UPDATE: 2025-06-25 08:08 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN

Weapons Holds Strong With Solid Week 2 Drop

This article was originally written Saturday AM and has been updated Sunday AM with up-to-date box office projections (in bold), a full chart, and further analysis.

Weaponshas taken No. 1 at the domestic box office for the second weekend in a row. The Zach Cregger horror movie debuted on August 8, taking No. 1 over fellow new releaseFreakier Fridaywith a 3-day haul of $43.5 million. By the end of its first full week in theaters, it had surpassed the $100 million milestone worldwide.

Bob Odenkirk staring blankly ahead in Nobody 2

Weaponshad a great deal of competition during its sophomore weekendwith the arrival of four major new releases. These include theBob Odenkirk action sequelNobody 2, Spike Lee’s Kurosawa remakeHighest 2 Lowest(his first time working with longtime collaborator Denzel Washington since 2006’sInside Man), the horror remakeWitchboard, and the Sydney Sweeney crime thrillerAmericana.

PerVariety, as of Sunday morning,Weaponsis projected to earn a 3-day sophomore weekend gross of$25 million,easily taking No. 1 over the competition. This sees it dropping just43%from its opening weekend.

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While this is a significantly steeper drop than the year’s earlier original horror hit,Sinners(which only dropped 4.8% in its sophomore frame), it is stilla remarkable result considering the fact that the horror genre is typically frontloaded, with harsh week 2 drops of 50% or more.

Meanwhile, projections show thatNobody 2will take the lead among the weekend’s new releases. However, it is only expected to debut at No. 3 with$9.2 million, landing behindFreakier Friday, which is holding fast at No. 2 with$14.5 million, a 50% drop.

Nobody 2is alsothe only new release to debut in the Top 5. See the domestic chart for the weekend below:

1

$26 million

$89 million (weekend 2)

2

$14.5 million

$54.6 million (weekend 2)

3

$9.2 million

$9.2 million (weekend 1)

4

$8.8 million

$247 million (weekend 4)

5

$6.9 million

$56 million (weekend 3)

That No. 3 debut forNobody 2may have left the top of the chart untouched, butthe previous weekend’s No. 3 and No. 4 titles have slipped down one spot each, withThe Fantastic Four: First Stepsfalling 44% andThe Bad Guys 2dropping 35%.

Additionally, only one title from the previous weekend has fallen from the chart. That would beThe Naked Gun, whichslipped from No. 5 straight to No. 7with $4.8 million at a 42% drop that saw it falling pastSuperman, which maintained its position at No. 6 with $5.2 million at a 34% drop.

None of the other English-language new releases debuted in the Top 10, though the new Tamil-language action movieCooliedebuted at No. 10 with an estimated $2.45 million.

Meanwhile,Americanahas had a devastating $500,000 debut that sees itpremiering at No. 16 with one of the worst opening weekends of all timefor a wide release playing in more than 1,000 theaters.

What This Means For Weapons

By hitting No. 1 for the second weekend in a row,2025’sWeaponshas risen into even more rarefied air.Its opening weekend had already made it the third No. 1 horror debut of the yearso far, after Ryan Coogler’s smash hitSinnersand the successful supernatural sequelFinal Destination Bloodlines.

However, it has now become justthe second horror movie of 2025 to top the chart for two weekends in a row, afterSinners. It remains to be seen ifWeaponscan maintain its position at the top of the chart for longer, breakingSinners' 2025 record, but there is a distinct possibility that it could.

During its third weekend in theaters,Weaponswill be squaring off against quite a few new releases, including the dark relationship comedySplitsville, the Riz Ahmed thrillerRelay, the English dub of theChinese animated hitNe Zha II, Ethan Coen’sHoney Don’t!, and the Sophie Turner vehicleTrust.

None of these movies are expected to make particularly huge splashesat the domestic box office over the weekend of August 22, soWeaponscould potentially triumph with three consecutive weekends on top of the chart, if it maintains a similar audience hold as it has during its sophomore frame.

Our Take On The Weekend Box Office

While this weekend presents a huge win forWeapons, the fact thatNobody 2couldn’t climb higher is probablya bad sign for the remainder of August. The entire month is dominated by weekends peppered with small to mid-level releases, andNobody 2, being the second installment of an established action franchise, was the most promising title of them all.

It now seems unlikely that there will be another debut above $10 million until the debut of theupcomingThe Conjuring: Last Rites, which arrives on the first weekend of September. While the horror sequel could joinWeaponsto continue the genre’s dominance over the charts at the end of summer, the marketplace will likely be deathly quiet until then.