New Line Cinema’s original horror movie, Weapons, will finally stream on HBO Max on Oct. 24, and air on HBO linear on Oct. 25, 8PM ET.
By the way, that’s a 77-day theatrical window to HBO Max.
The $38M Zack Cregger-directed horror movie, which received a rare A- for the genre, was moved from its previous MLK 2026 release date into the early August schedule, opening to $43.5M, and finaling at $151.4M, $266M-plus worldwide off a thrifty $38M production cost.
In the movie, when all but one child from the same schoolroom mysteriously vanish on the same night at 2:17 a.m., a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, with Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan, star.
Cregger wrote the screenplay in his garage next to a noisy refrigerator. Pic was produced by Roy Lee, Miri Yoon, J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules, with Michelle Morrissey and Josh Brolin executive producing.
Weapons hit digital via Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Fandango at Home on Sept. 9, repping a 32-theatrical window, and the movie dropped on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on Oct. 14, repping a 67-day theatrical window.
Up next for Cregger’s is Sony’s reboot of Resident Evil with Austin Abrams, Paul Walter Hauser, Kali Reis, Zach Cherry and Johnno Wilson, scheduled for Sept. 18, 2026.
In the wake of Weapons’ success, the pic’s producers Raphael Margules and J.D. Lifshitz, the principals of BoulderLight Pictures (Weapons), headed to Paramount to launch a new genre label.