6 posts tagged ‘the hunger games the ballad of songbirds snakes’
The holiday box office was pretty merry for The Color Purple, middling for Aquaman
AV Club,
Even if most cities didn’t have a white Christmas this year, it was a green Christmas at the box office this year. With three major releases all slated on Christmas day—that’s The Color Purple, Ferrari, and The Boys In The Boat—families were keen to leave eggnog and wrapping paper behind to watch Adam Driver drive… Read more...
The Boy And The Heron takes the weekend box office, with Godzilla Minus One not far behind
It’s an exciting weekend for international cinema at the U.S. box office, with two Japanese films hitting the top three in American theaters—one live-action and one animated! The top spot went to the animated one, Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron, which opened with $10 million (and on 1,000 fewer screens than… Read more...
Let us all be thankful for Songbirds And Snakes at the Thanksgiving box office
As far as holiday “weekends” go, American Thanksgiving has always been a bit of a weird one, box-office-wise. On the one hand, you have lots of people with a decent amount of free time suddenly sitting in their laps; on the other, a ton of cultural messaging that suggests they should be spending said free time in the… 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...
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...