At a time when the fall box office has hit the skids, Hollywood turns its weary eyes to a fanged, fleshy-headed alien to hopefully bail it out as 20th Century Studios’ Predator: Badlands is eyeing, on the low end, a $60 million global box office start, $25M+ of that coming from the U.S. and Canada.

The pic reps Disney’s second go-round with sci-fi this fall after Tron: Ares ran off the grid with a $134.3M worldwide box office total to date off a $220M production cost. The difference this time around is that there’s hope for more walk-up business from guys under 25 with Predator: Badlands beyond its core older dude fanbase. Typically, Predator movies are rated R, and the PG-13 rating here allows for an expansion of the audience.

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