While Chris Pratt is currently busy on solid ground filming the second season of The Terminal List, his past adventures in the stars are reaching new heights.
The sci-fi epic Passengers, which stars Pratt alongside The Hunger Games legend Jennifer Lawrence, has officially become a viral streaming sensation.
The film is currently soaring on the HBO Max global charts, landing in the Top in more than countries, including France, Iceland, and Romania.
It’s a major “told you so” moment for fans who have long defended the film. When Passengers first premiered, it was often compared to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, which had debuted just two years prior.
While critics weren’t exactly over the moon—giving it a % score on Rotten Tomatoes—audiences felt differently. The film’s “Popcornmeter” score sits at a much friendlier %, proving that the chemistry between Pratt and Lawrence was enough to launch a hit.
The story follows Jim (Pratt) and Aurora (Lawrence), two travelers on a spacecraft bound for a distant colony planet who wake up from hibernation years too early.
With Michael Sheen co-starring as a charming robot bartender, the film manages to balance high-stakes sci-fi with a deeply personal, and sometimes controversial, love story.
Despite the critical cold shoulder, the movie was a certified box office success, raking in $ million globally against a $ million budget.
So, why is everyone talking about it now? On platforms like TikTok and X (formerly Twitter), movie buffs are rediscovering the film’s stunning visuals, directed by Morten Tyldum, and the “what would you do?” moral dilemma at its core.
“I don’t care what critics say, Passengers is a comfort movie,” one fan shared on X. “Seeing Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence in space together is peak cinema.”
For U.S.-based fans, there is a bit of a catch. At the moment, the film isn’t streaming on a major platform stateside.
However, given its massive resurgence across Europe and beyond, industry insiders expect it won’t be long before it returns to a service like Prime Video or joins its international counterparts on HBO Max in the States.
This isn’t the only time Pratt has beaten the “critic vs. audience” odds. His recent turn in The Garfield Movie followed a similar path—critics gave it a %, but fans loved it so much (% audience score) that a sequel is already in the works!
Whether he’s voicing a lasagna-loving cat or fighting for survival in deep space, Chris Pratt clearly has the Midas touch when it comes to keeping audiences entertained.
If you’re lucky enough to be in a region where Passengers is streaming, it might be time for a rewatch. Just don’t forget to check your hibernation pod first!
Jennifer Lawrence And Josh Hutcherson Are Returning To The Hunger Games Universe
The rumors are true, and months of denials have officially aged like milk. Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are reportedly returning to the world of Panem, reprising their iconic roles as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in Lionsgate’s highly anticipated prequel, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
At first, the idea seemed impossible. The new film takes place decades before Katniss ever volunteered for the Hunger Games, making the return of Lawrence and Hutcherson appear unlikely. However, the filmmakers have reportedly found a clever way to bring the beloved characters back without disrupting the timeline of the original trilogy.
The key is a framing device reportedly taken from Suzanne Collins’ latest novel. The story is expected to feature an older Katniss and Peeta spending time with Haymitch Abernathy as he tells them about the horrifying experience he endured during his own Hunger Games. This approach gives fans an opportunity to see the original characters again while allowing the prequel to remain focused on Haymitch’s story.
The revelation is especially amusing considering Josh Hutcherson’s recent comments about the project. For months, the actor insisted that he knew nothing about the upcoming film and emphasized how much he still loved the franchise. In Hollywood, however, such denials can often mean that a carefully worded confidentiality agreement is keeping the truth under wraps. Fans now have plenty of reason to laugh at those earlier statements.
Sunrise on the Reaping centers on the 50th Hunger Games, known as the Second Quarter Quell. This particular Games was designed to be especially brutal, with twice the usual number of tributes being sent into the arena. The story follows a young Haymitch as he struggles to survive one of the most devastating and psychologically intense Games in Panem’s history.
Bringing Katniss and Peeta into the story through a framing sequence could create an emotional connection between Haymitch’s past and the characters fans have followed since the beginning of the franchise. It also gives Lawrence and Hutcherson a chance to return without changing the events established in the original films.
Fans have already taken to social media to celebrate the reported reunion, with many joking about how successfully the actors managed to keep the secret. The combination of familiar stars, Suzanne Collins’ source material, and director Francis Lawrence returning has created enormous anticipation.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is scheduled to arrive in theaters on November 20, 2026. Whether Katniss and Peeta appear only briefly or play a more meaningful role remains unclear, but their return could make this new chapter one of the franchise’s biggest cinematic events yet.
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