Predator: Badlands has claimed its latest trophy at the box office. The sci-fi action film has now grossed $138.5 million at the worldwide box office since debuting earlier this month. That’s enough to surpass the global box office of Ballerina, the John Wick spinoff movie whose global box office total currently stands at $137.2 million.
One might consider this an upset for the Predator franchise, which was considered all but dead before the Hulu-released Prey sparked renewed interest in 2022. The series has its roots in the 1980s and has grossed a collective $581.6 million at the global box office. The John Wick franchise has earned more than $1 billion, by comparison, and is a more modern series.
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Predator: Badlands seemed destined to take the Predator franchise to new box office heights from the start. Badlands’ opening weekend box office gross set a new high for the Predator franchise. Badlands is also already the second-highest-grossing Predator movie, behind only 2018’s The Predator ($160.5 million).
Ballerina, conversely, is the second-lowest-grossing movie in the John Wick universe. The Ana de Armas-led film only ranks higher than the original John Wick from 2014 ($86 million).
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Predator: Badlands Continues to Climb the Box Office Chart
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Predator: Badlands is currently ranked 27th globally on the top-grossing movies of 2025 chart. If the film is to continue climbing that chart, it will have to hunt a prey that is arguably even more difficult to kill than de Armas’ deadly assassin from Ballerina: Bridget Jones. The long-awaited fourth Bridget Jones movie, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, currently ranks right above Predator: Badlands with a $140.4 million global box office total.
Predator: Badlands has a “Certified Fresh” 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes following a warm reception from critics. It has fared even better with audiences, sporting a verified 95% positive audience score. CBR’s own Predator: Badlands review called the film “a special sci-fi experience of 2025.”
In a first for the Predator franchise, Predator: Badlands takes the action away from Earth, into the future, and casts a Yautja as the protagonist rather than the villain of the story. Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi plays a young Yautja named Dek, who is aided by Elle Fanning’s android Thia in his hunt for supposedly unkillable prey. Prey director Dan Trachtenberg returned to direct the feature film.
Trachtenberg is already working on another Predator sequel. Though it has not yet been greenlit, the next film may see the return of iconic original Predator star Arnold Schwarzenegger to the series.
“Obviously, the holy grail of Predator movies would be getting Arnold back in there,” producer Ben Rosenblatt said at the Predator: Badlands premiere. “And it’s always been something in the back of our minds that it would be really great to see him come back to this franchise that he’s made iconic, and that’s made him iconic.
“Arnold and Dan have met a couple of times now,” he continued. “He’s been really interested in what we’re doing. He’s a real fan of what we’ve done so far, from what I understand. And we’re really excited. After Predator: Badlands comes out, we’ll see and have more conversations. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to do something with Arnold, because that would be awesome.”
Predator: Badlands is now playing in theaters.
Release Date
November 5, 2025
Runtime
107 minutes
Director
Dan Trachtenberg
Writers
Dan Trachtenberg, Patrick Aison, John Thomas, Jim Thomas
Producers
Brent O’Connor, John Davis, Marc Toberoff, Dan Trachtenberg, Ben Rosenblatt
Elle Fanning
Thia / Tessa
Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi
Dek / Father