Predicting The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of 2026's Biggest Movies

As young adult franchises go, The Hunger Games has fared much better than most, with all five movies to date landing Fresh ratings on the Tomatometer, even if both Mockingjay movies hit a slightly underwhelming 70% and recent prequel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes scored a just-OK 64%.

But there's good reason to expect more from Sunrise on the Reaping, which is set between The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and the original Hunger Games, following a young Haymitch (Joseph Zada) as he takes part in the 50th Hunger Games.

The trailer looks like an absolute visual feast, but more than that, Sunrise on the Reaping boasts an outrageously stacked cast, particularly where younger iterations of legacy characters are concerned.

We've got Jesse Plemons (Plutarch Heavensbee), Ralph Fiennes (President Snow), Kieran Culkin (Caesar Flickerman), and Elle Fanning (Effie Trinket), to say nothing of a wider ensemble including Mckenna Grace, Ben Wang, Glenn Close, Maya Hawke, and Lili Taylor, while Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson have also been confirmed to appear as Katniss and Peeta.

Compounding all this, the source novel is held in an extremely high regard by fans, with Goodreads reviews sitting at the series' highest by a good margin. 

It might not surpass Catching Fire's score of 90%, but it'll probably end up within spitting distance of it.