The week-old release “Kung Fu Panda 4” is falling off faster than the blockbuster of the year “Dune Part 2,” and that’s going to make this weekend’s box office race hard to handicap until Saturday’s receipts are counted.

Deadline.com is putting both films in that $30 million range– big numbers anyway you cut it — as of early Saturday AM. Those are slightly higher than pre-weekend projections from others predicted.

Right now, it looks like the Panda will win another weekend, tracking towards a $31.5 million weekend based on Friday numbers.

As I’ve said many times, Deadline especially has a habit of underestimating Saturday takes on kids’ cartoons. So don’t bet against the bear, as that number should drift upwards.

“Dune Part 2” is the biggest hit of 2024 thus far, and is racing past the $200 million mark in North America and should be in the $205-210 range by midnight Sunday. It will have cleared $29.1 million by Midnight Sunday.

Mark Wahlberg’s effort to reclaim his box office value by taking second billing to a dog hasn’t exactly worked out. “Arthur the King” is an Americanized spin on a true story that happened to a Swedish Adventure Racer (I had no idea they existed either), and is crowd pleasing in just enough sentimental ways to play. But it won’t hit the $10 million mark — weak for a PG-13 dog movie (profanity, puppy peril) on Saturday — $7.5 million is projected for that one, enough to open in third place.

The dud horror movie “Imaginary” will clear $4 million and probably finish its run in two weeks short of $30 million.

The Italian-born “first American saint” bio pic “Cabrini” opened so-so last weekend, and is falling off steeper than any “sleeper hit” should — over 60% — and will fall short of $3 million this weekend.

The terrific and seriously edgy “Love Lies Bleeding” opens wider this weekend but won’t do much better than $2.75 million from Kristen Stewart, female bodybuilder and queer cinema fans.

If “Bob Marley: One Love” is going to hit that $100 million mark before exiting cinemas, it has basically one week to do it. It will add another $2 million and change by Sunday midnight, putting it over $93 with only a narrow chance to getting that last $6 or $7 million by next weekend.

I was going to trek over to catch “The American Society of Magical Negroes” this weekend, as its studio, “the witness protection program of film distribution,” didn’t bother to preview it. But it’s bombing so badly I’d better hurry — $1.25 million in fairly wide release.

“One Life,”  hero of the Holocaust story from the UK, manages $1.7 million.