{"id":498133,"date":"2026-01-07T04:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498133\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T04:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:55:12","slug":"fire-ash-to-prevail-over-primate-greeland-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/498133\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire & Ash’ To Prevail Over ‘Primate’, ‘Greeland 2’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHoliday moviegoing is still happening, especially with 76% colleges on break through Friday. With that, the majors are programming toward an older-dude demographic with two new releases: the Lionsgate-STX-Anton co-production Greenland 2: Migration<\/a> <\/strong>and Paramount\/18Hz\u2019s monkey horror movie Primate<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\n\t20th Century Studios\u2019 Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a> <\/strong>will prevail in its fourth frame with $20M+<\/strong>, with Greenland 2<\/strong> and Primate <\/strong>both looking at $8M-$10M<\/strong>. Avatar: Fire and Ash, already past $1 billion<\/a> around the world, currently counts a running cume of $311.8M in North America. The James Cameron-directed threequel holds onto its Imax, full 3D suite and 4D\/Screen-X\/D-box premium auditoriums.<\/p>\n

\n\tDon\u2019t discount the overindexing of Greenland 2 at 2,700 theaters: It\u2019s Gerard Butler. He has a solid older-male fan base. A year ago at this time, his Lionsgate sequel Den of Thieves: Pantera opened to a solid $15M, just $200K shy of its pre-Covid first installment in 2018. Also, the first Greenland movie is currently in the top ranks of the HBO Max streaming menu. Greenland 2 cost $12M and has a reported $20M stateside P&A. Lionsgate just has domestic rights on the Ric Roman Waugh-directed sequel.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMorena Baccarin and Gerard Butler in \u2018Greenland 2: Migration\u2019<\/p>\n

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

\n\tIn Greenland 2, the surviving Garrity family must leave the safety of the Greenland bunker and embark on a perilous journey across the decimated frozen wasteland of Europe to find a new home. The PG-13 sci-fi title\u2019s previews start at 2 p.m. Thursday. First choice is best with guys over 25 but is pacing behind Den of Thieves 2. The original movie was released in late-summer 2020, when theaters stateside were still locked down because of the pandemic. The movie did a great $53.2M abroad and sold pay TV and streaming to HBO Max for around $25M \u2014 a price that any indie film looking for acquisition would crave in this day and age where it\u2019s hard for indies to get a pay-one deal. No Rotten Tomatoes critic or audience scores yet.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJohnny Sequoyah in \u2018Primate\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tParamount Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tPrimate, which is the first theatrical release from Walter Hamada\u2019s genre label 18Hz at Paramount, is directed and co-written by Johannes Roberts and follows a group of friends\u2019 tropical vacation that goes sideways when their chimp loses it. The pic\u2019s buzz lit the wick at Fantastic Fest back in September, and currently carries a 90% fresh critics score on Rotten Tomatoes. It\u2019s playing at 2,900 sites. Previews start at 7 p.m. Thursday. Men over 25 are the best demo in first choice, though behind Neon\u2019s The Monkey ($14M opening), another horror film from last year involving banana-eating animals. Internationally, Primate will open this week in 26 markets\u00a0including\u00a0Mexico.\u00a0Thirty-four markets will bow later,\u00a0including France on\u00a0Jan. 21, Australia on Jan. 22, Germany, Italy and Brazil on Jan. 29, the United Kingdom on Jan. 30 and Spain on February 6.<\/p>\n

\n\tGoing wide this weekend at 1,200 is the Bradley Cooper-directed dramedy Is This Thing On?<\/strong> Will Arnett stars as a guy going through a divorce who finds solace in stand-up comedy. Also starring Laura Dern and Cooper, the pic is 86% with critics and 88% fresh with audience on Rotten Tomatoes. Is This Thing On? has made $1M in 18 days at the box office in 33 theaters. Single digits expected this weekend.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 1,400 sites is Angel Studios\u2019 Omar Sy-Jay Abdo Arabic drama I Was a Stranger. <\/p>\n

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

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Dead Man\u2019s Wire\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVenice Film Festival<\/p>\n

\n\tIn limited release is the Row K debut thriller Dead Man\u2019s Wire<\/strong> from Gus Van Sant at 14 theaters in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, Washington D.C., Seattle and Austin. At 97% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, the pic stars Bill Skarsg\u00e5rd, Dacre Montgomery, Cary Elwes, Myha\u2019la, Coleman Domingo and Al Pacino in a story inspired by the 1977 hostage standoff that turned aspiring entrepreneur Tony\u00a0Kiritsis into an eccentric outlaw folk hero.\u00a0Row K picked up the movie in the mid-seven-figure range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holiday moviegoing is still happening, especially with 76% colleges on break through Friday. With that, the majors are…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":498134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[24315,171,74540,53,131345,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-498133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-greenland-2-migration","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-primate","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115852039182031475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}