Thursday Night Previews: Predator Begins its Hunt with $2.5 million

September 14, 2018

The Predator

The Predator started its box office run with $2.5 million during its Thursday previews. We can’t use any of the other films in the franchise as comparisons, because they opened way too long ago. We could use The Nun, which opened with $5.4 million last week and went on to earn nearly 10 times that during its opening weekend. This film should have slightly better legs, as it has slightly better reviews and action films tend to having slightly longer legs than horror films do. That said, our prediction of $28 million seems like a safe bet at this point.

A Simple Favor only managed $900,000 during previews, which is lower than I was hoping for. It does have excellent reviews, so that should help its legs, but $15 million is more likely than the $18 million I predicted. Better reviews and a more mature target audience should help its stay in theaters.

White Boy Rick was not too far behind with $575,000. Its reviews actually entered the overall positive territory temporarily, but that’s not enough for what feels like busted Oscar bait. At the moment, I’m happy with our $8 million prediction.

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