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Photo Credit: Murray Close/Lionsgate © 2023 Lionsgate Snow's Complete Transition in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes  While talking to The Hollywood Reporter about Snow's ending, director Francis Lawrence explains, "I love that sequence It's my favorite sequence in the movie It's where we really see Snow go through this series of emotions for[...]

Photo Credit: Murray Close Revealing the Origin of The Hunger Games Song, "The Hanging Tree" During a recent interview, recurring Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence explains, "I think part of the fun of this and, you know, the sort of origin aspect of this movie is you get to see the origin of "The Hanging Tree." You[...]

Director Francis Lawrence returned to The Hunger Games with The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which was officially released in theaters last weekend While the film hasn't exactly been a critical or commercial smash hit, it seems to be doing all right for itself Now that the movie is out, though, Lawrence can turn his attention[...]

Directing the prequel is director Francis Lawrence, who took over the franchise starting with the second film in 2013's Catching Fire and worked on Mockingjay: Part I (2014) and Part II (2015) The film chronicles the rise of Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) to becoming the tyrannical leader of Panem, with Lucy serving as the female[...]

Netflix not only announced the project, but months later, in August, they announced that The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence would be directing with Michael Green writing the script Things have been pretty quiet since then, and people's opinions on what a video game adaptation can and should have has only improved, with The Last of[...]

Photo Credit: Murray Close © 2023 Lionsgate While recently speaking to ComicBook about the release of the upcoming Hunger Games prequel, director Francis Lawrence delved into crafting the Hunger Games event itself, explaining, "I think part of what was fun about this… I mean, maybe I did [learn lessons] just because I've done some of the[...]

Director Francis Lawrence recently spoke to People about how the 1971 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and specifically the costumes of Gene Wilder were a source of inspiration. "There was this wild, kind of quirky creativity and joy in creativity that character had but with this kind of sinister underpinning," Lawrence says[...]

Director Francis Lawrence recently spoke to Total Film about our central character of Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), whom we know will go on to be one of the big bads of the original trilogy, but the young man we find in this film is far different from what we expect. "We start in a very different place[...]

Lionsgate is wasting no time, snatching up the rights to the book and hiring director Francis Lawrence to direct Deadline reported the news Lawrence previously helmed the final three films in the Hunger Games "trilogy", Catching Fire and Mockingjay Part 1, and 2 No word on if any of the cast of those first films[...]

Sounds like Francis Lawrence (Hunger Games) is still on board as director. Last we heard back in February, things were still moving right along at Universal with Lawrence's direction and Joy's script, but obviously that's changed now, at least on the writing front. This announcement comes on the heels of the 15th anniversary of Ronald D[...]

Spearheaded by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight and director Francis Lawrence (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2), the project stems from Chernin Entertainment and Endeavor Content; with Knight, Lawrence; and Chernin Entertainment's Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, and Kristen Campo serving as executive producers. Credit: DFree / Shutterstock.com Apple's ten-episode See is described as an[...]

The project has gained and lost producers, writers, and directors, but the most recent addition of director Francis Lawrence (Constantine) and screenwriter Lisa Joy (HBO's Westworld) seems to have stuck. Lawrence's film Red Sparrow is a brutal-but-not-terrible piece of cinema that shows what an actress and director who've known each other so long are capable of[...]

But they're not doing it, so Fox and Lawrence are instead, and here we are. Red Sparrow, directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the book by Jason Matthews, hits theaters on March 2nd Check out the poster and TV spot below; a new trailer is set to hit on Monday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQArlSA3azEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript[...]

Dominika must now reconcile the person she was with the power she now commands, with her own life and everyone she cares about at risk, including an American CIA agent who tries to convince her he is the only person she can trust. Will Marvel Chairman Ike Perlmutter rip all the Black Widow posters off the walls[...]

It's kind of incredible they manage to develop a romantic triangle (with Josh Hutcherson's totally ineffectual Peeta) under such dire straits, but that's YA for you. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uYtz4WPGIs[/youtube] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, directed by Francis Lawrence, who's already down in Atlanta directing Lawrence, Hemsworth, Hutcherson and gang in two-parter Mockingjay, will have its world premiere in London[...]