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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director on making the prequel grittier than its predecessors

Music and mayhem as the Games get off to brutal beginnings…

Total Film

Critics Have Seen The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, See What They’re Saying About The Dystopian Prequel

Critics have weighed in on The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, starring Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.

Cinemablend

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes review – A limp prequel that dilutes its biggest villain

This origin story for Donald Sutherland’s monstrous bad guy from the original films casts Rachel Zegler as a dystopian theatre-kid and squanders the anger of novelist Suzanne Collins’s source material

The Independent UK

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Review: The Most Brutal Hunger Games Movie Yet, But It Can't Escape Some Textbook Prequel Traps

If you push the tired prequel tropes aside, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a triumphant comeback for The Hunger Games franchise that ups the stakes from the original films and dives deeper into the storytelling from a welcome new angle.

Cinemablend

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes review – back to an empty future

Prequel to the hit teen dystopia recruits Rachel Zegler and Jason Schwartzman to labour over IP that is now starved of inspiration

The Guardian - UK

The Hunger Games Author Opens Up About Watching The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Despite Being 'Nervous' To See It

Suzanne Collins, who wrote the novel for Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, has seen the new movie.

Cinemablend

Hunger Games Producer Shares Blunt Thoughts On Potential Of Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen Return, And I Couldn’t Agree More

Could we see Katniss return to the Hunger Games on the big screen?

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Hunger Games: loved the film? Now it's becoming a major London stage show

The blockbuster franchise will be adapted by Olivier Award-wining playwright Conor McPherson

Evening Standard

The Hunger Games stage adaptation coming to the West End

Script is being written by Olivier-winning playwright Conor McPherson

The Independent UK

The heartbreaking reason for The Hunger Games prequel protagonist’s name

Rachel Zegler stars as Lucy Gray Baird in forthcoming prequel, ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’

The Independent UK

The Hunger Games Director Is Copping It From The Fandom For Labelling Katniss As ‘Asexual’

Director Francis Lawrence referred to Rachel Zegler’s character in the prequel as the “anti-Katniss.”

Pedestrian.tv

James Patterson, Margaret Atwood among thousands of writers urging AI companies to honor copyrights

James Patterson, Suzanne Collins and Margaret Atwood are among thousands of writers endorsing an open letter from the Authors Guild urging AI companies to obtain permission before incorporating copyrighted work into their technologies

The Independent UK

Burly seagulls terrorise people in seaside town with attacks and raids on rubbish

"They rip rubbish open and they attack people. They're just vermin basically. The rats are probably kinder than the seagulls are."

Daily Mirror

Jennifer Lawrence teases a return to Hunger Games franchise

After the Hunger Games movies made her a star, Jennifer Lawrence talks whether or not she would return to the franchise in the future.

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Cinemablend

The Hunger Games Is Back With Chilling Ballad Of Songbird And Snakes Trailer Featuring Peter Dinklage And Viola Davis

Lionsgate has finally unveiled the first look at the Hunger Games prequel and we have chills already.

The National (Scotland)

It's time to return to a series which changed a genre

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Inverse

You Need to Watch the Most Influential Post-Apocalyptic Thriller on Netflix ASAP

"This is the revolution, and you are the mockingjay."

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Just Gonna Say It: Peeta Mellark Is Actually The Greatest YA Leading Man Of All Time

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Daily Mirror

Brits' favourite books to read on staycation - with Sally Rooney topping the list

Sally Rooney's 2021 literary fiction 'Beautiful World, Where Are You' came out ahead of the Harry Potter collection and 'Fifty Shades of Grey'

The Independent UK

Best holiday books revealed in poll

Romantic reads come out on top in survey, followed by mysteries

Evening Standard

Hunger Games: Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer joins the cast of prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

The actor will join Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler in the new blockbuster

Liverpool Echo

Celebrities you might not know have links to Wirral

You may be surprised that some of these celebs hail from the peninsula

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