Many factors will help determine if Hunger Games 5 happens, and The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' box office performance is sure to be part of that equation. Hopes for the film were moderatelyNeither of the weekend’s top new releases − “Wish” and Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” − could keep up with the “Hunger Games” prequel. After debuting the previous weekend with $44.6
"Songbirds & Snakes" got off to quite a muted start last weekend, with a franchise-low $44.6 million opening, but it has held strong amid a rush of new releases from studios eager to capitalize on
The Hunger Games prequel film stars Tom Blyth as young Snow and Rachel Zegler as Baird. Blyth plays the titular role in Epix's 2022 Western series Billy the Kid and appeared in an episode of HBO The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the prequel to the Hunger Games franchise, topped the weekend box office for the second week in a row, earning a projected $28.8 million in North American The film earned $4.4 million on Thanksgiving for a second place finish and is expected to gross $33 million over the five-day holiday period to end in third position.Hollywood expected “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” to deliver huge ticket sales, and it did not disappoint: North American theaters generated $161.1 million in ticket sales between Thursday
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