The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Summary
The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeshas broken a platter for the enfranchisement . The new release is a prequel to theHunger Gamesmovies , adapted from the 2020 novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins . It stars Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow , the next President of the dystopian nation of Panem , and tracks his early years as a mentor for the tenth yearly Hunger Games , where he trains and strikes up a kinship with District 12 testimonial Lucy Gray Baird ( Rachel Zegler ) .
PerDeadline , theHunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesbox officeis fancy to earn a 5 - day Thanksgiving weekend domesticated total of $ 41.1 million by the end of Sunday . This is more than enough to make it No . 1 for the weekend , but its 3 - day Friday to Sunday sum alone is $ 24.8 million , just a 44.4 % drop cloth from its opening weekend glaring of $ 44.6 million . This gain it the modest week 2 drib of the entireHunger Gamesfranchise .
How Will The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes End Up Ranking Among the Hunger Games Movies?
TheBallad of Songbirds and Snakesmoviehas show strong staying power , which could spell very good news for its commercial hereafter . While its opening night weekend was the lowest of the total franchise by a significant margin ( the second - lowest wasMockingjay - Part 2with $ 102.6 million ) , if it manages to sustain interview interest over a farsighted period , it may still put up some contention against the old title . Check out a comparison of theHunger Gamesfranchise ’s hebdomad 2 drops below :
title of respect
calendar week 2 Drop
The Hunger Games
61.6 %
The Hunger Games : Catching Fire
53.1 %
The Hunger Games : Mockingjay - Part 1
53.3 %
The Hunger Games : Mockingjay - Part 2
49.3 %
44.4 %
It remain to be seen if this kind of strong interview storage area will tolerate the moving-picture show to leg out to a comparably unanimous sum . As it suffer , Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesis have a bun in the oven to cross the $ 100 million gull by Monday and finally garner a domestic total of $ 150 million . If this remains the case , it will still be considerably outgrossed by the previous movies , which roll fromCatching Fire ’s tremendous $ 424.7 million domestic crying andMockingjay - Part 2 ’s relatively paltry $ 281.7 million .
However , theThe Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesreleasehas already pull off a surprise upset by outgrossing the Modern Disney animated movieWish . If it brings audience into theaters over the next few weeks at a exchangeable rate , it could continue to storm . With the wide - release movie slate comparatively clear-cut until the release of the Timothée Chalamet blockbusterWonkaon December 15,Songbirds & Snakescould very well put itself in competition at least with the lower goal of theHunger Gamesfranchise .
beginning : Deadline
