After over a month in theaters worldwide, Lionsgate’s Hunger Games prequel,The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, has passed perhaps its final major milestone at the global box office. It does, however, remain the lowest-grossing installment of the blockbuster franchise, which hasgenerated over $3 billion worldwidesince its debut in 2012. But it’s worth noting that it was also produced on arelatively restrained budget of $100 million.
Now, after 31 days of release,The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeshas generated $145 million domestically and $155 million from overseas markets, for a cumulative global haul of exactly $300 million. The filmdebuted to a hair under $100 millionglobally and made around $44 million domesticallyin its first three days of release. Both these figures pale in comparison to the $100 million-plus openings that the franchise’s previous entries would routinely deliver. ButThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakeshas shown surprisingly strong legs over the course of the last month, and when all is said and done, the movie should be profitable for Lionsgate. Thestudio funded the film mostly through foreign sales, limiting the risk involved. After all,the Hunger Games franchisehad been lying dormant for nearly a decade, and there wasn’t exactly a strong demand for it to be revived.
Each film in the original series was a massive hit, and unusually for a series of this size, also well-reviewed.The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, however, is the least-liked installment of the series, at least according to the review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes. The movie currently sits at a borderline “fresh” 64% score, as compared to the 70% approval ratings earned by bothThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1andThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2. The first film scored an 84% on Rotten Tomatoes, whileThe Hunger Games: Catching Fireremains the top-rated film of the franchise, with a 90% score.
The Film Is Poised to Conclude Its Run as the Lowest-Grossing Installment of the Franchise
The Hunger Games Movies
Global Box Office
Rotten Tomatoes Score
The Hunger Games
$677,923,379
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
$864,808,014
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
$766,575,131
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
$646,212,917
The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
$300,000,000
Budgets for second, third and fourth films, each directed byFrancis Lawrence, ranged from $125 million to $160 million.The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which isset over six decades before the events of the main series, will be the first film of the franchise to gross less than $500 million (or even $400 million) in its global run. Worldwide hauls for the first four films ranged from $646 million forMockingjay - Part 2to $864 million forCatching Fire.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesfollows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) - the last hope for the once-proud Snow family - who is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12 for the 10th Hunger Games. Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will become a songbird or a snake.
