{"id":26609,"date":"2023-11-20T20:14:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T20:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/fans-show-appetite-for-the-hunger-games-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T20:14:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T20:14:05","slug":"fans-show-appetite-for-the-hunger-games-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/fans-show-appetite-for-the-hunger-games-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans show appetite for &#8216;The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>A \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 prequel from Lionsgate topped all other movies in North American theatres this weekend, gobbling an estimated $44 million in ticket sales, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch ARY News live on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live.arynews.tv\/hq\/\">live.arynews.tv<\/a><\/strong><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018<em>The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &amp; Snakes<\/em>\u2018 put up \u201cvery good numbers\u201d for an action-adventure prequel and should also do well abroad, said David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &amp; Snakes (2023) Official Trailer 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NxW_X4kzeus?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The film, the fifth in the \u2018<em>Hunger Games<\/em>\u2018 series, stars Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow (who as an old man in the series is played by Donald Sutherland) and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird; Peter Dinklage and Jason Schwartzman also star in a tale built around the 10th Hunger Games in the dystopian state of Panem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/jennifer-lawrence-shares-advice-for-hunger-games-prequel-stars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jennifer Lawrence shares advice for \u2018<em>Hunger Games<\/em>\u2018 prequel stars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In second for the Friday-through-Sunday period was another new release, \u2018<em>Trolls Band Together<\/em>,\u2019 a family-friendly animated musical comedy from DreamWorks and Universal Pictures. It took in $30.6 million.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"TROLLS BAND TOGETHER | Official Trailer 2\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ftUpFjGKuY0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>A sequel to \u2018Trolls World Tour,\u2019 this installment, which has fared better with audiences than with critics, features the voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel and Kenan Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>In third was the superhero film \u2018<em>The Marvels<\/em>.\u2019 After opening last weekend at $47 million, the lowest debut ever for a movie from Disney\u2019s Marvel Cinematic Universe, the superhero film made history again, plummeting to $10.2 million \u2014 Marvel\u2019s \u201cworst second-weekend drop of all time,\u201d said the Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"The Marvels | Final Trailer | In Theaters Friday\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uwmDH12MAA4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Iman Vellani star in the sci-fi yarn.<\/p>\n<p>Tying with \u2018<em>The Marvels<\/em>\u2018 was gory slasher film \u2018<em>Thanksgiving<\/em>,\u2019 from Spyglass Media and TriStar Pictures, also with ticket sales of $10.2 million \u2014 not a bad start for a film that cost just $15 million to make.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReviews are excellent,\u201d David A. Gross said, \u201cand the picture should play well over the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Dempsey, better known as neurosurgeon Derek \u201cMcDreamy\u201d Shepherd on popular series \u2018<em>Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>,\u2019 plays a sheriff with a dark backstory.<\/p>\n<p>And in fifth place was another horror film, \u2018<em>Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s<\/em>\u2018 from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, at $3.5 million. Josh Hutcherson plays a luckless security guard working nights in a creepy abandoned store.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the top 10 were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018<em>The Holdovers<\/em>\u2018 ($2.7 million)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018<em>Next Goal Wins<\/em>\u2018 ($2.5 million)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018<em>Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour<\/em>\u2018 ($2.4 million)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018<em>Priscilla<\/em>\u2018 ($2.3 million)<\/li>\n<li>\u2018<em>Killers of the Flower Moon<\/em>\u2018 ($1.9 million)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 prequel from Lionsgate topped all other movies in North American theatres this weekend, gobbling an estimated $44 million in ticket sales, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations reported Sunday. Watch ARY News live on\u00a0live.arynews.tv\u00a0 \u2018The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &amp; Snakes\u2018 put up \u201cvery good numbers\u201d for an action-adventure prequel and should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ballad.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}