Sizzling Rattling, Folks Watched That ‘Dawn on the Reaping’ Trailer

Earlier this week, Lionsgate launched the primary trailer for Sunrise on the Reaping, the subsequent Starvation Video games prequel after 2023’s Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. In a 12 months of huge trailers, this was a reasonably large one for the studio, and it’s obtained the numbers to show it.

Deadline studies that inside its first day, racked up 109 million views. In comparison with trailers for different huge films this 12 months—like Fantastic Four or Toy Story 5—it’s properly behind these, however for Lionsgate, it was the second-biggest trailer launch within the studio’s 27-year historical past. The primary-biggest is Michael, which dropped earlier in November and made it to 116 million in the identical 24-hour interval.

Primarily based on the Suzanne Collins novel that launched earlier in 2025, Dawn on the Reaping stars Joseph Zada because the younger model of Haymitch Abernathy, a winner of the titular bloodsport who ultimately grows as much as mentor Katniss Everdeen in the primary films. The massive novelty of this 12 months’s Starvation Video games are that every district has to supply up 4 baby tributes as a substitute of two, leading to much more bloodshed than normal and Haymitch has to look at extra of his associates die. Lionsgate snapped up the ebook’s film rights earlier than it was even out and launched the trailer a full 12 months earlier than it really hits theaters, declaring Dawn its huge occasion film of the vacation season.

Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping comes out November 20, 2026, and you may see mentioned trailer on the large display screen forward of Depraved: For Good.

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