Lionsgate’s brief CinemaCon presentation (90 minutes of the two hours allotted was used for a screening of “Joy Ride”) was highlighted by the first look at “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songburds and Snakes,” the first trailer for which is now online.
The trailer, which will debut in theaters with “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” next week, introduces viewers to the tenth annual Hunger Games competition, telling a story of how the future President Snow (played in the four “Hunger Games” movies by Donald Sutherland) mentored a promising 12th district competitor and, well, if you’ve seen the movies or read the books you can presume it doesn’t end well for the good guys.