Zach Cregger 'Weapons' exceeds the $100 mdd in global box office

On August 7, he premiered in Cinemas Weaponsone of the most anticipated horror projects of the year, by the screenwriter and director Zach Creggerthe filmmaker behind the great terror success of 2022, Barbarianand studies New Line Cinema y Warner Bros.

Y Weaponsentitled in our market as The time of disappearancecontinue with incredible results in the box office.

After his First full week in cinemas, Weapons ha reached a world milestone accumulating a total at the world box office of $ 100.6 millionof which, $ 59.9 million correspond to the national box office, and $ 40.7 million to the international market, according to information from The Numbers.

This means that Weapons It has become the twenty -fifth 2025 film to exceed the 100 million dollars barrier worldwide.

And it's not all.

It is the Fourth horror movie to exceed $ 100 million in 2025after 28 Years Later ($ 150.4 million), Final Destination Bloodlines ($ 285.3 million) and Sinners ($ 365.9 million).

100 million in a week: it exceeded the performance of SINNERS

Weapons exceeded $ 100 million in a weekbecoming a notable achievement and consolidating 2025 as A stellar year for horror movies.

It has even overcome the performance of the acclaimed Sinners of Ryan Cooglerone of the greatest horror hits of the year, which raised A global box office $ 93 million dollars in its first week of exhibition on the big screen ($ 77.5 million pesos at the national box office, and $ 15.5 million in the international). By the way, its total world box office is $ 365.7 MDD, placing it as one of the most profitable horror films in recent years.

Both Weaponshow SinnersThey are irrefutable proof that horror cinema always has quality proposals for all tastes, from original projects such as the two films mentioned, to unexpected returns of genre franchises such as two other premieres of the year, 28 Years Latery Final Destination: Bloodlineswho also enjoyed good reception by critics and audience.

It is projected that Weapons Repeat the number one consecutively in its second weekend in the national market, with an estimated collection of $ 25 million in three days.

At the moment, Weapons Duplicate the total world box office of Barbarian de Creggerwhich had a global accumulation of $ 45.3 million against a budget of $ 4.5 million.

On average, a film needs to raise its production budget 2.5 times to reach a equilibrium point. With an informed budget of $ 38 million, the estimated equilibrium point of Weapons Round the $ 95 MDD, that is, already is reporting net profits.

The premise of Weapons is the following: One night, At 2:17 am, 17 children of the same kind of a small city, mysteriously disappear. The disappearances are captured by images of the security cameras of their homes. In them, children are seen fleeing into the dark of the night, running with their arms extended in the same rigid formation.

What or who is behind your disappearance?

The fault immediately falls to the children's professor at the Maybrook Elementary School, Justine Gray (played by Julia Garner), who desperately seeks the truth. Josh Brolin He plays Archer Graff, the father of one of the missing girls, who is suspected that only the boys of Justine's class have disappeared.

Here we share the Complete criticism we did in Cine3.

The cast also includes Alden honorable (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. Also produces the feature film next to Roy Lee of Vartigo, producer of Barbarianand JD Lifshitz and Raphael Margules by Boulderlight Pictures. Miri Yoon de Vertigo also produces.