Predator: Badlands had a successful hunt at the weekend box office with the biggest opening in the Predator franchise.
Predator: Badlands opened to $40 million, surpassing the $38.2 million that Alien vs. Predator opened to in 2004. That’s unadjusted for inflation, but Badlands still had a fantastic opening, especially coming out of one of the worst months for the box office in history. Worldwide, Badlands made $79.2 million. The movie received an A- CinemaScore, which bodes well for word of mouth (and it’s the best CinemaScore for the franchise). However, it may face stiff competition from The Running Man this coming weekend, which seems to be targeting the same audience.
Regretting You stayed in second place, only dropping 15% from last weekend and making another $6.6 million. It’s now at $38.1 million domestically and $70.5 million worldwide. While it won’t be anywhere close to It Ends With Us, it seems to have solid legs and was probably a counter-programming option against Predator.
Black Phone 2 dropped to third place, although it only declined another 38% from last weekend, when it may have received a slight boost from Halloween. It now has $70 million in domestic sales and $120.2 million worldwide. It’s started to fall behind the original The Black Phone on a week-to-week basis by about $2 million.
Sarah’s Oil and Nuremberg rounded out the top 5. Both were new releases, with Sarah’s Oil opening to $4.2 million and Nuremberg opening to $3.8 million.
Further down the list, Die My Darling opened to $2.6 million in 1,983 theaters. That’s more than either of director Lynne Ramsay’s movies made during their entire domestic theatrical runs, and also the biggest release of her career in terms of theater count. That opening is slightly behind the opening weekend of The Substance, also distributed by MUBI. The movie received a D+ CinemaScore, indicating that audiences did not get what they expected. Christy opened outside the top 10 in eleventh place with just $1.3 million in 2,011 theaters. That is the 12th-worst opening of all time for a movie opening in over 2,000 theaters between HitPig and The Empty Man.  Christy got a B+ CinemaScore, which isn’t great, and it’s probably going to have hope for some renewed interest on VOD and streaming soon.
Sentimental Value had the best per-theater average of the weekend, making $50,008 in each of the four theaters it was playing in over the weekend.
