The video games are again.
The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes premiered final evening, Monday, November 13, on the TCL Chinese language Theatre, bringing again the glamour and pleasure Hollywood had been lacking throughout the SAG-AFTRA strike (which ended final week, after 118 days).
The brand new prequel movie, which begins displaying in theaters this week, tells the story of a younger Coriolanus Snow, years earlier than he turns into president, as he’s assigned to mentor Lucy Grey Baird from District 12 within the tenth annual Starvation Video games. Viewers comply with him on his journey to changing into Panem’s feared tyrant.
West Facet Story’s Rachel Zegler performs Lucy Grey, whereas Tom Blyth (of 2018’s Scott and Sid and 2021’s Benediction) stars reverse her as Snow. Becoming a member of them are Viola Davis as Dr. Volumnia Gaul, Peter Dinklage as Dean Casca Highbottom, Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow, and Jason Schwartzman as Fortunate Flickerman. Different forged members embody Burn Gorman, Fionnula Flanagan, Ayomide Adegun, Ashley Liao, and Isobel Jesper Jones.
Stars celebrated the return to work final evening by displaying off their most dazzling appears on the pink carpet—from Schafer’s glittering silver cutout robe to Jena Malone’s sharp go well with and tie and Olivia Rodrigo’s floral halter gown.
Forward, one of the best superstar red-carpet appears of the evening.