20th Century Studios’ Dan Trachtenberg directed Predator: Badlands has become the No. 1 film premiere on Hulu since the director’s 2022 movie Prey, debuting to nearly 9M views around the world in its first five days on the service. Last fall, Predator: Badlands opened to a record for the…

Disney has been censured by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for running a digital Predator: Badlands ad featuring a severed body. The Mouse House has been banned from running the ad in its current form after the ASA ruled that it was likely to “cause fear or distress for young…

Paramount Pictures has signed director and producer Dan Trachtenberg to a three-year first-look directing and producing deal with the studio. "As a kid I remember seeing the Paramount logo and dreaming of the epic adventure that would follow…now to have the opportunity to bring new huge and…

Producer John Davis tells all on this week’s Crew Call podcast, going back to his early beginnings of the business, his oil tycoon father Marvin Davis who owned 20th Century Fox from 1981-1984, his days as a Fox production exec of low-budget films, his mentor Frank Capra, and more. What was the…

20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands is now the highest-grossing movie of the 38-year old franchise at $180M, surpassing this weekend the reported global box office of the series’ previous champ, 2004’s Alien vs. Predator ($177.4M). Now, listen up, the reason why we’re declaring this now is…

SUNDAY UPDATE: Universal's Wicked: For Good has swooped in with an estimated $226M global debut, a smidge lower than where we saw it yesterday, but higher than the pre-weekend projection and broomsticks above the first film. In 78 international box office markets, the opening is $76M, 13% ahead…

Refresh for latest…: Lionsgate's third outing with the Four Horsemen conjured a $75.5M global opening this weekend. Of that, $54.2M was in 64 international box office markets.  The magic extended to No. 1s in 40 of those offshore hubs, including a surprisingly solid China start of $21.7M…

SUNDAY AM: There’s plenty of surprise out there for Lionsgate’s No. 1 win with threequel Now You See: Now You Don’t at $21M. Global take is $75.5M, with over $54M from offshore. China is contributing $19.2M. We always told you this movie would make magic abroad…

Paramount’s $110M redo of the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie The Running Man, this time starring Glen Powell, is targeting a No. 1 win at the box office this weekend, with around $20M. But it’s facing the heat carried by the second weekend of 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands, which looks to…

Updated: 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…

SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU after Saturday PM post: Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator: Badlands is now opening to $40M (we spottted $39M last night) — a record domestic debut for the 20th Century Studios’ 38-year-old Predator franchise. This comes after a great hold on Saturday of $14M, a mere -10% dip from…

At a time when the fall box office has hit the skids, Hollywood turns its weary eyes to a fanged, fleshy-headed alien to hopefully bail it out as 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands is eyeing, on the low end, a $60 million global box office start, $25M+ of that coming from the U.S. and…