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Thursday
Jun202024

Rest In Peace Donald Sutherland 

Donald Sutherland has passed away at 88.Today, we mourn the loss of a legend. Donald Sutherland, the actor who brought our President Snow to life in The Hunger Games franchise, has passed away at the age of 88.

With a heavy heart, I tell you that my father, Donald Sutherland, has passed away,” Kiefer Sutherland announced on X, formerly Twitter, “I personally think one of the most important actors in the history of film. Never daunted by a role, good, bad or ugly. He loved what he did and did what he loved, and one can never ask for more than that. A life well lived.” 

We will forever be grateful to Donald for his brilliant portrayal of Snow in The Hunger Games franchise. He brought immense joy to the fandom, skillfully embodying the villain we loved to hate. 
Rest in Peace, Donald. 

 

Thursday
Apr272023

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Director Francis Lawrence and Producer Nina Jacobson Break Down The First Trailer

In the first shot we see of Rachel Zegler’s Lucy Gray Baird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes first trailer, she curtseys sarcastically - a stark parallel of Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss in both The Hunger Games and Catching Fire

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“It is such a completely original Lucy moment,” producer Nina Jacobson says to Variety. “She’s such a different character from Katniss. She’s such a performer. Katniss is the opposite. This is a woman who loves and lives to perform. To see the connection there, the history that she represents, and to think that Katniss Everdeen grew up knowing about Lucy Gray and this moment, it was just a great kind of microcosm of both how much of a new ground it is and how rooted it is in what we’ve seen, but in this backward-looking way.”

“I just thought it’d be really interesting if we create a history of it so that maybe [Katniss] didn’t come up with it on her own. Maybe she’d heard about this girl from a long time ago having done the same thing,” director Francis Lawrence says. “We’re also trying to find ways of linking it to the other movies and into the things that people love.”

But that’s where the similarities end. “One of the least Katniss things ever is to get up there and sing a song,” Jacobson says. “It’s a far cry from ‘I volunteer as tribute’ to ‘I’m gonna get up there, grab the mic and sing a song.’”

Jacobson and Lawrence say fans should expect something extraordinary when they finally hear those songs.

“Dave Cobb did the music and he is incredible. His songs are earworms. They stick in your head. They’re beautiful,” Jacobson says. “Rachel often would opt not to do playback, and just sing it live. Often, after they would call cut, people would just go bananas clapping!”

Those live on-set vocals will be included in the final product. “The big finale moment…un-fucking-believable. Her voice is jaw-dropping.”

“Suzanne Collins is a country music aficionado and she has a vast knowledge of country music. Because District 12 is West Virginia, we sort of leaned toward the Appalachian sound,” adds Lawrence of the musical style for the film.

Jason Schwartzman plays Hunger Games Host Lucky Flickerman, an ancestor of Stanley Tucci’s Caesar Flickerman. As we know, resemblance is striking, but Jacobson says “He’s not impersonating [Stanley Tucci] any way - but there are moments with his laugh or his flair.”

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Thursday
Apr272023

Epic First Official Trailer And Character Poster For The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes 

Lionsgate debuted the epic first trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes at their CinemaCon panel in Las Vegas, Nevada today. Take a look:

We were honored to be among a group of select fandom accounts that Lionsgate invited to Vegas for an exclusive first look at the trailer last night  - before anyone else. See more about that fandom trip of a lifetime HERE

Along with the trailer, we got a look at the first official character poster for the film with the tagline, "Everyone Hungers For Something." 

Can't wait to hear what you think!

 

Wednesday
Apr262023

EXCLUSIVE sneak peek from The Hunger Games:The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes First Official Trailer

Lionsgate is at CinemaCon in Las Vegas and they treated a select group of fan accounts, including our very own Molly, to a VIP trailer launch event! We got to see The Hunger Games:The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes first official trailer before anyone else at a private event held within The Hunger Games Exhibition inside MGM Grand. 

But don’t worry, everybody else will get to see tomorrow! Time isn't yet confirmed but we assume it will be shown during the Lionsgate panel at CinemaCon and released online at the same time. 

To make the wait a little more bearable, here is an EXCLUSIVE sneak peek from the trailer to tide you over.

There are 17 different sneak peeks in total that are being released today among the fandom accounts in attendance. Be sure to stop by other THG fansites and social media accounts to find them all. We've posted the list of accounts in our instagram comments on this gif post. 

See you TOMORROW for the trailer!

You can check out the full VIP trailer launch experience HERE

And an exclusive Q&A with director Francis Lawence and producer Nina Jacobson HERE


 

Tuesday
Jul052022

First Look at Tom Blyth As A Blonde!

Tom Blyth shared this pic today in Instagam stories - presumably getting into character for his role as young Coriolanus Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes! The reaction on social media was mostly "please get this man some toner" (still traumatized from Josh Hutcherson's eyebrows in The Hunger Games, perhaps?) but I have to admit I can really start to see the transformation happening. Going blonde is HARD, people. He's going to be amazing. 

 


 

Monday
May162022

Tom Blyth has been cast as young Coriolanus Snow in 'The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes'

Tom Blyth, currently starring in Epix’s new Western adventure series Billy The Kid, has been cast as the young President Coriolanus Snow in the upcoming Hunger Games prequel film, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

“Tom's performance will both fulfill and disrupt everything you think you know about Coriolanus Snow. He's a tremendous talent who will show why Snow always lands on top.” said Nina Jacobson. Director Francis Lawrence added, "Coriolanus Snow is many things — a survivor, a loyal friend, a cutthroat, a kid quick to fall in love, and a young man ambitious to his core," Tom's take on Snow showed us all the complex ambiguities of this young man as he transforms into the tyrant he would become."

The film, based on the prequel novel by Suzanne Collins, tells the origin story of a teenage Coriolanus Snow (played by Donald Sutherland in the original movies) and how he starts down the path of becoming the tyrannical President of Panem.

Here's Tom talking about the role, the films and books. It seems like he completely gets why so many of us love The Hunger Games and the universe Suzanne Collins' created. 


The film arrives in theaters November 17, 2023.

 

 

Thursday
Apr232020

Listen To Suzanne Collins Read An Exclusive Excerpt From 'The Hunger Games' Prequel - with a surprise returning character! 

In this exclusive clip posted on Bustle, The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins reads the opening scene from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. She introduces the book's protagonist, a young President Snow, and his very familiar cousin. Listen in! 

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will be released on May 19th, 2020. You can pre-order your copy now

 

Tuesday
Jan212020

Teenage President Snow Revealed as Star of Hunger Games Prequel in EW Exclusive

Illustration by Charles Chaisson for EW

As we all eagerly await the May 19 release of Suzanne Collins' upcoming Hunger Games prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Entertainment Weekly is giving us a little taste of what to expect in an exclusive excerpt. In the short snippet we learn that the protagonist of the book is none other than a teenage President Snow, embarking on his first time mentoring in The Hunger Games, assigned to a girl of a certain District.... 

Read the full excerpt at Entertainment Weekly. And stay tuned for the latest here!