{"id":1966228,"date":"2025-08-18T06:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1966228"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:09:15","slug":"weapons-wins-box-office-battle-again-as-nobody-2-starts-weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/weapons-wins-box-office-battle-again-as-nobody-2-starts-weak\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons Wins Box Office Battle Again as Nobody 2 Starts Weak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With <strong>Weapons<\/strong> and <strong>Nobody 2<\/strong> featuring prominently in the latest box office weekend, their performances and audience response have drawn significant attention. While Weapons held strong in its second week with a limited drop, Nobody 2 marked its debut with a modest start. At the same time, Disney\u2019s Freakier Friday continued to show steady results, securing a solid second-week finish.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Weapons continues to destroy movies at the box office<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weapons retained the top spot at the box office in its second weekend with an estimated $25 million from 3,450 theaters, bringing its domestic total to $89 million after 10 days (via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl3882385409\/?ref_=bo_we_table_1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Box Office Mojo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Box Office Mojo<\/a>). The Warner Bros. horror film dropped 42.5% from its debut but still outperformed new releases. Freakier Friday followed in second place with $14.5 million, while Nobody 2 debuted in third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weapons opened on August 8, 2025, with $43.5 million domestically. It has since reached a worldwide total of $148.7 million, including $59.7 million internationally. The film was reportedly produced for $38 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Its second weekend drop of around 42.5% shows unusually strong legs for a horror release. Disney\u2019s Freakier Friday, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, has earned $54.8 million domestically so far. Its global total after two weekends stands at $86.3 million.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mb-4 text-xl font-bold md:text-2xl\">Nobody 2 starts lower than $10 million<\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nobody 2, starring Bob Odenkirk, opened in third place with $9.25 million across 3,260 theaters in North America. The Universal Pictures release earned $3.87 million on Friday, $3.11 million on Saturday, and $2.27 million on Sunday. The film also added $4.9 million internationally, pushing its worldwide debut to $14.16 million. (via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/release\/rl511016961\/?ref_=bo_we_table_3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Box Office Mojo;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Box Office Mojo<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The action-comedy sequel reportedly cost $25 million to produce and comes four years after the first film, which opened to $6.8 million during the pandemic and finished with $27.5 million domestically. Nobody 2 received a B+ <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemascore.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CinemaScore;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CinemaScore<\/a> from audiences, with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/nobody_2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Rotten Tomatoes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> reporting an 89% audience rating. Universal is expected to leverage premium VOD, a profitable window for its mid-budget action titles, to extend the film\u2019s revenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Weapons led with $25 million, followed by Freakier Friday at $14.5 million. Nobody 2 opened with $9.25 million in third place. The August 15\u201317, 2025 weekend box office showed a competitive but steady late-summer marketplace. It was bolstered by both holdovers and new releases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>Originally reported by Anubhav Chaudhry on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/news\/620623-weapons-nobody-2-box-office-opening-weekend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SuperHeroHype;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">SuperHeroHype<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/movies\/news\/2017036-weapons-nobody-2-box-office-opening-weekend\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Weapons Wins Box Office Battle Again as Nobody 2 Starts Weak;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Weapons Wins Box Office Battle Again as Nobody 2 Starts Weak<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV &amp; Streaming News, and More;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ComingSoon.net &#8211; Movie Trailers, TV &amp; Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/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 www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Weapons and Nobody 2 featuring prominently in the latest box office weekend, their performances and audience response have drawn significant attention. While Weapons held strong in its second week with a limited drop, Nobody 2 marked its debut with a modest start. At the same time, Disney\u2019s Freakier Friday continued to show steady results, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1966229,"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":[34204,342346,28308,23209,306876],"class_list":["post-1966228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-box-office","tag-box-office-mojo","tag-jamie-lee-curtis","tag-lindsay-lohan","tag-warner-bros"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Weapons-Wins-Box-Office-Battle-Again-as-Nobody-2-Starts.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966228","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=1966228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}