Marvel - Universe Interconnections
SHIELD
Ten Rings
Stark Industries
Culver University
Marvel - Credit Scenes
Iron Man - Nick Fury in Stark's living room (Post)
Hulk - Stark to General Ross in a bar (Pre)
Marvel - Stan Lee cameos
Iron Man - Tony mistakes him for Hugh Hefner at charity gala
Hulk - Hapless citizen who drink soda with Banner's blood
Marvel - Phase 1 - Films
Iron Man (2008), The Hulk (2008), Iron Man 2 (2010), Thor (2011), Captain America (2011), The Avengers (2012)
Marvel - Phase 1 - Directors
Iron Man 1 & 2 - Jon Favreau
Hulk - Louis Leterrier
Thor - Kenneth Branagh
Captain America - Joe Johnston
Avengers - Josh Whedon
Iron Man - Characters
Tony Stark - Robert Downey Jr
Pepper Potts - Gwynneth Paltrow; Happy - Jon Favreau
Robots (Butterfingers, Dum-E, U)
Villians - Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger (Jeff Bridges)
Rhodey (Terrence Howard/Don Cheadle)
Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell)
Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlet Johansson)
Ivan Vanko/Whiplash (Mickey Rourke)
Iron Man - Narrative
OS - Humvees in Afghan Mts; II - Post flashback, what happened *after* his kidnap; B1 - Saved, back to US; MP - First flight *as* Iron Man; B2 - Reveal Obadiah as enemy; C - Tony v Obadiah; R - Press conference: "I am Iron Man".
(Post Credits: Nick Fury - "You think you're the only superhero? You're part of a bigger world! I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger initiative. . .")
Hulk - Characters
Bruce Banner - Edward Norton
Betty Ross - Liv Tyler
Villains - Thaddaeus Ross (William Hurt), Blonsky/Abomination (Tim Roth)
Samuel Sterns(Mr Blue)/Leader (Time Blake Nelson)
Hulk - Narrative
OS - Banner grabs metronome (fled to Brazil); II - Ross discovers Banners location (in favela); B1 - Ross attacks (in favela), Banner transforms (hidden), wakes in rainforest, off back to US; MP - Attacked again (at Culver U), Banner transforms (full view), off with Betty; B2 After Mr Blue tames his greenness, Ross captures (can't transform); C Having unleashed his greenness, Abomination v Hulk (now on side of Ross); R - Banner fled to Canada; CS - Meditating - "Days without incident... 0" - Green Eyes
Pre-credit - Ross in bar, Tony enters: "I'm putting a team together"
Iron Man 2
OS - Snow in Moscow (Whiplash); II Rhodey at committee hearing; B1 Whiplash attacks at Grand Prix;
Roald Dahl Franchise
IP: Roald Dahl Story Company (owned by Netflix since 2021)
Eg. Wonka - Produced by David Heyman (Heyday Films) and Distributed by Warner Bros (// Wizarding World)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Names & Dates
Novel: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)
Films: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971, Dir. Mel Stuart)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005, Tim Burton)
Wonka (2023, Paul King)
Willy Wonka – Actors
1971: Gene Wilder
2005: Johnny Depp
2023: Timothee Chalamet
Wonka - Creatives
Heyday Films + Warner Bros
Director: Paul King (Paddington)
Screenplay: Paul King and Simon Farnaby (Paddington)
Producer: David Heyman (Wizarding World)
Composer: Neil Hannon
Wonka - Cast and Characters
Wonka: Timothee Chalamet
Noodle: Calah Lane
Oompa Loompa (Lofty): Hugh Grant
Chocolate Cartel: Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Matthew Baynton (Slugworth, Prodnose, Fickelgruber)
Mrs Scrubbit & Bleacher: Olivia Colman & Tom Davis
Washhouse Gang: Jim Carter (Abacus Crunch), Rich Fulcher (Larry Chucklesworth), (Lottie Bell and Piper Benz)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Characters
Charlie Bucket, Grandpa Joe
Augustus Gloop(Dusselheim, greedy, into the chocolate river)
Veruca Salt (spoilt, judged a "bad egg/nut" - geese 1971, squirrels 2005/novel)
Violet Beauregarde (vain, chewing gum -> becomes blueberry)
Mike Teevee (addicted, shrunk to TV size)
Paddington Franchise - Includes ...
Three films (2014, 2017, 2025) + TV series (2019-). Ben Whishaw voicing bear, produced by David Heyman (Heyday Films) -
Paddington Company (owned by Studio Canal [Vivendi])
Produced by David Heyman (Hedyay Films), Distributed by Warner Bros
Paddington - Author
Michael Bond, 'A Bear Called Paddington' (1958)
Paddington - Creatives
Director: Paul King
Screenwriter: Paul King & Simon Farnaby
Producer: David Heyman (Wizarding World) - Heyday Films
Paddington - Recurring Cast
Paddington - Ben Whishaw
Brown Family - Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, and kids (Jonathan and Judy), plus Julie Walters (Mrs Bird)
Aunt Lucy and Uncle Pastuzo - Imelda Staunton and Michael Gambon
Mr Curry (neighbor) - Peter Capaldi
Mr Gruber (antique dealer) - Jim Broadbent
Paddington Films - 1, 2, 3
2014: Paddington migrates from "darkest Peru" to London and begins to find family with the Browns, but will all be thwarted by Nicole Kidman (taxidermist, Millicent Clyde)?
2017: Paddington falsely convicted of theft commited by devious actor Hugh Grant (Phoenix Bucchanan), trying to fund his comeback. Will the Browns and his Prison gang be able to save him?
2025: To Amazon. Olivia Colman (Reverend Mother) and Antonio Banderas. . .
Paddington Franchise - Release Time
UK - Beg. of Holiday Season
US - Beg. of Winter
What are Paddington's features?
Old red hat, blue duffelcoat, battered suitcase, love of marmelade sandwiches
Refugee/migrant experience - From "darkest Peru", tag around neck, "Please Look After This Bear" (WWII Jewish migrants and English evacuees)
Alway polite (and "hard stare" if anyone is rude) - *very* middle class - lives in Windsor Gardens (aka Notting Hill) and hangs out in Portobello Rd - and his confusions are of the English teacher variety ("Stand right", "Dogs must be held on escalator" ...)
How was Paddington's uncle named?
Pastuzo, by the explorer Montgomery Clyde - "After an exotic boxer he once met in a bar" (cf. Aunt Lucy, after Clyde's mother)
Wizarding World Franchise - Details
IP: Owned by Warner Bros and JK Rowling
Films Produced by David Heyman (Heyday Films) and Distributed by Warner Bros
Wizarding World - Films
2001-2011 Harry Potter Series (Summer)
2016- Fantastic Beasts Series (Holiday, till 2022)
1st Four: Stone 2001 & Chamber 2002 - Christopher Columbus [aka Home Alone]; Azkaban 2004 & Goblet 2005 - Alfonso Cuaron & Mike Newell
Since 2007, David Yates: Phoenix 2007, H-B Prince 2009, Deathly Hallows 10/11; FB 2016, Crimes of G 2018, Secrets of D 2022
Spider-Man Films
Sam Raimi Trilogy - 2002, 2004, 2007 - Tobey Macguire
Marc Webb Films - 2012, 2014 - Andrew Garfield
Jon Watts - 2017, 2019, 2021 - Tom Holland
(Watts: Homecoming, Far From Home, No Way Home)
Doctor Who - 1st Doctor
William Hartnell
Doctor Who - 2nd Doctor
Patrick Troughton
Doctor Who - 3rd Doctor
Jon Pertwee
Doctor Who - 4th Doctor
Tom Baker
Doctor Who - 5th Doctor
Pete Davison
Doctor Who - 6th Doctor
Colin Baker
Doctor Who - 7th Doctor
Sylvester McCoy
Doctor Who - 8th Doctor
Paul McGann
Doctor Who - 9th Doctor
Christopher Ecclestone
Doctor Who - 10th Doctor
David Tennant
Doctor Who - 11th Doctor
Matt Smith
Doctor Who - 12th Doctor
Peter Capaldi
Doctor Who - 13th Doctor
Jodie Whittaker
Doctor Who - 14th Doctor
David Tennant
Doctor Who - 15th Doctor
Ncuti Gatwa
Doctor Who - Producer 1980s
John Nathan-Turner (5th-7th)
Doctor Who - EP 2005-10
Russell T Davies (9th-10th)
Doctor Who - EP 2010-2017
Steven Moffat (11th and 12th)
Doctor Who - EP 2018-22
Chris Chibnall (13th)
Doctor Who - EP 2023-
Russell T Davies (14th and 15th)
Doctor Who - Companions (4th)
Sarah Jane Smith - Harry Sullivan
Leela - K9 - Romana - Adric
Doctor Who - Companions (5th)
Nyssa - Tegan
Turlough
Peri
Doctor Who - Companions (6th)
Mel
Doctor Who - Companions (7th)
Ace
Doctor Who - Companions (8th)
Grace
Doctor Who - Companions (9th)
Rose (& Adam)
Captain Jack
Doctor Who - Companions (10th)
Rose (& Mickey)
Donna (& Wilfred)
Martha
Doctor Who - Companions (11th)
Amy (& Rory) - River Song
Clara
Doctor Who - Companions (12th)
Clara
Nardole & Bill
Doctor Who - Companions (13th)
Graham - Ryan - Yasmin
Doctor Who - Companions (14th)
Donna
X-Men - Films
2000s - Original Trilogy (X1 [00], X2 [03], Last Stand [06])
2010s - Prequel (Tetralogy - First Class [11], Days of Future Past [14], Apocalypse [16], Dark Phoenix [19])
Wolverine Trilogy (2009-)
Deadpool Duo (2016-)
2020 - Finale (The New Mutants)
Plus: 2 x TV Series (Legion and The Gifted)
X-Men - Studio
20th Century Fox (-> 2019)
Returns to MCU when Fox acquired by Disney (together with Fantastic Four)
X-Men - Directors/Producers
The Donners Company (Richard & Lauren Shuler) - bought rights from Marvel in 1994
Bryan Singer (Bad Hat Harry) - Dir OT: 1 & 2, PT: 2 & 3
Dune/RatPac (Steven Mnuchin) -> TSG (Chip Seelig)(financing for 20th Century Fox)
Kinberg Genre (Simon Kinberg)
OT: 3 (Ratner), PT: 1 (Vaughn) & 4 (Kinberg)