It’s looking like a HUGE Thanksgiving week-weekend at the box office, thanks to the fact that not one but THREE blockbusters targeting three different audiences are now in theaters.

Funny how that works. You don’t have to run away from a potential blockbuster, saving your potential blockbuster that would reach a family audience, or adults into epics. You run it out there, get as many screens as you can, and clean up anyway.

“Bragging rights” may — MAY — go to “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” — which Deadline.com is projecting to pull in north of $43 million *$29 million, Fri-Sun) over the Wed-Sunday holiday, its second weekend of release. No, the movie isn’t all that, the replacement stars are more adequate than serious upgrades and the story being told — the How Donald Sutherland Turned Evil saga — isn’t particularly interesting, not as its written and acted-out here. But that YA audience is all in for the violence aimed at the Future YAs of America.

Disney’s “Wish” is the latest sign that their story department and development process for animated projects is misfiring, that the House of Animated Mouse has lost its way. This should have run away with the weekend and just isn’t good enough to generate that sort of buzz.

But parents, desperate for something ANYthing that isn’t “Paw Patrol” or “Trolls” tripe, are showing up. It’s heading over $38 and may blow up bigger, depending on how Saturday and Sunday play out, $20 million over the Fri-Sun. stretch, per Deadline.. I’m guessing this leapfrogs the “Games” by Sunday. But we’ll see.

Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is sucking audience away fans of LONG epics based on history from “Flowers of the Killer Moon.” Scott’s film, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the petulant, callous egomaniac (Brits like Scott still have a bone to pick with Boney-parte), may clear $33 ($19 million, Fri-Sun) by Sunday night. Deadline says $29 is the low end of expectations.

It’s two and a half hours long, and if you liked it, you’ll want to sign up for Apple TV+ because Scott promises a 4 hour (Editing schmediting) cut there.

If you figured Phoenix is miscast in the part, you figured right.

“Trolls Band Together” is adding $18-19 million this 5-day weekend.

Eli Roth’s “Thanksgiving” is cruising towards $10 million. It’ll be safely in the black by Dec. 1.

Amazon/MGM’s class warfare creeper “Saltburn” is bombing. They didn’t preview that in much of the country, so cry me a river over their lousy $3 million five day take. I may try to get to that, or maybe I’ll just watch it fade away in week or two, because if the studio doesn’t care, why should anybody else?

“The Marvels” is still in the top ten, and “Five Nights at Freddy’s” is ending its theatrical run.

As always, I’ll be updating these figures as the weekend progresses.