How Many Hunger Games Movies Are There?

Five Hunger Games films have reached theaters: four main films and one prequel spinoff. The four main films follow Katniss Everdeen, while the spinoff goes back to a young Coriolanus Snow, decades before the original Games. The argument over "four or five" comes down to whether the prequel is counted.

There are four main films and one spinoff, so the answer is four or five depending on whether the prequel is included. The main saga follows Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, from the reaping in District 12 into the rebel uprising: The Hunger Games (2012), Catching Fire, Mockingjay Part 1 and Mockingjay Part 2. Lionsgate, the distributor of the series, released the fifth film, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, in 2023 with a new cast. So, if someone says four, they mean the Katniss saga, and if they say five, they have added the prequel. The hunger games movies hub groups all of them together.

The five films run from 2012 to 2023, and each has its own page. The Hunger Games 2012 was directed by Gary Ross and opened in the US on March 23, 2012. It runs 142 minutes, cost $78 million to make and took in $695 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. The setup is simple: Katniss volunteers to take her younger sister Primrose's place at the reaping, and the baker's son Peeta Mellark is chosen alongside her.

Catching Fire (2013) is the first of four films directed by Francis Lawrence, and it opened in the US on November 22, 2013. At 146 minutes and a $130 million budget, it grossed $870 million worldwide, the highest of the five. It begins with Katniss and Peeta back home after winning, while President Snow orders them to play a devoted couple on a Victory Tour.

Mockingjay Part 1 (2014) opened on November 21, 2014, runs 123 minutes and grossed $762 million worldwide on a $125 million budget. Most of it is set in District 13, the hidden underground base where the rebels, led by President Coin, want Katniss to become the Mockingjay, the public face of their uprising.

Mockingjay Part 2 (2015) opened on November 20, 2015, runs 137 minutes and had the largest budget in the series at $160 million. It grossed $684 million worldwide. Katniss joins the push on District 2 and is then placed in a hand picked unit with Gale, Finnick and Peeta.

Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023), also directed by Francis Lawrence, opened on November 17, 2023. At 157 minutes it is the longest film in the series, and its $364 million worldwide gross is the lowest, against a $100 million budget. Tom Blyth plays the young Snow and Rachel Zegler plays Lucy Gray Baird, the District 12 tribute he mentors in the 10th Hunger Games, about ten years after the First Rebellion and more than sixty years before the original Games.

Yes, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping opens in US theaters and IMAX on November 20, 2026, and TMDB lists the same date in the UK. Lionsgate announced the film and that date in June 2024, and TheWrap's reports through April 2026 show no change. Francis Lawrence directs again from a script by Billy Ray, and Lionsgate announced that filming began on August 6, 2025. The sunrise on the reaping page tracks the date and status, and the sunrise on the reaping trailer page collects the footage released so far.

Lionsgate confirmed Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy and Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird in April 2025. Jesse Plemons is confirmed as Plutarch Heavensbee, and Glenn Close and Billy Porter are confirmed as Drusilla Sickle and Magno Stift. Variety Australia reported in December 2025 that Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are expected to return, and named Ralph Fiennes as Snow, Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket and Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman. Those names are reports, not studio confirmations. James Newton Howard, who scored the first five films, is reported to return as composer. Once it opens, the series count becomes six.

There are two sensible orders: release order, which runs 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2023, and chronological order, which puts The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes first because it is set decades earlier. The hunger games movies in order page sets out both. It could be argued that release order suits a first viewing, because the prequel's young Snow carries more weight once you have met the president he becomes, but that is a matter of taste.

For streaming, where to watch hunger games is kept current by country. As of November 3, 2026, JustWatch data on TMDB shows all five films on Hulu in the US, and Peacock is not among the listed services. In the UK the four main films are on Disney Plus, while the prequel is rent or buy only. In Australia the four main films are on Prime Video, Disney Plus, Paramount Plus and Stan, and the prequel is on Netflix and Stan.

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