{"id":686708,"date":"2026-01-10T12:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686708\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:21:11","slug":"fire-and-ash-no-1-over-primate-housemaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686708\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire And Ash’ No. 1 Over ‘Primate’; ‘Housemaid’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFRIDAY PM UPDATE:<\/strong> In a weekend where a chimp with rabies is looking to scare more people into theaters, 20th Century Studios\u2019 Avatar: Fire and Ash remains the alpha male with what\u2019s expected to be a $24 million <\/strong>fourth weekend at 3,700 locations after a $5.6M <\/strong>Friday and a running cume of $345.2M.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tOverseas is where it\u2019s at, and the hope is that the threequel will ring up a global weekend north of $90M+<\/strong>, leading all titles in release. Here in North American, Avatar: Fire and Ash continues to play in Imax, 3D, 4D, Screen-X and D-box premium auditoriums.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSecond for the frame is currently going to Lionsgate\u2019s The Housemaid<\/a><\/strong>, holding strong with a $3.4M fourth Friday and a fourth weekend of $12M<\/strong> at 3,123 screens, down 21%, getting the Sydney Sweeney-Amanda Seyfried movie to $94.6M<\/strong>. For Sweeney, as a leading actress, the pic is already her highest grossing at the domestic box office besting Anyone But You\u2018s $88.3M stateside take.<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount\/18Hz\u2019s monkey-gone-mad movie Primate<\/a><\/strong> with an equal 76% score among critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, is seeing $4.4M<\/strong> today and $10.5M<\/strong> for the weekend at 2,964 sites.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd there are those looking to knock the chimp out such as Lionsgate\u2019s Greenland 2: Migration<\/strong>, with $3.8M<\/strong> today and $10M<\/strong> for the weekend; however, they sport not great critic and audience scores at 54% and 64%, respectively. Gerard Butler\u2019s Den of Thieves: Pantera was in slightly better shape a year ago with RT critic and audience ratings of 62% and 79%, respectively. CinemaScore came in at B+.<\/p>\n

\n\tWith K-12s back in school, the expectation is that the youngins will come out Saturday for more Zootopia 2<\/strong>; the Disney pic is eyeing $10M<\/strong> in weekend 7, -48%, after a $2M<\/strong> Friday for a running cume of $378.7M<\/strong>. While more than Moana 2\u2018s seventh frame of $6.5M a year ago, that sequel was considerably more frontloaded than Zootopia 2, with its running cume at the time at $434.8M. Moana 2 played all the way to the first weekend of April, ending its run at $460.4M. Just gives you an idea of how much juice is left in Zootopia 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The 25 Highest-Grossing Animated Films Of All Time At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tFRIDAY AM UPDATE: <\/strong>Paramount\/18Hz\u2019s Primate<\/strong> rang up $1.4M<\/strong> from both Thursday night showtimes and previous previews. Meanwhile, Lionsgate\/STX\u2019s Greenland 2: Migration <\/strong>did $900K<\/strong>. Triple note on that Gerard Butler movie: Canada isn\u2019t going this weekend. Primate and Greenland 2 were forecast to make $8M-$10M heading into this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tDespite the entry of two older-male-skewing titles, Avatar: Fire and Ash is expected to hold on to No. 1 in its fourth weekend with $20M-$22M. The James Cameron-directed threequel grossed $2.5M yesterday, ending its third week at $55M <\/strong>for a running cume of $321.2M.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tThe Johannes Roberts-directed, Walter Hamada-produced $21M Primate opens today in 2,964 locations. Internationally, the film opens this week in 26 markets including Mexico. That 90% fresh Rotten Tomatoes critics score has simmered down to 78% fresh, which is still notable for an R-rated horror movie. Oz Perkins\u2019 The Monkey last year had a 77% certified fresh RT score in reviews. Speaking of which, Primate\u2018s previews are about $500K shy of Monkey\u2018s $1.9M (which turned into a $5.8M Friday\/previews and $14M opening).<\/p>\n

\n\tButler\u2019s Lionsgate movie from a year ago, Den of Thieves: Pantera, did $1.35M in previews before a $5.7M Friday and a $15M No. 1 debut. The first Greenland was 77% certified fresh with audiences during the pandemic (remember, it only got a PVOD play), and Part 2 is lower at 59%. Greenland 2 was made for $90M, but Lionsgate only took U.S. for $10M. Elevation will be releasing the sequel in Canada as PVOD via Amazon.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer Comscore, 76% of colleges are on break today, a number that declines to 42% on Monday but spikes back up to 94% the following Monday on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in addition to K-12 being 94% on break.<\/p>\n

\n\tTop pics of the week:<\/p>\n

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  1. Avatar: Fire and Ash (20th) 3,835 theaters, Wk $55M (-51%), Total $321.2M\/Wk 3<\/li>\n
  2. Zootopia 2 (Dis) 3,285 theaters, Wk $24M (-44%), Total $368.7M\/Wk 6<\/li>\n
  3. The Housemaid (LG) 3,070 theaters, Wk $22.1M (-26%), Total $82.9M\/Wk 3<\/li>\n
  4. Marty Supreme (A24) 2,887 theaters, Wk $18.8M (-39%) Total $62.2M\/Wk 3<\/li>\n
  5. Anaconda (Sony) 3,509 theaters, Wk $13.2M (-51%), Total $49.1M\/Wk 2<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRIDAY PM UPDATE: In a weekend where a chimp with rabies is looking to scare more people into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[207671,77,207672,3943,122337,196300,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avatar-fire-ash","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-greenland-migration","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-primate","13":"tag-the-housemaid","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115870779892035542","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}