Weapons has already outgrossed Barbarian. Weapons is the brand new horror film from director Zach Cregger, whose 2022 outing Barbarian grew to become a shock hit at a nonetheless pandemic-depressed field workplace by grossing $45.4 million in opposition to its reported finances of simply $4.5 million.
His follow-up within the style is 2025’s Weapons, which stars Julia Garner as an elementary college trainer who’s suspected of being behind the mysterious disappearance of all however considered one of her college students on the identical evening. The film’s ensemble forged additionally contains Alden Ehrenreich, Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, and Amy Madigan.
Warner Bros. reviews that, as of Sunday morning, Weapons is projected to finish its opening weekend with a world haul of $70 million, comprising $42.5 million on the home field workplace and a further $27.5 million from greater than 70 worldwide markets.
Not solely does this whole surpass the $45.4 million gross of Barbarian, it exceeds it by multiple and a half instances. Weapons has completed this within the span of simply three days, so it ought to climb significantly larger by the tip of its run.
What This Means For Weapons
This field workplace enhance just isn’t essentially a shock, as Weapons evaluations have been much more glowing than Barbarian‘s. Though the 2022 film nabbed a superb, Licensed Recent, rating of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, Weapons is Licensed Recent with 95%, a stellar rating at which it settled after debuting on the evaluate aggregator platform with an ideal 100%.
The theatrical success of the Josh Brolin film additionally appears to have been anticipated by its producers, as a result of its finances is greater than seven instances that of Barbarian, reportedly popping out to $38 million.
Whereas the precise break-even level of Weapons is unknown, many motion pictures must gross two and a half instances their budgets in an effort to flip a revenue, which may place the film’s estimated break-even level as excessive as $95 million. Nonetheless, given its debut, it appears more likely to hit that benchmark by the tip of its sophomore weekend alone.
Our Take On The World Debut Of Weapons
Whereas the 2020s have already seen a variety of big unique horror hits (significantly Smile, which was the highest-grossing horror film of 2022), Weapons continues a blinding pattern for the style by changing into the thirtieth highest-grossing film of 2025 after simply three days, in addition to the fourth highest-grossing horror film of the 12 months to this point.
By debuting this excessive on the worldwide chart, Weapons joins Ryan Coogler’s Sinners (the highest-grossing horror film of 2025 to this point with a $365.9 million haul) as one other towering achievement for unique style storytelling in 2025.
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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