Weapons has landed on an essential field workplace chart. The brand new horror film from Barbarian director Zach Cregger follows a small city rocked by mysterious disappearances and boasts a star-studded ensemble solid that features Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Amy Madigan, and Benedict Wong.
Weapons debuted at No. 1 on the home field workplace on the weekend of August 8, additionally claiming No. 1 over its sophomore weekend. Whereas it was poised to take No. 1 for a 3rd consecutive weekend, Netflix’s sing-along presentation of their smash hit KPop Demon Hunters knocked it to No. 2. However, the horror film has continued to excel.
Per The Numbers, Weapons has reached a cumulative home field workplace whole of $122.2 million by the top of its third weekend in theaters. That is sufficient to land it on the chart of the High 20 highest-grossing horror films of all time on the home field workplace, at No. 20.
To perform this feat, it surpassed the $117.4 million home gross of the Conjuring spinoff The Nun, which has occupied a spot within the High 20 because it debuted in 2018.
What This Means For Weapons
It stays to be seen how excessive 2025’s Weapons can climb up the all-time home chart for horror films by the point it ends its theatrical run. Nevertheless, Deadline experiences that projections for the film’s fourth weekend present it incomes at the very least a further $11 million on the home field workplace by Labor Day.
That whole alone could be sufficient for Weapons to climb a further three spots up the chart, surpassing the home totals of Nope ($123.3 million), The Ring ($129.1 million), and The Silence of the Lambs ($130.7 million) to hit No. 17.
Weapons is at present on monitor to outgross Ultimate Vacation spot Bloodlines ($138.1 million), which is No. 14. If it does so by roughly $2 million, it may outgross The Blair Witch Challenge ($140.5 million) to surge to No. 11. Nevertheless, it might not be capable of make the High 10, which might require it to outgross 2018’s Halloween ($159.4 million).
Our Take On The Weapons Field Workplace
This whole, which is being propelled by phrase of mouth and glowing Weapons evaluations which have seen the film earn a Licensed Recent 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, isn’t fairly sufficient for the film to have a equally excessive place on the all-time world chart for horror films. It’s at present solely No. 33 worldwide.
Nevertheless, this home accomplishment remains to be main for Weapons. Along with touchdown on a historic chart after simply three weeks, it is solely the ninth authentic film within the High 20 after Sinners (No. 2), A Quiet Place (No. 5), Get Out (No. 6), Us (No. 7), The Blair Witch Challenge, Break up (No. 13), The Conjuring (No. 15), and Nope.
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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