I didn’t bother catching the formerly straight to streaming “Paw Patrol” sequel when it previewed last weekend.  But here it is, dominating Friday and looking like a BO winner, heading to a $22 million+ opening weekend, per deadline.com.

Not great by animated A picture standards, but found money for Paramount.

I probably won’t bother reviewing it, no matter how much the kindergarteners at Rotten Tomatoes rave it up, the dears.

I am on my way to a Sat. screening of “Saw X,” just to ensure Lionsgate and the screenwriters did right by Tobin Bell. It’s on track to come close to $19 million on its opening weekend.

And 20th Century Studios’ “The Creator” is making decent money, maybe $14 by midnight Sunday. Not bad for derivative, shiny and manipulative sc fi. Not nearly enough to justify the budget, but there you go, hiring John David Washington to cut talent costs. That almost never works out.

“The Nun 2” and “Haunting in Venice” are hanging around, $5 and $4 million respectively.

Sony expanded “Dumb Money” into a wide national release, and the fact that it will be lucky to clear $1 million proves they had no idea how to sell it.

No early box office numbers for “The Blind,” which I may get to today as well. It’s selling well in the rural South, as I discovered when I watched “Creator” in a nearly empty house as the camo clad “Duck Dynasty” crowd packed the theater for that one.

I’ll update this post as more boxoffice data rolls in.