The latest entry within the Predator franchise, Predator: Badlands, is now the most important film premiere on Hulu previously 4 years.
The newest sci-fi installment made an enormous splash on the field workplace when it grossed $184 million upon its launch in November 2025. The movie debuted at No. 1 and grossed $80 million globally on opening weekend. To this point, Badlands is the highest-grossing installment within the Predator franchise, which has earned over $925 million so far.
Now Predator: Badlands is obtainable to stream on Hulu. With virtually 9 million views worldwide, the epic sci-fi flick debuted as the most important movie on Hulu since Prey rescued the franchise in 2022, in response to Deadline.
It isn’t identified what number of viewers watched Prey after being launched on Hulu, although Dan Trachtenberg’s first Predator movie stays the streaming service’s highest-viewed premiere. All of the standalone Predator motion pictures can be found to stream on Hulu (and Hulu on Disney+), and the franchise has racked up over 300 million viewing hours to this point.
The franchise started in 1987 with the John McTiernan-directed movie Predator, which grossed $98 million and was nominated for Greatest Visible Results on the Academy Awards. Predator 2 adopted three years later, however the franchise lay dormant — not counting the 2 crossovers with Alien — for 20 years when Predators and The Predator had been launched in 2010 and 2018, respectively.
Then Prey was launched in 2022, however the installment bypassed theaters and went straight to Hulu as a technique to enhance streaming subscriptions. The strategic choice paid off because the movie ended up being the highest-viewed film premiere ever for the streaming platform. Opinions had been overwhelmingly optimistic as effectively, with Prey receiving a 94% Rotten Tomatoes rating.
Prey marked Trachtenberg’s first foray into the Predator franchise after McTiernan, Stephen Hopkins, Nimród Antal, and Shane Black helmed the earlier installments. He returned as director of the animated movie Predator: Killer of Killers, which was additionally a Hulu unique and earned rave critiques from critics.
twentieth Century Studios determined to pivot again to a theatrical launch for Predator: Badlands in 2025, which was a financially profitable choice.
The movie, written by Patrick Aison, flips the premise of the franchise by centering a Predator because the protagonist as an alternative of an antagonist, with Dek being pressured to outlive on an unfamiliar planet and teaming up with an android named Thia. The Predator: Badlands forged contains Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Reuben de Jong, Mike Homik, Rohinal Narayan, Cameron Brown, and Alison Wright.
Trachtenberg hopes to dive again into the Predator world with no less than yet one more movie, although twentieth Century Studios hasn’t made any official bulletins but. The director’s dream is to get Arnold Schwarzenegger, who starred within the unique 1987 film, again as Dutch.
Till the studio reveals what the longer term holds for the franchise, viewers can watch the newest installment, Predator: Badlands, on Hulu.
- Launch Date
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November 5, 2025
- Runtime
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107 minutes
- Director
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Dan Trachtenberg
- Writers
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Dan Trachtenberg, Patrick Aison, John Thomas, Jim Thomas
- Producers
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Brent O’Connor, John Davis, Marc Toberoff, Dan Trachtenberg, Ben Rosenblatt
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Elle Fanning
Thia / Tessa
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Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi
Dek / Father