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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is bound to be one of the biggest movies of the year and the first trailer was just revealed!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Lionsgate is officially inviting audiences back to Panem for “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” a prequel set in the “Hunger Games” universe. At long last, the odds were ever in CinemaCon-goers favor on Thursday as attendees of the annual trade show for theater owners were treated to the first teaser for the spinoff story. At last year’s convention, the studio only brought a short clip (sans movie footage or even a cast list) of “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” which left much to be desired. The trailer begins with Viola Davis, who plays the head gamemaker Volumnia Gaul, introducing “the creators of the Hunger Games themselves.” But there’s a change in this year’s dystopian event, warns Academy dean Casca Highbottom.

She hails from Hackensack, New Jersey.And Rachel Zegler showed off her tristate style when she was spotted dashing around New York City this week at the dawn of 2023.The 21-year-old West Side Story star wrapped a stylish long grey overcoat around her petite frame and accessorized with a Yankees cap. Off she goes: Rachel Zegler showed off her tristate style when she was spotted dashing around New York City this week at the dawn of 2023Her latest outing comes two months after she announced she had wrapped production on the Hunger Games prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes.She celebrated the occasion by tweeting a pair of photos of her cheerfully snapping the clapboard on the set of a massive, opulent rotunda.

Rachel Zegler has wrapped principal photography on the Hunger Games prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes.She celebrated the occasion by tweeting a pair of photos of her cheerfully snapping the clapboard on the set of a massive, opulent rotunda.The 21-year-old, who became a breakout star last year in Steven Spielberg's movie of West Side Story, wrote: 'i have loved every second. and that’s a wrap.'  Job done: Rachel Zegler has wrapped principal photography on the Hunger Games prequel The Ballad Of Songbirds And SnakesIn a follow-up tweet she wrote: ''many many many more words come to mind but i shan’t bore you by pretending i have anything new to offer you with my thoughts.'She added: 'just know i am thankful.

Rachel Zegler teased fans with a preview of the new Hunger Games movie set on Thursday.The West Side Story star, 21, was featured in a TikTok that showed the action behind the scenes of the upcoming prequel to the popular Hunger Games franchise, titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.The clip shows Rachel - who plays the lead character Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from District 12 - walking through the set and showing off some of the cast, including Peter Dinklage, 53, and Tom Blyth, 27, in character.

, which features stars Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth.In the shot, Zegler's Lucy Gray Baird, wearing a purple dress, holds hands with Blyth's Coriolanus Snow, who's sporting a T-shirt and jeans, as the pair lounge on a blanket outside. The film, a prequel to the franchise, follows 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow years before he becomes the tyrannical President of Panem. In the flick, Snow is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol.With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, the girl tribute from impoverished District 12.

The Hunger Games are back.

Lionsgate has released a first look image for The Hunger Games: Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes. The film is a prequel to the wildly successful Hunger Games franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence. Susan Collins who wrote the original Hunger Games novels decided to follow it up with a prequel that takes place 64 years before Katniss Everdeen became a district 12 tribute.

Viola Davis (The Woman King) is the latest addition to the cast of Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The Oscar winner has been tapped for the role of Head Gamemaker Volumnia Gaul, joining an ensemble led by Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterA Westeros legend is making his way to Panem. “Game of Thrones” actor Peter Dinklage has been cast as Casca Highbottom in “The Hunger Games” prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”Dinklage will star opposite Tom Blyth as young Coriolanus Snow, Rachel Zegler as tribute Lucy Gray Baird and Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow.“With production underway, we couldn’t be more excited about the way this cast has come together and thrilled to be welcoming Peter Dinklage to Panem,” Nathan Kahane, president of Lionsgate’s Motion Picture Group, said in a statement.

EXCLUSIVE: For the upcoming prequel to The Hunger Games, the odds are in its favor for the highly-anticipated project to add an Emmy-winning star to its cast. Sources tell Deadline, Peter Dinklage is set to join the growing ensemble of Lionsgate’s Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes. Dinklage will play Casca Highbottom, dean of the Academy. Dinklage will star in the film opposite Tom Blyth, who will play the young Coriolanus Snow, and Rachel Zegler, as tribute Lucy Gray Baird. Francis Lawrence, who previously directed the franchise’s Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part One, and Mockingjay Part Two, will direct the adaptation of the Suzanne Collins novel.

EXCLUSIVE: The latest casting round of tributes and mentors in Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes includes Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, Dimitri Abold, Athena Strates, Dakota Shapiro, George Somner and Vaughan Reilly.

EXCLUSIVE: The Francis Lawrence directed Lionsgate prequel Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes continues to expand its ensemble cast with a third round of actors playing mentors and tributes from the Suzanne Collins’ YA novel.

Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City) is the latest addition to the cast of Lionsgate’s Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. He joins an ensemble led by Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler which also includes Josh Andrés Rivera, Hunter Schafer, Jerome Lance, Ashley Liao, Knox Gibson, Mackenzie Lansing, Aamer Husain, Nick Benson, Laurel Marsden, Lilly Cooper, Luna Steeples and Hiroki Berrecloth, as previously announced.

Euphoria star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been cast as Tigris Snow in Lionsgate's prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.The 23-year-old transgender trailblazer's character is the cousin/confidante of 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow, who eventually became the callous autocratic ruler (Donald Sutherland) of the Capitol and all of Panem.In Suzanne Collins' 2020 novel, the once wealthy Snow family are surviving on boiled cabbage and old outgrown clothes while living in an apartment they can't afford after their factory in District 13 was destroyed. New gig! Euphoria star Hunter Schafer has reportedly been cast as Tigris Snow in Lionsgate's prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (pictured April 20)Billy the Kid action star Tom Blyth will play Coriolanus, who's assigned to mentor District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird (West Side Story's Rachel Zegler) as she competes in the 10th annual Hunger Games.The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - hitting US/UK theaters November 17, 2023 - will be directed by Grammy winner Francis Lawrence who previously helmed Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part One, and Mockingjay Part Two.

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media“Euphoria” star Hunter Schafer has joined the cast of Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”She will appear opposite Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler in the studio’s attempt to recapture that old Panem magic. Schafer will play Tigris Snow, the cousin and confidante of Coriolanus Snow (Blyth), who, “Hunger Games” fans know, will one day mature into the autocratic ruler of the dystopian world of the books and films, a leader who has just a dollop of psychopathy to go along with his suave demeanor.“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” debuts in theaters worldwide on November 17, 2023.

EXCLUSIVE: The ensemble cast of Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes keeps growing, and we’ve heard first that Nick Benson, Laurel Marsden, Lilly Cooper, Luna Steeples and Hiroki Berrecloth are joining the Francis Lawrence directed title opposite Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler and Josh Andrés Rivera.

Josh Andrés Rivera will be returning to work with his West Side Story star Rachel Zegler in Lionsgate’s growing ensemble prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. 

The new “Hunger Games” movie is shaping up, with Lionsgate revealing new casting information for the upcoming “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”.

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned that Lionsgate’s prequel, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, has landed its first round of tribute and mentor characters in the Francis Lawrence directed film.