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ButterBeansPredator: Badlands NewsFinal numbers are in: Predator: Badlands made $184.2 million against a $105 million budget!

@Chris Hear what you’re saying keeping it positive. With it being a crossover, power of Disney marketing, and PG13 rating we should have seen Alien/Predator fans bringing their family’s in crowds giving away money. The older gen should have brought their fams younger gen to get them hooked early. It’s really interesting seeing the lack of turnout. The audience should have been there. The studio was trying hard to get that audience and it should have snagged a decent crowd. Might be easy or obvious to assume that people are not looking for this crossover. Maybe they should have kept it pure Predator with no Alien universe and no PG13 crutch. Instead of mashing elements from a separate IP they should have focused on creating something entirely unique to the Predator universe. Should have been the route. Who knows maybe Alien: Earth dug Badlands a whole as well. Online chatter isn’t so great for Earth. That said I’m sure it will function better as a streamer. 

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Dark NebulaAlien Movies ForumSilliness IX

Let's go

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Rck SewallGuest EditorialsHow AI Helps Coaches Correct Footballers' Kicks and Passes

How can AI give advice on what a given player is doing right or wrong when AI doesn,t how to  teach the basic power kick correctly.  The vast majority of so-called  expert coaches dont. Where and from whom does AI get its advise?

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ChrisAlien Games ForumAlien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition - Part I Review (spoiler-free)

Really thorough review Neomorph! That's some quality content! I have yet to find time to give this one a try as well, but this review sold me on it too. Great review!

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Neomorph Alien Games ForumAlien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition - Part I Review (spoiler-free)

Glad to hear it! I'm certain you'll enjoy it, remember to use headphones for maximum immersion 😉

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Xeno121Alien Games ForumAlien: Rogue Incursion Evolved Edition - Part I Review (spoiler-free)

What a great review! You convinced me to give this game a try 🙂

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ChrisPredator: Badlands NewsFinal numbers are in: Predator: Badlands made $184.2 million against a $105 million budget!

Predator has never had as much star power and box office appeal as the Alien franchise, it's always been even more niche so I'm not surprised by the numbers comparison to Alien: Romulus at all. However, as a PREDATOR movie, it did do surprisingly well. Following an abysmal box office month right before its release, it fared well and given its competition shortly thereafter, it held its ground respectably. As a Predator movie, Badlands was a win. As a financial investment, it wasn't a goldmine.

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Davix88Godzilla x Kong: Supernova NewsCONFIRMED: SpaceGodzilla will be in Godzilla x Kong: Supernova (2027)!

Yes. I knew when they called it supernova it was going to be SpaceGodzilla. So excited for this to come out. 

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Davix88Alien: Romulus 2 NewsJames Cameron: You couldn't pay me to go back to the Alien franchise – it's too fan driven.

Don’t care much for his comment. But to be honest, aliens is one of my least favorite from the franchise. 

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Davix88Predator: Badlands NewsPredator: Badlands Blu-Ray release date is February 17th, 2026!

The cover arts are amazing. Excited to get my 4k steel book edition. Also any news on Killer of Killers physical release?

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LisaThe X-Files NewsThe X-Files reboot is officially in the works – David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson might be involved!

I will be extremely happy to see David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in the new XFiles.  CAN'T WAIT! 

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DanScified EditorialsThe Whole Stargate Franchise, Ordered Chronologically

During season 1 of universe they also had a series of web shorts.

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SvanyaAlien: Romulus 2 NewsJames Cameron: You couldn't pay me to go back to the Alien franchise – it's too fan driven.

That's such a fun podcast, been watching for awhile on Michael Biehn's YouTube. Glad it's getting more popular.

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GUESt!Predator: Badlands NewsFinal numbers are in: Predator: Badlands made $184.2 million against a $105 million budget!

@hiveMUTHUR dude… exactly! been saying this exact thing for a long time… marketing hype around Badlands trying so hard to say it’s some major franchise success when it isn’t even a standalone Predator universe film. whether you like it or not it’s still a flop. thems just the facts.

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HiveMUTHURPredator: Badlands NewsFinal numbers are in: Predator: Badlands made $184.2 million against a $105 million budget!

Predator: Badlands is being shoe-horned into the conversation as some kind of hit, but the numbers tell a very different story. The film had a huge reported production budget of about $105 million and opened with a respectable franchise-record ~$40 million domestically and ~$80 million worldwide in its first weekend thanks to that broad PG-13 rating and the Alien crossover hype — yet as it ends it’s theatrical run it only grossed around ~$184 million worldwide total against that $105 million cost, which doesn’t come close to the ~2.5× multiple studios usually need to actually turn a profit in theaters after marketing costs and exhibitor splits are factored in

Now contrast that with what Alien: Romulus made for an estimated ~$80 million budget and pulling in over ~$350 million globally, proving that audiences will show up in massive numbers stand alone Alien film.  So while Romulus, with its tighter budget and R-rated edge, leveraged quality and lore into serious box office muscle, Badlands leaned hard into crossover bait and PG-13 outreach and still couldn’t even sniff comparable returns. It’s a joke to call Badlands a success. Alien: Romulus ran circles around it with a smaller budget, bigger haul, and proof that even a Predator/Alien Universe mash-up couldn’t save this flick from underperforming.

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ChrisPredator: Badlands NewsOfficial Predator: Badlands Bone Bison concept art gives closer look at the Genna creature!

Will we be getting any concept art of the Vultures?

I'm sure we will! Artists usually release their work gradually. I'm keeping an eye out for it!

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Ken DukePredator: Badlands NewsDane Hallett shares wild alternative designs for the WWII Predator from Killer of Killers!

I think one of  people connection to predator is imagining if you had a big brother or companion of his statue ..so The next movie should explore this connection to draw to people's enthusiasm of this movie  creature but taking on his own battles will make a decent movie.

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MaseAlien: Covenant Forumwhat are those tubes on the xenomorphs back even for anyway?

IIRC they are waste depository. Can be for fecal waste and or resin. Their saliva naturally cures into resin as well. But as for the dorsal tubes, they are comparative to how we both urinate and and fornicate with the same tool ourselves.

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RandyGodzilla x Kong: Supernova NewsFake Supernova SpaceGodzilla toy leak is making the rounds.

I wish Playmates will making SpaceGodzilla Figure in GODZILLA X KONG SUPERNOVA

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BoaziniPredator ForumOriginal Predator movie as an Anime

Even though I am not an Anime guy I would watch that.

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BoaziniPredator ForumTrue 1987 predator fans

Predator 2 was nothing like the first one.

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ninXeno426Alien: Romulus 2 NewsJames Cameron: You couldn't pay me to go back to the Alien franchise – it's too fan driven.

It seems he back tracked his opinion on Romulus. Leading up to the movie last year it was said he loved it. In the podcast here I guess he says he liked parts of it. James is weird with Alien anyway. He puts AVP in third. Famously hates Alien 3 which i get at least. Was critical of Prometheus and Covenant. Prometheus I believe he said it's not what he would have done. Covenant he disliked the dark ending. I think this is all on Romulus being fan service heavy which does kinda call back Aliens more than any other movie. Definitely on point there. Honestly Alien doesn't need Jim. It just needs someone who will take risks and successfully pull them off.

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ChrisAlien: Romulus 2 NewsJames Cameron: You couldn't pay me to go back to the Alien franchise – it's too fan driven.

I think Ridley took creative risks with Prometheus but due to the fan backlash it forced studio heads to course correct back to familiar territory. Every entry since has been more of a nod to Cameron’s film over Ridley's and perhaps that's what he means by too fan driven. Cause, the irony now being, a lot of us are sick of the recycled Aliens tropes and are begging for some creative groundbreaking like what Scott originally set out to do with his prequels. The Alien franchise is in a questionable spot right now, but maybe I'm biased.

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