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 ...

Welcome back to Panem! “The Hunger Games” franchise is officially revived with the release of “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” a prequel film set many years before the rise of Katniss Everdeen.

“So, I love talking about this,” Lansing said of being engulfed by snakes in the film. “I’ve been on other sets before where you’re wearing a suit with dots. I did a movie also called The Creator, ...