Yahoo News ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ Gets a Digital Release: Where to Watch It Online
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After an eight-year hiatus, the Hunger Games film franchise is back with The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, the first movie in a new prequel series. Although it’s still in theaters after taking in an impressive $289.6 million at the worldwide box office, the prequel movie is available to stream at home starting Dec. 19.
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is available to stream on-demand in 4K Ultra HD on Prime Video starting tomorrow. Watch it online as a rental for $20, or purchase a digital download of the film for $25.
Where to Stream The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Online
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in 4K Ultra HD is available to buy on digital for $25 or to rent for $20 on Prime Video, Apple TV and other video-on-demand platforms.
Where to Buy The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Novel Online
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is based on the best-selling novel of the same name (without the ampersand) by Suzanne Collins. It was released in May 2020.
It’s available at Amazon in hardcover for $27 (reg. $30), in paperback for $13 (reg. $17), as a Kindle ebook for $11 and as an audiobook for $6 for only Audible members.
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Not an Audible member? Sign up for a 30-day free trial and get two free audiobooks (including The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes). The service usually auto-renews at $14.99 per month, but Audible’s current promotion gives new subscribers their first four months for $5.99 per month when they sign up by Dec. 31. Learn more about Audible here.
Directed by Francis Lawrence, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is set 64 years before the first movie in the franchise and follows the rise of future President of Panem Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), as an 18-year-old boy who falls in love with Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a poor tribute from District 12 during the 10th Hunger Games event.
The film also stars Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Viola Davis and others.
Available on Dec. 19, rent or purchase a digital version of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in 4K Ultra HD, below:
How to Stream All the Hunger Games Movies in Order
Since The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a prequel, the main trilogy (or should we say quadrilogy) are also available to stream online. The other four movies in the Hunger Games film franchises, spanning back to 2012, are ready to watch on Starz — which has a deal going on for six months of service for $20, or about $3.34 per month for six months.
Here’s where to watch the Hunger Games films online:
The Hunger Games, Starz
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Starz
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1, Starz
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2, Starz
Where to Buy the Hunger Games Movies Online
Want to own the physical media version of Hunger Games movies? All four of the Hunger Games movies are available in a boxed set on DVD for $9 (reg. $20), Blu-ray for $19 (reg. $35) and 4K Ultra HD disc for $62.
In addition, the original Suzanne Collins book trilogy is available as a boxed set at Amazon as on paperback for $67, as Kindle e-book set for $26 and as Audible-member audiobooks for free. If you’d like to get all four books in a set (The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, Mockingjay and The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes), it comes in hardcover for $74, on paperback for $49 (reg. $62), as a Kindle e-book set for $43 and as free audiobooks for Audible members.
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