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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Drama
Lionsgate’s action drama prequel reveals the origin story of how the Hunger Games competition began. Years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow remains the last hope for his fading lineage. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow becomes alarmed when he's assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird from District 12. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and political savvy, they race against time to ultimately reveal who's a songbird and who's a snake.

Trolls Band Together
Animated
Universal’s animated threequel sees return of Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick to the recording booth. Poppy discovers that Branch and his four brothers were once part of her favourite boy band. When one of his siblings, Floyd, gets kidnapped by a pair of nefarious villains, Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than pop culture obscurity.

Priscilla
Biographical Drama
A24’s biopic shifts the focus from the iconic Elvis Presley to his wife Priscilla, played by relative newcomer Cailee Spaeny alongside Jacob Elordi (television’s Euphoria) as the King. Elvis and Priscilla Presley married in 1967 and divorced in 1973. Priscilla serves as an executive producer on the film. Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation) writes and directs.

The Holdovers
Comedy
Focus Features’ comedy-drama stars Paul Giamatti as an unlikable history teacher at a boys-only boarding school in 1970, forced to confront his vulnerable side when he’s assigned to remain at school over the holiday break to look after students who can’t go home. Alexander Payne (Sideways, The Descendants, About Schmidt) directs.

Next Goal Wins
Sports Biopic
Next Goal Wins is a 2023 American biographical sports comedy-drama film directed by Taika Waititi. Searchlight Pictures’ based-on-a-true-story sports comedy stars Michael Fassbender, departing from his usual typecasting in a rare comedic role, as a coach sent to American Samoa to lead “the world’s worst soccer team” in their attempt to qualify for the 2014 World Cup.

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