UPDATE, Friday PM: Lionsgate’s prequel The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is looking at a Friday between $18.5M-$20M (that includes previews) for an opening between $45M-$50M at

According to the American Library Association, The Hunger Games has been banned or challenged " due to insensitivity, offensive language, violence, anti-family, anti-ethic, and occult/satanic " and the 2014 addition of " inserted religious views ." It's a strange and rather arbitrary series of criticisms, especially as they relate to The Hunger

There are four films in the Hunger Games franchise as of 2022. The first movie, The Hunger Games, was released in 2012. The second film, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, hit theaters in 2013, while the third and fourth installments, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 and Part 2, came out in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

The Hunger Games is annoyingly bereft on any details about the world before "modern day" Panem. We barely get any information about Before The Dark Days , (The first rebellion of the Districts against the Capitol, which lead to the Treaty of the Treason, and the Hunger Games being formed 74 years before the events of the books/movies).
These games are nothing like those that Katniss and Peeta would fight in decades later--here, we're seeing the 10th edition of the Hunger Games, many years before the powers-that-be in Panem had
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