#mockingjay premiere

[bogkeep]

i saw the hunger games prequel movie last night! i haven't read the book for it but i thought it was pretty good, especially the first part. i have a lot of fond memories from the heyday of the hunger games trilogy, so it was exciting and nostalgic to have a new experience.

that said 2 hours and 37 minutes is a RIDICULOUS runtime. remember when movies used to be 90 minutes

[cooledtured]

The Hunger Games Return: A Deep Dive into “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes”

Hey there, movie enthusiasts! Settle in because on November 17, 2023, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” graced the screens, treating fans to a captivating journey into the dark and enthralling world of Panem. Under the skillful direction of Francis Lawrence and based on Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel, the film promised to unveil the mysteries of the Hunger Games’ origins, unfolding a tale set 64 years before Katniss Everdeen’s iconic arrival to the arena.

A Glimpse into Panem’s Past: Coriolanus Snow’s Tale Unfolds

Now, let’s dive into Panem’s past with the main man himself, young Coriolanus Snow, played by Tom Blyth. He’s navigating the tricky terrain of the 10th Annual Hunger Games, once a part of the fallen Snow family. Now, he’s unexpectedly thrown into the role of mentor for Lucy Gray Baird, played by Rachel Zegler, a tribute from the struggling District 12. The film explores Snow’s moral struggles, tangled relationships, and his surprising journey from privilege to the edge of power.

Star-Studded Ensemble: A Stellar Cast Graces the Screen

And can we talk about the cast? A bunch of stars that had us counting down the days! Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage, and Jason Schwartzman brought their A-game. Davis rocked as Dr. Volumnia Gaul, the mastermind Gamemaker with a seriously sinister imagination. Dinklage was the brains behind the Hunger Games as Casca Highbottom, and Schwartzman added humor and charisma as Lucretius “Lucky” Flickerman, a distant relative of the original trilogy’s charming host.

Beyond Survival: Privilege, Exploitation, and Power Unveiled

Now, “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” wasn’t your typical survival thriller. It went beyond the previous Hunger Games entries, digging into deeper topics — privilege, exploitation, and power. All of this unfolds in a condemned amphitheater where the lives of tributes hang in the balance. Coriolanus’ moral tug-of-war and his intricate bond with Lucy Gray Baird promised a storyline packed with unexpected twists, giving us a fresh take on Capitol society.

With a mix of new faces and familiar elements from the Hunger Games universe, the film hit the sweet spot. This movie works as a great expansion of the world created by Suzanne Collins. As we got lost in the roots of Panem’s most infamous tradition, “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” is set to make a lasting mark on the Hunger Games legacy. It was a thrilling and thought-provoking joyride, inviting us to revisit the dystopian universe that first captured our hearts and witness the rise of a young Coriolanus Snow. Fingers crossed the odds stay forever in our favor!

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FERNANDO ORTIZ | Writer  POP-COOLEDTURED SPECIALIST  cooledtured.com | GROW YOUR COLLECTION

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[badwolf-gallagher88]

okay but when Haymitch is imprisoned in the tribute apartment following the games and the only thing he has to wear is his pyjamas from before they began

was anyone else amid the pure devastation of this book laughing because Haymitch has suddenly morphed into Woody Harrelson in his pyjamas at the Mockingjay premier?

[aarontveitisonfire]

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher Will Bring Chess Revival to Broadway This Fall

Michael Mayer will direct the flop-turned-cult-favorite musical from ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, with a brand new book by Danny Strong.

Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele and Nicholas Christopher in Chess RICHARD PHIBBS

From Playbill May 28, 2025

The cast will be led by Tony winner Aaron Tveit as Freddie Trumper, Lea Michele as Florence Vassey, and Nicholas Christopher as Anatoly Sergievsky. The performance will see Michele originating a role on the Main Stem for the first time since 2006's Spring Awakening. Get a sneak peak of the Broadway favorites in the video above.

With music from ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, and lyrics by Tim Rice, this first-ever revival will be refreshed with a brand new book by Emmy Award winner Danny Strong (Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2), and a creative team featuring director Michael Mayer (Spring Awakening) and choreographer Lorin Latarro (Waitress). Brian Usifer will serve as music supervisor.

Based on an idea by Rice (and originally featuring a book by Richard Nelson), Chess tells the story of American and Russian chess champions playing a match against each other—and competing for the same woman—at the height of the Cold War.

Chess began as a concept album released in 1984, after Tim Rice had mulled over the idea of a musical about the Cuban Missile Crisis for nearly a decade with his frequent collaborator Andrew Lloyd Webber, never quite beginning the project. In the early 1980s, he approached Andersson and Ulvaeus, who had been itching to find creative projects outside of their hit pop music group ABBA. The concept album dominated the charts worldwide, reaching number three on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and earned global critical acclaim. Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson's duet "I Know Him So Well" even ranked number one on the U.K.'s singles charts for a month.

The album's popularity seemed to promise a successful theatrical adaption, but the original West End production opened in 1986 to mixed reviews. Elaine Paige, Tommy Körberg, and Murray Head, who all performed on the concept album, brought their roles to life onstage as part of the original London cast, with Siobhán McCarthy taking Barbara Dickson's place. Prolific director Michael Bennett was originally signed on to helm, but pulled out due to his declining health, and Cats director Trevor Nunn took over. Bennett's vision initially was to create a "multimedia" experience for audiences, with the theatre filled to the brim with television monitors, and the stage transformed into a tilted floor. The stage show's book expanded the original plot explored in the concept album, with the runtime peaking at three hours and 15 minutes long. London critics were admittedly dazzled by the score and scenic vision for the show, but nearly all expressed the book as being problematic to what would otherwise be a creative revelation.

The Broadway production—which starred David Carroll, Judy Kuhn, Philip Casnoff, and Marcia Mitzman—opened to an even more sour critical reception, with reviewers nevertheless praising the score and the individual performances. Closing after just 17 previews and 68 performances, it seemed Chess' chance for success had passed. But via the concept album and later cast recordings from various stage productions, Chess found a devoted audience in the years since its premiere. In addition to several tours and West End revivals, a 2008 London concert staging featuring Josh Groban, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, and Kerry Ellis was recorded and released both as an album and a concert film.

Rice has been teasing a revival being in the works for years, even announcing that a 2018 Kennedy Center staging would come to the Main Stem (this production was also directed by Mayer and featured Strong's revised book). Though the Broadway bow did not materialize that time around, the show was last seen in New York in a 2022 starry benefit concert for the Entertainment Community Fund, also using Strong's revised script and starring Darren Criss, Tony winner Lena Hall, Ramin Karimloo, and Solea Pfeiffer.

And the show's passionate fans are clearly eager for a Broadway return. The search phrase "Chess Revival" (prior to this article publishing and the news becoming public) turns up thousands of social media posts begging for a revival, with one fan writing that they will take a flight back to New York as soon as one is announced, and another taking that claim to the next level, joking that they will "literally move into the theatre for the entire run."

Chess will be presented by arrangement with Three Knights, the Shubert Organization and Robert Fox Ltd.

[sparkles-and-trash]

In the 9th grade our teacher had this tradition to read for us every last hour on fridays, and she really wanted to read us the first Hunger Games book, both in hopes to keep our focus and because she believed the story to be important.

I was seriously changed as a person by that first book, my outlook on politics, humans, of the people in power, all because my teacher read us that first book back in 2009.

In 2012 I watched the midnight premiere of the movie, and later that year, on my 18th birthday I got my first tattoo; a large mockingjay on my calf, not as a fan tattoo, but as a statement, a reminder to the book story that fundementally changed me as a person.

Today it’s very strange to see it’s massive ongoing inpact all over the world, and nothing short of painful to see that it’s relevance has grown to a size 14 year old me never would have expected.

[snow-blower]

sansa would eat everyone right up if she attended the met gala i just know it. jon would only go if his pretty gf begged him and even then she would have to style him bc my dude does not know the first thing about high fashion. theon would show up in pyjamas like woody harrelson did at the hunger games mockingjay part 2 premiere. robb? robb would wear a full suit of armour or smth goofy like that

Damn, now I wanna write Jon's gf getting him ready for a met gala 😭

[karaluszek]

I am so damn thankful that the polish edition of new Hunger Games book had a premiere the same day as the original version. It's still not the industry standard and it's so much more difficult to evoid spoiler these days - in comparison, Mockingjay was released in Poland year after. Not sure what about the other translations, but it's so nice to have this book in my hands and be able to share thoughts with everyone else (also, polish translation is chefs kiss)

[resplendentdare]

9, 23, 28, 100

9) How tall are you?

5'1... I'm smol

23) Have you ever met any celebrities?

I have! I've met most of The Hunger Games cast and Lorde; that was over a decade ago at the Catching Fire and Mockingjay part one premieres and I haven't done shit since

28) What type of music do you like?

I have two moods; K-Pop or 80s there's little to no inbetween LMAO. My Spotify Wrapped is always fun lmaoo

100) Colour of your room?

Orange! But like a sunset orange

Thank youuuu!!!

Get To Know Me Uncomfortably Well

[bethpeaches123]

Facebook memories just told me that 9 years ago today, I saw Jennifer Lawrence at the Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 1 premiere in London! 🥰

[celebritycloset]

Jena Malone wore Ungaro to Los Angeles Premiere of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay"

[everlarkedalways]

✺THG Series Exploration: Mockingjay✺

7: One of my favorite things about being a THG fan is the fanfare, ComicCon panels, promotional tours, cast photos, and movie premieres. Share your favorite memories, posts and thoughts on being a fan of the cast.

(Note that today's queue holds 20 instead of 15 posts because there was just too much great content!)

[timetravelingcas]

I went to a small movie theater that was showing Catching Fire and it was something else. There was 2 hosts who went up and talked on stage before the movie. They told us to shout out "oscar", "wig" "jail" "kiss" when something happens in the movie. Let me tell you it was like 2013 Tumblr irl. People booed Gale. Ppl screamed whenever Finnick showed up. Ppl called Effie "mommy" I wore my mockingjay pin just like I did when I saw the premier. It was amazing

[clatoera]

Since when do you like THG/TBOSAS? Tell me your fandom story 😊

Have you read or watched all the books/movies?

Thank you.

@curiousnonny

Okay so I answered a similar version of this question last year here so I just copied my answer over and put it under a cut because it's LonG but it's still the story!

Okay, I have been waiting to do this justice. But here I go.

I was one of those fans back in the day. I think I started reading the books in 2009/early 2010s. THG and CF were out, and I was literally counting down the days with my mom and aunt to Mockingjay being released. I was 12 at the time, in 7th grade. I got into the series at the age of the youngest tributes, at the age of Rue and Prim. My mom and my aunt recommended it to me, and I remember falling in love. District 12 was my hometown. An old coal down surrounded by the woods, I remember just identifying so much with that. I was little. Me and my mom got Mockingjay the day it released and I read it within a day. I was hooked.

I counted down to the movie. I remember every announcement. All the fan casts, the fan versions of Katniss' song. The buildup as to oh who's going to be Katniss! Who's going to be Peeta! What does Cinna's eye makeup look like. The clothes, I could NOT wait to see the clothes. The girl on fire dress. All of that. I remember finding out while sitting in my aunt's bedroom about it being Jennifer Lawrence. I remember the fan casts of Dianna Aaron as Madge Undersee (RIP). I can literally remember the feelings of cast releases. I bought every merch item that came out. I had a blanket, I had district 2 nail polish that looked like cement, I had the girl on fire 12 nail polish. I remember learning how to do the braid and it becoming my personality for an entire year. I publicly counted down to this movie release. My grandma made me a custom Team Peeta shirt that I rhinestoned for the premier. My best friend and I went to the movie at midnight with my Grandma. We went to them all, and she and I will be going to the newest one this November. I was 14, turning 15, and insufferable.

The Hunger Games defined me. I thought I was Katniss. I did that braid. My baby sister was 4 years younger than me. When CF released in theaters, I was the age of Katniss and she was Prim's age from the OG movie. That relationship of love between sisters is the most relatable part of the entire franchise. To this day, my sister reminds me of Prim. She is sweet and gentle and smart and innocent. And I would do anything Katniss did to protect her sister.

I got very into Clove for reasons unknown. Maybe because Isabelle Fuhrman and I were the same age. Maybe because I remember clove in the books being described as dark hair and dark eyes with freckles. thats what I sort of looked like back then. I'm 5'3, was never very tall. There is still hunger games fanfic I wrote in 2014 floating around out there of Katniss/Peeta and also Clato obviously.

To this day when I go into surgery, I have my hair in those little training ponytails Clove wore, because it keeps my bangs out of my face.

I distinctly remember wanting to be a blonde when I was 13/14. In 8th grade I kept dying my hair lighter with highlights. But about a month before the movie, I dyed my hair back to the dark natural brown. The way home from that appointment my mom pointed out to me "Maybe the hunger games, and Katniss, showed you that you can be pretty with dark hair and you don't have to change that." That has stuck with me for 11 years.

I fell out of it naturally, as I went through HS and College. I went to all the movies at midnight, but still, I was growing up and growing out by the last Mockingjay movie. Even in HS, for golf and dance I braided my hair out of the way. I did hunger games themed dance solos at competitions. Eventually, I did fall out of it as I got closer to college.

But like all things, you find your way back home.

It's been..14.. years since I read those books.

I still do my hair like Clove, but now as an almost doctor/future surgeon.

I still think of my home town as District 12 adjacent.

I still recognize the love of Katniss and Prim as the most important love and relationship in the whole series.

My type is still tall blonde boys with blue eyes (which..I got from THG movie).

I'll be at the midnight premiere of this movie with my best friend, like I did all before.

Recently I saw the movies on prime. I cried watching mockingjay part 2 because that was still so much like me and my sister. I watched again and I mourned the reality of what my favorite series EVER was.

This is a series about children fighting to the death. The horrors of fascism and the government. About actual war. The social commentary (The outrage of the capitol at the thought of Peeta and Katniss's fetus dying in the games, vs the reality of watching 23 children fight to the death every year and cheering is one of the most jarring and realistic reflections of society today). The media sensationalized THG to a love story just like the capitol. Looking back, from the age of Finnick in mockingjay, rather than Clove or Katniss in THG and CF, the way I see these films and this series is so different.

Thats what drew me back. Theres a comfort in this series, it was my favorite thing.

Theres a comfort I want back, in the most stressful season of my life.

But there is so much for me to uncover and unpack as an adult that I missed as a child.

It feels like I am doing a service to my younger self.

thank you for asking and thank you for giving me space to gush.

[mermaidinthecity]

World Premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 at Odeon Leicester Square in London, England - November 10, 2014

[jesstasticvoyage]

Sam during the Mockingjay premiere in Madrid (Nov 2014)