“Mockingjay — Part 1,” despite some inspirational scenes, is a slow and brooding excuse for a movie. On the rebound, “Mockingjay — Part 2” runs a long two hours and 17 minutes, but it offers extended, ...

Looking back, director Francis Lawrence understands the mixed reactions at dividing the final Hunger Games book into two films. Lawrence returns for the upcoming origin story The Ballad of Songbirds & ...

When The Hunger Games arrived on the big screen in 2012, it was greeted by a ravenous fan base ready to be immersed in the world of Panem. But by the time the four-film series was wrapping up, there ...

The Hunger Games film franchise brought in $2.97 billion worldwide across four movies, the last two equaling $1.4 billion of that total. Now, Hunger Games: Mockingjay director Francis Lawrence ...

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1” bides its time. In doing so, the film diminishes the impact of its heroine, Katniss Everdeen, and mutes the urgency in Suzanne Collins’ futuristic “Hunger Games ...

Unwaveringly bleak, “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2” is the culmination of the action-packed, stirring “Hunger Games” series that fans deserved. As a result of director Francis Lawrence’s work, ...

The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence has admitted he regrets breaking Mockingjay into two parts. The director helmed the final three instalments — Catching Fire, Mockingjay - Part 1 and ...

"The Hunger Games" was a huge deal in the late 2000s, with the book trilogy by Suzanne Collins successfully breaking out of its young adult trappings to become a genuine phenomenon. All three novels ...

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Audiences got pissy about last year’s Mockingjay – Part 1, the third film in the Hunger Games franchise. They rightly felt gamed by a blatant cash grab that took the last book in Suzanne Collins’ ...

When the first book in The Hunger Games series came out in 2008, it became an instant phenomenon. Suzanne Collins’ novels told the story of Katniss Everdeen and her struggle against the tyrannical ...