The field workplace battle between Freakier Friday and Weapons has kicked off with one taking a decisive lead on Thursday night time. The previous is a comedy legacy sequel that reunites unique stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, whereas the latter is an unique horror film that’s director Zach Cregger’s follow-up to his shock 2022 hit Barbarian.

Each motion pictures are projected to topple the Marvel superhero film The Incredible 4: First Steps from its perch atop the home field workplace chart. Nonetheless, they’re presently in a neck-and-neck race for No. 1. Critically, Weapons has pulled forward with a Licensed Contemporary 96% Rotten Tomatoes rating.

Freakier Friday evaluations have been stable too, simply much less so. Its Rotten Tomatoes rating presently stands at a Licensed Contemporary 73%.

Per Deadline, Weapons earned $5.7 million on the home field workplace throughout Thursday previews, whereas Freakier Friday earned $3.1 million. Weapons has taken the lead despite taking part in in significantly fewer theaters. The Disney comedy is taking part in on 3,975 screens, whereas the horror film solely performed in 3,000 on Thursday night time, with the quantity rising to three,200 on Friday.

What This Means For Weapons

It’s outstanding that Zach Cregger’s Weapons was capable of earn practically double the preview haul of Freakier Friday, contemplating the truth that it’s an R-rated film, whereas the comedy sequel is rated PG. Due to the age restrictions of the R ranking, R motion pictures usually have extra restricted audiences than PG ones.

That is mirrored by the truth that solely two of the highest-grossing R-rated motion pictures in historical past, Deadpool & Wolverine and Joker, have grossed greater than $1 billion, whereas 19 PG-rated motion pictures have carried out so, together with Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2025’s Lilo & Sew, and Inside Out 2.

Moreover, in a yr that has already been variety to the style, Weapons’ preview totals are increased than these of the 2 highest-grossing horror motion pictures of the yr, Ryan Coogler’s Sinners ($4.7 million) and the supernatural franchise sequel Closing Vacation spot Bloodlines ($5.5 million).

Our Take On The Week’s Field Workplace Previews

Whereas Weapons has taken a decisive lead, the Freakier Friday launch just isn’t out of the sport simply but. Household motion pictures are likely to have extra slow-and-steady development whereas horror titles are often frontloaded, with massive Friday hauls adopted by dips on Saturday and Sunday.

This might definitely be the case for Weapons, particularly as a result of Barbarian’s twists and turns might have taught viewers members to see Cregger motion pictures as quickly as doable as a way to keep away from being spoiled. Due to this fact, though Freakier Friday fell behind on Thursday, it nonetheless has time to catch up.

Signal Up

Freakier Friday

8/10

Launch Date

August 7, 2025

Director

Nisha Ganatra

Writers

Mary Rodgers, Jordan Weiss

Prequel(s)

Freaky Friday

Weapons

7/10

Launch Date

August 8, 2025

Runtime

128 minutes

Director

Zach Cregger

Writers

Zach Cregger

Producers

Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz