Box-office, welcome to summer dog days. In this terribly slow vacation weekend, a horror film of his fourth weekend of release was n ° 1 while a 50-year-old blockbuster beat two new arrivals.
“Weapons”, after having briefly sold the crown to “Kpop Demon Hunters” from Netflix, recovered first place in North America with $ 10.2 million during the traditional weekend and around $ 12.4 million on Monday. So far, the scary film has won $ 134.6 million at national level and $ 250 million worldwide against a budget of $ 38 million. The success of Zach Cregger’s Sleeper is the last theatrical winner of Warner Bros., who suffered a difficult start of the year but has since bounced with successes like “A Minecraft Movie”, “Sinners”, “Final Destination Bloodlines”, “F1: The Movie” (that the studio distributed for Apple) and “Superman”.
In second place, a reissue of the 50th anniversary of the “jaws” collected $ 8.1 million in 3,200 theaters this weekend and around $ 9.8 million on Monday. It turns out that this shark still has teeth. These ticket sales were higher than two new major studio offers, the police comedy of Sony “captured in flight” and Disney and the 20th century satire “The Roses”. “Jaws” is widely recognized for having launched the summer blockbuster, its disproportionate profits making the studios achieved the attraction of films when the children were outside the school, as well as the merchandise opportunities that an escape adventure can create.
“True from theft”, directed by Darren Aronofsky and with Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz, landed at n ° 3 with $ 7.8 million during the traditional weekend and about 9.5 million dollars compared to the four-day holiday frame. This is a start for the film budgeted at $ 40 million, on a New York bartender who finds himself in the reticle of threatening gangsters after agreeing to look at his neighbor’s cat. Although the criticisms were positive (84% on Rotten Tomatoes), the moviegoers were not as enthusiastic and planted the film with a note “B” on the Cinemascore exit polls.
“This opening is good non-grande,” explains analyst David A. Gross research on franchise entertainment. “There are a lot of criminal thrillers, and it is not an easy sale as a result of a summer range of photos of events.”
Fourth place went to Disney’s “Freaker Friday”, the continuation of the 2003 bodily switching comedy, “Freaky Friday”, which won $ 6.5 million during the weekend and $ 8.3 million during the four-day holidays. Its domestic brut is expected to extend to just over $ 80 million and its world transport will reach $ 130 million throughout the Labor Day.
Meanwhile, “The Roses” made its debut in fifth place with $ 6.4 million over the weekend and about 8 million dollars to the Labor Day. Directed by Jay Roach and vaguely based on the 1981 novel “The War of the Roses”, the story follows an apparently perfect couple with serious cracks in the relationship. Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman lead the cast alongside the set of Andy Samberg, Allison Janney and Kate McKinnon. Critics did not like the film (64% on Rotten Tomatoes) but the public seemed more important, granting “the roses” a note “B +” on Cinemascore.
“It’s an exceptional start,” explains Gross. “These days, a version like this will quickly end on its way to a good auxiliary company, again, motivated by quality distribution.”
Maybe it was too familiar. “The War of the Roses” has already been adapted to a 1989 film with Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny Devito. Unlike “The Roses”, it was a huge success, winning $ 160 million – a huge sum for the time.
The Labor Day is not known to suit their cinema crowds, so it is not surprising that this weekend is among the sweetest of the year. Overall, the four -day section brought in about $ 86 million, a drop of 19% compared to last year’s holidays which was fueled by Marvel’s blockbuster at a billion dollars “Deadpool and Wolverine”. The summer season has officially ended with internal income at $ 3.67 billion, down 0.2% compared to 2024 and 10.2% behind 2023, according to Comscore. This is a disappointing news for the company, which thought that this harvest of suites, fallout and adventures of superheroes would be sufficient to bring sales of 4 billion dollars.
Best luck next summer.
