Weapons has already outgrossed Barbarian. Weapons is the brand new horror film from director Zach Cregger, whose 2022 outing Barbarian turned a shock hit at a nonetheless pandemic-depressed field workplace by grossing $45.4 million in opposition to its reported funds of simply $4.5 million.
His follow-up within the style is 2025’s Weapons, which stars Julia Garner as an elementary college instructor who’s suspected of being behind the mysterious disappearance of all however considered one of her college students on the identical evening. The film’s ensemble solid additionally consists of Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, and Amy Madigan.
Warner Bros. stories that, as of Sunday morning, Weapons is projected to finish its opening weekend with a worldwide haul of $70 million, comprising $42.5 million on the home field workplace and an extra $27.5 million from greater than 70 worldwide markets.
Not solely does this complete surpass the $45.4 million gross of Barbarian, it exceeds it by a couple of and a half occasions. Weapons has completed this within the span of simply three days, so it ought to climb significantly larger by the tip of its run.
What This Means For Weapons
This field workplace increase shouldn’t be essentially a shock, as Weapons opinions have been much more glowing than Barbarian’s. Despite the fact that the 2022 film nabbed a wonderful, Licensed Recent, rating of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, Weapons is Licensed Recent with 95%, a stellar rating at which it settled after debuting on the evaluation aggregator platform with an ideal 100%.
The theatrical success of the Josh Brolin film additionally appears to have been anticipated by its producers, as a result of its funds is greater than seven occasions that of Barbarian, reportedly popping out to $38 million.
Whereas the precise break-even level of Weapons is unknown, many motion pictures have to gross two and a half occasions their budgets with the intention to flip a revenue, which might place the film’s estimated break-even level as excessive as $95 million. Nevertheless, given its debut, it appears more likely to hit that benchmark by the tip of its sophomore weekend alone.
Our Take On The World Debut Of Weapons
Whereas the 2020s have already seen quite a few enormous unique horror hits (notably Smile, which was the highest-grossing horror film of 2022), Weapons continues a stunning development for the style by changing into the thirtieth highest-grossing film of 2025 after simply three days, in addition to the fourth highest-grossing horror film of the yr to this point.
By debuting this excessive on the worldwide chart, Weapons joins Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (the highest-grossing horror film of 2025 to this point with a $365.9 million haul) as one other towering achievement for unique style storytelling in 2025.
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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
