Fresh off the news that #SuzanneCollins will drop a new #HungerGames book in 2025, Lionsgate will release a film adaptation of that book in 2026. The studio announced Thursday that “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping” will hit theaters on Nov. 20, 2026, with Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson returning to produce. Francis Lawrence, who directed the last four “Hunger Games” movies (including last year’s prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”), is in talks to direct. He took over for Gary Ross, who directed the first “Hunger Games” movie in 2012, and has steered the franchise since “Catching Fire.” “Sunrise on the Reaping” will revisit the world of Panem 24 years before the events of “The Hunger Games,” starting on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. The book will be published on March 18, 2025. In the world of #TheHungerGames, Haymitch Abernathy won the Second Quarter Quell, played by #WoodyHarrelson in the first four f...