In 2022, a big pivot was made with the Predator franchise. Following a pair of box office disappointments in Nimrod Antal's Predators and Shane Black's The Predator, the decision was made for Dan Trachtenberg's Prey to be a streaming release... and it ended up being both a hit with critics and extremely popular. With this success accomplished, a gamble with Trachtenberg's live-action follow-up, as Predator: Badlands was made with the big screen in mind... and now it looks like it's going to be the biggest success in the history of the series.
The box office needed a big splash following the awful ticket sales numbers from the Halloween weekend seven days ago, and that's exactly what it has gotten in the form of the new Predator entry. The sci-fi/action blockbuster arrived as the biggest new release from Hollywood on Friday, and audiences properly responded by easily making it the new number one movie domestically. Check out the full Top 10 below and join me after for analysis.
