Liam Neeson’s Comedy Reboot Tops Ridley Scott Epic At Home Field Workplace


The Bare Gun has outgrossed a earlier Liam Neeson film that was helmed by a four-time Oscar nominee. Neeson stars within the comedy reboot as Frank Drebin Jr., the son of the wacky police lieutenant performed by Leslie Nielsen within the parody sequence Police Squad! and the Bare Gun film trilogy.

The Bare Gun launch has not essentially appeared auspicious. It debuted at No. 3 on the weekend of August 1 and has been steadily sinking down the home Prime 10 since then. Nevertheless, it has nonetheless had gradual and regular progress, surpassing the $75 million milestone worldwide and turning into the third highest-grossing live-action comedy of 2025 so far.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, The Bare Gun is projected to shut out its fourth weekend on the home field workplace by hitting a 3-day complete of $3.2 million, bringing its cumulative home complete to $47.8 million.

Along with pushing the film’s home haul additional previous the extent of its reported $42 million funds, this sees the film climbing up the chart of the highest-grossing Liam Neeson films on the home field workplace. It is set to surpass the $47.5 million gross of Ridley Scott’s 2005 epic Kingdom of Heaven, through which Neeson performed Barisan of Ibelin.

In doing so, it should change into the twenty seventh highest-grossing home launch of all time that includes Liam Neeson in any capability (together with his voice-only cameo in Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker).

What This Means For The Bare Gun

It stays to be seen how excessive 2025’s The Bare Gun can climb up Liam Neeson’s all-time home chart. In reality, there’s some doubt whether or not it is going to be capable of land within the Prime 25 by the tip of its run. This may require it to earn an extra $12.4 million with the intention to outgross 2003’s Love Really ($60.2 million).

Nevertheless, if its gradual and regular progress permits it to take action, it may probably push previous much more Liam Neeson films on the chart. The following three titles on the chart – Unknown ($63.7 million), The Nut Job ($64.2 million), and Battleship ($65.2 million) – are bunched comparatively shut collectively, which may make them simpler to go.

Nevertheless, it appears solely unbelievable that The Bare Gun may land any larger than No. 22, as a result of that will imply it had outgrossed Neeson’s present twenty first highest-grossing title, which is the 2010 motion film The A-Workforce ($77.2 million).

Our Take On The Bare Gun Field Workplace Milestone

Liam Neeson holding a hand up and taking pictures at his windshield in The Bare Gun
Paramount Photos /Courtesy Everett Assortment

No matter The Bare Gun‘s placement on the chart, it’s a breath of recent air in Neeson’s filmography. Though a Prime 20 spot is nearly actually not in its future, it’s nonetheless his highest-grossing film of the 2020s to this point, vastly outstripping his earlier No. 1 title, which was his 2021 thriller The Marksman ($15.6 million home).

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The Bare Gun

8/10

Launch Date

August 1, 2025

Runtime

85 minutes

Director

Akiva Schaffer

Writers

Akiva Schaffer, Doug Mand, Dan Gregor, Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker

Producers

Erica Huggins




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