Zach Cregger's 'Weapons' Coming to HBO Max This Month

Horror films have had several hits this year. One of the successes of the genre is Weaponsfrom the screenwriter and director Zach Cregger.

The filmmaker behind the 2022 horror smash hit, Barbarianre-associated with New Line Cinema y Warner Bros. for the graduate in our region The time of disappearancewhich, after conquering the box office in theaters around the world, announces its arrival on streaming.

Weapons coming to HBO Max on Friday, October 24in time for Halloween.

The premise of Weapons is the following: one night, at 2:17 a.m., 17 children from the same class in a small town mysteriously disappear. The disappearances are captured by images from the security cameras in their homes. In them, children are seen fleeing in the darkness of the night, running with their arms outstretched in the same rigid formation.

What or who is behind his disappearance?

The blame immediately falls on the Maybrook Elementary School children's teacher, Justine Grady (played by Julia Garner), who desperately seeks the truth. Josh Brolin plays Archer Graff, the father of one of the missing children, who finds it suspicious that only the students in Justine's class have disappeared.

Here we share the complete review we did on Cine3.

Its premiere on August 8, had a box office of $43 million at the domestic box office and surpassed the $100 million barrier in its third weekend in theaters in the United States. It has grossed more than $260 million worldwide.

Es one of the four moviess horror what exceeds $200 million dollars in 2025after The Conjuring: Last Rites ($474.5 mdd), Sinners ($365.9 million dollars), and Final Destination Bloodlines ($285.3 million dollars).

Weapons has been consolidated among the 30 highest-grossing titles of the genre.

On average, a film needs to raise 2.5 times its production budget to break even. With a reported budget of $38 million, the estimated breakeven point of Weapons is around $95 million, that is, it far exceeded the break-even point and reported ne profitsyou have been there for weeks.

The cast includes Alden Ehrenreich (Fair Play, Cocaine Bear), Benedict Wong (3 Body Problem), June Diane Raphael (Abbott Elementary, Long Shot), Amy Madigan (Antlers), Austin Abrams (Euphoria), Cary Christopher (Days of Our Lives) y Justin Long (Barbarian).

Cregger is the screenwriter and director. He also produces the feature film with Roy Lee from Vertigo, producer of Barbarianand JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo's Miri Yoon also produces.

Cregger's next project is a reboot of Resident Evil for the big screen.

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