We hope that there is not the same level as hand twisting and asterisks threw around Zach CreggerS “Arms“As there was for Ryan Cooglers”Sinner“Because a fantastic No. 1 opening for” weapons “now gives Warner Bros. two original horror movies that each opened No. 1 on Cash office 2025.
“Weapons” introduced $ 71.8 million globally, including $ 43.5 million in domestic, according to Monday’s final total, which easily landed the top place before “Freakier Friday” and holding like “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.” Warner Bros. (“Weapons” is a new line title) has now had seven films this year that has opened No. 1, including “Mickey 17”, “A Minecraft film”, “Final Destinations: Bloodlines”, “Superman” and “F1: the movie” (which WB released with Apple). New Line also released January “Companion”, another original horror film Also produced by Cregger, and that film earned $ 36.7 million worldwide.
While Franchise’s horror films have had its moment this year as well, including “28 years later”, “Final destination” and “I know what you did last summer”, other dips have back in the IP well struggled, including “M3gan 2.0”, “to Dawn” and “Wolf Man.” Blumhouse’s Slate for the rest of 2025 also contains several sequels to previous hits.
The success of “weapons” is more ammunition for anyone who beats the drum that Hollywood must take more risks. And “weapons”, but not at the budget level for “sinners”, had their own risks. It’s not just a cryptic, genre -bending original with a not so winding message about grief and trauma in the aftermath of school shooting, Cregger’s film has a $ 38 million production budget, a number that New Line reportedly won a bid war across Jordan Peeles Monkepaw -Banner.
It is an aggressive number for an emerging filmmaker. His previous film was the sleeping hit “Barbarian”, which ended gross $ 40.8 million domestic and $ 45.3 million in total. “Weapons” has already truncated it, and the better competence can be “sinner”, which made a similar $ 48 million during his opening weekend.
“Sinners” had one impressive, hard to take care Over the weekends, and it is possible that “weapons” have the characteristics to potentially do the same. The reviews are equally strong“Weapons” got an A-Cinemascore to an A for “sinners” and “weapons” (such as “sinners”) also did particularly well in IMAX, which took in $ 8.1 million globally from IMAX screens compared to $ 11.1 million global for “sinners.” IMAX is already planning to hold over “weapons” on virtually all its domestic screens for another weekend.
For his next movie, Cregger will dab with IP in its hold of Video Spelfranchise “Resident Evil,” Another property that required an aggressive bid war to win Cregger’s services. But the success of “weapons” suggests that studios will set up to give him an empty check for which original idea he hatches the next.
