Sunrise on the Reaping’ Racks Up 109M File Views for Lionsgate

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate scored its second greatest trailer launch within the studio’s historical past — in the identical month, by the way in which — with its The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping teaser, which drew 109 million international views in its first 24 hours after debuting Thursday.

The prequel, based mostly on the Suzanne Collins novel that hit e book cabinets in March by way of Scholastic, doesn’t hit theaters till subsequent yr right now, November 20, 2026.

The teaser drop for the Hunger Games prequel follows Lionsgate’s record-shattering Michael teaser launch, which clocked 116M views in its first 24 hours after dropping November 6. That trailer is now as much as about 300 million international views and in addition ranks because the most-viewed trailer for any music biopic ever.

The teaser drop for Sunrise on the Reaping comes within the wake of The Hunger Games: On Stage opening in London in an additional extension of the franchise by Lionsgate.

In addition to all of the eyeballs for Sunrise on the Reaping over the previous day, Lionsgate can be seeing robust demand for The Hunger Games franchise on Apple TV; the studio launched a Hunger Games EST bundle promotion with the streamer that reached No. 1 on Apple’s Top Charts final evening.  

The Hunger Games franchise encompasses 5 novels which have bought greater than 100 million copies worldwide and been translated into 52 languages, in addition to the blockbuster movie franchise that has grossed greater than $3.4 billion on the international field workplace spanning 5 motion pictures. Sunrise on the Reaping bought over 1.5 million copies worldwide in its first week, marking the largest debut for any title in Collins’ Hunger Games e book collection. In the U.S. alone, the e book bought 1.2 million copies, greater than twice the opening gross sales of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and over 3 times that of Mockingjay.

Francis Lawrence, who started directing the Hunger Games motion pictures beginning with the second title, 2013’s Catching Fire, and has continued by way of to the Mockingjay motion pictures (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 tailored. Returning franchise producers are Lawrence, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson.

The 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 earlier than the occasions of The Hunger Games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the fiftieth Hunger Games, also called the Second Quarter Quell.