Two hours and 37 minutes is pretty long for a “ballad,” but you can’t call it “The Hunger Games: The Three-Cycle Opera of Songbirds and Snakes” now, can you?

'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' cast The movie is a prequel to the "Hunger Games" franchise, set decades before Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss Everdeen is born. Only a few character ...

That clash of YA allegory and color palette is just as pronounced, if not more so, in “The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” a prequel set 64 years before the original books ...

“The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” a Lionsgate release is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for strong violent content and disturbing material.

“The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” which opens in theaters Nov. 16, is an origin story of the Hunger Games, themselves, as well as numerous characters — primarily the devious President Coriolanus ...

This image released by Lionsgate shows Tom Blyth, left, and Rachel Zegler in a scene from "The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes." (Lionsgate via AP) Two hours and 37 minutes is ...