{"id":87151,"date":"2025-08-23T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87151\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T09:53:10","slug":"zach-creggers-weapons-crosses-100-million-at-the-domestic-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/87151\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Cregger\u2019s \u2018Weapons\u2019 Crosses $100 Million at the Domestic Box Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may not have happened at 2:17 a.m., but \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26581740\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weapons<\/a>\u201d has reached a major box office milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Director and writer <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1199107\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p>It took two weeks for \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt26581740\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weapons<\/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<p>It\u2019s been a great year for original horror and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros.<\/a> specifically. The studio had another R-rated major hit earlier this year with <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3363032\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Coogler<\/a>\u2019s vampire horror movie \u201c<a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193180\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sinners<\/a>.\u201d Coogler\u2019s movie stands at $365 million worldwide, including $278 million domestically; it opened to $48 million domestically,&#8230;<\/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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28267,28268,6491,24823,96,11943,123,2839,50,1588,3133,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-87151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-entertainment","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}