6 posts tagged ‘the ballad of songbirds and snakes’
Napoleon conquers Wish but gets exiled by the Hunger Games prequel
AV Club,
November 2023: Napoleon is master of the domestic box office. Only The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes stands before it. Oceans are now battlefields. Or, you know, close enough. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has successfully defeated every other movie at the U.S. box office this weekend—save for The Ballad Of… Read more...
Where could the Hunger Games go from here?
With the release of The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, Lionsgate has used up the last of the source material that fed one of its most popular IPs. The Hunger Games book trilogy by Suzanne Collins yielded a series of four successful films, ending in 2015 with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2.… Read more...
May the weekend box office be ever in The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ favor
After a couple of slow weekends at the domestic box office, things have bounced back nicely thanks to four pretty big new releases that mostly did okay (and one movie with a limited rollout that did relatively good). The biggest of those big new releases is Hunger Games prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes,… Read more...
Here's everything you need to remember before watching The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes
The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes arrives in theaters this week, which means it’s time to take the long train ride back to Panem. It’s been almost a decade since the last of the original films premiered, so you might be worried about confusing your Jabberjays with your Tracker Jackers, or… Read more...
Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes' Rachel Zegler always pictured herself starring in this movie
With the SAG-AFTRA strike finally over, actors can get back to work acting and doing promotional stuff to promote their acting. Hunger Games prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes had gotten an interim agreement in October, so its stars could’ve promoted it anyway, but they still decided to celebrate the end of… Read more...
The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes review: A sappy riff on Romeo And Juliet
What is the root of evil? In the YA fiction genre, storytellers often source it to bad breakups and torn friendships, which can transform Prince Charming into the Prince of Darkness. Plain evil isn’t engaging, but evil for evil’s sake can be wildly compelling, at least in this category, where a bad situationship is a… Read more...