'Predator: Badlands' swooped down on its foes, grabbing 1st place on its opener

It annihilated the competition.

“Predator: Badlands” got a hold of audiences this Friday, its opener, and earned the top spot in theaters — chomping down on $15.6 million in earnings, according to The Numbers .

The sci-fi horror flick, the ninth installment in the “Predator” franchise, has “enough familiar situations and high-tech hunting gear to satisfy hardcore fans of the series, but a story that stands alone,” said RogerEbert.com .

In second was the romantic drama “Regretting You,” which moved up three spots from last week, and took in $2.22 million.

“Sarah’s Oil,” 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.

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