{"id":54897,"date":"2025-08-08T16:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54897\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T16:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:26:11","slug":"weapons-has-5-7-million-in-previews-freakier-friday-at-3m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/54897\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons Has $5.7 Million in Previews, Freakier Friday at 3M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe box office is getting a lot freakier this Friday, with two new movies hitting theaters and battling for the No. 1 spot: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/freakier-friday\/\" id=\"auto-tag_freakier-friday\" data-tag=\"freakier-friday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freakier Friday<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/weapons\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weapons\" data-tag=\"weapons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weapons<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Disney body-swap comedy has made $3.1 million in Thursday previews at the box office, while Warner Bros.\u2019 horror thriller has $5.7 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis 22 years after the original movie, is on track to make $27 million to $30 million this weekend, while director Zach Cregger\u2019s \u201cWeapons,\u201d the follow-up to his 2022 hit horror \u201cBarbarian,\u201d is expected to be neck-and-neck with $25 million to $30 million. Both of them will take on Marvel\u2019s \u201cFantastic Four: First Steps,\u201d which is aiming to make $18 million to $20 million in its third weekend of release. After debuting to a strong $117.6 million two weeks ago, \u201cFantastic Four\u201d plummeted 66% in its sophomore weekend. Dropping 50% in its third weekend would put it among Marvel\u2019s \u201cCaptain America: Brave New World\u201d and \u201cThor: Love and Thunder,\u201d which both had the same decline. \u201cFantastic Four\u201d is on track to outpace the \u201cCaptain America\u201d fourquel, which made $415 million globally, but it won\u2019t be the box office savior that Marvel needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe body swaps in \u201cFreakier Friday\u201d are doubled this time around, with young stars Julia Butters and Sophia Hammons joining Lohan and Curtis. Anna Coleman (Lohan) has a daughter, Harper (Butters), and soon-to-be stepdaughter, Lily (Hammons), who all swap bodies with matriarch Tess (Curtis). Returning cast members also include Chad Michael Murray and Mark Harmon, and newcomers are Manny Jacinto, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Vanessa Bayer and more. The sequel has a tidy $42 million production budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe R-rated \u201cWeapons\u201d is freaky in its own right; it follows a group of 17 schoolchildren who disappear in the middle of the night for seemingly no reason. Josh Brolin, Julia Garner and Alden Ehrenreich star as various members of the community who are affected by the tragedy and try to uncover the mystery. Benedict Wong, Austin Abrams, Amy Madigan and more star in the horror, which only cost $38 million to produce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The box office is getting a lot freakier this Friday, with two new movies hitting theaters and battling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,10105,337,8725],"class_list":{"0":"post-54897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-freakier-friday","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}