The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2nd Trailer is Here!

The long-awaited second trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes has finally arrived! Set to a haunting version of The Hanging Tree sung by Lucy Gray’s Rachel Zegler, the new 2 minute and 45 second trailer, propels us back into Panem with some intense new scenes, additional world building, and gives us a bit more of the main characters in the film including Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow, Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, Josh Andres Rivera as Sejanus Plinth, Jason Schwartzman as Lucretious “Lucky’” Flickerman, Coriolanus’ cousin, Tigris Snow, portrayed by Hunter Schafer, Peter Dinklage as Dean Casca Highbottom, and Viola Davis’ Dr. Volumnia Gaul.

The Hanging Tree, the Dark Days, the arena, the cabin at the lake, drones, snakes (so many SNAKES), the zoo, Rachel singing, Tom making us question our morality, Viola being scary, Hunter slaying, Dinklage Dinklaging, Jason comically relieving, the ENDING(!): there was a LOT to process about the trailer.

We also saw the debut of a new film poster featuring the main cast:

New images and stills from The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes also dropped, featuring Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, Viola Davis, Jason Schwartzman, and Peter Dinklage. 

You can find all of the official posters, stills, screencaps from the trailers and more in our GALLERIES. 

Special Delivery From The Capitol + New Stills From The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

We were lucky enough to receive this gorgeous music box today from Lionsgate to celebrate the upcoming release of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes second trailer. Select fan accounts and media received the custom gift. 

The wooden music box, engraved with the film's Mockingjay and snake symbol, has a golden spinning rose and plays the Mockingjay whistle. 

Inside the box:

Golden rose petals

Polaroids of the three stills from the film 

A letter with the following message:

We cordially invite you to return to Panem this November 17.

To show our appreciation for your support, please take this music box as a token of our gratitude.

We look forward to seeing you at the 10th Annual Hunger Games.

- The Hunger Games Team

The letter also included a QR code that revealed three new stills from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by photographer Murray Close featuring Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird, Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow, and a glimpse of District 12.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2nd trailer premieres at 8:45 am EST on Wed, September 20th!

In theaters and IMAX November 17th.

Academy Adventures – A New Roblox Game for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Academy Adventures has arrived. Academy Adventures is a new Roblox server centered around The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

Today, we got one of the Hunger Games community texts featuring a video clip of a tiny golden bird and Rue’s whistle.

Later in the day, we received another text, this time with the Roblox announcement and a link:

“Become a part of Panem’s grand legacy. Your future is about to begin - just listen, wait, and see.”

The link leads you to a landing page for the new game.

The description from Roblox:

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New Video from The Hunger Games Community Channel features The Hanging Tree

If you signed up for text alerts, a new video was sent by the official Hunger Games community channel with a music excerpt of Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird hauntingly humming The Hanging Tree. We can imagine her humming as she's working out the melody while writing the song. 

Lucy Gray hummed now, testing out different chords behind the melody, while he admired the curve of her neck, the fineness of her skin.

- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Chapter 24

The voice didn't sound exactly like Rachel Zegler's typical singing voice, so there were many other guesses about who the singer was today including Sia and Niki Minaj. It was a chaotic day in The Hunger Games fandom!

Rachel Zegler tried to help us all out on Snapchat:

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Producer Nina Jacobson confirmed on Twitter that the voice humming in The Hanging Tree clip IS Rachel Zegler AND that the 2nd trailer is coming very soon - some time begfore Friday 9/22/23 - but not tomorrow 9/17 as she accidentally tweeted in a game of Real or Not Real. I told you, it was CHAOTIC today (especially on twitter).

You can sign up for the Hunger Games Community Channel by texting 1-717-THG-MKJY (1-717-844-6559) from mobile or WhatsApp toto receive direct messages with updates on The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. 

The Hunger Games Returns to Theaters for 2 Days Only!

The Hunger Games returns to theaters nationwide for two days only on October 15 and 18! There will be an exclusive, never-before-seen look at The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes after the film. The runtime of the re-release is 2hrs 40 minutes and the runtime of The Hunger Games is 2hrs 22 minutes, so we could be getting 18 minutes of exclusive footage at the re-release event!

You can order your tickets through Fathom Events or check your local theaters. 

A New Still of Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird By Murray Close

A new still of Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was featured in the New York Times’ list of Fall’s most anticipated movies. Here’s the short blurb from the article:

THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES

Set before the events of the Jennifer Lawrence films, this screen installment from Suzanne Collins’s books casts Tom Blyth as a teenage tyrant in the making and Rachel Zegler as the tribute he tries to prepare for the deadly games. Francis Lawrence returns to direct.

This scene from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes looks so book accurate we had to put the still together with footage from the trailer and the audio book passage. 

IMAX will screen The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes this fall

IMAX will screen The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Marvels, and Killers of the Flower Moon in place of Dune 2 this fall according to CEO Richard Gelfond.

Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communcacopia + Technology Conference last week, Gelfond said “Now that [Dune 2 has] moved, we can play all three and we have a great title next year in Dune.”

Imax will also be screening the upcoming Taylor Swift concert tour movie in October.

Will you see The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in IMAX?

The Hunger Games Posts Riddle on Redesigned Website

A mysterious new riddle from the The Hunger Games website seems to be teasing a date for the second trailer of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

Sharp eyed fans noticed a glowing rose on the homepage of recently redesigned thehungergames.movie (see above). When you click the rose the following screen appears and Rue's whistle plays:

The riddle below can be unlocked by correctly texting the 4 musical notes of Rue’s whistle to 1-717-844-6559. 

Can you solve it? 

So far there are lots of guesses but no confirmation yet whether anyone’s guess is correct, or if this clue is, indeed, pointing us to the date of the second trailer. We'll keep you posted! 🕊️🐍🤔