Overview
- Lionsgate says the teaser amassed 109 million global views in its first 24 hours, the studio’s second-biggest trailer launch this month.
- The first official teaser arrived on Nov. 20, 2025, with the film scheduled to open in theaters on Nov. 20, 2026.
- The footage offers a first look at Joseph Zada as young Haymitch and highlights an ensemble including Elle Fanning, Ralph Fiennes, Kieran Culkin, Jesse Plemons and Glenn Close.
- Director Francis Lawrence returns with a screenplay by Billy Ray and producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson back on the franchise.
- The teaser centers on the 50th Hunger Games as the Second Quarter Quell with double the tributes, as early social reactions praise the casting and Glenn Close’s striking prosthetic transformation.