Do I have to watch the other ‘Hunger Games’ movies before seeing this one? “Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” a prequel, is self-contained enough that it could be entertaining even without ...

Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler in "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes." Credit: Murray Close It's strange to say that a movie about child death-matches makes me deeply nostalgic ...

Sunrise on the Reaping is re-casting another fan-favorite character for the prequel timeline — Effie Trinket, the stylist for ...

The Covey appears in Collins' "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes ... in the Hunger Games. Mags and Wiress are Haymitch and the other District 12 tributes' mentors in "Sunrise on the Reaping," and ...

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, has finally arrived to answer a few big questions: Who designed these games, and how did Coriolanus Snow become the ruthless patriarch of Panem?

Lionsgate announced it would be producing a film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' "Sunrise on the Reaping" before the book was ...

Sure, I love fan service as much as the next reader, but Sunrise on the Reaping is more than just backstory. The fifth novel and second prequel to Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Gam ...

It revives the story based in the country of Panem 40 years after “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” and 24 years before the original “Hunger Games” novel of the main trilogy released in ...