{"id":251747,"date":"2025-11-08T18:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251747\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:53:10","slug":"predator-badlands-might-break-a-franchise-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/251747\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator Badlands might break a franchise record"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a couple of atrocious weeks, the box office is showing signs of life this weekend, with Disney\/20th Century Studios\u2019 Predator: Badlands on track for the best franchise opening since Alien vs. Predator back in 2004. That film managed to gross $38.3 million in its first weekend, and Badlands, according to Deadline<\/a>, is looking at around $37 million. That\u2019s a lot more than we predicted earlier this week<\/a>, although adjusted for inflation, Badlands\u2019 opening is relatively modest. Still, that\u2019s a good sign for the franchise when you consider that the last movie, Prey, went straight to Hulu. With an A\u2013 CinemaScore rating, the buzz on Predator: Badlands is good. One imagines 20th Century Studios is happy with the result, which isn\u2019t far off from what Alien: Romulus made last year. If done on a modest budget, these movies can be evergreen and profitable for the studio.<\/p>\n

One thing worth noting is the film\u2019s PG-13 rating, which has been divisive among fans. It seems Disney wanted to bring in a younger audience, although it\u2019s hard to tell if that strategy worked. After all, Alien: Romulus was rated R, and it had a slightly better opening (although it debuted during the summer). A big test will be The Running Man next weekend, with Edgar Wright\u2019s sci-fi actioner going for a hard R rating.<\/p>\n

The Colleen Hoover adaptation Regretting You will likely land in second place, with about a $6.5 million gross, while The Black Phone 2 will be a distant third with $4.2 million. Sony Classics\u2019 Nuremberg, which is going semi-wide this weekend, is expected to open with about $3.5 million. No numbers have been reported yet for the Sydney Sweeney\u2013led boxing biopic Christy, which earned a pretty decent B+ CinemaScore rating. That\u2019s more than we can say for the Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson\u2013led Die My Love<\/a>, which received an abysmal\u2014but not unexpected\u2014D+ rating from audiences who saw this challenging descent into madness last night.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll be back with a full rundown of all the weekend\u2019s grosses tomorrow. Are you seeing anything this weekend? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a couple of atrocious weeks, the box office is showing signs of life this weekend, with Disney\/20th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,42603,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-251747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-predator-badlands","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}