PREDATOR: BADLANDS Passes 28 YEARS LATER At The Box Office
Dan Trachtenberg's sequel wasn't totally buried by WICKED: FOR GOOD.
Even though pretty much everyone’s attention was on Wicked: For Good and its blockbuster $226 million global opening, which included a whopping $150 million in North America, there were other movies to watch in theaters over the weekend. One such movie is director Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands, which has been met with much acclaim up to this point. That acclaim has helped push it past the $150 million mark, meaning it has surpassed one of the biggest horror movies of the summer.
Badlands added another $6.2 million domestically on its third weekend, good enough for third place behind Now You See Me: Now You Don’t ($9.1 million). Internationally, the latest entry in the Predator franchise took in an additional $7.2 million. That brings its new running total to $159.5 million worldwide, surpassing director Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later, which took in just over $150 million over the summer. $151.3 million to be more exact.
One key difference is that Badlands is rated PG-13 while 28 Years Later was a pretty hard R. Another difference is what these movies cost to make, as Disney spent a sizable $105 million to produce Trachtenberg’s follow-up to Prey and Predator: Killer of Killers. Sony, meanwhile, spent $60 million on Boyle’s long-awaited zombie sequel. It’s all relative.
The film centers on a young Yautja named Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) who is cast out from his clan. He finds himself on a dangerous planet seeking redemption. With the help of a damaged android named Thia (Elle Fanning), they embark on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
