After its theatrical release, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will be available to watch in a new virtual reality format. > This latest move brings two big corporations into a special relationship for the first time in Hollywood .
Meta and Lionsgate are working together to make the movie into a 3D experience for watching on Meta’s virtual reality headsets, according to Deadline. The VR version, directed by Francis Lawrence, is expected to be available after the movie’s theatrical run in spring 2027. Meta is working with a Hollywood studio for the first time on this project to convert a full-length film into 3D, giving the audience a new way to experience the latest Hunger Games movie.
How Meta and Lionsgate are taking The Hunger Games to virtual reality
Once released, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will be able to reach audiences through Meta’s virtual reality platform, thanks to the partnership. Oscar-winning visual effects and animation team DNEG worked on the 3D conversion of the movie. This partnership gives Lionsgate a new way to distribute films. Deadline reports that the studio intends to release more games for the VR glasses soon enough. That said, Lionsgate has not yet announced the films following Sunrise on the Reaping.
A set of Meta VR glasses costs $1,299.99 and weighs approximately 100 grams. The glasses announced at Meta Connect 2026 have a 5K infinite display, Dolby Vision, Dolby Atmos spatial audio and IMAX enhancement.
The next Hunger Games movie is a prequel and it’s about 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy. The official logline is: “Return to the world of Panem 24 years before the events of The Hunger Games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, aka the Second Quarter Quell.”
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping will be released in theatres on November 20, 2026.