{"id":1976532,"date":"2025-08-23T20:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1976532"},"modified":"2025-08-23T20:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:05:10","slug":"weapons-still-no-1-at-box-office-for-third-friday-since-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/weapons-still-no-1-at-box-office-for-third-friday-since-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Weapons&#8217; still No. 1 at box office for third Friday since opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F08%2F109973118.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s still firing. <\/p>\n<p>For the third Friday in a row since its opening, \u2018Weapons\u201d is still No. 1 at the box office \u2014 raking in $4.67 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 film is slated to enjoy a 15 million-dollar three-day weekend, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/box-office-kpop-demon-hunters-weapons-1236495263\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the horror-mystery \u2014 which cost $38 million to produce \u2014 became the second original R-rated film of 2025 to earn $100 million domestically, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/weapons-box-office-milestone-100-million-1236351102\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Remaining in second place was \u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d with earnings of $2.8 million. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>In \u201cWeapons,\u201d Julia Garner plays a teacher whose students disappear.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>The long-awaited sequel to 2003\u2019s\u00a0\u201cFreaky Friday,\u201d with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan reprising their mother-daughter roles, is expected to enjoy three-day weekend earnings of $9 million.<\/p>\n<p>Moving up a notch to third this Friday was \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps,\u201d with $1.6 million in sales. <\/p>\n<p>In fourth was \u201cHoney Don\u2019t!\u201d the comedy-mystery directed by Ethan Coen, which took in $1.44 million. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis star as a mother-daughter duo in \u201cFreakier Friday.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Walt Disney Co.\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Vanessa Kirby plays Sue Storm in \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Walt Disney Co.\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/21\/movies\/honey-dont-review.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times called<\/a> the film, which debuted on Friday and stars Margaret Qualley,\u00a0Aubrey Plaza,\u00a0Chris Evans and\u00a0Charlie Day, \u201cwry, weird and sometimes cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Bad Guys 2\u201d remained in fifth, with a $1.28 million-dollar take on its fourth Friday in theaters.<\/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>It\u2019s still firing. For the third Friday in a row since its opening, \u2018Weapons\u201d is still No. 1 at the box office \u2014 raking in $4.67 million, according to The Numbers. The film is slated to enjoy a 15 million-dollar three-day weekend, according to Deadline. On Thursday, the horror-mystery \u2014 which cost $38 million to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1976533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[51066,34204,352533,35378,21741,310829,326583,22232,28308,23209,345004,21912],"class_list":["post-1976532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-aubrey-plaza","tag-box-office","tag-charlie-day","tag-chris-evans","tag-entertainment","tag-ethan-coen","tag-fantastic-four","tag-horror","tag-jamie-lee-curtis","tag-lindsay-lohan","tag-margaret-qualley","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Weapons-still-No-1-at-box-office-for-third-Friday.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976532","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=1976532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}