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LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0\u201cWeapons\u201d\u00a0scared its way to the top of the box office in its debut and managed to stay there during its second box office weekend, beating out \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d and newcomer \u201cNobody 2.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/center> Zach Cregger’s horror\u00a0earned $25 million in 3,450 North American theaters, a 43% drop from its first weekend. The highly anticipated film benefitted from strong audience reviews and social media trends to attract large crowds.<\/p>\n \u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d\u00a0which lost the battle for first place to \u201cWeapons\u201d during its double premiere, also maintained its second spot, bringing in $14.5 million domestically. The films’ staying power comes during a slower box office weekend, said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for the data firm Comscore.<\/p>\n Both films also prevailed against\u00a0\u201cNobody 2,\u201d\u00a0the R-rated action sequel. The Bob Odenkirk-led film earned $9.25 million across 3,260 North American theaters in its debut weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cAugust came on strong last year, so it makes comparisons tough,\u201d Dergarabedian said, noting the box office success of movies like\u00a0\u201cDeadpool and Wolverine\u201d\u00a0and the horror sci-fi\u00a0\u201cAlien: Romulus\u201d\u00a0that premiered this time last year.<\/p>\n This summer is unlikely to hit the $4 billion benchmark, but succeeded in provided movie goers a\u00a0dynamic and diverse\u00a0slate of movies, he said.<\/p>\n “I can\u2019t find a genre that\u2019s not represented or a demographic that wouldn\u2019t be attracted to one of these films out there,” Dergarabedian said. \u201cIt\u2019s just that eclectic mix of films with appeal to every demographic.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNobody 2\u201d follows the pandemic success of the first in the series,\u00a0\u201cNobody,” which released in 2021.\u00a0In the sequel, Hutch Mansell,\u00a0the assassin-turned-nice-guy, played by Odenkirk,\u00a0returns to the big screen, this time taking a much-needed family vacation that goes awry. The calm weekend turns anything but as Mansell uncovers a corrupt town.<\/p>\n Jim Orr, president of domestic distributions at Universal Pictures, said he hopes the movie’s reaction scores \u2014 a 89% Audience score and B+ CinemaScore \u2014 point \u201cto a long and successful run at the domestic box office.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps”\u00a0took the fourth spot during its fourth weekend in theaters, bringing in $8.8 million domestically. The film\u00a0stumbled at the box office\u00a0after its\u00a0initially strong $118 million debut.<\/p>\n Another sequel,\u00a0\u201cThe Bad Guys 2,\u201d\u00a0took fifth place with $7.5 million during its third weekend in theaters.<\/p>\n Notably, Dergarabedian said, international movies made a splash in the top 15 this weekend.<\/p>\n \u201cCoolie,\u201d an Indian action thriller, debuted domestically and snatched the tenth spot, followed by \u201cWar 2,\u201d another Indian action movie, at number 11. The domestic re-release of\u00a0\u201cShin Godzilla,”\u00a0a Japanese film that initially premiered in 2016, came in at the 12th spot.<\/p>\n With final domestic figures being released Monday, this list factors in the estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore:<\/p>\n 1. \u201cWeapons,\u201d $25 million.<\/p>\n 2. \u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d $14.5 million.<\/p>\n 3. \u201cNobody 2,\u201d $9.25 million.<\/p>\n 4. \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps,\u201d $8.8 million.<\/p>\n 5. \u201cThe Bad Guys 2,\u201d $7.5 million.<\/p>\n 6. \u201cSuperman,\u201d $5.3 million.<\/p>\n 7. \u201cThe Naked Gun,\u201d $4.8 million.<\/p>\n 8. \u201cJurassic World Rebirth,\u201d $2.9 million.<\/p>\n 9. \u201cF1: The Movie,\u201d $2.6 million.<\/p>\n 10. \u201cCoolie,” $2.4 million.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source spectrumnews1.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LOS ANGELES \u2014\u00a0\u201cWeapons\u201d\u00a0scared its way to the top of the box office in its debut and managed to stay there during its second box office weekend, beating out \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d and newcomer \u201cNobody 2.\u201d What You Need To Know Zach Cregger’s horror\u00a0earned $25 million in 3,450 North American theaters, a 43% drop from its first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1965731,"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":[25172],"tags":[22793,22694,22800,22811,22804,269828,22691,21741,22080,21737],"class_list":["post-1965730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-all-markets-rank-everywhere","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-for-your-consideration","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-c-block-national","tag-california","tag-entertainment","tag-hawaii","tag-top-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Weapons-maintains-top-spot-at-the-box-office.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965730","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=1965730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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