The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

Everyone hungers for something.

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

Directed by: Francis Lawrence

Written by: Michael Lesslie, Suzanne Collins, Michael Arndt

Music by: James Newton Howard

Starring: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman, Hunter Schafer, Josh Rivera, Viola Davis, Fionnula Flanagan, Burn Gorman, Dexter Sol Ansell

Genre: Science Fiction, Action

Released: 2023-11-15

Runtime: 157 minutes

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• On August 15, 2022, it was reported that Viola Davis was cast as Volumnia Gaul, the head gamemaker of the 10th annual Hunger Games.
• In May 2022, Tom Blyth was cast as the young President Snow, with Rachel Zegler as his protégée, tribute Lucy Gray Baird.
• In June 2022, Josh Andrés Rivera (who previously starred in 2021's West Side Story alongside Zegler), Hunter Schafer and Jason Schwartzman were cast.
• On November 14, 2022, director Francis Lawrence told Collider that this would be the longest film to date in The Hunger Games franchise, likely longer than the 2-hour-and-26-minute runtime of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, but hopefully not three hours or longer.
• Blyth and Zegler were cast in May 2022 and principal photography began that July and lasted until that November, with filming locations including Wrocław, Berlin and Leipzig.
• In August 2017, Lionsgate CEO Jon Feltheimer expressed interest in more stories in the franchise, but only with the approval of the series' author, Suzanne Collins.
• In July 2022, composer James Newton Howard confirmed that he would return to score the film.
• The film made $29 million in its second weekend (a drop of 35%, the smallest of both the franchise and of any blockbuster in 2023), remaining in first through the five-day Thanksgiving frame.
• The film grossed $361 million worldwide against a production budget of $100 million.
• The film made $19.1 million on its first day, $5.75 million from Thursday night previews.
• In 2019, an adaptation of The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes was jointly announced with the novel and official development on the film began a year later, with Lawrence returning as director and Lesslie and Arndt serving as screenwriters.
• Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow, Coriolanus's older cousin and confidante.

Source: Wikipedia

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