'Predator: Badlands' breaks record as the best world premiere of the 'Predator' saga

Last weekend it hit theaters around the world, Predator: Badlandsa new installment of the saga Predator de 20th Century Studios.

This film is possible after the success of Prey (2022) and the recent animated anthology installment Predator: Killer of Killers (2025)with the return of the filmmaker of both, Then Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) as screenwriter and director.

The plot of the title in our region Predator: Wilderness, It is set on a remote planet in the future, “the most dangerous planet in the universe”and will continue the alliance between the android and the Predatoron a dangerous journey in search of his ultimate adversary.

Well, the box office results are having the last word, and that is that the launch of Predator: Badlands is breaking records for the saga and is shaping up to be a huge hit for Disney and 20th Century Studios.

The premiere of Badlands surpassed expert projections, racking up $40 million at the domestic (United States) box office and another $40 million at the international box office, to an $80 million global premiere, breaking the record as the best global premiere of the saga Predator.

This figure surpasses the previous record holder in the saga, Alien vs. Predatorwhich launched with $38.2 million dollars in the domestic box office. If we adjust for inflation, the crossover is still number one, grossing $80 million in the US.

Predator: Badlands It is having a great reception from critics (A- in CinemaScore) and the audience, so we do not rule out that it exceeds that figure during its run in theaters.

This coming weekend, Badlands will face the premieres of three high-profile films: the reboot The Running Man by Edgar Wright, the sequel Now You See Me: Now You Don’t by Ruben Fleischer, and the horror project Keeper de Osgood Perkins.

In Badlands, Elle Fanning He plays double roles, as two synthetics from the Weyland-Yutani corporation. One of them, Thia, will make an alliance with a young Predator, the Yautja warrior Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan. The Predator this time is the protagonist, not the antagonist.

SYNOPSIS:

Predator: Wild Lands is set on a remote alien planet where a young predatoroutcast from his clan, find an unexpected ally a Thia (Fanning) y He embarks on a dangerous journey in search of his ultimate adversary.

This It is not a direct sequel to Preybut a new story set in the future.

Trachtenberg wrote the script for Badlands next to Patrick Aison (Prey).

The Motion Picture Association (MPA), the organization in charge of granting age ratings to all film projects from major Hollywood studios, god a Badlands Rating PG-13 by:

“Sequences of strong science fiction violence.”

This makes it the first Predator solo film with a PG-13 rating. The rest of the Predator installments have been Rated R, with the exception of Alien vs. Predator.

The film is produced by Trachtenberg, John Davis, Marc Toberoff, Ben Rosenblatt, and Brent O'Connor.