{"id":88786,"date":"2025-08-17T04:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88786\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T04:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T04:44:08","slug":"weapons-sticking-to-its-guns-as-no-1-at-box-office-for-second-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88786\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Weapons&#8217; sticking to its guns as No. 1 at box office for second Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its guns are still blazing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeapons\u201d\u00a0remained No. 1 at the box office Friday, its second in theaters, taking in $7.4 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/thenumbers.com\/daily-box-office-chart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to The Numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The horror-mystery is slated to enjoy a domestic total of up to $90 million through Sunday, which would make it the 14th-highest-earning North American release of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/box-office-weapons-second-weekend-nobody-2-opening-1236490965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">as per Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeapons\u201d\u00a0remained No. 1 at the box office on Friday, its second in theaters, taking in $7.4 million. \u00a9Warner Bros\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d\u00a0the highly-anticipated sequel to 2003\u2019s\u00a0\u201cFreaky Friday\u201d\u00a0remained in the second spot, with sales of $4.5 million. <\/p>\n<p>Its director, Nisha Ganatra, has already spoken about the possibility of a third film.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreakiest Friday\u2026 What would it be? I mean, more swaps, right? Probably a six-way swap,\u201d\u00a0Ganatra <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/freakier-friday-director-teases-third-film-six-way-swap-11791901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">told Screen Rant<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The action comedy \u201cNobody 2\u201d took third, with a $3.86 million take on Friday, its opener.<\/p>\n<p>A sequel to 2021\u2019s \u201cNobody,\u201d it made more than its predecessor\u2019s $2.5 million opening day \u2014 the original premiered during COVID, however.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFreakier Friday,\u201d remained at the second spot, taking in $4.5 million. \u00a9Walt Disney Co.\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>The film, which has Bob Odenkirk reprising his role as a suburban dad who moonlights as an assassin, is expected to take in $9.4 million this weekend, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/box-office-weapons-second-weekend-nobody-2-opening-1236490965\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">as per Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2025\/aug\/14\/nobody-2-review-bob-odenkirk-action-sequel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Guardian called <\/a>it \u201ca forgettable follow-up riddled with endless gonzo fight sequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Odenkirk, 62, who had a heart attack in 2021 on the set of his hit drama series, \u201cBetter Call Saul,\u201d still did a lot of his own stunts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody 2\u201d finished third, with a $3.86 million take on Friday. \u00a9Universal\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do my own fighting. But they don\u2019t let me fly through the air,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/bob-odenkirk-stunts-nobody-2-heart-attack-exclusive-11791283\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he told People<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fantastic Four: First Steps\u201d\u00a0moved down a notch to fourth, earning $2.4 million on its fourth Friday in theaters.<\/p>\n<p>The animated comedy \u201cThe Bad Guys 2\u201d\u00a0landed in fifth, pulling in $1.94 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Its guns are still blazing. \u201cWeapons\u201d\u00a0remained No. 1 at the box office Friday, its second in theaters, taking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[57703,2642,88,18832,6842,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-88786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bob-odenkirk","9":"tag-box-office","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-fantastic-four","12":"tag-horror","13":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}