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 …
If 2020 was a pandemic-induced pause, 2021 was when things started up again, albeit slowly and timidly. The year went quickly for Zegler, who had beat out thousands for the part of Maria in Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story.” The pandemic pushed the film’s release a year but she didn’t stop. Liu smashed through the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s comfort zone …
