The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Overview:
64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12.
Cast:

• Coriolanus Snow: Tom Blyth
• Lucy Gray Baird: Rachel Zegler
• Dean Casca Highbottom: Peter Dinklage
• Lucky Flickerman: Jason Schwartzman
• Tigris: Hunter Schafer
• Sejanus Plinth: Josh Rivera
• Dr. Volumnia Gaul: Viola Davis
• Grandma’am: Fionnula Flanagan
• Commander Hoff: Burn Gorman
• Young Coriolanus: Dexter Sol Ansell
• Young Tigris: Rosa Gotzler
• Respectable Man: Clemens Schick
• Clemensia Dovecote: Ashley Liao
• Persephone Price: Athena Strates
• Gaius Breen: Joshua Kantara
• Vipsania Sickle: Amélie Hoeferle
• Domita Whimsiwick: Kaitlyn Akinpelumi
• Hilarius Heavensbee: Florian Burgkart
• Pliny Harrington: Ayomide Adegun
• Apollo Ring: Aaron Finn Schultz
• Festus Creed: Max Raphael
• Urban Canville: Mekyas Mulugeta
• Diana Ring: Emma Frieda Brüggler
• Dennis Fling: Yalany Marschner
• Juno Phipps: Serena Oexle
• Iphigenia Moss: Anni Baumann
• Livia Cardew: Flora Thiemann
• Lysistrata Vickers: Zoë Renee
• Io Jasper: Seyna Sylla
• Arachne Crane: Lilly Cooper
• Felix Ravinstill: Aamer Husain
• Palmyra Monty: Aminata Lucia Yade Toscano
• Mrs. Plinth: Daniela Grubert
• Strabo Plinth: Michael Greco
• Florus Friend: Levi Strasser
• Androcles Anderson: Chieloka Jairus
• Facet: Tim Torok
• Velvereen: Varvara Kanellakopoulou
• Marcus: Jerome Lance
• Coral: Mackenzie Lansing
• Mizzen: Cooper Dillon
• Treech: Hiroki Berrecloth
• Lamina: Irene Böhm
• Bobbin: Knox Gibson
• Wovey: Sofia Sanchez
• Brandy: Luna Kuse
• Tanner: Kjell Brutscheidt
• Reaper: Dimitri Abold
• Dill: Luna Steeples
• Jessup: Nick Benson
• Mayor Lipp: Marc Aden Gray
• Mayfair Lipp: Isobel Jesper Jones
• Billy Taupe: Dakota Shapiro
• Maude Ivory: Vaughan Reilly
• Barb Azure: Honor Gillies
• Tam Amber: Eike Onyambu
• Capitol Camera Operator: Cameron MacConomy
• Boy at Zoo: Ghaith Saleh
• Girl at Zoo: Riley Chung
• The Clerk: Denise Hansen
• Beanpole: Scott Folan
• Arlo Chance: Raphael Zari
• Lil: Mona Vojacek Koper
• Smiley: Carl Spencer
• Clerk Carmine: Konstantin Taffet
• Spruce: George Somner
• District 12 Peacekeeper: Steven McMichael
• Coriolanus Snow (voice) (uncredited): Donald Sutherland
• Chant Leader (uncredited): Jonas Martens

Crew:

• Novel: Suzanne Collins
• Executive Producer: Tim Palen
• Screenplay: Michael Lesslie
• Production Controller: AnaMarie C. Gonzaga
• Production Accountant: Jeff Dash
• Casting: Dylan Jury
• Casting: Debra Zane
• Casting Assistant: Cindy Lin
• Executive Producer: Jim Miller
• Original Music Composer: James Newton Howard
• Editor: Mark Yoshikawa
• Director of Photography: Jo Willems
• Production Design: Uli Hanisch
• Music Supervisor: Celeste Chada
• Accountant: Jeremy Hockman
• Sculptor: Lisa-Marie Riegel
• Stunt Double: Tanguy Guinchard
• Casting Associate: Verity Naughton
• Wig Designer: Jennifer Mullins
• Transportation Coordinator: Florian Haeger
• Production Accountant: Yvonne Höft
• Songs: Rachel Zegler
• Stunt Coordinator: Scott J. Ateah
• Still Photographer: Murray Close
• Costumer: Kristin Kathol
• Stunt Coordinator: Jarosław Golec
• Makeup Artist: Hannah Marie Abts
• Makeup Artist: Stella Barisch
• Hairstylist: Nastasia Daehne
• Hairstylist: Anja Drewermann
• Makeup Artist: Oliver Hildebrandt
• Special Effects Makeup Artist: Andrea Eusebi
• Makeup Artist: Andrea Gotowtschikow
• Makeup Artist: Florian Gruber
• Makeup Designer: Sherri Berman Laurence
• Makeup Artist: Eavan Derbyshire
• Makeup Artist: Anne Hartung
• Hairstylist: Frederika Höllrigl
• Hairstylist: Valentina Indino
• Hairstylist: Noah Jakuttis
• Makeup Artist: Pablo Barkhan
• Makeup Artist: Sabine Dräger
• Hairstylist: Sylvia Grave
• Makeup Artist: Nicole Handy
• Hairstylist: Ann Huber
• Special Effects Makeup Artist: Julian Hutcheson
• Makeup Artist: Katrin Jaschureck
• Hairstylist: Rebecca Koch
• Makeup Artist: Kerstin Buss
• Hairstylist: Guerdy Casimir
• Makeup Artist: Stephanie Frankham
• Hairstylist: Mica Frisch
• Makeup Artist: Linda Knapp
• Hairstylist: Eliza Bergchauzen
• Hairstylist: Daniela Brozy
• Makeup Artist: Julia Clotten
• Makeup Artist: Lorena Eracle
• Makeup Artist: Monica Garrido
• Hairstylist: Johanna Hinsch
• Makeup Artist: Julita Grochala
• Hairstylist: Marina Arent
• Hairstylist: Regina Gebel-Kurth
• Hairstylist: Susanne Glöckner
• Makeup Artist: Felix Jones
• Hairstylist: Monika Knauf
• Hairstylist: Ludmiła Krawczyk
• Hairstylist: Ina Charanza
• Makeup Artist: Stephanie Hanf
• Makeup Artist: Dorit Krieger
• Makeup Artist: Ingo Burbach
• Makeup Artist: Marion Giggenbacher
• Makeup Artist: Melissa Karhoff
• Hairstylist: Gülcan Arslan
• Makeup Artist: Iselin Brockes
• Makeup Artist: Lisa Hilpert
• Makeup Artist: Frauke Horn
• Hairstylist: Ronja Kluge
• Makeup Artist: Katharina Lenz
• Makeup Artist: Sergio Lopez-Rivera
• Makeup Artist: Geraldine Sifonte Marino
• Makeup Artist: Anna Matviyenko
• Makeup Artist: Stephanie Michel-Teschke
• Makeup Artist: Raquel Munuera
• Hair Supervisor: Angie Mudge
• Hairstylist: Franziska Petersdorff
• Makeup Artist: Anja Magull
• Makeup Artist: Michelle Mosler
• Hairstylist: Sandy Hänsel
• Hairstylist: Sabeth Kelwing Jimenez
• Hairstylist: Hannah Kaiser
• Makeup Artist: Zuzanna Klimek
• Hairstylist: Thomas Koepelle
• Makeup Artist: Natalia Kubiak
• Hairstylist: Lilien-Hannah Lösch
• Makeup Artist: Franziska Mayntz
• Hairstylist: Anna Lisa Pritsch
• Hairstylist: Sandra Leutert
• Makeup Artist: Sandra Marszalek
• Makeup Artist: Isabelle Michlik
• Makeup Artist: Katrin Paas
• Hairstylist: Klaudia Majcher
• Makeup Artist: Birte Meier
• Makeup Artist: Bakhora Pfautsch
• Makeup Artist: Diana Badalova
• Makeup Artist: Malgorzata Chrastek
• Makeup Artist: Karolina Ciszewska
• Makeup Artist: Melissa Döberl
• Hairstylist: Janina Hecken
• Makeup Artist: Agnieszka Jasiniecka
• Hairstylist: Daniel Kramer
• Hairstylist: Isabel Kowol
• Hairstylist: Janika Kreutzer
• Hairstylist: Hanna Pfeiffer
• Makeup Artist: Johannes Hugendick
• Makeup Artist: Lukas Lehleiter
• Makeup Artist: Julia Böhm
• Hairstylist: Annika Gleitsmann
• Key Hair Stylist: Gloria Göschel
• Makeup Artist: Stefanie Kinzel
• Hairstylist: Britta Penkalla
• Makeup Artist: Yvonne Joseph
• Hairstylist: Aljona Kassner
• Hairstylist: Ami Häfner
• Hairstylist: Lisa Neubacher
• Makeup Artist: Olga Lerche
• Makeup Supervisor: Marie Maggio
• Hairstylist: Błażej Pintara
• Hairstylist: Alla Leonova
• Hairstylist: Izabela Pernal
• Makeup Artist: Hanna Leśna
• Hairstylist: Jenna Smith
• Makeup Artist: Aneta Chaber-Stankiewicz
• Hairstylist: Oliver Ziem-Schwerdt
• Foley Mixer: David Jobe
• Art Direction: Daniel Chour
• Set Decoration: Adam Rajczyba
• Set Decoration: Oskar Staniszewski
• Makeup Artist: Valeska Schitthelm
• Hairstylist: Caterina Veronesi
• Makeup Artist: Katharina von Wechmar
• Makeup Artist: Ina Sauer
• Makeup Artist: Tony Schmoll
• Hairstylist: Daria Siejak
• Hairstylist: Virginia Cheyenne Silex
• Hairstylist: Eileen Richter
• Makeup Artist: Rebekka Schwark
• Makeup Designer: Jörn Seifert
• Hairstylist: Dorota Świderska
• Makeup Artist: Marta Tesche-Klimek
• Makeup Artist: Susanne Witt
• Hairstylist: Maria Ratzeburg
• Hairstylist: Zela Maria Sanchez
• Prosthetic Makeup Artist: Jordi Morera Serra
• Makeup Artist: Sarah Singh
• Special Effects Makeup Artist: Christoph Suckow
• Costume Supervisor: Meike Schlegel
• Foley Supervisor: John Joseph Thomas
• Set Designer: Laura Bach
• Makeup Artist: Anke Scheiter
• Art Direction: Sarah Wibbeler
• Assistant Director: Nadim Suleiman
• Makeup Artist: Basil Stahlin
• Makeup Artist: Manuela Watschkow
• Set Decoration: Piotr Bugaj
• Hairstylist: Elisa Sanchez
• Makeup Artist: Tatjana Wellner
• Hairstylist: Elena Ziegler
• Special Effects Makeup Artist: Juliette Ruetz
• Hairstylist: Rebecca Schulz
• Makeup Artist: Pauline Späte
• Hairstylist: Hanne Voget
• Hairstylist: Anne Wendt
• Hairstylist: Anne Wenzel
• Makeup Artist: Andrea Rosal
• Makeup Artist: Benjamin Kaan Schüssling
• Hairstylist: Debora Waltl
• Makeup Artist: Ewa Wiączek
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Jeremy Peirson
• Hairstylist: Hannah Reuvekamp
• Key Hair Stylist: Chrissy Zemura
• Set Decoration: Pawel Czarnecki
• Makeup Artist: Lena Zięba
• Costume Supervisor: Pashelle L. Latino
• Hairstylist: Selina Schardt
• Makeup Artist: Noreen Seeger
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Babcock
• Hairstylist: Lyubov Yatsyuk
• Art Direction: Stephanie Rass
• Set Decoration: Dawid Ryczkowski
• Makeup Artist: Katja Savinen
• Makeup Artist: Valentina Schwez
• Makeup Supervisor: Irina Tübbecke-Bechem
• Hair Supervisor: Nadine Vieker
• Hairstylist: Jamika Wilson
• Hairstylist: Kerr Sutherland
• Makeup Artist: Silke Zeitz
• Supervising Sound Editor: Thomas Jones
• Art Direction: Kai Koch
• Art Direction: Laura Lessnick
• Set Decoration: Jakub Baczewski
• Set Dresser: Sven Adrian
• Set Designer: Wilko Drews
• Stunt Double: Charleen Frembgen
• Stunt Double: Fritzi Hennemann
• Set Decoration Buyer: Daniela Lohschelder
• Stunt Double: Yuli Lam
• Set Decoration: Sabine Schaaf
• Set Decoration: Eliasz Hunczak
• Second Unit Director: Hadie DeJesus
• Art Direction: Thorsten Klein
• Set Decoration: Krzysztof Bubel
• Set Dresser: Florian Radloff
• Set Dresser: Hauke Spaethe
• Gaffer: Marcin Mikołajczyk
• Stunt Double: Sybell Anja Flucke
• Set Decoration Buyer: Elisabeth Fest
• Set Dresser: Christoph Henß
• Set Dresser: Jochen Schuetz
• Set Dresser: Yeşim Zolan
• Assistant Art Director: Franziska Hoh
• Set Dresser: Haik Achim Lützow
• Set Designer: Natascha Matzat
• Set Dresser: James Cowley
• Grip: Ben Edlich
• Grip: Sebastian Mayer
• Grip: Kilian Deml
• Stunt Double: Rajab Hassan
• Stunt Double: Alexandre Lopoka
• Stunt Coordinator: Florian Hotz
• Stunt Double: Steven Stalder
• Stunt Double: Felix Fukuyoshi Ruwwe
• Stunt Double: Patrick Richter
• Stunt Double: Samia Hofmann
• Set Decoration: Grzegorz Sadowski
• Set Dresser: Friederike Berthold
• Set Dresser: Konrad Betschart
• Set Dresser: Malgorzata Snitko
• Set Dresser: Hannes Früh
• Set Decoration Buyer: Elena Gosch
• Set Dresser: Petra Pieper
• Set Decoration Buyer: Alexis Teller
• Stunt Double: Jan Böhme
• Set Designer: Ines Kramer
• Set Designer: Leonie Lieberherr
• Set Dresser: Tim Sehling
• Stunt Double: Ciya Taycimen
• Set Dresser: Laura Stampfl
• Camera Operator: Rafal Ganowski
• Stunt Double: Caitlin McNerney
• Stunt Double: Myriam Meske
• Stunt Double: Silke Sollfrank
• Stunts: Goran Mitrovski
• Co-Producer: Henning Molfenter
• Third Assistant Director: Ben Bischof
• Second Assistant Director: Takahide Kawakami
• Script Supervisor: Alicia Accardo
• Hair Designer: Nikki Gooley
• Stunts: Christian Petersson
• Co-Producer: Christopher Surgent
• Co-Producer: Christoph Fisser
• Co-Producer: Charlie Woebcken
• Travel Coordinator: Deborah Persch
• Special Effects Coordinator: Dana Cafahi
• Special Effects: Flemming Christensen
• Special Effects Technician: Ludwig Leitner
• Special Effects Supervisor: Claudius Rauch
• Special Effects Technician: Mithat Baskan
• Special Effects Technician: Cédric da Silva
• Special Effects Technician: Mathias Taeger
• Visual Effects: Illia Afanasiev
• VFX Artist: Elliott Broutin
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Joseph DiValerio
• VFX Artist: David Megías Fernández
• VFX Artist: Anne Sofie Myllerup
• VFX Artist: Radoslaw Pyzel
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Shani Vizma
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Konrad Wilbrandt
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Sheen Wei Yap
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Adrian De Wet
• VFX Artist: Justin Coulon
• VFX Artist: Andrea Aparicio Forner
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Androniki Nikolaou
• VFX Artist: Max Berends
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Prabhakar Maharjan
• Visual Effects Producer: Alizée Plourde
• VFX Artist: Tony Hudson
• Visual Effects Producer: Craig Skerry
• Visual Effects Producer: Kiran Bhakta Joshi
• Visual Effects Producer: Danielle Malambri
• Visual Effects Coordinator: John Moseley-Williams
• Visual Effects Producer: Laura Bonde Pedersen
• VFX Artist: Prerna Raghav
• VFX Artist: Jacob Eske Jensen
• Visual Effects Producer: Miranda Middlewood
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Erik Schneider
• Visual Effects Coordinator: Christian Seel
• VFX Artist: Michael Zhou
• Fight Choreographer: Steven McMichael
• Title Designer: Aaron Becker
• Choreographer: Julia Fidel
• Production Manager: Anna Pupin
• Sound Mixer: José Antonio García
• Special Effects Technician: Andree Neemann
• Director: Francis Lawrence
• Co-Producer: Cameron MacConomy
• Costume Design: Trish Summerville
• Executive Producer: Mika Saito
• Associate Producer: Greg Capoccia
• Executive Music Producer: Dave Cobb
• Visual Effects Producer: Eve Fizzinoglia
• Songs: Olivia Rodrigo
• Costumer: Nicola Flynn
• Stunts: Phong Giang
• VFX Artist: Andres Kluge
• Producer: Nina Jacobson
• Producer: Brad Simpson
• Screenplay: Michael Arndt

Catogories:
Drama,Science Fiction,Action
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Language:
English
Production:
United States of America
Company:
Lionsgate,Color Force,about:blank
Popularity:
102.66
Date:
2023-11-15
Year:
2023

• CinemaSerf: I couldn’t help wondering if Francis Lawrence had just asked for that “Tom fella…” “You know…” The casting director didn’t realise he meant that “Tom fella” from “Harry Potter” and got Tom Blyth instead. There’s an uncanny resemblance with the blonde floppy hair and the rather linear facial expressions. Indeed, despite a promising (if frustrating) shower scene at the top of the film, Blyth (“Coryo”) is really what drags this otherwise quite decent action adventure film down. Rachel Zegler, on the other hand, is full of enthusiasm as her “Lucy Gray” character is selected to fight for District 12 in the “Hunger Games”. Meantime, “Dean Highbottom” (the infrequently used Peter Dinklage) has come up with a way to spike the dwindling television ratings. He has decided to allocate one of his top students to mentor each of the captives. Yep – “Coryo” is put with “Lucy Gray”. A bit of sabotage changes the nature of the game and gradually our hero starts to wonder if he is on the right side – especially when he becomes a little too emotionally involved with his protégé and attracts the enmity of his own erstwhile mentor. Luckily, the whole scenario is being overseen by the hammily menacing “Volumnia Gaul” (Viola Davis) who is clearly having a ball with industrial scale make up and a barrel of genetically modified snakes. The last twenty minutes smacks a little too much of sequel building, but this film has plenty of action and intrigue, loads of back-stabbing and just a little moralising. Zegler delivers a few folky style ballads confidently and generally does a lively enough job keeping it quite a bit better than I was expecting. It needs a cinema, though – the grand scale effects and photography work best that way. On the television it will probably just come across as a bit derivative.
• austinmgray: one of the best installments to the Hunger Games series. it’s definitely the darkest and most political entry to the saga. act III could have been more fleshed out, but it doesn’t detract from the story the film is telling. act III was the most compelling segments in aspects of Coriolanus Snow’s villain origins.

  if you’re a fan of political dramas or a character study or just a huge fan of the Hunger Games series, this is the film for you. excellent casting, excellent music, and deliciously evil performances.

• Imon Reza: With its heartbreaking origin story that depicts the fall of President Snow, **The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes** is the ideal masterpiece of a frightening origin story collection. The adaptation of the novel to the movie was done so well that it is really remarkable. A very high quality cinematography is present. Rachel Zegler is the personification of Lucy Gray, while Tom Blyth is a leading man.

  What an amazing experience it was! The whole auditorium was sitting on the edge of their seats, completely silent, and just appreciating the movie. Everything in the film was flawless, including the narrative, the acting, the music, and the allusions.

  In the first place, I feel it is necessary to offer my daughter, Rachel Zegler, some praise. Her performance as Lucy Gray gave the impression that she had actually torn her off the page. Rachel did a wonderful job of portraying Lucy Gray, who was the epitome of perfection, and I don’t believe anybody else could have achieved the same level of success. Rachel’s singing is even more incredible than her acting, by a significant margin. It is common knowledge that Rachel is an incredible vocalist, but the way she sings in this film leaves me feeling as if I had never heard her voice before. She is such a powerhouse of an actor, and I am so thrilled to watch her succeed in this production. The fact that she sang everything live on set is another reason why I am so proud of her. In my view, this is without a doubt her finest performance so far.

  Following that, I feel compelled to call attention to the outstanding performance that Tom Blyth gave as Snow. He did a fantastic job of taking what Donald Sutherland had done with the role and giving it his own spin while still making it his own interpretation of the character. On Snow, Tom was able to bring out both the charming and the insane aspects of her personality. I found his acting to be particularly noteworthy in the third act of the movie, particularly the moment in which he was seen in the woods with Lucy Gray. The manner in which Tom was able to incorporate everything of Snow’s inner monologue that is shown to us in the novel into his facial expressions was absolutely stunning. He did an excellent job in this function.

  When it comes to this film, there are a lot of other things that I could simply enthuse about. Every single one of the other performers had outstanding performances, and they were all outstanding. On top of that, the music is really fantastic. It is impossible for me to adequately express why I feel the desire to have the music of this movie infused into my veins. The soundtrack was so powerful that it brought tears to my eyes even at the very beginning of the film, when there was nothing that was really occurring at that point!!!! In addition, I would like to draw attention to the outstanding costume design that was done for this film.

  This movie brought us back into the realm of Panem, and it seemed as if we had never left! There were so many things and individuals that worked together to make this happen. The movie was really stunning, thanks to the stunning performances, locations, costumes, and music that Olivia Rodrigo contributed, among other things.

  Since the first nostalgic film in the series, which was released in 2012 and starred Jennifer Lawrence as the legendary songbird mockingjay herself, Katniss Everdeen, this has quickly become my favorite installment in the series. All things considered, this is a smashing success for moviegoers and movie aficionados alike; you should not miss it when it is shown on the big screen.

• hamfaceman: This movie was sooooo long and had way too much singing, a bunch of which was very cringey. The romance between Snow and Lucy wasn’t believable at all and I guess Snow was just a total psychopath all along anyway, so maybe that part was intentional. Anyway, it was all pretty boring and the actual “hunger games” in this one were really lame and uninspired. I don’t recommend putting this ham on your face.
• r96sk: I was thoroughly enjoying this… until it absolutely nosedives during the latter half.

  ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ starts off so strongly, continuing at a pleasant pace as it encompasses the Hunger Games itself. However, from the end of the event it truly does drop off a cliff out of nowhere. The film gives you a major high of action with the games, then drops the tempo down to such a slow first act-esque pace that it feels extremely tacked on.

  I did enjoy the cast throughout, mostly. Tom Blyth is excellent, first time I’ve seen him properly in a film and I was very impressed; though even his performance suffers with the aforementioned, which for him is from the point that he becomes The Real Slim Shady, seemingly (his originally look is so much better). Still, I’m eager to see that guy act further.

  Rachel Zegler is largely good, though does chew the scenery quite a bit in parts; predominantly when singing. Viola Davis is great, while Peter Dinklage is underused but still a positive. Jason Schwartzman and Josh Andrés Rivera, meanwhile, are solid enough supports.

  Just a shame about the final act. It’s not necessarily that bad in itself, but to lower the pace that sharply after such prolonged thrill is a recipe for disaster. So much so that it makes the whole part drag hard, or perhaps ’twas just so for me?