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

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'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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I said this in another comment but I think this book would've worked better as a limited series because there were so many layers (even the book failed to explore) that the movie didn't give time to breathe. I genuinely hated the mentor set up in the books, but I think it really showed a great contrast between District and Capitol and how propaganda and retelling of history can really warp facts.

I also missed seeing that tribute who killed Arachnes body hanging from a crane. I found that so disturbing in the book and wish that they'd done it in the movie to really go in on how horrifically the Capitol treated the Districts.

Your thoughts are mine because I feel like the movie started to show Lucy Gray was a threat to Snow, but then it seemed like they watered it down a little bit wrt her? Like all of a sudden she's intense about him saying he killed three people and she only knows about two. I wish they had taken more time to show their different ideals (I found that when they spoke politics and the future in the books, you could see Snow fight against the fact she wasn't the idea he wanted her to be) because him turning on her in the end would've been more effective imo.