{"id":2143239,"date":"2025-11-08T18:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2143239"},"modified":"2025-11-08T18:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T18:45:16","slug":"badlands-swooped-down-on-its-foes-grabbing-1st-place-on-its-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/badlands-swooped-down-on-its-foes-grabbing-1st-place-on-its-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Badlands&#8217; swooped down on its foes, grabbing 1st place on its opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F11%2F115030645.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It annihilated the competition. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPredator: Badlands\u201d got a hold of audiences this Friday, its opener, and earned the top spot in theaters \u2014 chomping down on $15.6 million in earnings, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenumbers.com\/daily-box-office-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to The Numbers<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sci-fi horror flick, the ninth installment in the\u00a0\u201cPredator\u201d franchise, has \u201cenough familiar situations and high-tech hunting gear to satisfy hardcore fans of the series, but a story that stands alone,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/predator-badlands-elle-fanning-movie-review-2025#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said RogerEbert.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In second was the romantic drama \u201cRegretting You,\u201d which moved up three spots from last week, and took in $2.22 million.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah\u2019s Oil,\u201d a biopic about Sarah Rector, an 11-year-old who finds black gold beneath the property she inherited and becomes one of the first black women millionaires in the country, landed in third, with a $1.7 million take.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cPredator: Badlands\u201d is the ninth installment in the\u00a0\u201cPredator\u201d franchise. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Walt Disney Co.\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Allison Williams and Dave Franco star in the romantic drama \u201cRegretting You.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Paramount\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Naya Desir-Johnson plays Sarah Rector in \u201cSarah\u2019s Oil.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9MGM\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rector is played by Naya Desir-Johnson, who \u201coffers a star-making performance,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/reviews\/sarahs-oil-review-1236572152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Variety<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In fourth place was the supernatural horror film \u201cBlack Phone 2,\u201d with $1.5 million in revenue on its fourth Friday in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNuremberg\u201d took fifth on its opener Friday, with sales of $1.45 million.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the 2013 book\u00a0\u201cThe Nazi and the Psychiatrist\u201d\u00a0by\u00a0Jack El-Hai, the film centers on a psychiatrist, played by\u00a0Rami Malek, who must rule on whether Hermann, one of the most powerful figures in the Nazi party, played by\u00a0Russell Crowe, is fit to stand trial.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 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