‘Avatar: Fire And Ash’ No. 1 With $24M, ‘Housemaid’ Bullies ‘Primate’ & ‘Greenland 2’ – Friday PM Box Office Update

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• Related Stories Reviews ‘Primate’ Review: Killer Chimp Horror Tale Is Jaws-Breakingly Familiar Teen Chomping Movie News ‘Greenland 2: Migration’ Review: Gerard Butler Fights For Survival Again In Sequel With A Strong Message For Earth RELATED: The Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office Watch on Deadline Second for the frame is currently going to Lionsgate’s The Housemaid, holding strong with a $3.4M fourth Friday and a fourth weekend of $12M at 3,123 screens, down 21%, getting the Sydney Sweeney-Amanda Seyfried movie to $94.6M.
• For Sweeney, as a leading actress, the pic is already her highest grossing at the domestic box office besting Anyone But You‘s $88.3M stateside take.
• Paramount/18Hz’s monkey-gone-mad movie Primate with an equal 76% score among critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, is seeing $4.4M today and $10.5M for the weekend at 2,964 sites.
• And there are those looking to knock the chimp out such as Lionsgate’s Greenland 2: Migration, with $3.8M today and $10M for the weekend; however, they sport not great critic and audience scores at 54% and 64%, respectively.
• Gerard Butler’s Den of Thieves: Pantera was in slightly better shape a year ago with RT critic and audience ratings of 62% and 79%, respectively.