{"id":70061,"date":"2025-08-14T22:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70061\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T22:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:11:07","slug":"weapons-to-top-another-weekend-nobody-2-aims-to-best-first-films-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/70061\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons to top another weekend; Nobody 2 aims to best first film&#8217;s opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joblo.com\/weekend-box-office-weapons-slaughters-freakier-friday-fantastic-four-plunges-another-60\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">winning the box office battle<\/a> against\u00a0Freakier Friday\u00a0last weekend,\u00a0Weapons\u00a0is poised to dominate again\u2014possibly for the rest of the summer, with little major competition ahead. Normally, horror films drop 60% or more in their second weekend, but word of mouth on\u00a0Weapons\u00a0has been phenomenal, and midweek business has been strong. As a result, the film should easily top $25 million in its sophomore frame\u2014potentially more.<\/p>\n<p>The real battle this weekend looks to be for second place, with both\u00a0Freakier Friday\u00a0and\u00a0Nobody 2\u00a0vying for position. Family audiences should keep Disney\u2019s sequel in second with around $14 million, while\u00a0Nobody 2\u00a0is likely to open in third with $10\u201312 million, which is right in line with Universal\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n<p>While that opening might seem modest, it\u2019s worth remembering that the first\u00a0Nobody\u00a0debuted to just $6.8 million in 2021 during the pandemic. It ultimately grossed $27 million domestically, but it was overseas and\u2014especially\u2014on home media where the film truly found its audience, becoming a strong enough catalog title for Universal to greenlight a sequel. With a budget of only $25 million,\u00a0Nobody 2\u00a0doesn\u2019t need blockbuster numbers to succeed. A $10 million-plus opening would be solid, and if foreign box office and home media sales hold, we could see a third film (fingers crossed \u2013 check out our interviews with the cast <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/aYSfaAVRV9U\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0The Fantastic Four: First Steps\u00a0should land in fourth place with about $8 million, continuing its steep drop since opening. Rounding out the top five,\u00a0The Bad Guys 2\u00a0is on track for around $6 million.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend\u2019s predictions:<\/p>\n<p>Weapons\u00a0\u2013 $25 million<\/p>\n<p>Freakier Friday\u00a0\u2013 $14 million<\/p>\n<p>Nobody 2\u00a0\u2013 $10 million<\/p>\n<p>The Fantastic Four: First Steps\u00a0\u2013 $8 million<\/p>\n<p>The Bad Guys 2\u00a0\u2013 $6 million<\/p>\n<p>What will you be watching this weekend? Let us know in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After winning the box office battle against\u00a0Freakier Friday\u00a0last weekend,\u00a0Weapons\u00a0is poised to dominate again\u2014possibly for the rest of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,43907,8725],"class_list":{"0":"post-70061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-nobody-2","12":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70061","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=70061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}