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No one was really that surprised when it was announced that Suzzane Collins was writing another prequel book for The Hunger Games. The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes sold very well and was well received by fans The movie took off like a rocket and managed to be one of the rare prequel movies, pulling in people who[...]

No one should be surprised that another installment in The Hunger Games is coming out. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes book sold pretty well and was critically well-received The movie did exceptionally well finding an audience outside of existing fans despite seeming like it would be completely unapproachable While at CinemaCon this year, Lionsgate hinted that[...]

While promoting her role as Livia Cardew in Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, a prequel to the original films based on the Suzanne Collins franchise, Thiemann spoke to Bleeding Cool about what it was like to join the franchise with returning director Francis Lawrence, if she did any prepping, and[...]

For some reason, many people were surprised when The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes started doing very well at the box office Aside from the strike throwing a wrench into promoting this film, the hype throughout 2023 was pretty high Many people liked the book when it came out during quarantine because[...]

Anyone who's seen The Hunger Games films remembers just how diabolical President Snow can be So, in the new prequel film, fans finally get to see how he morphed into a character that's one of the most hated in the franchise Now, the film's director is revealing his thoughts on Snow's particular perception of the[...]

When The Hunger Games franchise initially gained popularity with younger audiences, the film's intentionally somber track "The Hanging Tree" became a highly favored soundtrack moment — even earning an oddly reinterpreted club remix How unexpectedly versatile! For the new film The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes, audiences have officially received another chance[...]

The newest chapter of Lionsgate's The Hunger Games franchise, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, has taken us back to the origin of the titular event, along with introducing a new hero and an essential backstory to a familiar face And yes, they do have strong chemistry But after witnessing the undeniable spark presented between[...]

There's been a lot of engaging fan speculation about The Hunger Games universe, considering that the franchise spans several generations, and the newest entry (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) aims to shed light on some of its earliest, most impactful years that would eventually lead to the mainstream story But in[...]

As you can tell by the title of this article, this will be delving into some slight spoilery details regarding The Hunger Games: Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes, so if you want to remain unscathed, now's your last chance to click elsewhere But for those of you who did stay, it's time to discuss the[...]

As a fan of the original Suzanne Collins novels, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes star Dakota Shapiro was ready to tackle that challenge as Billy Taupe, the one-time love interest of Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) Lucy serves as the protagonist set 64 years before the events of the 2012 original[...]

The book that The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes is based on has been out since late 2020, but plenty of people haven't read the book but have every intention of seeing the movie Star Rachel Zegler has shared her opinion on the ending her character got, but we will throw up[...]

While The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes has that agreement, it also felt like they still weren't doing much to promote the movie So we'll have to see as we head into the final week before the release of this film There will be a lot of competition for people's time next weekend,[...]

Since its cinematic launch, The Hunger Games franchise has become a young adult staple, generating billions between its box office totals, book sales, and merchandise throughout its vast history According to a producer of every Hunger Games film, the franchise is poised to return in the shape of a prequel that will offer a new[...]

One of the most popular aspects of The Hunger Games universe is the actual "games" that feel like a higher-stakes version of competition series like Big Brother and Survivor, except for the notion that death is a planned outcome in The Hunger Games, obviously Regardless, the unavoidable bloodshed has become a franchise staple, so fans are[...]

We should expect that the marketing for The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes will go into high gear now that they have a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement and the cast can promote the movie However, the digital marketing for this film is also not slowing down anytime soon as well Today, we got a[...]

According to Variety, The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes has been given an interim agreement since Lionsgate is not part of the AMPTP, so that this agreement can be reached. Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes[...]

We've been praising the marketing for The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes because some of it has been leaning into the concept of propaganda and what that would look like in this universe by releasing in-universe videos It's made for some marketing on the video front, and now it looks like they are[...]

It seems pretty evident that in a movie titled The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes, music would play an essential part of the story, but it goes much deeper than that For those of us unfamiliar with the source material, a new and pretty long behind-the-scenes featurette released by Lionsgate spotlights how[...]

The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes is promising to show an inflection point for Coriolanus Snow and how he becomes the man we see in the original films, but it is also an inflection point in the world of Panem This is where we see The Hunger Games change into something else[...]

One of the things that the movie adaptations of The Hunger Games never really leaned into as hard as it could have is the absolutely insane clothing that the people of Panem and the Capitol wear We see some of it, but it's so much more extreme in the books But maybe it was due[...]

We have a new behind-the-scenes featurette for The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes that was released today This one focuses on the people behind the camera who are bringing the world of Panem to life We also learn about how much music will affect this film and what the songwriting process was like[...]

The in-universe marketing for The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes continues, and it also shows just how hard the previous films were when it came to doing marketing The concept of in-universe videos and websites is not new The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield did viral marketing at their best[...]

When The Hunger Games first came out, it was the second piece of the massive YA trident that was taking over popular culture in the early 2000s It was the one that people felt slightly less guilty liking because it wasn't Twilight, and the standards were really that low at the time However, because The Hunger[...]

The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes is continuing its very smart marketing plan of using in-universe videos that are essentially propaganda in the lead-up to the film This one is another news report that is telling the public that the reports of a rabies outbreak are untrue and that if there is anything[...]

Lionsgate is sitting pretty right now after Saw X was not only a critical but commercial success as well, but they have another big franchise movie coming up soon. The Hunger Games is one of the biggest franchises that Lionsgate has, but November is a hectic time of month, and no matter how big the fandom for[...]

Now, with the next installment coming out in just a few months (a prequel film titled The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes), the longstanding director of the franchise is finally addressing the future of the popular young adult film series And the stories that he hopes to tell. Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow[...]

The marketing for The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes has started, and they are going for an in-universe approach, which is interesting For people unfamiliar with this franchise, these little special features videos that they are doing are ways to explain the world to you that don't feel like it's just reading off[...]

Lionsgate hopes they have another hit on their hands with The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes because the first series of movies were some of the biggest the studio has ever released With the writer's strike over and the SAG-AFTRA strike hopefully getting solved sooner rather than later, all of the studios[...]

When it was first announced that the prequel book for The Hunger Games would focus on a young President Snow, everyone rolled their eyes a little because they could not fathom how or why something like that would work out However, when the book The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came out, everyone enjoyed it[...]

It sounds like The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes is carefully trying to walk that line The creative team knows that they are asking a lot of fans to even come to a movie that has virtually nothing to do with the previous film, with producer Nina Jacobson saying to Entertainment Weekly, "Katniss[...]