Somehow, it’s been 14 years since Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute in the first Hunger Games movie. It worked out well for everyone not playing one of the many characters sacrificed along the way, as the first four films based on Suzanne Collins’ book series became box-office hits and sparked a boom for dystopian YA stories. And the hunger lingered. Five years after The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 hit theaters, Collins penned a prequel novel that was then adapted into The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. A second prequel novel, Sunrise on the Reaping, arrived last year, and that movie is coming to theaters November 20. If Sunrise on the Reaping, which focuses on historic Hunger Games winner Haymitch Abernathy—a fan favorite played by Woody Harrelson in the original films, with Joseph Zada taking on the younger version of the character in the new movie—has gotten you feeling nostalgic for Lawrence’s arrow-zinging and fiery-dress-wearing survival era, you’re in luck. Fathom Entertainment is bringing back all five Hunger Games movies, including The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, for a special theatrical engagement in September.
Here’s the schedule for the screenings and each film’s synopsis: The Hunger Games – Thursday, September 3 “Based on the best-selling books by Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games is the first film in the franchise. Every year in the ruins of what was once North America, the Capitol of the nation of Panem forces each of its 12 districts to send a teenage boy and girl to compete to the death in the Hunger Games. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) volunteers in her younger sister’s place and must rely upon her sharp instincts when she is pitted against highly trained tributes who have prepared their entire lives for this competition. If she is ever to return home to District 12, Katniss must make impossible choices in the arena that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.”
