Overview
- The film opens November 7 exclusively in theaters across IMAX, Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, 4DX, ScreenX and other premium formats.
- Early reception is broadly positive, with Rotten Tomatoes sitting around 89% from the first wave of reviews and Metacritic at 69.
- Industry trackers cite estimates of roughly $60 million globally for opening weekend, including $25M+ expected from U.S./Canada.
- Producer Ben Rosenblatt says Dan Trachtenberg and Arnold Schwarzenegger have met multiple times, with any potential Dutch return to be discussed after release.
- Badlands features a Yautja outcast teaming with a Weyland‑Yutani synthetic, linking to Alien lore without Xenomorphs, and arrives as the franchise’s first PG‑13 entry.
- Trachtenberg says Badlands and the animated Killer of Killers were developed in parallel and teases a third, undisclosed Predator idea in the works.