In other Friday newbie news that isn’t The Predator, Lionsgate’s buzzy and well-reviewed A Simple Favor earned a decent-enough $5.92 million on Friday. That positions the Anna Kendrick/Blake Lively/Henry Golding thriller for a $16m debut weekend. Aside from the barely-released All I See Is You, Lively’s last three flicks (The Age of Adaline, The Shallows and now A Simple Favor) have opened over/under $15m on over/under $20m budgets. The last two earned 3.2x multipliers which would give Paul Feig's A Simple Favor a solid $51m domestic total. That positions the $30m-budgeted Studio 8 release for a $9.275m debut weekend.

Source: Forbes September 15, 2018 15:11 UTC