{"id":193940,"date":"2025-11-22T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/193940\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:56:08","slug":"sunrise-on-the-reaping-racks-up-109m-record-views-for-lionsgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/193940\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrise on the Reaping’ Racks Up 109M Record Views for Lionsgate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>Lionsgate<\/a> scored its second biggest trailer launch in the studio\u2019s history \u2014 in the same month, by the way \u2014 with its The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping<\/a> teaser, which drew 109 million global views in its first 24 hours after debuting Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe prequel, based on the Suzanne Collins novel that hit book shelves in March via Scholastic, doesn\u2019t hit theaters until next year at this time, November 20, 2026. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe teaser drop for the Hunger Games prequel follows Lionsgate\u2019s record-shattering Michael teaser<\/a> launch, which clocked 116M views in its first 24 hours after dropping November 6. That trailer is now up to about 300 million global views and also ranks as the most-viewed trailer for any music biopic ever.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe teaser drop for Sunrise on the Reaping comes in the wake of\u00a0The Hunger Games: On Stage\u00a0opening in London in a further extension of the franchise by Lionsgate. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to all the eyeballs for Sunrise on the Reaping over the past day, Lionsgate is also seeing strong demand for\u00a0The Hunger Games\u00a0franchise on Apple TV; the studio launched a\u00a0Hunger Games\u00a0EST bundle promotion with the streamer that reached No. 1 on Apple\u2019s Top Charts last night.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Hunger Games\u00a0franchise encompasses five novels that have sold more than 100 million copies worldwide and been translated into 52 languages, as well as the blockbuster film franchise that has grossed more than $3.4 billion at the global box office spanning five movies. Sunrise on the Reaping\u00a0sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide in its first week, marking the biggest debut for any title in Collins\u2019 Hunger Games book\u00a0series.\u00a0In the U.S. alone, the book sold 1.2 million copies, more than twice the opening sales of\u00a0The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes\u00a0and over three times that of\u00a0Mockingjay.<\/p>\n

\n\tFrancis Lawrence, who began directing the Hunger Games movies starting with the second title, 2013\u2019s Catching Fire, and has continued through to the Mockingjay movies (2014 and 2015) and the prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023), returns to helm Sunrise of the Reaping. Oscar nominated screenwriter Billy Ray adapted. Returning franchise producers are Lawrence, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pic stars Joseph Zada, Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Glenn Close, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning, Mckenna Grace, Maya Hawke, Whitney Peak and Kelvin Harrison Jr. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping revisits the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate scored its second biggest trailer launch in the studio\u2019s history \u2014 in the same month, by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,6085,327,50341],"class_list":{"0":"post-193940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-lionsgate","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115592048325814568","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}