Sci-fi epic ‘The Space Between Us’ earned $170K in previews ahead of Super Bowl weekend.

Paramount’s horror sequel Rings kicked off Super Bowl weekend with $800,000 in previews while space romance The Space Between Us earned $170,000 Thursday night.

Rings, the third film in the horror series, is tracking to earn between $10 million and $12 million. That should put it in a race for the No. 1 spot at the box office with holdover Split, the horror film from M. Night Shayamalan.

The series began in 2002 with The Ring, directed by Gore Verbinski, and was a remake of the 1998 Japanese horror film Ring (which was based on a book by Koji Suzuki centering on a reporter who investigates a cursed videotape that kills its viewers after one week). The Ring, earned $249.3 million at the global box office in 2002, followed by The Ring Two with $162 million in 2005.

The new film, helmed by F. Javier Gutierrez, stars Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Vincent D’Onofrio, Aimee Teegarden and Bonnie Morgan. It is also opening in 36 international markets this weekend.

STX’s The Space Between Us is tracking to debut in the $8 million-$10 million range. Starring Asa Butterfield, Britt Robertson and Gary Oldman, follows a boy who lives on a different planet for his whole life but builds a friendship online with a first on Earth. When he’s 16 he has the chance to go to Earth but soon discovers he can’t survive on the planet.