{"id":74638,"date":"2025-08-16T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74638\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:13:07","slug":"weapons-wins-second-weekend-nobody-2-opening-in-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/74638\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Weapons’ Wins Second Weekend, ‘Nobody 2’ Opening in Third"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cWeapons<\/a>\u201d is still running around on top of box office charts in its second weekend, as Universal\u2019s action sequel \u201cNobody 2<\/a>\u201d looks to debut in third place.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Bob Odenkirk-led \u201cNobody 2\u201d beat into $3.8 million across Friday and preview screenings from 3,260 locations. That\u2019s a notch above its 2021 predecessor\u2019s $2.5 million opening day, though that film debuted in a pandemic-hobbled domestic landscape as COVID vaccines were only beginning to roll out to the public.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe R-rated \u201cNobody 2\u201d now looks on track for an opening weekend of $9.4 million, falling a touch behind pre-weekend projections for a bow north of $10 million. Even with reviews being about as good as they were for the first \u201cNobody\u201d and audience survey firm CinemaScore polling a positive \u201cB+\u201d grade among ticketbuyers, that good reception isn\u2019t translating to breakout sequel numbers. But at a production cost of $25 million (an uptick from $16 million on the first \u201cNobody\u201d), the film is a modest bet on franchise expansion.<\/p>\n

\n\tWarner Bros. and New Line\u2019s \u201cWeapons\u201d remains in first, adding another $7.4 million on Friday to go down roughly just 40% from its opening day total a week ago (factoring out preview screening grosses). The well-reviewed ensemble horror feature is holding great and has a shot at pushing its domestic total to $90 million through Sunday, running ahead of \u201cSnow White\u201d ($87 million) to rank as the 14th-highest-grossing North American release of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFreakier Friday\u201d will stick in second, adding another $4.5 million on Friday. Disney\u2019s comedy sequel is eyeing a sophomore outing in the mid-teens to push its domestic total north of $54 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney also notched fourth place with \u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps,\u201d which flamed on to another $2.4 million on Friday, down 47% from its daily total a week ago. Now in its fourth weekend, Marvel Studios\u2019 superhero installment looks to push to above $246 million domestic through Sunday. It now ranks 23rd in North American grosses among the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s 37 released features.<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\u2019s \u201cThe Bad Guys 2\u201d rounds out the top five, adding another $1.9 million on Friday and heading to a third-weekend gross of $6.9 million (down just 35% from last week). The DreamWorks Animation sequel should hit a $56 million domestic gross through Sunday, pacing just behind the 2022 original, which earned $57 million through the same amount of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWeapons\u201d is still running around on top of box office charts in its second weekend, as Universal\u2019s action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337,43907,8725],"class_list":{"0":"post-74638","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-movies","12":"tag-nobody-2","13":"tag-weapons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638","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=74638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}