Box Office Round-Up ~ 8/11/25

Much like Sinners at the start of the summer, another original horror movie from Warner Bros. won the weekend as summer draws to a close. Weapons, the latest from writer/director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), opened with an excellent $43.5 million. If it has legs even close to Sinners, it could see $200 million domestic before its theatrical run is over.

Fellow new release Freakier Friday (the long-awaited reunion of Freaky Friday’s Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis) also had a solid debut, taking second place with $28.5 million. Both new releases came at the expense, it seems, of The Fantastic Four: First Steps, which saw a steep drop to third place with $15.7 million. It’s now grossed $230 million domestically after three weekends, and it’s looking like Superman will be the higher-grossing superhero of the summer. (Another win for Warner Bros.)

The Bad Guys 2 and The Naked Gun rounded out the top five with $10.5 million and $8.3 million in their mutual sophomore weekend, passing $40 million and $30 million overall respectively. This upcoming weekend sees an eclectic array of new releases, including Highest 2 Lowest, the latest collaboration between Spike Lee and Denzel Washington, and Nobody 2, the follow-up to Bob Odenkirk’s surprise action hit.

1. Weapons ($43.5 MM)
Director: Zach Cregger (CAA)
Writers: Zach Cregger (CAA)
Cast: Julia Garner (UTA)
Josh Brolin (CAA)
Alden Ehrenreich (CAA)

2. Freakier Friday ($28.5 MM)
Director: Nisha Ganatra (CAA)
Writers: Jordan Weiss (UTA), Elyse Hollander (UTA)
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis (CAA)
Lindsay Lohan (IAG)
Julia Butters (UTA)

3. The Fantastic Four: First Steps ($15.7 MM)
Director: Matt Shakman (CAA)
Writers: Josh Friedman (CAA), Jeff Kaplan (CAA)
Cast: Pedro Pascal (CAA)
Vanessa Kirby (CAA)
Joseph Quinn (CAA)

4. The Bad Guys 2 ($10.5 MM)
Director: Pierre Perifel (UTA), JP Sans
Writers: Yoni Brenner (Verve), Etan Cohen (CAA)
Cast: Sam Rockwell (Gersh)
Zazie Beetz (WME)
Marc Maron (IAG)

5. The Naked Gun ($8.3 MM)
Director: Akiva Schaffer (CAA)
Writers: Dan Gregor (UTA), Doug Mand (UTA), Akiva Schaffer (CAA)
Cast: Liam Neeson (CAA)
Pamela Anderson (CAA)
Paul Walter Hauser (WME)

Source: Box Office Mojo, The Numbers