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The Dan Trachtenberg-directed Predator: Badlands speared $4.8 million in previews, which includes both Wednesday fan and Thursday night shows.
The preview number is less than that of another sci-fi genre title, Alien: Romulus‘ $6.5M, which also was a franchise reboot for the revived 20th Century Studios under new owner Disney. That Fede Alvarez-directed revival went on to open to $42M stateside. But keep in mind that movie was R-rated and had a mid-August release in 2024. Also, Predator: Badlands, with its female action hero sensibility, also is getting comperd by Disney sources to Ballerina, which did $3.8M in previews before a $24.5M opening in June. Badlands previews are also ahead of 2017’s Blade Runner 2049 which did $3.5M before a $12.5M Friday, and 3-day of $32.7M.
Also good news for Badlands at this point in time: Total previews here are ahead of The Predator, which did $2.5M in Thursday previews back in September 2018. That pic posted a $10.3M Friday on its way to a $24.6M start.
2004 crossover title Alien vs. Predator owns the franchise opening record at the domestic B.O. with $38.2M. 2010’s Predators from director Nimród Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez follows as the second-best U.S./Canada opening for the series at $24.7M. The forecast going into the weekend for Badlands was $25M+, hopefully the second-best start in the Predator franchise.
1987’s Predator and 1990’s Predator 2 own the best CinemaScores for the series conceived by Jim and John Thomas with a B+.
Predator: Badlands cost $105M net before marketing, shot in New Zealand with tax credits. Trachtenberg breathed new life into the Predator movies in August 2022 with the direct-to-Hulu Prey, which was the streamer’s most-watched premiere ever at the time. Critics believed the movie should have been booked in theaters, hence, here we are with Badlands.
On the Rotten Tomatoes audience scale, Badlands is the fan favorite of the franchise with 96%, ahead of the original 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie at 87%. Prey remains the most critically acclaimed in the alien series at 94%.
Amazon MGM Studios release of Kingdom Story’s Sarah’s Oil posted $460K in previews. The
Cyrus Nowrasteh-directed faith-based movie starring Zachary Levi, Sonequa Martin-Green and Garrett Dillahunt follows the true story of 11-year old Sarah Rector, an African American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s who believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted and whose faith is proven right. No RT or audience scores.
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Black Bear Finance’s first domestic theatrical release under its new arm, Christy, starring Sydney Sweeney as boxer Christy Martin, posted $400K in previews last night. RT reviews stand at 67% fresh. The pic is going wide in north of 2,000.
Sony Pictures Classics and Walden Media’s WWII drama Nuremberg, booked at 1,700 theaters this weekend, started off with $210K last night in previews. The movie directed and co-written by James Vanderbilt stands at 71% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes from 76 reviews.
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Top 5 for the week; note that Netflix’s Kpop Demon Hunters ,which made $5.9M over the weekend, didn’t play the weekdays, we’re told.
- Regretting You (Par) 3,425 theaters, Wk $12M (-38%) Total $31.4M/Wk 2
- The Black Phone 2 (Uni) 3,305 theaters, Wk $11.3M (-35%), Total $64.8M/Wk 3
- Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc (Sony) 3,003 theaters Wk $9.67M (-61%), Total $34.4M/Wk 2
- Bugonia (Foc) 2,043 theaters, Wk $7.8M (+6800%), Total $8.8M/Wk 2
- Back to the Future (re) 2,290 theaters, Wk $6.4M, Lifetime total $221M/Wk 1 (re)
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