Weapons has landed on an essential field workplace chart. The brand new horror film from Barbarian director Zach Cregger follows a small city rocked by mysterious disappearances and boasts a star-studded ensemble solid that features Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Amy Madigan, and Benedict Wong.
Weapons debuted at No. 1 on the home field workplace on the weekend of August 8, additionally claiming No. 1 over its sophomore weekend. Whereas it was poised to take No. 1 for a 3rd consecutive weekend, Netflix’s sing-along presentation of their smash hit KPop Demon Hunters knocked it to No. 2. Nonetheless, the horror film has continued to excel.
Per The Numbers, Weapons has reached a cumulative home field workplace complete of $122.2 million by the top of its third weekend in theaters. This is sufficient to land it on the chart of the Prime 20 highest-grossing horror motion pictures of all time on the home field workplace, at No. 20.
To perform this feat, it surpassed the $117.4 million home gross of the Conjuring spinoff The Nun, which has occupied a spot within the Prime 20 because it debuted in 2018.
What This Means For Weapons
It stays to be seen how excessive 2025’s Weapons can climb up the all-time home chart for horror motion pictures by the point it ends its theatrical run. Nonetheless, Deadline stories that projections for the film’s fourth weekend present it incomes a minimum of an extra $11 million on the home field workplace by Labor Day.
That complete alone could be sufficient for Weapons to climb an extra three spots up the chart, surpassing the home totals of Nope ($123.3 million), The Ring ($129.1 million), and The Silence of the Lambs ($130.7 million) to hit No. 17.
Weapons is presently on observe to outgross Last Vacation spot Bloodlines ($138.1 million), which is No. 14. If it does so by roughly $2 million, it may outgross The Blair Witch Challenge ($140.5 million) to surge to No. 11. Nonetheless, it might not be capable of make the Prime 10, which might require it to outgross 2018’s Halloween ($159.4 million).
Our Take On The Weapons Field Workplace
Alden Ehrenreich driving his cop automobile in Weapons
This complete, which is being propelled by phrase of mouth and glowing Weapons opinions which have seen the film earn a Licensed Recent 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, shouldn’t be fairly sufficient for the film to have a equally excessive place on the all-time world chart for horror motion pictures. It’s presently solely No. 33 worldwide.
Nonetheless, this home accomplishment continues to be main for Weapons. Along with touchdown on a historic chart after simply three weeks, it is solely the ninth unique film within the Prime 20 after Sinners (No. 2), A Quiet Place (No. 5), Get Out (No. 6), Us (No. 7), The Blair Witch Challenge, Break up (No. 13), The Conjuring (No. 15), and Nope.
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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
