{"id":177695,"date":"2025-11-13T02:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/177695\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T02:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T02:24:12","slug":"running-man-now-you-see-me-3-face-off-with-predator-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/177695\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Running Man’, ‘Now You See Me 3’ Face Off With ‘Predator’: Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tParamount\u2019s $110M redo of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man<\/a><\/strong>, this time starring Glen Powell, is targeting a No. 1 win at the box office this weekend, with around $20M. But it\u2019s facing the heat carried by the second weekend of 20th Century Studios\u2019 Predator: Badlands<\/a>, <\/strong>which looks to settle at around $16M<\/strong>, -60%.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat could keep Predator: Badlands in a better-than-expected B.O. range is that it carries the best CinemaScore ever for the franchise<\/a> (A-), as well as a high PostTrak definite recommend of 78%. Also, working to Badlands\u2019 advantage is its PG-13 rating to Running Man\u2018s R rating. Badlands cleared $5.7M on Veterans Day Tuesday for a running five-day total of $49.2M.<\/p>\n

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\n\tBoth are heavily male-skewing movies, though Badlands\u2019 second-best demo last weekend was women over 25 at 22%. Of Running Man\u2018s 3,400 locations, 1,000 are premium large-format screens. Previews start at 7 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Running Man<\/a>, directed by Baby Driver\u2018s Edgar Wright and co-financed by Domain, is based on the 1982 novel\u00a0by\u00a0Stephen King\u00a0and published under the pseudonym\u00a0Richard Bachman. It follows Ben Richards (Powell), a working-class dad who is running a murderous race set in a near-dystopian future. The goal? To win $1 billion to save his sick daughter. Over 30 days, contestants are hunted by assassins and must survive. Nobody has won the game before.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLionsgate<\/p>\n

\n\tLooking to be a date movie is Lionsgate\u2019s $90M+ threequel, Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t<\/strong> about magicians who reteam for a diamond heist as they target dangerous criminals. The range is wild for Now You See Me 3, between high teens and low $20Ms<\/strong>, but tracking isn\u2019t betting on a No. 1 win. Presales between Running Man and Now You See Me 3 are quite close. The second Now You See Me movie was in 2016, which had an opening of $22.3M for final domestic of $65M for a global take of $334.8M. While Lionsgate sells foreign, that\u2019s where this franchise has rallied. But note, $97M of the last film\u2019s global haul was made in China. Given how Hollywood movies largely have been soft in the Middle Kingdom post-pandemic, don\u2019t expect this threequel to fare as well. Previews start at 2 p.m. Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: \u2018Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t\u2019 Review: Gen Z-Driven Third Installment Attempts To Teach Old Magicians New Tricks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Tatiana<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tTatiana Maslany in \u2018Keeper<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeon<\/p>\n

\n\tNeon\u2019s third Oz Perkins genre title, Keeper, <\/strong>is the third wide entry at 1,950 theaters with an eye at low single digits<\/strong>. Billed as a throwback to 1970s horror films like Rosemary\u2019s Baby, Keeper follows a couple during a romantic anniversary trip to a secluded cabin that turns sinister when a dark presence reveals itself. They\u2019re forced to confront the property\u2019s haunted past. Tatiana Maslany and Rossif Sutherland star. While Perkins\u2019 previous two movies, Longlegs (Neon\u2019s record opener at $22.4M) and The Monkey ($14M), opened higher, the P&A spend here is less than $10M, well under Longlegs\u2019. That\u2019s in accordance with the production cost of the movie, which was $6M, we hear, as well as its $4M global pickup price tag by Neon. First choice is best with women under 25 on tracking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount\u2019s $110M redo of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man, this time starring Glen Powell, is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,7673,327,100727,13795,8568,72965],"class_list":{"0":"post-177695","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-keeper","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-now-you-see-me-now-you-dont","15":"tag-predator-badlands","16":"tag-running-man","17":"tag-the-running-man"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115540018250848608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177695","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=177695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}