‘The Hunger Games’ soundtrack: Appalachian music 300 years in the future Michael Buckner/Getty Images Kid Cudi contributed a song, “The Ruler and the Killer,” to the “Hunger Games” soundtrack.
For most movie soundtracks, Tracy McKnight has to steel herself to call around and give her patented sales pitch to artists in an effort to get them on board. In the case of "The Hunger Games" soundtrack, however, the head of film music for Lionsgate and producer T Bone Burnett knew the odds were ever in their favor. "The interesting thing about this movie that I've never seen before is the artists were reading the books, and when the deal was announced we started fielding calls," McKnight told The News. Who would've guessed, for example, that Kid Cudi, who contributed a dystopian track, “The Ruler and the Killer,” that could work as the campaign theme for the villainous President Snow, owned copies of Suzanne Collins' trilogy?
The Hunger Games Movie's Crazy Hair and Makeup: All the Details! Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson weren't the only stars required to change up their appearance for The Hunger Games (in theaters March 23).
PHOTOS: What to expect in The Hunger Games movie "We bleached 500 people's eyebrows, and 75 background actress actually let us dye their hair those crazy colors," head hairstylist Linda Flowers says in Us Weekly's Hunger Games special (on newsstands now). VIDEO: Katniss meets stylist Cinna for the first time in The Hunger Games Flowers and her team of 45 stylists worked around the clock for a month to create the 450 wigs and pieces that define the upper-crust Capitol citizens. "It was like a factory: We had sewing machines, dyeing areas and shelves and shelves of hair," Flowers explains.
The Hunger Games (9780439023481): Suzanne Collins.