Lionsgate Home Entertainment has officially announced that it will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes .The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on February 13.
Also releasing on the same day, Walmart will have an exclusive 4K Bluray + Blu-ray + Digital SteelBook, debuting with brand-new art prominently featuring the star-studded cast. The stand-alone SteelBook will be available for the suggested retail price of $29.96.
Fans of the franchise can collect the previously released The Hunger Games films in the 4K Blu-ray SteelBook 4-Film Collection which includes the original four films, featuring art of Katniss Everdeen and Coriolanus Snow, also available at Walmart.
In The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, three-time GRAMMY Award® winner and six-time nominee singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo joins the prestigious franchise, co-writing and performing the preeminent original song "Can't Catch Me Now."
64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical President of Panem, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes follows a young Coriolanus as he unites with Lucy Gray Baird in the 10th Hunger Games, and battles his instincts for both good and evil.
Based on the Suzanne Collins best-selling novel of the same name, with a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt, and directed by Francis Lawrence, the star-studded cast features Tom Blyth (Benediction), Golden Globe® winner Rachel Zegler (Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, West Side Story, 2022), Emmy® Award winner Peter Dinklage (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, "Game of Thrones," 2019), Hunter Schafer ("Euphoria"), Josh Andrés Rivera (West Side Story), Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City), and EGOT winner Viola Davis (Emmy® for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, "How to Get Away with Murder," 2015; GRAMMY® for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording, Finding Me, 2023; Oscar® for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, Fences, 2017; Tony® for Best Actress (Leading Role – Play), Fences, 2010). The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is currently still in theaters, where it has earned over $325 million worldwide.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM
- DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK
- Audio Commentary with Producer-Director Francis Lawrence and Producer Nina Jacobson
- "Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" 8-Part Documentary
- Songbirds & Snakes (The Acting Ensemble)
- Pure as the Driven Snow (The Music of Lucy Gray Baird)
- A Palette of Tactics (On Location in Poland and Berlin)
- Humanity Undressed (Costume, Makeup & Hair)
- To the Victor Go the Spoils (Stunts & Weapons)
- Inner Sanctum (The Post-Production Process)
- Snow Lands on Top (Reflections)
- "The Hanging Tree" Song by Rachel Zegler
- A Letter to the Fans
- Theatrical Trailers (4K Only)
- Spanish, French, English SDH subtitles