{"id":88983,"date":"2025-08-23T02:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88983\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T02:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T02:45:08","slug":"zach-creggers-weapons-crosses-100-million-at-the-domestic-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/88983\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger\u2019s \u2018Weapons\u2019 Crosses $100 Million at the Domestic Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may not have happened at 2:17 a.m., but \u201cWeapons<\/a>\u201d has reached a major box office milestone.<\/p>\n

Director and writer Zach Cregger<\/a>\u2019s horror hit, about 17 school children from the same class who mysteriously all go missing in the middle of the night, has crossed $100 million at the domestic box office. That\u2019s a great achievement for a low-budget horror movie, which has also been No. 1 at the box office for the past two weeks.<\/p>\n

It took two weeks for \u201cWeapons<\/a>\u201d to reach $100.3 million domestically, a fantastic milestone considering it only cost $38 million to produce. Internationally, the movie has made $72.3 million, putting its worldwide total at $172.6 million.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a great year for original horror and Warner Bros.<\/a> specifically. The studio had another R-rated major hit earlier this year with Ryan Coogler<\/a>\u2019s vampire horror movie \u201cSinners<\/a>.\u201d Coogler\u2019s movie stands at $365 million worldwide, including $278 million domestically; it opened to $48 million domestically,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may not have happened at 2:17 a.m., but \u201cWeapons\u201d has reached a major box office milestone. Director…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1975,1976,64,63,447,1977,134,1972,1973,344,44,1974,434,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-88983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-actresses","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-directors","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-films","16":"tag-hollywood","17":"tag-movies","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-stars","20":"tag-television","21":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}