For what it’s worth, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” has been getting positive test-screening reactions.
A few insider accounts have been hearing the same thing. We can take this intel with a grain of salt or it could turn out to be accurate. Who knows. What I do know is that the last cut screened was 2 hours 45 minutes, but it seems as though 9 minutes have been cut — it’s now 2 hours and 36 minutes.
I didn’t like the last few Hunger Games. However, the first two were good and “Catching Fire” was the best of the lot. Francis Lawrence directed the last three and he’s back at the helm for ‘Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.’
‘Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ hits theaters on November 17th, 2023. A trailer has been released for the film.
“Hope,” Na’s first film in ten years — his last one being the exemplary “The Wailing” —is a gloriously messy, blood-soaked sci-fi epic that may become a cult classic despite—or because of—its polarizing nature.