Tom Blyth is willing to return to 'The Hunger Games' franchise.The 29-year-old actor played a young Coriolanus Snow in last year's prequel movie 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' and is intrigued by the opportunity to explore the character further in future projects.In an interview with Screen Rant, Tom said: "Yeah, yeah, yeah. It'd be a no-brainer. I feel like I was so fortunate to get to step into that world, and I really love everyone involved: Francis Lawrence, Nina Jacobson and Suzanne Collins."But it would be really cool to keep digging into that story, and I do think that fans feel this too. I think they were very excited to reignite the world, and I think people feel like within that reigniting, there's more to do. There are more stories to delve into."I do think there's more to Coriolanus' story to delve into,...
- 5/22/2024
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
The inaugural San Quentin Film Festival — the first film festival to be held inside a prison — will take place Oct. 10, 2024 at the maximum security correctional facility located near San Francisco.
The one-day event, designed to spark collaboration between incarcerated people and the entertainment industry, will include a screening of A24’s Sing Sing, which stars Colman Domingo and a cast of formerly incarcerated actors. The festival will include both new feature films that depict the prison experience and short films made by incarcerated filmmakers.
While he was incarcerated at San Quentin, festival co-director Rahsaan Thomas directed a short documentary, Friendly Signs, which screened at this year’s Atlanta Film Festival. “I learned to become a filmmaker while I was incarcerated, using donated equipment,” said Thomas, who is co-host and producer of the award-winning Ear Hustle podcast. “My experience happened through opportunities that rarely come to incarcerated people. That’s why...
The one-day event, designed to spark collaboration between incarcerated people and the entertainment industry, will include a screening of A24’s Sing Sing, which stars Colman Domingo and a cast of formerly incarcerated actors. The festival will include both new feature films that depict the prison experience and short films made by incarcerated filmmakers.
While he was incarcerated at San Quentin, festival co-director Rahsaan Thomas directed a short documentary, Friendly Signs, which screened at this year’s Atlanta Film Festival. “I learned to become a filmmaker while I was incarcerated, using donated equipment,” said Thomas, who is co-host and producer of the award-winning Ear Hustle podcast. “My experience happened through opportunities that rarely come to incarcerated people. That’s why...
- 5/15/2024
- by Rebecca Keegan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A new limited series ripped straight from the headlines comes to us from FX. Clipped stars Laurence Fishburne, Ed O’Neill, Jacki Weaver and Cleopatra Coleman in one of the NBA’s biggest controversies. The six-part limited series is set to debut on Hulu with back-to-back episodes on June 4. The trailer for the show has been released by FX.
The official synopsis reads,
“FX’s Clipped takes you behind the scenes of a notorious NBA owner’s racist remarks, captured on a tape heard around the world. Based on the hit ESPN 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs, this limited series charts the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less functional marriage, and the precipitating tape’s impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.
Famed coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) arrives as coach of the LA Clippers...
The official synopsis reads,
“FX’s Clipped takes you behind the scenes of a notorious NBA owner’s racist remarks, captured on a tape heard around the world. Based on the hit ESPN 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs, this limited series charts the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less functional marriage, and the precipitating tape’s impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.
Famed coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) arrives as coach of the LA Clippers...
- 4/26/2024
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
The official trailer for the docudrama Clipped has hit, with Laurence Fishburne, Jacki Weaver, Cleopatra Coleman, and Ed O’Neill delivering a behind-the-scenes dramatization of one of the NBA’s most scandalous moments.
The six-part limited series debuts June 4 on Hulu with back-to-back episodes.
FX’s Clipped probes a notorious NBA owner’s racist remarks, captured on a tape heard around the world. Based on the hit ESPN 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs, this limited series charts the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less-functional marriage, and the precipitating tape’s impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.
Famed coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) arrives as coach of the Clippers in 2013. With a promising roster of big personalities, Rivers had the building blocks to win the franchise’s first championship. The team’s owner, Donald Sterling...
The six-part limited series debuts June 4 on Hulu with back-to-back episodes.
FX’s Clipped probes a notorious NBA owner’s racist remarks, captured on a tape heard around the world. Based on the hit ESPN 30 for 30 podcast The Sterling Affairs, this limited series charts the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less-functional marriage, and the precipitating tape’s impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.
Famed coach Doc Rivers (Laurence Fishburne) arrives as coach of the Clippers in 2013. With a promising roster of big personalities, Rivers had the building blocks to win the franchise’s first championship. The team’s owner, Donald Sterling...
- 4/26/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Ten years ago today, TMZ published an audio recording of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling saying racist things surreptitiously captured by his mistress, V. Stiviano. The recording led to his downfall, and changed the NBA forever.
If you’re not a basketball fan, you might not remember the story. But FX’s limited series “Clipped,” which just got its first trailer today, makes a case for the Donald Sterling saga as a “People v. O.J. Simpson”-style story about race, class, power, and that unique corner of America known as Los Angeles.
Per FX, “Clipped” “charts the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less functional marriage, and the precipitating tape’s impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.”
“Clipped” stars Ed O’Neill as Sterling, a man who made his fortune building an L.
If you’re not a basketball fan, you might not remember the story. But FX’s limited series “Clipped,” which just got its first trailer today, makes a case for the Donald Sterling saga as a “People v. O.J. Simpson”-style story about race, class, power, and that unique corner of America known as Los Angeles.
Per FX, “Clipped” “charts the collision between a dysfunctional basketball organization and even less functional marriage, and the precipitating tape’s impact on an ensemble of characters striving to win against the backdrop of the most cursed team in the league.”
“Clipped” stars Ed O’Neill as Sterling, a man who made his fortune building an L.
- 4/25/2024
- by Liam Mathews
- Gold Derby
HBO had the Lakers, now FX has the Clippers. Will the series’ fates differ (as the real-life teams’ have), or will “Clipped” face the same quick, quiet end as “Winning Time”? We’ll find out this June, when FX’s latest ripped-from-the-headlines adaptation premieres exclusively on Hulu. The trailer was released Thursday, April 25 — just under six weeks prior to the premiere — and now you can watch the first footage below.
Set in 2013, the six-episode limited series stars Ed O’Neill as L.A. Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling and Laurence Fishburne as the team’s head coach, Doc Rivers. Formerly with the Boston Celtics (who won an NBA title in 2008), Rivers had just joined the Clippers when the owner’s racist comments went public, sending the organization into a tailspin and Sterling into a power struggle with Rivers, players, and the NBA at large. Key players in the tumultuous saga include Shelly Sterling...
Set in 2013, the six-episode limited series stars Ed O’Neill as L.A. Clippers’ owner Donald Sterling and Laurence Fishburne as the team’s head coach, Doc Rivers. Formerly with the Boston Celtics (who won an NBA title in 2008), Rivers had just joined the Clippers when the owner’s racist comments went public, sending the organization into a tailspin and Sterling into a power struggle with Rivers, players, and the NBA at large. Key players in the tumultuous saga include Shelly Sterling...
- 4/25/2024
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Playing the title character, Lizzie McGuire, on the American comedy television series that premiered on Disney Channel on January 12, 2001, Hilary Erhard Duff became a rich woman. As of 2024, she has an estimated net worth of $25 million.
The final episode, after 65 episodes, aired on February 14, 2004. Buena Vista Pictures released The Lizzie McGuire Movie, a theatrical movie based on the series, on May 2, 2003.
Hilary Duff received $15,000 per episode and $1 million for her role in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (Credit: Disney Channel)
Earnings from the Series and Movie
Starring in one of the most popular Disney Channel shows of the early 2000s, according to EW, she earned $15,000 per episode and $1 million for the movie.
After the success of the original “Lizzie McGuire” series and its subsequent movie, plans were made to expand the franchise further, including a second movie and a prime-time comedy series on ABC that would follow Lizzie McGuire during her high school years.
The final episode, after 65 episodes, aired on February 14, 2004. Buena Vista Pictures released The Lizzie McGuire Movie, a theatrical movie based on the series, on May 2, 2003.
Hilary Duff received $15,000 per episode and $1 million for her role in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (Credit: Disney Channel)
Earnings from the Series and Movie
Starring in one of the most popular Disney Channel shows of the early 2000s, according to EW, she earned $15,000 per episode and $1 million for the movie.
After the success of the original “Lizzie McGuire” series and its subsequent movie, plans were made to expand the franchise further, including a second movie and a prime-time comedy series on ABC that would follow Lizzie McGuire during her high school years.
- 4/20/2024
- by Jan Stromsodd
- Your Next Shoes
Rachel Zegler hopes to return to the 'Hunger Games' franchise.The 22-year-old actress played Lucy Gray Baird in the prequel film 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' but is uncertain about her future in the series.Referencing Olivia Rodrigo's 'Can't Catch Me Now' track that features in the movie's end credits, Rachel told Deadline at SXSW: "I don't know. It's not up to me, but as Olivia Rodrigo said, 'She's in the trees, she's in the breeze.'"So, I don't actually know what's going to happen. I, for one, like to believe she's alive."Rachel would love to return for a sequel to 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' as it was "so fun" working on the dystopian action flick.The 'West Side Story' actress said: "I really hope so. It would be so fun to go back."Franchise director Francis Lawrence and...
- 3/12/2024
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Exclusive: Emmy Award-winner Tammy Blanchard has been cast in FX’s American Sports Story, the new FX anthology limited series from creator Stu Zicherman, in a series regular role, sources tell Deadline.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Ryan Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, focuses on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.
The first installment charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide and his legacy in sports and American culture. Season 1 is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. and hails from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
Blanchard will portray the mother of the disgraced football star and convicted murderer, Terri Hernandez, we hear.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Ryan Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, focuses on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.
The first installment charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide and his legacy in sports and American culture. Season 1 is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc. and hails from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
Blanchard will portray the mother of the disgraced football star and convicted murderer, Terri Hernandez, we hear.
- 2/27/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman, Fionnula Flanagan, Hunter Schafer, Ashley Liao, Joshua Kantara, Amélie Hoeferle, Hunter Schafer | Written by Michael Lesslie, Michael Arndt | Directed by Francis Lawrence
It’s been eight years since we last visited the world of Panem. Now the world spans to five films and this time we’re sent back over 60 years to see the 10th annual Hunger Games and the rise of Coriolanus Snow. This time Snow is played by newcomer Tom Blyth, who has to carry the runtime of the film all by himself. He’s joined for the most part by Rachel Zegler, who plays Lucy Gray.
The two leads carry the film effortlessly, Tom Blyth in particular does a fantastic job of giving complexity to Snow, showcasing a flawed but ambitious character as we slowly see his loss of humanity grow on screen. The film, unlike its predecessors,...
It’s been eight years since we last visited the world of Panem. Now the world spans to five films and this time we’re sent back over 60 years to see the 10th annual Hunger Games and the rise of Coriolanus Snow. This time Snow is played by newcomer Tom Blyth, who has to carry the runtime of the film all by himself. He’s joined for the most part by Rachel Zegler, who plays Lucy Gray.
The two leads carry the film effortlessly, Tom Blyth in particular does a fantastic job of giving complexity to Snow, showcasing a flawed but ambitious character as we slowly see his loss of humanity grow on screen. The film, unlike its predecessors,...
- 2/23/2024
- by Alex Ginnelly
- Nerdly
‘Say Nothing’ by Patrick Radden Keefe. (Photo Credit: Penguin Random House)
FX has given Say Nothing a limited series order and announced Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Josh Finan, and Maxine Peake in starring roles. The nine-episode drama is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, with the author involved as an executive producer.
Josh Zetumer (RoboCop) will serve as showrunner and executive produce along with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force. Additional executive producers include Edward McDonnell (Shōgun), Monica Levinson (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), and Northern Ireland native director Michael Lennox (Derry Girls).
Produced by FX Productions, Say Nothing will air on Hulu in the US, Star+ in Latin America, and Disney+ in all other territories.
FX offered this description of the series:
“Spanning four decades, Say Nothing explores the tumultuous period in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. The series launches with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville,...
FX has given Say Nothing a limited series order and announced Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Josh Finan, and Maxine Peake in starring roles. The nine-episode drama is based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book, with the author involved as an executive producer.
Josh Zetumer (RoboCop) will serve as showrunner and executive produce along with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson of Color Force. Additional executive producers include Edward McDonnell (Shōgun), Monica Levinson (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm), and Northern Ireland native director Michael Lennox (Derry Girls).
Produced by FX Productions, Say Nothing will air on Hulu in the US, Star+ in Latin America, and Disney+ in all other territories.
FX offered this description of the series:
“Spanning four decades, Say Nothing explores the tumultuous period in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. The series launches with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
FX has ordered a limited series adaptation of the Patrick Radden Keefe book “Say Nothing,” Variety has learned.
The nine-episode series explores The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Josh Finan, and Maxine Peake will star.
It will be available exclusively on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories.
The official description states:
“Spanning four decades, ‘Say Nothing’ explores the tumultuous period in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. The series launches with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again. But McConville was only one of many others who became known collectively as The Disappeared. Through the eyes of various Ira members, including sisters Dolours and Marian Price—young women who transformed into magnetic symbols of radical politics, Brendan Hughes—a tight-lipped but conflicted military strategist,...
The nine-episode series explores The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Josh Finan, and Maxine Peake will star.
It will be available exclusively on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories.
The official description states:
“Spanning four decades, ‘Say Nothing’ explores the tumultuous period in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. The series launches with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again. But McConville was only one of many others who became known collectively as The Disappeared. Through the eyes of various Ira members, including sisters Dolours and Marian Price—young women who transformed into magnetic symbols of radical politics, Brendan Hughes—a tight-lipped but conflicted military strategist,...
- 2/1/2024
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
FX has ordered the limited series Say Nothing and tapped Lola Petticrew, Hazel Doupe, Anthony Boyle, Josh Finan and Maxine Peake to star with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson’s Color Force producing. The nine-episode series is based on the book by Patrick Radden Keefe (who will serve as an exec producer) and tells an account of the troubles in Northern Ireland. Josh Zetumer and Michael Lennox will join as exec producers with Zetumer also serving as showrunner and Lennox directing.
The series will be available exclusively on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories.
Spanning four decades, Say Nothing explores the tumultuous period in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. The series launches with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again. But McConville was only...
The series will be available exclusively on Hulu in the U.S., Star+ in Latin America and Disney+ in all other territories.
Spanning four decades, Say Nothing explores the tumultuous period in Northern Ireland known as The Troubles. The series launches with the shocking disappearance of Jean McConville, a single mother of ten who was abducted from her home in 1972 and never seen alive again. But McConville was only...
- 2/1/2024
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jaylen Barron (Blindspotting) is set for a series regular role in Ryan Murphy’s American Sports Story, the FX anthology limited series whose first season is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc., sources tell Deadline.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, focuses on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives. It hails from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
From writer Stu Zicherman, the first installment charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide and their legacy in sports and American culture.
Barron will star as Shayanna Jenkins, Hernandez’s fiancée and mother of their young daughter born in 2012, the same year they became engaged.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, focuses on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives. It hails from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
From writer Stu Zicherman, the first installment charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide and their legacy in sports and American culture.
Barron will star as Shayanna Jenkins, Hernandez’s fiancée and mother of their young daughter born in 2012, the same year they became engaged.
- 1/23/2024
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
"Hunger Games" fans returned to Panem in 2023 with the release of the prequel "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes," about the teen years of future President Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) and his ill-fated romance with folk musician Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler). The movie did well enough at the box office and was mostly praised by critics (/Film's review was more mixed) — but is all that enough for a sequel?
Upon the release of "Ballad" in November 2023, several members of the cast and creative team sat down with People magazine to answer this question. The main takeaway from their answers? It depends on Suzanne Collins, author of "The Hunger Games." For reference, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" is adapted from Collins' eponymous novel (published in 2020), and she's given no indication that she's writing a sequel. Without literary source material, there won't be a film sequel either.
"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes...
Upon the release of "Ballad" in November 2023, several members of the cast and creative team sat down with People magazine to answer this question. The main takeaway from their answers? It depends on Suzanne Collins, author of "The Hunger Games." For reference, "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" is adapted from Collins' eponymous novel (published in 2020), and she's given no indication that she's writing a sequel. Without literary source material, there won't be a film sequel either.
"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes...
- 1/23/2024
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Sam Claflin Is ‘100%’ Open to Returning to ‘The Hunger Games’: ‘I Would Be All in for Finnick’s Dad’
Sam Claflin told Variety that he would be “100%” open to returning to “The Hunger Games” franchise.
Speaking with Marc Malkin during Variety On the Carpet, presented by Directv, Claflin opened up about his reaction to the prequel film “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” and the potential for his widely beloved character Finnick to make an appearance in future “Hunger Games” projects.
Though he is willing to return to the dystopian world of Panem, Claflin fears his age might be a detriment: “I don’t know if there’s room for me to go back. I’m too old now.”
The actor did add, however, “I’ve heard rumors that people are asking for a Finnick prequel, and all I’m gonna say is that I would be all in for Finnick’s dad.”
Franchise director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson have stated that they would not want to...
Speaking with Marc Malkin during Variety On the Carpet, presented by Directv, Claflin opened up about his reaction to the prequel film “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” and the potential for his widely beloved character Finnick to make an appearance in future “Hunger Games” projects.
Though he is willing to return to the dystopian world of Panem, Claflin fears his age might be a detriment: “I don’t know if there’s room for me to go back. I’m too old now.”
The actor did add, however, “I’ve heard rumors that people are asking for a Finnick prequel, and all I’m gonna say is that I would be all in for Finnick’s dad.”
Franchise director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson have stated that they would not want to...
- 1/16/2024
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
Jennifer Lawrence may have lost the Golden Globe for female actor in a motion picture comedy or musical, but she provided some of the best moments of the 2024 ceremony. She went viral for mouthing “If I don’t win, I’m leaving!” at the camera when her nomination was announced, and then she generated more headlines for reuniting with her “Hunger Games” co-star Lenny Kravitz while inside the Beverly Hilton Hotel. The two actors starred as Katniss and Cinna, respectively, in “The Hunger Games” (2012) and “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” (2013). As Cinna was Katniss’ stylist, the two actors shared many scenes together during production.
Lawrence and Kravitz’ reunion was the latest gift for “Hunger Games” fans, who recently turned the movie prequel, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” into a box office hit last fall. Lawrence told Variety in June during her “No Hard Feelings” press tour...
Lawrence and Kravitz’ reunion was the latest gift for “Hunger Games” fans, who recently turned the movie prequel, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” into a box office hit last fall. Lawrence told Variety in June during her “No Hard Feelings” press tour...
- 1/8/2024
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Leviathan 4K Uhd from Kino Lorber
Leviathan plunges onto 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on February 20 via Kino Lorber. The 1989 sci-fi/horror film been newly restored in 4K from the 35mm interpositive with Dolby Vision/Hdr and 5.1 surround and lossless 2.0 audio.
George P. Cosmatos directs from a script by David Webb Peoples and Jeb Stuart. Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson, Michael Carmine, Lisa Eilbacher, and Héctor Elizondo star.
Special features include: a new commentary by film historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson; Leviathan: Monster Melting Pot featurette; interviews with Hudson and Elizondo; the trailer; and reversible artwork.
Pumpkinhead & Killer Klowns Puppets from Toynk
Reach out and grab some fun with Toynk’s Reachers,...
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Leviathan 4K Uhd from Kino Lorber
Leviathan plunges onto 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on February 20 via Kino Lorber. The 1989 sci-fi/horror film been newly restored in 4K from the 35mm interpositive with Dolby Vision/Hdr and 5.1 surround and lossless 2.0 audio.
George P. Cosmatos directs from a script by David Webb Peoples and Jeb Stuart. Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson, Michael Carmine, Lisa Eilbacher, and Héctor Elizondo star.
Special features include: a new commentary by film historians Steve Mitchell and Nathaniel Thompson; Leviathan: Monster Melting Pot featurette; interviews with Hudson and Elizondo; the trailer; and reversible artwork.
Pumpkinhead & Killer Klowns Puppets from Toynk
Reach out and grab some fun with Toynk’s Reachers,...
- 1/5/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
The career of Scott Frank got a lengthy deep dive courtesy of a profile in The New Yorker that revealed the writer-director has a $300,000 weekly fee as a Hollywood script doctor. Frank acknowledges this fee is “insane,” but being a script doctor is how he’s made a life for himself despite being a credited screenwriter on films by Steven Soderbergh (“Out of Sight”), Barry Sonnenfield (“Get Shorty”), James Mangold and more. He’s also the Emmy-winning writer and director of Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit.” Plus, $300,000 a week feels earned after putting the finishing touches on nearly 60 films, including “Saving Private Ryan,” “Night at the Museum,” “Unfaithful,” “The Ring,” “Gravity” and “a lot of the X-Men movies.”
A “script doctor” is the term given to a screenwriter hired to punch up or reshape a pre-existing script, be it smoothing out a messy third act or overhauling the dialogue to make a character more memorable.
A “script doctor” is the term given to a screenwriter hired to punch up or reshape a pre-existing script, be it smoothing out a messy third act or overhauling the dialogue to make a character more memorable.
- 12/29/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Disney Entertainment recently hosted a holiday get-together for creators, showrunners and creative executives under overall deals with a toast to the New Year ahead.
Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment joined executives across the studios and platforms including Eric Schrier (DTS), Karey Burke (20th TV), Tracy Underwood (ABC Signature), John Landgraf (FX/Fxp), Marci Proietto (20th TV Animation), Tara Duncan (Onyx Collective) as well as Joe Early (Det), Charlie Andrews (Dbt), Craig Erwich, Nick Grad and Gina Balian (FX).
Guests included Liz Meriwether, Steve Levitan, Matt Groening, Loren Bouchard, Zoanne Clack, Alec Berg, Raamla Mohamed, Noah Hawley, Nick Kroll, Milo Ventimiglia, Nina Jacobson, Yvette Lee Bowser, Destin Daniel Cretton, Kelvin Yu, Jenni Konner, Liz Tigelaar, Prentice Penny, Warren Littlefield, Saladin Patterson and many more.
See the photo gallery below.
Reconnecting with creators, showrunners and creative executives under overall deals, Disney Television Studios, Onyx Collective, Fxp celebrated being...
Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment joined executives across the studios and platforms including Eric Schrier (DTS), Karey Burke (20th TV), Tracy Underwood (ABC Signature), John Landgraf (FX/Fxp), Marci Proietto (20th TV Animation), Tara Duncan (Onyx Collective) as well as Joe Early (Det), Charlie Andrews (Dbt), Craig Erwich, Nick Grad and Gina Balian (FX).
Guests included Liz Meriwether, Steve Levitan, Matt Groening, Loren Bouchard, Zoanne Clack, Alec Berg, Raamla Mohamed, Noah Hawley, Nick Kroll, Milo Ventimiglia, Nina Jacobson, Yvette Lee Bowser, Destin Daniel Cretton, Kelvin Yu, Jenni Konner, Liz Tigelaar, Prentice Penny, Warren Littlefield, Saladin Patterson and many more.
See the photo gallery below.
Reconnecting with creators, showrunners and creative executives under overall deals, Disney Television Studios, Onyx Collective, Fxp celebrated being...
- 12/8/2023
- by Robert Lang
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Catfish Jean (To Leslie) is set for a key recurring role in American Sports Story, Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc., Deadline has learned.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, is a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives. It hails from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
The first installment, written by Stu Zicherman, based on the Gladiator podcast, charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide, and their legacy in sports and American culture.
Jean will play Ernest “Bo” Wallace, one of Hernandez’s friends and bad influences.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, is a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives. It hails from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
The first installment, written by Stu Zicherman, based on the Gladiator podcast, charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Josh Andrés Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide, and their legacy in sports and American culture.
Jean will play Ernest “Bo” Wallace, one of Hernandez’s friends and bad influences.
- 11/28/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Jake Cannavale has been tapped to play Aaron Hernandez’s love interest in the first installment Ryan Murphy’s anthology series American Sports Story.
Cannavale will recur in the anthology that stems from the Boston Globe and Wondery podcast Gladiator: Hernandez and Football Inc. that explores Hernandez’s identity, family, career, suicide, and legacy in sports and American culture. Hernandez will be played by Josh Andrés Rivera.
Previously announced cast members include Tony Yazbeck, Lindsay Mendez, and Patrick Schwarzenegger, who will play former NFL star Tim Tebow. American Sports Story, one of two new offshoots in Murphy’s “American Story” franchise alongside American Love Story, is a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.
Stu Zicherman is executive producing with Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and Brad Falchuk.
Cannavale will recur in the anthology that stems from the Boston Globe and Wondery podcast Gladiator: Hernandez and Football Inc. that explores Hernandez’s identity, family, career, suicide, and legacy in sports and American culture. Hernandez will be played by Josh Andrés Rivera.
Previously announced cast members include Tony Yazbeck, Lindsay Mendez, and Patrick Schwarzenegger, who will play former NFL star Tim Tebow. American Sports Story, one of two new offshoots in Murphy’s “American Story” franchise alongside American Love Story, is a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.
Stu Zicherman is executive producing with Murphy, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall and Brad Falchuk.
- 11/28/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Warning: This podcast contains spoilers about the ending of Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
“In 2015, we thought she was done.”
That’s what filmmaker Francis Lawrence thought about the finale of the $3 billion-plus grossing The Hunger Games franchise with Mockingjay Part 2, that is until author Suzanne Collins gave him and series pic producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson a heads up in late 2019 that a prequel manuscript set 64 years before the original film, and focusing in on the origin story of main baddie Coriolanus Snow, was coming their way.
Director Francis Lawrence in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
But rather than just more bows and arrows and fierce arena battles, there was a whole other sublime element to the prequel and that was in its country music underpinnings, taking inspiration from the early turn-of-the-century Bluegrass and folksy sounds that draw their lineage from Scotland,...
“In 2015, we thought she was done.”
That’s what filmmaker Francis Lawrence thought about the finale of the $3 billion-plus grossing The Hunger Games franchise with Mockingjay Part 2, that is until author Suzanne Collins gave him and series pic producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson a heads up in late 2019 that a prequel manuscript set 64 years before the original film, and focusing in on the origin story of main baddie Coriolanus Snow, was coming their way.
Director Francis Lawrence in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
But rather than just more bows and arrows and fierce arena battles, there was a whole other sublime element to the prequel and that was in its country music underpinnings, taking inspiration from the early turn-of-the-century Bluegrass and folksy sounds that draw their lineage from Scotland,...
- 11/20/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
’Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ crosses $175m.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes opened at number one in North America on an estimated $44m through Lionsgate while The Marvels had a weekend to forget, plummeting 77.9% in its second session in a new low for the Marvel Studios hit factory.
Meanwhile Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn and Aki Kaurismaki’s Cannes entry Fallen Leaves got off to strong award season starts in limited release.
Songbirds & Snakes played in 3,776 locations and delivered the lowest opening weekend of the franchise, behind the unadjusted $102.7m set by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2...
The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes opened at number one in North America on an estimated $44m through Lionsgate while The Marvels had a weekend to forget, plummeting 77.9% in its second session in a new low for the Marvel Studios hit factory.
Meanwhile Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn and Aki Kaurismaki’s Cannes entry Fallen Leaves got off to strong award season starts in limited release.
Songbirds & Snakes played in 3,776 locations and delivered the lowest opening weekend of the franchise, behind the unadjusted $102.7m set by The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2...
- 11/19/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes brought us back to the world of Panem, and fans of the franchise are likely wondering if there is more content on the way.
The answer is not immediately clear. If you were unaware, the latest movie is based on a prequel novel written by author Suzanne Collins. As a result, it focused on a specific story, which did play out in the first movie.
However, the movie’s director and producer both had an idea for a sequel, and it would focus on one specific relationship.
Read more about the chances for a sequel to the Hunger Games prequel movie…
Speaking to People, director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson teased that they would like to focus on the relationship between Tigris (Hunter Schafer) and President Snow (Tom Blyth).
If you were unaware, the pair are cousins, who have a...
The answer is not immediately clear. If you were unaware, the latest movie is based on a prequel novel written by author Suzanne Collins. As a result, it focused on a specific story, which did play out in the first movie.
However, the movie’s director and producer both had an idea for a sequel, and it would focus on one specific relationship.
Read more about the chances for a sequel to the Hunger Games prequel movie…
Speaking to People, director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson teased that they would like to focus on the relationship between Tigris (Hunter Schafer) and President Snow (Tom Blyth).
If you were unaware, the pair are cousins, who have a...
- 11/19/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Rachel Zegler stars in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and recently recalled an encounter she had with Og star Jennifer Lawrence.
While making an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Zegler opened up about meeting Lawrence during the Christian Dior runway show at Paris Fashion Week.
“I didn’t want to be weird. I was just kind of psyching myself up to talk to her. She was so unbelievably kind,” Zegler said of being the only cast member of the prequel film to have met Lawrence.
From that encounter, a photo of Zegler and Lawrence went viral and the West Side Story alum explained what was really going on in the image.
“In that clip, [Jennifer is] actually saying, ‘Let’s do another photo where I’m strangling you and saying you’ll never take my part!’ And that’s exactly what I wanted from her,” Zegler explained.
While making an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show, Zegler opened up about meeting Lawrence during the Christian Dior runway show at Paris Fashion Week.
“I didn’t want to be weird. I was just kind of psyching myself up to talk to her. She was so unbelievably kind,” Zegler said of being the only cast member of the prequel film to have met Lawrence.
From that encounter, a photo of Zegler and Lawrence went viral and the West Side Story alum explained what was really going on in the image.
“In that clip, [Jennifer is] actually saying, ‘Let’s do another photo where I’m strangling you and saying you’ll never take my part!’ And that’s exactly what I wanted from her,” Zegler explained.
- 11/18/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
"The Hunger Games" prequel "The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" isn't the beginning of a new saga, like the fizzled-out "Fantastic Beasts" series was to the "Harry Potter" movies. Instead, it's a standalone origin story based on Suzanne Collins' 2020 novel, which reveals how future Panem president Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) helped shape the Hunger Games from a depressing slaughterfest into must-watch entertainment. But eight years after the release of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2," are the Hunger Games still the box office draw they once were?
The short answer is no, but that doesn't mean "The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" is a bomb in the making. After grossing $19.1 million on Friday (including Thursday previews), the "Hunger Games" prequel is on track to gross somewhere north of $45 million at the box office in its opening weekend, per The Hollywood Reporter, with the studio hopeful that it could hit $50 million.
The short answer is no, but that doesn't mean "The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" is a bomb in the making. After grossing $19.1 million on Friday (including Thursday previews), the "Hunger Games" prequel is on track to gross somewhere north of $45 million at the box office in its opening weekend, per The Hollywood Reporter, with the studio hopeful that it could hit $50 million.
- 11/18/2023
- by Hannah Shaw-Williams
- Slash Film
“Hunger Games” prequel film “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” is full of references to the four films that come after it, but the biggest connection between this movie and those is musical.
As sourced in Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel, Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) wrote “The Hanging Tree” inspired by historical events in District 12, which she and Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) both witnessed. The song takes on more meaning when imbued with the backstory of Panem and how President Snow came to be as the Hunger Games also developed.
“Hunger Games” fans will remember it’s a song that Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen sings in “Mockingjay.” Producer Nina Jacobson, who has produced all the “Hunger Games” movies, told TheWrap that music is key to this franchise.
“What I loved was that this adaptation really made me think about how critical music has always been to these movies. I...
As sourced in Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel, Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) wrote “The Hanging Tree” inspired by historical events in District 12, which she and Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) both witnessed. The song takes on more meaning when imbued with the backstory of Panem and how President Snow came to be as the Hunger Games also developed.
“Hunger Games” fans will remember it’s a song that Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen sings in “Mockingjay.” Producer Nina Jacobson, who has produced all the “Hunger Games” movies, told TheWrap that music is key to this franchise.
“What I loved was that this adaptation really made me think about how critical music has always been to these movies. I...
- 11/17/2023
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
Rachel Zegler is the new face of the “Hunger Games” franchise thanks to her role as Lucy Gray Baird in the prequel “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.” During a recent visit to “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” Zegler recalled what it was like meeting Jennifer Lawrence for the first time. Lawrence headlined the original four “Hunger Games” films as Katniss Everdeen, a role that turned the Oscar-winner into a global superstar.
“We were at Paris Fashion Week for the Dior show only a couple weeks ago,” Zegler said about her first encounter with Lawrence. “I didn’t want to be weird. I was just kind of psyching myself up to talk to her. She was so unbelievably kind.”
Clarkson threw to a clip from the event in which Zegler and Lawrence embraced while posing for photos together. Zegler could be seen laughing. What was so funny?
“In that clip,...
“We were at Paris Fashion Week for the Dior show only a couple weeks ago,” Zegler said about her first encounter with Lawrence. “I didn’t want to be weird. I was just kind of psyching myself up to talk to her. She was so unbelievably kind.”
Clarkson threw to a clip from the event in which Zegler and Lawrence embraced while posing for photos together. Zegler could be seen laughing. What was so funny?
“In that clip,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Kerry Washington will receive this year’s Equity in Entertainment Award at The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment breakfast gala, presented by Lifetime, on Dec. 7 in Los Angeles.
Oscar winner Ariana DeBose will present Washington with the award at the gala, which will be attended by 750 industry leaders and VIPs. Washington joins Adele, who The Hollywood Reporter previously announced will receive the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, as an honoree at this year’s gala.
The Equity in Entertainment Award recognizes individuals who amplify the voices of underrepresented communities in the entertainment industry. The award was created in 2016, and previous honorees include Issa Rae, Ryan Murphy, Amy Pascal, Nina Jacobson and Selma Blair.
“Kerry Washington is an incredible force of nature who has shown us at each phase of her career why she is one of Hollywood’s most important creative talents. Just this year alone, she produced and...
Oscar winner Ariana DeBose will present Washington with the award at the gala, which will be attended by 750 industry leaders and VIPs. Washington joins Adele, who The Hollywood Reporter previously announced will receive the Sherry Lansing Leadership Award, as an honoree at this year’s gala.
The Equity in Entertainment Award recognizes individuals who amplify the voices of underrepresented communities in the entertainment industry. The award was created in 2016, and previous honorees include Issa Rae, Ryan Murphy, Amy Pascal, Nina Jacobson and Selma Blair.
“Kerry Washington is an incredible force of nature who has shown us at each phase of her career why she is one of Hollywood’s most important creative talents. Just this year alone, she produced and...
- 11/17/2023
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The cast of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is hitting the red carpet in the Big Apple!
The premiere for the Hunger Games prequel was held on Wednesday (November 13) at the Metrograph in New York City, just two days after the actors attended the film’s Los Angeles premiere.
Stars Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, and Peter Dinklage looked stunning as they posed for photos together.
Director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson were also present at the event.
Hunter wore a fabulous Marni mini dress adorned with hand-painted flowers. Rachel donned a gorgeous blue sleeveless dress and added a reference to the film with a snaked-shaped necklace!
Tom, Josh, and Peter kept their attire simple and classy!
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes opens in theaters this Friday, November 17.
Find out what critics are saying about the movie!
The premiere for the Hunger Games prequel was held on Wednesday (November 13) at the Metrograph in New York City, just two days after the actors attended the film’s Los Angeles premiere.
Stars Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, and Peter Dinklage looked stunning as they posed for photos together.
Director Francis Lawrence and producer Nina Jacobson were also present at the event.
Hunter wore a fabulous Marni mini dress adorned with hand-painted flowers. Rachel donned a gorgeous blue sleeveless dress and added a reference to the film with a snaked-shaped necklace!
Tom, Josh, and Peter kept their attire simple and classy!
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes opens in theaters this Friday, November 17.
Find out what critics are saying about the movie!
- 11/16/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Exclusive: Tony Yazbeck is set for a key recurring role opposite Josh Andrés Rivera, Lindsay Mendez and Patrick Schwarzenegger in Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology American Sports Story, Deadline has learned.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, is a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspective.
The first installment, written by Stu Zicherman, is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc from the Boston Globe and Wondery. It charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide, and their legacy in sports and American culture. Schwarzenegger portrays Hernandez’s friend, former college teammate and fellow former NFL star Tim Tebow.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, is a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspective.
The first installment, written by Stu Zicherman, is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc from the Boston Globe and Wondery. It charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide, and their legacy in sports and American culture. Schwarzenegger portrays Hernandez’s friend, former college teammate and fellow former NFL star Tim Tebow.
- 11/14/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes might be dressed up like a prequel in its early roots story of villain-to-be Coriolanus Snow, and some might think that Rachel Zegler’s Lucy Gray Baird is just an early days Katniss from District 12.
However, those hasty generalizations would rob the film of its sublime uniqueness, for at its core this sci-fi political action thriller has the underpinnings of a sublime romantic country western musical, and when you finally see it, you’ll get what we mean.
Setting this Hunger Games by filmmaker Francis Lawrence apart from his last three with Jennifer Lawrence are the raw and rugged, rural Scottish and Irish influenced ballads sung by Rachel Zegler’s Lucy, who is a member of the Covey, a traveling musician group.
Beamed actor Tom Blyth about Lucy’s songs at the Los Angeles Premiere last night for the Lionsgate movie which opens on Nov.
However, those hasty generalizations would rob the film of its sublime uniqueness, for at its core this sci-fi political action thriller has the underpinnings of a sublime romantic country western musical, and when you finally see it, you’ll get what we mean.
Setting this Hunger Games by filmmaker Francis Lawrence apart from his last three with Jennifer Lawrence are the raw and rugged, rural Scottish and Irish influenced ballads sung by Rachel Zegler’s Lucy, who is a member of the Covey, a traveling musician group.
Beamed actor Tom Blyth about Lucy’s songs at the Los Angeles Premiere last night for the Lionsgate movie which opens on Nov.
- 11/14/2023
- by Katie Campione and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Olivia Rodrigo is contributing her music to the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes with “Can’t Catch Me Now.”
The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series alum attended the premiere of the film in L.A. as her music video also dropped.
The “Can’t Catch Me Now” video was directed by award-winning director Leonn Ward of Rsa’s Black Dog Films. This is the first time that Rodrigo contributes to a film’s soundtrack, a song she penned with producer Daniel Nigro who has been working with the singer-songwriter on her album Guts.
Rodrigo’s song will be part of the 17-track album that is being released on Nov. 17 and which will also include songs by star Rachel Zegler, Flatland Cavalry, Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Sierra Ferrell, Bella White and Charles Godwin.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is...
The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series alum attended the premiere of the film in L.A. as her music video also dropped.
The “Can’t Catch Me Now” video was directed by award-winning director Leonn Ward of Rsa’s Black Dog Films. This is the first time that Rodrigo contributes to a film’s soundtrack, a song she penned with producer Daniel Nigro who has been working with the singer-songwriter on her album Guts.
Rodrigo’s song will be part of the 17-track album that is being released on Nov. 17 and which will also include songs by star Rachel Zegler, Flatland Cavalry, Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Sierra Ferrell, Bella White and Charles Godwin.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is...
- 11/14/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
To celebrate the release of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, we sat down with some of the cast and filmmakers of the new epic part of the saga that takes places decades before the original movies.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favour. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out...
The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favour. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out...
- 11/13/2023
- by Scott Davis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Experience the story of The Hunger Games – 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem.
Opening in theaters only November 17, 2023, The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes is the fifth installment in the franchise. It is directed by Francis Lawrence, who returns to, and expands upon, this incredible world after directing The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 and 2. The film is shepherded by franchise producer Nina Jacobson, who produces for Color Force along with Brad Simpson.
This installment brings together an all-new cast in Tom Blyth (“Billy the Kid”), Golden Globe® winner Rachel Zegler, four-time Emmy® winner Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Hunter Schafer (“Euphoria”), Josh Andrés Rivera (West Side Story), Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), and Academy Award® winner Viola Davis.
PG-13 for strong violent content and disturbing material
https://hungergames.movie/
The Advance Screening is 7Pm,...
Opening in theaters only November 17, 2023, The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes is the fifth installment in the franchise. It is directed by Francis Lawrence, who returns to, and expands upon, this incredible world after directing The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 and 2. The film is shepherded by franchise producer Nina Jacobson, who produces for Color Force along with Brad Simpson.
This installment brings together an all-new cast in Tom Blyth (“Billy the Kid”), Golden Globe® winner Rachel Zegler, four-time Emmy® winner Peter Dinklage (“Game of Thrones”), Hunter Schafer (“Euphoria”), Josh Andrés Rivera (West Side Story), Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore), and Academy Award® winner Viola Davis.
PG-13 for strong violent content and disturbing material
https://hungergames.movie/
The Advance Screening is 7Pm,...
- 11/12/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Francis Lawrence was intrigued by the "villain origin story" of 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'.The 52-year-old filmmaker is helming the prequel movie that explores the rise of Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) before he became the tyrannical President of Panem and loved crafting a new story for the project.Francis told Collider: "I really fell in love with doing a villain's origin story and I also love world creation movies. To go back 64 years and be able to really recreate this world in a much more rudimentary sense."The director explained that he enjoyed getting the chance to collaborate with author Suzanne Collins and producer Nina Jacobson once again after helming three of the previous movies.Quizzed on the appeal of returning to the dystopian franchise, Francis said: "Part of it is honestly working with the people, working with Suzanne again, with Nina again."I...
- 11/11/2023
- by Joe Graber
- Bang Showbiz
Actress Rachel Zegler was inspired by Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, and Joan Baez for her role in ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’.
The singer/actress stars as Lucy Gray Baird in ‘The Hunger Games’ prequel and music plays a big part in the film because her character comes from a nomadic and musical tribe called the Covey – and Rachel has now explained where her inspiration came from, reports aceshowbiz.com.
“We channeled a bunch of people, Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton and Joan Baez, to name a few. That was really the voice that we were trying to find. But getting to sing live is my bread and butter, that’s what I’ve been doing my whole life and so it was really nice to get to bring that skill to my peers on set,” she told Variety.
Jennifer Lawrence starred as Katniss Everdeen in...
The singer/actress stars as Lucy Gray Baird in ‘The Hunger Games’ prequel and music plays a big part in the film because her character comes from a nomadic and musical tribe called the Covey – and Rachel has now explained where her inspiration came from, reports aceshowbiz.com.
“We channeled a bunch of people, Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton and Joan Baez, to name a few. That was really the voice that we were trying to find. But getting to sing live is my bread and butter, that’s what I’ve been doing my whole life and so it was really nice to get to bring that skill to my peers on set,” she told Variety.
Jennifer Lawrence starred as Katniss Everdeen in...
- 11/11/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Actress Rachel Zegler was inspired by Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, and Joan Baez for her role in ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’.
The singer/actress stars as Lucy Gray Baird in ‘The Hunger Games’ prequel and music plays a big part in the film because her character comes from a nomadic and musical tribe called the Covey – and Rachel has now explained where her inspiration came from, reports aceshowbiz.com.
“We channeled a bunch of people, Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton and Joan Baez, to name a few. That was really the voice that we were trying to find. But getting to sing live is my bread and butter, that’s what I’ve been doing my whole life and so it was really nice to get to bring that skill to my peers on set,” she told Variety.
Jennifer Lawrence starred as Katniss Everdeen in...
The singer/actress stars as Lucy Gray Baird in ‘The Hunger Games’ prequel and music plays a big part in the film because her character comes from a nomadic and musical tribe called the Covey – and Rachel has now explained where her inspiration came from, reports aceshowbiz.com.
“We channeled a bunch of people, Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton and Joan Baez, to name a few. That was really the voice that we were trying to find. But getting to sing live is my bread and butter, that’s what I’ve been doing my whole life and so it was really nice to get to bring that skill to my peers on set,” she told Variety.
Jennifer Lawrence starred as Katniss Everdeen in...
- 11/11/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Rachel Zegler channeled Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton and Joan Baez for her role in 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'.The singer/actress plays Lucy Gray Baird in 'The Hunger Games' prequel and music plays a big part in the film because her character comes from a nomadic and musical tribe called the Covey - and Rachel has now explained where her inspiration came from.Speaking to Variety, she revealed: "We channeled a bunch of people: Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton and Joan Baez, to name a few. That was really the voice that we were trying to find. But getting to sing live is my bread and butter, that’s what I’ve been doing my whole life and so it was really nice to get to bring that skill to my peers on set."Jennifer Lawrence starred as Katniss Everdeen in four previous installments in 'The Hunger Games' series,...
- 11/10/2023
- by Louise Mary Randell
- Bang Showbiz
As evidenced in its title, music plays a big part in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.”
In the prequel to the original trilogy, “West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler portrays Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12 for the 10th annual Hunger Games, who hails from a musical and nomadic people called the Covey. The film features Zegler singing several songs, including franchise favorite “The Hanging Tree.” Much of the music is folk-inspired, and Zegler sang each track live during filming. At the film’s London premiere — which came one day after SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative deal with the AMPTP to end the actors strike — Zegler told Variety who inspired her when it came to developing Lucy Gray’s voice.
“We channeled a bunch of people: Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton and Joan Baez, to name a few. That was really the voice that we were trying to find,...
In the prequel to the original trilogy, “West Side Story” star Rachel Zegler portrays Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12 for the 10th annual Hunger Games, who hails from a musical and nomadic people called the Covey. The film features Zegler singing several songs, including franchise favorite “The Hanging Tree.” Much of the music is folk-inspired, and Zegler sang each track live during filming. At the film’s London premiere — which came one day after SAG-AFTRA reached a tentative deal with the AMPTP to end the actors strike — Zegler told Variety who inspired her when it came to developing Lucy Gray’s voice.
“We channeled a bunch of people: Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton and Joan Baez, to name a few. That was really the voice that we were trying to find,...
- 11/9/2023
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes had its world premiere at London’s BFI Imax this evening, with a red carpet that featured director Francis Lawrence and stars Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andres Rivera and more.
The return to the Suzanne Collins franchise that’s based on her prequel novel marks the first major world premiere outside of a festival to include actors on the media line since the SAG-AFTRA strike started in July. Even if the guild and the studios had not reached a tentative agreement to end the strike last night, the film had already secured an Interim Agreement with Lionsgate a non-amptp company.
Regardless, the team was effusive about the end of the strife. Producer Nina Jacobson said that she was among the folks “screaming with joy” that the strike is over, having learned about it during a...
The return to the Suzanne Collins franchise that’s based on her prequel novel marks the first major world premiere outside of a festival to include actors on the media line since the SAG-AFTRA strike started in July. Even if the guild and the studios had not reached a tentative agreement to end the strike last night, the film had already secured an Interim Agreement with Lionsgate a non-amptp company.
Regardless, the team was effusive about the end of the strife. Producer Nina Jacobson said that she was among the folks “screaming with joy” that the strike is over, having learned about it during a...
- 11/9/2023
- by Baz Bamigboye and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is having its world premiere!
Stars hit the red carpet on Thursday (November 9) in London, England to celebrate the release of the film, which opens in theaters worldwide on November 17.
Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, and Josh Andrés Rivera were among the most prominent actors present at the event.
Also in attendance were Brad Simpson, Nina Jacobson, George Somner, Honor Gillies, Carl Spencer, Cooper Dillon, Knox Gibson, Mackenzie Lansing, and Dexter Sol Ansell.
The stars posed for both solo and group photos, looking fantastic as they walked the carpet!
First reviews for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes are in!
If you haven’t seen it yet, watch the trailer here!
Fyi: Rachel is wearing a Dior dress with Chopard jewelry. Hunter is wearing a Prada dress andAquazzura shoes. Tom is also wearing Prada.
Browse through the...
Stars hit the red carpet on Thursday (November 9) in London, England to celebrate the release of the film, which opens in theaters worldwide on November 17.
Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, and Josh Andrés Rivera were among the most prominent actors present at the event.
Also in attendance were Brad Simpson, Nina Jacobson, George Somner, Honor Gillies, Carl Spencer, Cooper Dillon, Knox Gibson, Mackenzie Lansing, and Dexter Sol Ansell.
The stars posed for both solo and group photos, looking fantastic as they walked the carpet!
First reviews for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes are in!
If you haven’t seen it yet, watch the trailer here!
Fyi: Rachel is wearing a Dior dress with Chopard jewelry. Hunter is wearing a Prada dress andAquazzura shoes. Tom is also wearing Prada.
Browse through the...
- 11/9/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
London is hosting the world premiere of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, the anticipated prequel to the original The Hunger Games trilogy, directed by Francis Lawrence.
Lawrence was joined by the stars of the film, Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, and Josh Andrés Rivera, all of whom walked the carpet at the BFI Imax on Thursday, November 9th.
The latest release in the blockbuster franchise based on the novels by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes takes place 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical president of Panem. Francis Lawrence returns as director to the latest saga (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Parts 1 and 2). The new film also stars Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis.
Related: ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes’ World Premieres...
Lawrence was joined by the stars of the film, Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer, and Josh Andrés Rivera, all of whom walked the carpet at the BFI Imax on Thursday, November 9th.
The latest release in the blockbuster franchise based on the novels by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes takes place 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical president of Panem. Francis Lawrence returns as director to the latest saga (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Parts 1 and 2). The new film also stars Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis.
Related: ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes’ World Premieres...
- 11/9/2023
- by Robert Lang
- Deadline Film + TV
Enter the contest below by following the link at the bottom of this page for your chance to win a pair of passes to attend an advance screening of The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 7:00pm at the Mjr Troy!
Synopsis: Experience the story of The Hunger Games — 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem. The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a postwar Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates.
Synopsis: Experience the story of The Hunger Games — 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem. The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a postwar Capitol. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates.
- 11/9/2023
- by Editor
- CinemaNerdz
'Hunger Games' Author Suzanne Collins Gives 'The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' Her Stamp of Approval
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is nearing its theatrical release, and author Suzanne Collins is giving her seal of approval!
The Hunger Games prequel movie, based on Suzanne‘s 2020 novel of the same name, is directed by Francis Lawrence, who helmed three of the four previous films in the franchise.
Keep reading to find out what Suzanne had to say about the film…
In a thread on X, formerly known as Twitter, The Hunger Games‘ official account shared a letter to fans written by Suzanne.
The letter began: “As the WGA strike has concluded, I’ve been able to view the final cut of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and I’m thrilled to recommend it.”
Suzanne continued: “The book was an attempt to explore the state of nature debate through the tale of young President Snow while lifting the veils on the origin of the Hunger Games,...
The Hunger Games prequel movie, based on Suzanne‘s 2020 novel of the same name, is directed by Francis Lawrence, who helmed three of the four previous films in the franchise.
Keep reading to find out what Suzanne had to say about the film…
In a thread on X, formerly known as Twitter, The Hunger Games‘ official account shared a letter to fans written by Suzanne.
The letter began: “As the WGA strike has concluded, I’ve been able to view the final cut of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and I’m thrilled to recommend it.”
Suzanne continued: “The book was an attempt to explore the state of nature debate through the tale of young President Snow while lifting the veils on the origin of the Hunger Games,...
- 11/5/2023
- by Just Jared
- Just Jared
Lindsay Mendez Joins Josh Andrés Rivera & Patrick Schwarzenegger In ‘American Sports Story’ Season 1
All Rise alumna Lindsay Mendez is set as a series regular alongside Josh Andrés Rivera and Patrick Schwarzenegger in Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology American Sports Story, Deadline has learned.
Like with the other leads, her casting was done in early 2023, before the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, we hear.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, is a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.
The first installment, written by Stu Zicherman, is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc from the Boston Globe and Wondery. It charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide, and their legacy in sports and American culture.
Like with the other leads, her casting was done in early 2023, before the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, we hear.
American Sports Story, a new extension of Murphy’s “American Story” franchise, is a scripted anthological limited series focusing on a prominent event involving a sports figure and re-examines it through the prism of today’s world, telling that story from multiple perspectives.
The first installment, written by Stu Zicherman, is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc from the Boston Globe and Wondery. It charts the rise and fall of NFL superstar Aaron Hernandez, played by Rivera, and explores the connections of the disparate strands of his identity, his family, his career, his suicide, and their legacy in sports and American culture.
- 11/3/2023
- by Denise Petski and Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
The first installment of Ryan Murphy’s American Sports Story anthology series for FX will star Josh Andrés Rivera as Aaron Hernandez and Patrick Schwarzenegger as fellow former NFL star Tim Tebow. The season is based on the podcast Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
The project reunites Schwarzenegger with Murphy; the actor’s first TV role was on Murphy’s Scream Queens.
These are no new developments that happened during the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike; both castings were done in early 2023 but never confirmed by FX. Deadline reached out to the network and producing studio 20th Television about both in January-early February; the deals are believed to have closed at around that time or soon thereafter.
“We have a fairly complete set of scripts for American Sports Story by Stu Zicherman,” FX chairman John Landgraf said at TCA on January 12, noting at the time...
The project reunites Schwarzenegger with Murphy; the actor’s first TV role was on Murphy’s Scream Queens.
These are no new developments that happened during the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike; both castings were done in early 2023 but never confirmed by FX. Deadline reached out to the network and producing studio 20th Television about both in January-early February; the deals are believed to have closed at around that time or soon thereafter.
“We have a fairly complete set of scripts for American Sports Story by Stu Zicherman,” FX chairman John Landgraf said at TCA on January 12, noting at the time...
- 11/3/2023
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryan Murphy has found his Aaron Hernandez: Josh Andrés Rivera, who played Chino in “West Side Story,” will star as the late New England Patriots player in the upcoming “American Sports Story.”
The first season of the latest “American” anthology series from Murphy will focus on Hernandez, a once promising football star who was convicted for the murder of fellow player Odin Lloyd. Ultimately, Hernandez took his own life in prison in 2017.
It’s based on the podcast “Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.,” from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
Stu Zicherman of “The Americans” will write the script and executive produce alongside Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall. Wondery’s Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy and Linda Pizutti Henry and Ira Napoliello of The Boston Globe’s will also serve as eps.
Rivera plays Sejanus Plinth in the upcoming “Hunger Games” prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,...
The first season of the latest “American” anthology series from Murphy will focus on Hernandez, a once promising football star who was convicted for the murder of fellow player Odin Lloyd. Ultimately, Hernandez took his own life in prison in 2017.
It’s based on the podcast “Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc.,” from the Boston Globe and Wondery.
Stu Zicherman of “The Americans” will write the script and executive produce alongside Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, Alexis Martin Woodall. Wondery’s Hernan Lopez and Marshall Lewy and Linda Pizutti Henry and Ira Napoliello of The Boston Globe’s will also serve as eps.
Rivera plays Sejanus Plinth in the upcoming “Hunger Games” prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,...
- 11/3/2023
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
The first installment of Ryan Murphy’s next FX anthology series has found its leading man. Josh Andres Rivera will portray professional football player-turned-convicted murderer Aaron Hernandez in the upcoming American Sports Story.
Based on Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc, a podcast produced by the Boston Globe and Wondery, the season will chronicle the events that landed the New England Patriots tight end in prison, and what led to him taking his own life in 2017.
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Based on Gladiator: Aaron Hernandez and Football Inc, a podcast produced by the Boston Globe and Wondery, the season will chronicle the events that landed the New England Patriots tight end in prison, and what led to him taking his own life in 2017.
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- 11/3/2023
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
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