{"id":168158,"date":"2025-11-07T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168158\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:08:08","slug":"badlands-racks-up-4-8m-in-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/168158\/","title":{"rendered":"Badlands&#8217; Racks Up $4.8M In Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Dan Trachtenberg directed <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/predator-badlands\/\" id=\"auto-tag_predator-badlands_1\" data-tag=\"predator-badlands\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Predator: Badlands<\/a> speared $4.8M million in previews, which includes both Wednesday fan and Thursday night shows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe preview number is under another sci-fi genre title Alien: Romulus\u2018 $6.5M which was another 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 in its female action hero sensibility is also getting comped by Disney sources to Ballerina, which did $3.8M in previews before a $24.5M opening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t2004 crossover title\u00a0Alien vs. Predator\u00a0owns the franchise opening record at the domestic B.O. with $38.2M. 2010\u2019s\u00a0Predators\u00a0from director Nimr\u00f3d Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez follows as the second best U.S.\/Canada opening for the series at $24.7M.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t1987\u2019s Predator and 1990\u2019s Predator 2 own the best CinemaScores for the Jim and John Thomas conceived series with a B+. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPredator: Badlands cost before marketing $105M net, shot in New Zealand with tax credits. Trachtenberg breathed new life into the Predator movies with the direct-to-Hulu Prey which was the streamers most watched premiere ever at the time in August 2022. Critics believed the movie should have been booked in theaters, hence, here we are with Badlands. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMore..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dan Trachtenberg directed Predator: Badlands speared $4.8M million in previews, which includes both Wednesday fan and Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,327,13795],"class_list":{"0":"post-168158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-predator-badlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115509284212718347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}