'The Hunger Games' prequel kicks off weekend with $5.8M from Thursday previews

[masterofmystery]

'The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes' Begins With Thursday Previews Around $6M - Box Office https://t.co/LkTSRqoMeB
- Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) November 17, 2023
'The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes' opened this weekend to $5.8M brought in from Thursday night screenings. It's expected to rack in about $45M-$50M at

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[little_vienna]

Same here!!

[Spoiler (click to open)]She had a larger role in the book... sort of. Like, in the beginning, it's detailed more how Snow thinks Tigris may be prostituting herself for money as many women and girls in Panem had to do during/after the war. I will say from what I remember, Tigris wasn't really in the third part of the book aside from us knowing Snow writes to her. There is no moment, like in the film, where we get a sense that she's seen the shift in him with the remark about looking like his father & not calling him Coryo. Instead, Tigris seems oblivious to Snow's changing self.

I think they did a good job incorporating the music without making it seem like a musical or too cheesy. Even if I miss the fact that in the book, Lucy's song at the reaping was a literal whole song and a performance, not an angry reaction that was spurned on by the Covey singing to her and ending with her just shouting a lyric.

I wish they'd give us an extra 20 minutes in part 3, because even having read the book, I was kind of like--wait, this is WAY too much, too fast. Part 3 in the book takes place over a longer period of time and feels more organic for sure.

[honeymink]

I thought the film was taking something away that only occured to Tigris later (perhaps around the time he banned her from the Games). The book shows very much that she doesn't want to think ill of her cousin with whom she grew up. I always understood this as commentary that people who we are very close to can still fool us. In that sense adding the Donald Sutherland voice-over at the end of the movie can have different meanings... or so I thought... it's destroying Tigris (here in the movie prematurely and in the history of book canon later) to see her beloved cousin for what he is.

I'm not sure... I think it was in THG that Katniss said she would have sold herself to Cray when they were all going hungry but she was too young. It paints a picture that things for women are always hard, especially during/after war, since they imply the prostitution angle when it comes to both Tigris and Lucy Gray as well.