Weekend Movie Update – Nov. 22, 2013: 'Catching Fire'

Posted By on November 21, 2013

The Hunger Games resume with a new sequel in theaters this week, while Vince Vaughn becomes a dad, and some time travelling turkeys try to alter Thanksgiving history at The Pioneer.

Here’s your Outer Banks Movie Update for the weekend of November 22, 2013!

Jennifer Lawrence plays 'The Hunger Games' again in 'Catching Fire'.

Jennifer Lawrence plays ‘The Hunger Games’ again in ‘Catching Fire’.

 Premiering this Friday at the historic Pioneer Theatre in Manteo for a one week run, the animated holiday comedy Free Birds (rated PG) hopes to give Thanksgiving its own long-overdue family classic, about two turkeys who travel back to the year 1621 to prevent their feathered friends from ever becoming the traditional holiday dinners of choice in the first place.

'Free Birds' hopes to rewrite Thanksgiving history.

‘Free Birds’ hopes to rewrite Thanksgiving history.

Starring the voice talents of Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers), Owen Wilson (Wedding Crashers), and Amy Poehler (Baby Mama), you can watch the trailer for the animated comedy in the player below!

Filmed in and around Charlotte, North Carolina, The Hunger Games (rated PG13) returns to theaters for one night only tonight (Thursday) in the first half of a big screen double feature, also including a sneak preview screening of the new sequel Catching Fire (rated PG13), which officially opens Friday.

Jennifer Lawrence is dressed to kill in 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'.

Jennifer Lawrence is dressed to kill in ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’.

Both films star Best Actress Oscar Winner Jennifer Lawrence (Silver Linings PlaybookX-Men: FIrst Class) in a mythic story set in a future where the youth are forced to fight to the death in a series of televised games.

You can see The Hunger Games double feature tonight and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire starting tomorrow at R/C KDH Movies 10 in Kill Devil Hills.

 Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks, and Josh Hutcherson star in 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire'.

Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks, and Josh Hutcherson star in ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’.

You can watch the latest trailer for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire in the player below!

The only other new release opening this week is the comedy Delivery Man (rated PG13), starring Vince Vaughn as a sperm donor who finds out years later that he is now the father of 500 kids.

Cobie Smulders and Vince Vaughn star in 'Delivery Man'.

Cobie Smulders and Vince Vaughn star in ‘Delivery Man’.

Also starring Cobie Smulders (The Avengers, Safe Haven), you can watch the official trailer using the player below!

Click on a link below for additional listings and showtimes.

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Posted by Matt Artz

Matt Artz was a lead reporter and photographer for 'The Coastland Times' newspaper from 2000 to 2009, and has been published in the Outer Banks Sentinel, North Beach Sun, Outer Banks Milepost, among others, before launching OBX Entertainment, NC Film News, and Halloween Daily News in 2012. Matt and Sue Artz are also the founders of the annual Outer Banks Halloween Parade and the Halloween International Film Festival.

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