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Rachel Zegler’s big arena song in The Hunger Games prequel made the crew tear up
The Hunger Games star Tom Blyth has seen your buzz-cut Snow and Eminem edits
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How Hunger Games filmmakers built a post-war Panem for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director considered splitting the movie into two parts
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Olivia Rodrigo joins The Hunger Games with new Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes song
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Hunger Games director regrets splitting Mockingjay into two movies: 'We got so much s---'
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Hunger Games leading ladies Rachel Zegler and Jennifer Lawrence meet in Paris: 'She's actual mother'
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Hunter Schafer's Tigris in Hunger Games prequel is the polar opposite of the Mockingjay stylist
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Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director on the sinister Viola Davis meme that inspired her casting
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Hunger Games director addresses possibility of prequel movies about Haymitch and Finnick
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Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director breaks down Hunger Games Easter eggs in new trailer
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Everything we know so far about Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director says Lucy Gray Baird is the 'anti-Katniss'
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Will Smith's sci-fi movies, ranked
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The Hunger Games return! Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage arrive in Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes trailer
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Constantine sequel with Keanu Reeves still Hellblazing ahead amid new DC slate
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Sublime biopic in the works from Hunger Games director and Ozark writer
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The Hunger Games prequel drops first look at Rachel Zegler's Lucy Gray and Tom Blyth's Snow
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West Side Story breakout Rachel Zegler to star in Hunger Games prequel
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The Hunger Games prequel has found its young President Snow
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I Am Legend screenwriter responds to anti-vaxxers trying to co-opt his sci-fi flick
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Constantine reunion wades into the sequels that were never made
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Hunger Games prequel movie officially in the works with Mockingjay director
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Jason Momoa, Alfre Woodard show first look at Apple TV+ futuristic fantasy series, See
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Reviews of Jennifer Lawrence's new Red Sparrow are in, and here's what EW's critics thought
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Red Sparrow teaser with Jennifer Lawrence slays Super Bowl LII
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Jennifer Lawrence is a black widow agent in new Red Sparrow trailer
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Jennifer Lawrence is the ultimate femme fatale in first Red Sparrow trailer
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Hunger Games prequel? Mockingjay - Part 2 director Francis Lawrence teases possibility
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Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 reviews: What did the critics say?
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Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 trailer focuses on Katniss and Prim
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Red Sparrow: Jennifer Lawrence and Francis Lawrence may reunite for Russian spy film
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'Mockingjay' director Francis Lawrence to direct 'The Odyssey'
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'Mockingjay—Part 2' to get IMAX 3D release
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Casting Net: Jennifer Lawrence, Francis Lawrence join James Cameron for 'The Dive'
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'Mockingjay' director: Parts 1 and 2 will have 'two distinct stories'
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'Mockingjay' director: There's more President Coin in the film than the book
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'Catching Fire' at Comic-Con: Catch up with Jennifer Lawrence and more!
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'Hunger Games': Francis Lawrence directing 'Mockingjay' Part 1 and 2