Primate<\/a>,\u201d which debuted to $4.5 million on Friday from 2,964 North American theaters. Starring Johnny Sequoyah, Jess Alexander, Troy Kotsur and Victoria Wyant, the horror film follows a group of teens whose island getaway is upended when the beloved family pet chimpanzee Ben becomes a rabid killing machine. The film, which carries a production budget of $21 million, is expected to make $11 million through Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\tAlso opening this weekend is Lionsgate\u2019s survival thriller \u201cGreenland 2: Migration.\u201d Starring Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin and Roman Griffin Davis, the film pulled in $3.2 million on its opening Friday. The sequel comes roughly six years after the original, and follows a family searching for a new home in Greenland after a comet strike destroyed most of Earth. The film should reach $8.5 million by Sunday.<\/p>\n
\n\tAside from \u2018Avatar: Fire and Ash,\u2019 two other holdovers remained in the top five on Friday: A24\u2019s ping pong drama \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d and Lionsgate\u2019s twisty domestic thriller \u201cThe Housemaid.\u201d \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d scored roughly $2.2 million domestically on Friday, a 52% drop from last week, and is projected to earn $7.9 million by Sunday. Its domestic gross should cross $70 million by the end of the weekend. \u201cThe Housemaid\u201d collected $3.3 million on its fourth Friday. The film should add $10.6 million by Sunday, declining 30% from this time last week, for a total domestic gross of $93.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAvatar: Fire and Ash\u201d continued its reign of box office dominance, landing at the top of the domestic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[115582,18,117,19,17,327,46168],"class_list":{"0":"post-278074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avatar-3","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-primate"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115872214726554840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278074","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=278074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}