Disney”Predator: BadlandsUK and Irish box office receipts totaled £2.3 million ($3.1 million), according to Comscore.
The high-octane franchise easily beat out Sony.Choral“, which debuted at No. 2 with earnings of $1.2 million.I'm sorry about youcame in third place with $1.04 million, bringing its total to $6.9 million.
“Universal”Bugonia“” came in fourth with $723,160 for a total of $2.7 million. Mooby's “Die My Love” grossed $521,574, debuting in fifth place. Disney's “Springsteen: Deliver Me Out of Nowhere” came in sixth with $437,199, raising its total to $4.7 million.
Universal's Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie came in seventh place, earning $406,590 for a total of $7.4 million. Studiocanal's “I Swear” came in at eighth place with $359,605 and currently sits at $7.3 million.
Paramount's “PAW Patrol Christmas” opened ninth with $329,216, and Sony's “Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze's Arc” rounded out the top ten with $248,872 for a total of $3.3 million.
Among the upcoming releases, Paramount's Edgar Wright's The Running Man is a major opening, opening in more than 300 locations. Trafalgar Releasing is followed by J-Hope Tour 'Hope on the Stage' The Movie, BTS's latest concert film to be released worldwide, and Black Bear's folk horror film Keeper.
CinemaLive offers “John Cleese Packs It Up,” an adaptation of the comedy legend's stage show, and Lionsgate opens “Now You See Me: Now You Don't,” the latest in a series of illusionistic stunts. Sony is releasing Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution, which is expected to continue anime's box office success, while Studiocanal is fending off courtroom drama Nuremberg starring Russell Crowe and Rami Malek.
Other titles include Radiance's re-release of 1980's Night of the Magician and Munro's Hong Kong drama Valley of the Shadow of Death. Event screenings range from 4K restorations of The Wild Geese and City on Fire to the concert film Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos. Netflix adds “Lefty Girl” and “Jay Kelly,” boosting streaming numbers.
Yash Raj Films' De De Pyaar De 2 and True Brit Entertainment's Christmas Karma will also open this week. Other titles include Schendel Films' Tony Foster: Picture on the Edge, Dogwoof's Predators, Curzon's Alpha and Olympic Films' Park Avenue. The week's program ends with the film “100 Meters” from Anime Ltd, which will be released in limited release on Sunday.
