Weapons has crushed the field workplace haul of its predecessor. The film, which is the brand new horror title from Barbarian director Zach Cregger, follows a small city rocked by the mass disappearance of all however one scholar in an elementary faculty class. It stars Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan.
2022’s Barbarian was the primary horror film helmed by Cregger, who had beforehand solely directed comedy tasks akin to The Whitest Children U’Know and Miss March. The film, which starred Invoice Skarsgård, Georgina Campbell,, and Justin Lengthy, was a smash hit, grossing $45.4 million towards its reported manufacturing funds of roughly $4.5 million.
Per Selection, as of Sunday morning, Cregger’s Weapons is projected to hit a cumulative complete of $199 million worldwide by the top of its third weekend, comprising $115.9 million from home theaters and a world haul of $83.1 million. It’s now drawing near turning into simply the sixteenth film of 2025 to cross the $200 million world milestone.
Nevertheless, its present complete already sees it hitting a significant benchmark, as Weapons has now grossed greater than 4 instances the worldwide haul of Barbarian.
What This Means For Weapons
Whereas the brand new Zach Cregger film has considerably outgrossed Barbarian, it has not but turned the identical degree of revenue in comparison with its funds. The reported funds of 2025’s Weapons is $38 million, which is greater than seven instances that of the 2022 film.
Nevertheless, Weapons has sprinted previous its estimated break-even level. As a result of motion pictures usually must earn again two and a half instances their funds in theaters, it was almost definitely already within the black by the point it earned $95 million.
Weapons finally appears unlikely to have the identical return on funding as Barbarian, which might require it to earn $383.4 million. Nevertheless, it’s on a trajectory to doubtlessly outgross Closing Vacation spot Bloodlines ($287.2 million) to develop into the second highest-grossing horror film of 2025, behind Ryan Coogler’s Sinners ($365.9 million).
Our Take On The Weapons Field Workplace
No matter its efficiency in comparison with Barbarian, Zach Cregger’s new film is a triumph of a sophomore horror function. Whereas 2025’s earlier sophomore function within the style (the Philippou Brothers’ Deliver Her Again, their subsequent film after 2023’s Discuss to Me) had a extra lukewarm crucial and business reception than its predecessor, the identical was not true for Zach Cregger.
Along with the brand new film grossing significantly greater than Barbarian, Weapons evaluations had been stronger than its predecessor’s, incomes it Rotten Tomatoes scores of 94% from critics and 86% from audiences, in comparison with Barbarian‘s 92% and 70%. This might spell excellent information for Zach Cregger’s impending third horror function, a reboot of the Resident Evil film franchise.
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Weapons
7/10
- Launch Date
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August 8, 2025
- Runtime
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128 minutes
- Director
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Zach Cregger
- Writers
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Zach Cregger
- Producers
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Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz