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Refresh for latest…: Exceeding expectations, 20th Century Studios/Disney’s Predator: Badlands slayed it this weekend with an $80M global opening. Of that, $40M is from the international box office, making for an even split with domestic. The film also pushed The Walt Disney Studios across the $4B worldwide mark for 2025 ($4.07B), the fourth consecutive year the studio has crossed that threshold. The Dan Trachtenberg-directed latest Predator installment hunted down the strongest worldwide debut in the franchise’s nearly 40-year history, at current rates, surpassing 2018’s Predator ($73.5M). Overseas, this is the 2nd biggest opening of the franchise, only behind Predator ($48.9M). When excluding China from that total, Badlands claims the No. 1 offshore start in the series. Overall internationally, where the Trachtenberg, Ben Rosenblatt and John Davis production opened across all markets, the film was either No. 1 or No. 1 non-local everywhere. In the UK, Netherlands, Korea, Taiwan, India, Brazil and several smaller markets it had the best launch ever for a Predator title. And in China, Predator: Badlands is the first studio movie to open at No. 1 since Jurassic World Rebirth way back in July. This is the first theatrical Predator film released since Disney’s acquisition of Fox, and its performance is great news for the industry at large given the recent funk and challenging global landscape, and jumpstarts the rolling business that’s expected throughout the rest of the year. The Top 5 Predator: Badlands markets at launch are: China ($7.4M), UK ($3.2M), Mexico ($2.3M), France ($1.8M) and Japan ($1.7M). In Imax, the Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi/Elle Fanning-starrer delivered a $10.8M global debut. MORE…
