Lionsgate has announced several additions to its cast for the upcoming prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Joining Tom Blyth (Billy The Kid) and Rachel Zegler (West Side Story) in the film are Josh Andrés Rivera (West Side Story), Jerome Lance in his feature debut, Ashley Liao (Physical), Knox Gibson (Forgive Us […]
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes reveal teases the new prequel
Following on from the recent castings of Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, Lionsgate has now shared a first reveal teaser for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the upcoming prequel to the blockbuster dystopian series The Hunger Games. Watch the teaser here… Years before he […]
Rachel Zegler to lead The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
West Side Story star Rachel Zegler has been cast as the female lead, Lucy Gray Baird, in Lionsgate’s upcoming prequel feature film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes., where she joins the previously announced Tom Blyth (Billy the Kid) as a young Coriolanus Snow. “Like everybody, I first saw Rachel Zegler in West […]
Tom Blyth casts as Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Are you ready to return to the world of The Hunger Games? We have our first major announcement concerning the upcoming prequel film, an adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Tom Blyth will star as a young Coriolanus Snow, played by Donald Sutherland in the original films. Blyth […]
Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes secures a 2023 release date
The Hunger Games trilogy grossed nearly $3 billion at the worldwide box-office, so it’s little surprise that Lionsgate are moving forward with their planned prequel to the Jennifer Lawrence headlined blockbuster franchise, and it has just been announced that The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be released in theatres on November 17th, 2023. The Hollywood […]
The Hunger Games prequel moving forward at Lionsgate
The Hunger Games is making its return to the cinema, just five years since the last film entry, this time with a prequel set 64 years before the first film and focusing on Coriolanus Snow, originally played by Donald Sutherland. Series filmmaker Francis Lawrence is returning to helm the Lionsgate project, which is based on […]
Lionsgate to livestream The Hunger Games, Dirty Dancing, La La Land and John Wick for free
Every major film studio is trying to find ways to entertain viewers during this current global health crisis. While many around the world are stuck in-doors, Lionsgate is planning to bring four of their most famous films to viewers for free. Beginning this Friday and continuing every Friday spanning four consecutive weeks, the studio will […]
Hunting Humans for Sport: A Macabre Cinematic Fascination
With The Hunt now arriving on streaming platforms early, Tom Jolliffe looks at cinemas fascination with humans hunting humans… With the controversial film The Hunt having been quietly released at cinemas shortly before COVID-19 lock down, and now made available on streaming platforms early, it’s high time to take a look over cinemas fascination with […]
The Hunger Games prequel novel announced, Lionsgate already planning movie adaptation
Scholastic has announced that Suzanne Collins is returning to the world of The Hunger Games with a prequel novel set for release in May 2020, while Lionsgate is already planning a feature film adaptation. As per Deadline, the currently untitled book ” will be set in the world of Panem 64 years before the events […]
The History of the Multi-Part Film, Part I of I
Pim Razenberg on Multi-Part Film franchising… In the 2015 article The Future of Franchising: The Shared Universe, I discussed the development of franchising strategies within Hollywood. In the 2010s, these strategies cumulated in the dawn of interconnected franchising through “cinematic universes”, such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe. Today, as we […]
