“Weapons” go back to the top of the box office list, collecting major $ 25 million during its second release weekend. Ticket sales for the classified horror film R dropped only 43% compared to its beginnings of $ 43 million, an impressive capture for an genre which is known to fall radically after the opening weekend.
On the way to the status of sleep hit, “weapons” reported $ 89 million at national level and $ 148 million worldwide after two release weekends. The film, which cost 38 million modest dollars, benefits from good criticism and electric word of mouth. This is the fifth consecutive success for Warner Bros. After “A Minecraft Movie”, “Sinners”, “Final Destination Bloodlines” and “Superman”. Fortunes have reversed for the studio after starting the year with financial failures such as “Mickey 17” and “The Alto Knights”.
This weekend, the only major new version, the action thriller of Universal “Nobody 2”, has not packed a punch too hard. The film, with Bob Odenkirk, like an apparently sweet father who kicked the ass and takes names, landed at n ° 3 with $ 9.2 million in 3,260 North American theaters. It was barely ahead of its predecessor, “Nobody” of 2021, which made its debut at 6.8 million dollars at the national level while the cinemas were barely starting to reopen and play with a limited capacity after COVID. Abroad, the film added $ 4.9 million for a global count of $ 14.1 million.
Timo Tjahjanto has resumed the realization tasks of the filmmaker of the original Ilya Naishuller. In the follow -up, the character of Odenkirk, Hutch Mansell, takes his family on vacation to the small tourist town of Plummerville and finds himself in the reticle of several shaded inhabitants. The audience scores for the future were not as positive as the first; “Nobody 2” obtained a note “B +” on Cinemascore compared to the note “A-” of the original. “Nobody 2” was a modest price at 25 million dollars, just above the price of $ 16 million in the first film.
“` `Nobody 1 ” does not cost much for an image of action in studio and was comfortably profitable,” explains analyst David A. Gross research on franchise entertainment. “” Nobody 2 “is an opportunity to earn a few more dollars without much risks. To (its) price, the image should earn money. ”
In second place, Disney’s “Freakier Friday” also experienced a solid second weekend with 14.5 million dollars out of $ 3,975 places, a decrease of 50% compared to its opening. PG’s continuation, bringing together Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis as a mother and daughter who exchange places, won $ 54.6 million in North America and $ 86.3 million worldwide after 10 days of release.
Another Disney film, the adventure of Marvel superhero “The Fantastic Four: First Steps”, plunged in place No. 4 with $ 8.8 million during its fourth weekend outing. After a promising arc of $ 117 million, “Fantastic Four” quickly lost steam at the box office with ticket sales at 247 million dollars in North America and $ 468.7 million worldwide after four weekends. These yields are superior to the previous marvel entrances to this year, “Captain America: Brave New World” in February ($ 415 million worldwide) and “Thunderbolts” by May ($ 382 million worldwide). But after a rocky post-pandemic section, this performance does not yet signal a return to the glory of the box office for the Marvel cinematographic universe.
“The Bad Guys 2” completed the top five with $ 6.9 million during his third release. The comedy of Heist Universal and DreamWorks Animation generated $ 56 million at the national level and $ 117 million worldwide. In comparison, the first “bad guys” were a slow and standard blow with $ 250 million throughout its race.
In sixth place, “Superman” added $ 5.3 million during his sixth weekend in theaters. The adaptation of the comic strip of Warner Bros. And DC reported $ 340 million in North America and $ 594 worldwide to date. In a few days, he will become one of the six films this year to cross the $ 600 million mark.
Elsewhere, the thriller against the crime of Sydney Sweeney “Americana” completed with $ 500,000 on 1,110 locations for a lamentable start in 16th place. It is one of the worst openings in the story of a film that landed on more than 1,000 screens. Co-date from Paul Walter Hauser, Halsey and Eric Dane, The Western follows a group of characters on the track of a rare Amerindian artifact. Lionsgate acquired the film in SXSW in 2023 and its pre-sales international rights, which helps recover the losses for the sub-performative theatrical versions.
“The film was made in 2022 and finished in 2023, so it has been seated for more than two years,” explains Gross. “It’s time to take him out, move him to his liberation windows and put him on television to generate income.”
The overall box office is 6.4% before last year – a margin that has decreased in recent weeks. At the beginning of July, for example, income was 16% before 2024. And the yields for the four-month section which includes the summer season are in cash at 3.4 billion dollars in mid-August. This probably means that the cinema industry’s objective to cross the $ 4 billion mark – a formerly common step which has only been reached once from the pandemic – will not be at hand.
“Alas, it is not in the cards at this stage,” explains Paul Dergarabedian, senior analyst in the Comscore, of the $ 4 billion mark. “That said, it was an incredible summer of summer cinema.”
