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The Hunger Games The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes review: An ambitious yet flawed return to Panem

The return to Panem feels frighteningly chilly given the real world horrors that surrounds us today. Helmed by Francis Lawrence, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, recognizes the key thematic extremes of its dystopian YA trilogy while mounting the events that shaped up the destiny of Coriolanus Snow. The premise Set decades before there was Jennifer Lawrence's …

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes review: This action-drama fails to create enough engaging moments

Francis Lawrence’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a cool name, only if the ballad didn’t turn into a lullaby Cast: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis Director: Francis Lawrence Just three weeks after the atrocious Ganapath, we get another film that creates a dystopian world, …

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‘The Hunger Games’ starts fresh, without Katniss, in ‘The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’

Everyone had resigned themselves to the fact that “The Hunger Games” ended in 2015. For several years after “ Mockingjay — Part 2,” “Hunger Games”-related text conversations between Lawrence and Collins rarely went past sending one another screenshots of their films on Jeopardy categories. “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” arrives in theaters nationwide Friday at another …

‘The Hunger Games’ prequel ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ gets SAG-AFTRA’s interim agreement to promote movie

The Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes has been given an interim agreement by SAG-AFTRA, the striking actors’ union, to promote the film ahead of its November 17 release. Amid the ongoing actors’ strikes, SAG-AFTRA has been extending interim agreements to titles from producers who operate independently from companies belonging to the Alliance of Motion Picture and …

The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes trailer: Rachel Zegler tries to survive event

The official trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes was released on Lionsgate Movies' YouTube account on Thursday. In the clip, Rachel Zegler starred as Lucy Gray Baird, District 12's tribute for the 10th installment of the Hunger Games, as she fought to stay alive while maintaining a grip on the public consciousness of Panem. New …

NEW YORK — Fresh off her breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” Rachel Zegler will star in Lionsgate’s planned “Hunger Games” prequel. The studio announced Tuesday that Zegler will play Lucy Gray Baird in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” an extension of the “Hunger Games” saga that takes place decades before the adventures of …