Box Office: ‘Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Makes $5.75 Million in Previews
variety.comJordan Moreau Welcome back to the “Hunger Games,” and may the box office odds be ever in your favor. The latest movie in the Lionsgate YA action franchise, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” has made $5.75 million in previews at the box office.
The prequel expected to make around $50 million in its debut this weekend, with some prediction as high as $60 million and some lower at $45 million. “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the 2020 novel of the same name by “Hunger Games” author Suzanne Collins, is the franchise’s first movie in eight years.
It jumps back more than 60 years to show what happened at the 10th Hunger Games and follows a young Corioloanus Snow, who would later become president of Panem and make Katniss Everdeen’s life miserable.
The prequel won’t reach the same heights that the original, massively popular “Hunger Games” movies did in the 2010s, but it should stand to do well at the box office.
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