In a surprise move
Weapons directed by Zach Cregger and starring Josh Brolin makes its debut at the top of the North American box office.
The movie takes a very good $42 Million on its debut after good reviews and audience scores.
After a couple of weeks at the top The Fantastic Four: First Steps drops to the number 3 spot and has a total gross of nearly $230.5 Million, the movie is not being the bog hit that Disney/Marvel were hoping for!
Coming in at number 2 this weekend is the 'strange it got a cinema release' Freakier Friday which enter the box office at 2 with just shy of $30 Million.
US Box Office QuickView
- Number 1 - Weapons (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Weapons (@1)
- Longest run - How to Train Your Dragon (9 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Superman ($331,243,139)
- Best Percentage change week on week - I Know What You Did Last Summer (-19%)
- Total US top 15 this weekend - $131,218,912
- Also new this weekend
- North Star
- It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley
- Check out the full US box office.
US weekend box office top 5 breakdown 8th - 10th August 2025
Weapons~2026
Highest New Movie This Weekend
- The movie is the Highest Debut on this weekends US box office chart.
- It has spent 1 weeks at the top of the US box office.
- It grosses $42,500,000 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $42,500,000 after 1 weekends of release
Freakier Friday
- The movie is a new entry at Number 2 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $29,000,000 over the weekend, a % drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $29,000,000 after 1 weekends of release
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 3 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $15,500,000 over the weekend, a 60% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $230,412,709 after 3 weekends of release
- The movie is the 7th top grossing film so far in 2025
The Bad Guys 2
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 4 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $10,400,000 over the weekend, a 53% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $43,409,480 after 2 weekends of release
The Naked Gun~2025
- The movie goes down the chart to Number 5 on this weekends US box office
- It grosses $8,375,000 over the weekend, a 50% drop from last weekend
- It has a total gross of $33,009,738 after 2 weekends of release
This weeks top 10 US Box Office films
- Weapons - $43,501,217
- Freakier Friday - $28,583,167
- The Fantastic Four: First Steps - $15,784,767
- The Bad Guys 2 - $10,594,675
- The Naked Gun - $8,303,288
- Superman - $7,951,513
- Sketch - $4,929,742
- Jurassic World: Rebirth - $4,844,755
- F1 - $2,915,426
- Together - $2,535,365
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Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
