{"id":1964573,"date":"2025-08-16T23:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1964573"},"modified":"2025-08-16T23:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:06:27","slug":"weapons-sticking-to-its-guns-as-no-1-at-box-office-for-second-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/weapons-sticking-to-its-guns-as-no-1-at-box-office-for-second-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Weapons&#8217; sticking to its guns as No. 1 at box office for second Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2F109686936.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Its guns are still blazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeapons\u201d\u00a0remained No. 1 at the box office Friday, its second in theaters, taking in $7.4 million, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thenumbers.com\/daily-box-office-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to The Numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The horror-mystery is slated to enjoy a domestic total of up to $90 million through Sunday, which would make it the 14th-highest-earning North American release of the year, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/box-office-weapons-second-weekend-nobody-2-opening-1236490965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as per Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cWeapons\u201d\u00a0remained No. 1 at the box office on Friday, its second in theaters, taking in $7.4 million. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d\u00a0the highly-anticipated sequel to 2003\u2019s\u00a0\u201cFreaky Friday\u201d\u00a0remained in the second spot, with sales of $4.5 million. <\/p>\n<p>Its director, Nisha Ganatra, has already spoken about the possibility of a third film.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cFreakiest Friday\u2026 What would it be? I mean, more swaps, right? Probably a six-way swap,\u201d\u00a0Ganatra <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/freakier-friday-director-teases-third-film-six-way-swap-11791901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Screen Rant<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The action comedy \u201cNobody 2\u201d took third, with a $3.86 million take on Friday, its opener.<\/p>\n<p>A sequel to 2021\u2019s \u201cNobody,\u201d it made more than its predecessor\u2019s $2.5 million opening day \u2014 the original premiered during COVID, however.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d remained at the second spot, taking in $4.5 million. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Walt Disney Co.\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The film, which has Bob Odenkirk reprising his role as a suburban dad who moonlights as an assassin, is expected to take in $9.4 million this weekend, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/box-office-weapons-second-weekend-nobody-2-opening-1236490965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as per Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/aug\/14\/nobody-2-review-bob-odenkirk-action-sequel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian called <\/a>it \u201ca forgettable follow-up riddled with endless gonzo fight sequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Odenkirk, 62, who had a heart attack in 2021 on the set of his hit drama series, \u201cBetter Call Saul,\u201d still did a lot of his own stunts.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cNobody 2\u201d finished third, with a $3.86 million take on Friday. <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI do my own fighting. But they don\u2019t let me fly through the air,\u201d <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/bob-odenkirk-stunts-nobody-2-heart-attack-exclusive-11791283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he told People<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d\u00a0moved down a notch to fourth, earning $2.4 million on its fourth Friday in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>The animated comedy \u201cThe Bad Guys 2\u201d\u00a0landed in fifth, pulling in $1.94 million.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its guns are still blazing. \u201cWeapons\u201d\u00a0remained No. 1 at the box office Friday, its second in theaters, taking in $7.4 million, according to The Numbers. The horror-mystery is slated to enjoy a domestic total of up to $90 million through Sunday, which would make it the 14th-highest-earning North American release of the year, as per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1964574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[310297,34204,21741,326583,22232,21912],"class_list":["post-1964573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-bob-odenkirk","tag-box-office","tag-entertainment","tag-fantastic-four","tag-horror","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Weapons-sticking-to-its-guns-as-No-1-at-box.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1964574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}