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Coyne gets it here. This is not turning out to be a transformational government, there’s no sign of the bold leadership needed to get big things done. It’s perhaps too early to conclude that voters were duped, swept off their feet by a wave of nationalism and anti-Americanism, but we’re getting there.
Terry Newman@terrynewman
A reaction video for the Spring Economic Budget from Andrew Coyne
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One of my all-time favourite Canadian historical photos!
There's so much going on.
Dark clouds portend rain.
The old grain elevator is pure prairie gothic.
The Red Ensign and Royal Union flags hanging proudly from the VIMY Hotel!
A farmer driving his tractor through town.
Cool, beat-up classic cars.
And that cowgirl's aura: she means business!
It's like a Kurelek painting come to life.
#CanadaSublime
Dominion Aesthetics@CanadianAesth
Swan River, Manitoba (1956)
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Lionsgate spent $100 million on Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in 2023 and got $349 million back. Lowest opening weekend in franchise history. $44 million domestic debut for a series that used to open north of $150 million.
Their response was to double the cast budget on Sunrise on the Reaping.
Ralph Fiennes. Glenn Close. Kieran Culkin. Jesse Plemons. Elle Fanning. Maya Hawke. Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson returning for the first time since 2015. That's four Oscar nominees and two Emmy winners in a single YA adaptation. The cast page reads like an awards ceremony guest list stapled to a Succession reunion.
And the math behind it is actually rational. The Hunger Games franchise has made $3.3 billion across five films. Catching Fire, the one installment that involved a Quarter Quell (the 75th), is the highest-grossing Lionsgate film ever at $865 million. Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes proved the IP still has a floor: $349 million worldwide on a cold-start prequel with zero legacy cast. The floor held.
So Lionsgate is running a calculation. The Second Quarter Quell is the most requested story in the fandom because Haymitch's games were only described in two paragraphs of the original novel. Suzanne Collins turned two paragraphs into a 400-page book. Lionsgate turned the book into a cast sheet that makes you do a double take. Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman is the kind of casting that sells tickets on name recognition alone, before a single frame of footage exists.
The trailer drops tomorrow. Mockingjay statues with flowers showed up in Millennium Park, Chicago. Snake statues covered in ivy appeared in Times Square. The marketing campaign is treating this like an event film, which tells you exactly how Lionsgate sees the stakes. Their entire theatrical slate depends on this franchise producing $600M+ worldwide. Anything less and the prequel strategy dies.
48 tributes. The most stacked cast in franchise history. And a studio betting everything that the one story fans have been asking about for 14 years can bring the audience back.
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