{"id":253452,"date":"2025-11-09T17:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253452\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T17:39:09","slug":"predator-badlands-sets-franchise-record-in-opening-weekend-box-office-overtaking-original-schwarzenegger-movie-and-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253452\/","title":{"rendered":"Predator: Badlands sets franchise record in opening weekend box office, overtaking original Schwarzenegger movie and Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dan Trachtenberg continues to bring new life to the Yautja. Predator: Badlands<\/a>, the second installment in the sci-fi franchise to be directed by him, is about to set an incredible opening weekend record, and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down.<\/p>\n

The film arrived in theatres this week, and as of today, Sunday, November 9, Predator: Badlands has earned the highest-grossing first weekend for the property. Yes, that means it’s done better than the 1987 original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a>, as well as the 1990 sequel led by Danny Glover, 2010’s Predators and 2018’s The Predator.<\/p>\n

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At time of writing, per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Badlands is expected to gross between $36 and $38.5 million for its initial weekend in cinemas in the US, and around $80 million worldwide, quite literally running through all prior Yautja-centred Predator flicks. If the production lands on the upper end of that scale, it’ll dethrone Alien vs. Predator as the biggest opening across both mainline and crossover installments.<\/p>\n

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Elle Fanning heads up Badlands, as a Weyland-Yutani synth who buddies up with a young Yautja to survive the harsh landscape of a far off planet. It\u2019s the second Predator film not to be set on Earth, after Predators, and telling another fresh story seems to have worked in peaking curiosity.<\/p>\n

What helps even more is Trachtenberg injected new life into the franchise with Prey<\/a> in 2022, taking a historical angle as a young Comanche woman, portrayed by Amber Midthunder, must defend her tribe from an encroaching extraterrestrial threat. Prey released straight onto Disney<\/a> Plus, a move widely considered short-sighted given how good it is.<\/p>\n

Disney and 20th Century Pictures have learned their lesson, it seems. Predator: Badlands is in theatres now, if you fancy seeing the apex hunter up close.<\/p>\n

If you’ve already seen it, our Predator: Badlands ending explained<\/a> will help break it down for you, and we have an upcoming movies<\/a> guide for everything else coming to theatres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Trachtenberg continues to bring new life to the Yautja. Predator: Badlands, the second installment in the sci-fi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-253452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253452","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=253452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}