Weapons passes an vital international field workplace milestone inside three weeks of its launch. The Zach Cregger-directed film arrived in theaters on August 8, that includes a star-studded forged of Julia Garner, Amy Madigan, Josh Brolin, and lots of others. After a $43 million debut, ticket gross sales within the following week solely declined 43% compared to a drastic fall the style is thought for.
On August 17, the film grossed $89 million domestically and $148 million in complete.
Now, Weapons has crossed the $155 million field workplace milestone throughout its second week in theaters. On Monday, the film generated $2.7 million from the worldwide markets alone, bringing the worldwide field workplace complete to $63.7 million. Including to its $91.3 million home earnings, Cregger’s horror thriller has solely seen a 33% fall from final week.
What This Means For Weapons’ Field Workplace
Films within the horror style usually see a drop of 60% or extra after a profitable opening weekend. Danny Boyle’s sci-fi horror, 28 Years Later, opened to $60 million globally. Nonetheless, the film noticed a 68% drop within the second week. Equally, Last Vacation spot Bloodlines had an enormous opening weekend on the field workplace, having generated $104 million worldwide. Its sophomore week then noticed a 62.5% drop.
One current exception from the second-week curse within the style is Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. The supernatural horror had a outstanding 6% drop. In comparison with different commercially profitable motion pictures within the style, Weapons proves to have a robust maintain. Its continued success on the field workplace may additionally counsel a connection between unique motion pictures and extra constant performances.
Sinners Coogler’s Sinners may be very well-received amongst critics and followers. The film has a important approval fee of 97% and an viewers approval fee of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Cregger’s thriller horror that follows the disappearance of 17 youngsters on the identical night time noticed an analogous achievement, with a 94% important approval fee and an 86% viewers approval fee on Rotten Tomatoes.
Our Take On Weapons’ Field Workplace
Sinners broke a number of field workplace data again when it was launched. Not solely did it turn out to be the highest-grossing unique horror movie domestically, it additionally grew to become the highest-grossing live-action unique movie on the home field workplace in a decade. The supernatural horror film had a barely higher opening weekend than Weapons and made $284.2 million throughout its fourth week in theaters.
Weapons crossed the $155 million worldwide mark in just one week and a half. At this fee, the film has a strong likelihood of beating Ryan Coogler’s supernatural horror on the field workplace. This, after all, will doubtless rely on the film’s maintain within the coming weeks.
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