Weapons has taken No. 1 on the home field workplace for the second weekend in a row. The Zach Cregger horror film debuted on August 8, taking No. 1 over fellow new launch Freakier Friday with a 3-day haul of $43.5 million. By the top of its first full week in theaters, it had surpassed the $100 million milestone worldwide.
Weapons had a substantial amount of competitors throughout its sophomore weekend with the arrival of 4 main new releases. These embrace the Bob Odenkirk motion sequel No person 2, Spike Lee’s Kurosawa remake Highest 2 Lowest (his first time working with longtime collaborator Denzel Washington since 2006’s Inside Man), the horror remake Witchboard, and the Sydney Sweeney crime thriller Americana.
Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Weapons is projected to earn a 3-day sophomore weekend gross of $25 million, simply taking No. 1 over the competitors. This sees it dropping simply 43% from its opening weekend.
Whereas it is a considerably steeper drop than the yr’s earlier authentic horror hit, Sinners (which solely dropped 4.8% in its sophomore body), it’s nonetheless a outstanding consequence contemplating the truth that the horror style is usually frontloaded, with harsh week 2 drops of fifty% or extra.
In the meantime, projections present that No person 2 will take the lead among the many weekend’s new releases. Nonetheless, it is just anticipated to debut at No. 3 with $9.4 million, touchdown behind Freakier Friday, which is holding quick at No. 2 with $14.6 million, a 49% drop.
What This Means For Weapons
By hitting No. 1 for the second weekend in a row, 2025’s Weapons has risen into much more rarefied air. Its opening weekend had already made it the third No. 1 horror debut of the yr to this point, after Ryan Coogler’s smash hit Sinners and the profitable supernatural sequel Remaining Vacation spot Bloodlines.
Nonetheless, it has now turn into simply the second horror film of 2025 to high the chart for 2 weekends in a row, after Sinners. It stays to be seen if Weapons can preserve its place on the high of the chart for longer, breaking Sinners’ 2025 document, however there’s a distinct chance that it might.
Throughout its third weekend in theaters, Weapons can be squaring off towards fairly just a few new releases, together with the darkish relationship comedy Splitsville, the Riz Ahmed thriller Relay, the English dub of the Chinese language animated hit Ne Zha II, Ethan Coen’s Honey Do not!, and the Sophie Turner automobile Belief.
None of those motion pictures are anticipated to make significantly big splashes on the home field workplace over the weekend of August 22, so Weapons might doubtlessly triumph with three consecutive weekends on high of the chart, if it maintains an analogous viewers maintain because it has throughout its sophomore body.
Our Take On The Weekend Field Workplace
Bob Odenkirk staring blankly forward in No person 2
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Whereas this weekend presents an enormous win for Weapons, the truth that No person 2 could not climb increased might be a nasty signal for the rest of August. Your complete month is dominated by weekends peppered with small to mid-level releases, and No person 2, being the second installment of a longtime motion franchise, was probably the most promising title of all of them.
It now appears unlikely that there can be one other debut above $10 million till the debut of the upcoming The Conjuring: Final Rites, which arrives on the primary weekend of September. Whereas the horror sequel might be a part of Weapons to proceed the style’s dominance over the charts on the finish of summer season, {the marketplace} will probably be deathly quiet till then.
Signal Up
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
