'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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Yeah that was really annoying about the last part -- the lack of ambiguity. And like you said earlier in a comment, when Snow sees Lucy Gray on stage for the first time when she is so confident, talks back to the audience in a fashion that is very familiar and takes a sip of white liquor, we realise there is a whole different person there that we never saw in the Capitol.

did Lucy Gray tell Billy Taupe that she would come up north with him?

Yeah she did. In my opinion. That's neither here nor there but that was always my headcanon. I know that all over the internet people talk about how Maud Ivory is related to Mr Everdeen and thus Katniss and it's a very neat theory. I don't have anything against it if we need a close relation at all. Personally I always thought it was Lucy Gray and Billy Taupe. (Maybe because I was thinking a lot about parallels within the original series and the prequel, and then thought of Peeta's pregnancy ruse in CF -- no proof just random thoughts.) Also she said she didn't think she could survive alone and would go back to D12. I always imagined she did but since music was forbidden anyway at that point, she could live fairly anonymously. /rant (sorry about that)

Througout the book, I thought the point of Lucy Gray and also Billy Taupe in contrast to Coriolanus was that they did what they had to because of survival. Whereas Snow did most things regain his (and his family's) status because he thought he was owed.