On today's episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, Variety's Rebecca Rubin breaks down the weekend box office and the surprising strength of “Predator: Badlands.” And Jordan Moreau details his profile of “The Running Man” writer-director Edgar Wright.

Badlands" at the box office, but quite the opposite for "Christy," the new inspirational boxing film starring one of social media's most hotly discussed actors, Sydney Sweeney.

Badlands is creeping toward the second best Friday start ever for the franchise at $14M which will get the Dan Trachtenberg directed movie to the second best opening ever for a Predator movie at $33M.

Predator: Badlands has kicked off its run at the North American box office, and it's shaping up to be a solid weekend. Filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg has also revealed a scrapped early idea for the