Badlands is creeping toward the second best Friday start ever for the franchise at $14M which will get the Dan Trachtenberg directed movie to the second best opening ever for a Predator movie at $33M.

Badlands, and the numbers could be a positive sign for a potential sequel. What is the latest Predator: Badlands box office update? Per Deadline, Predator: Badlands grossed $4.8 million in previews, which includes early Wednesday screenings and Thursday showings.

Predator: Badlands transports the traditional Predator primal hunt onto a wide, unforgiving landscape. The film stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, and this time, the hunter is the protagonist.

Predator: Badlands is a fun action/science fiction movie that proves the Predator franchise is now in very capable hands, as the film gives everything that Predator fans

Badlands , you might notice a surprising name pop up in the credits… James Cameron . He’s never really been involved with the Predator franchise, but his creative fingerprints have always lingered around the edges of it.

Elle Fanning stars as a Weyland-Yutani synthetic (basically, a really fancy robot) who teams up with a Predator on a hunt for the galaxy's deadliest creature. But on this planet teeming with lethal creatures, they quickly become the hunted.

The latest entry in the "Predator" franchise is headed back to theaters in early November. After a straight-to-streaming entry landed on Hulu in 2022, "Predator: Badlands" will enjoy a big screen debut.

7. "The Predator" (2018) is a movie we should never speak of. This sequel has a very unique group of actors making up the cast, including Boyd Holbrook, Olivia Munn, Keegan-Michael Key, Thomas Jane, Trevante Rhodes, Sterling K. Brown, and Jacob Tremblay.