In today's Box Office Breakdown, we analyze five new releases:
Universal’s Nobody 2
Sony Pictures Classics’ East of Wall
Music Box Films’ Suspended Time
Lionsgate’s Americana
A24 and Apple’s Highest2Lowest
Plus, a full breakdown of the box office top ten, including Weapons week 2.
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Warner Bros.’ Weapons took #1 for the second weekend in a row with $25M domestically. That brings its domestic total to $89M. Its international total is sitting at $49M, bringing its worldwide total to $138M.
This is a sensational result for an original horror film.
Although the 43% week 2 drop was nowhere near another recent horror success, Sinners’ week 2 drop of only 5%.
Weapons director Zach Cregger started as a comedian (The Whitest Kids U’Know) and has transformed himself into a master of the horror genre.
For comparison, Cregger’s previous film, his first feature, fared better in week 2:
Barbarian (2022)
$4.5M budget
$10.5M opening
38% week 2 drop (vs. Weapons 43% week 2 drop)
$40.8M domestic total
$45.4M worldwide
Cregger is a master comedian-turned-horror-filmmaker. Putting him in a rare category with Jordan Peele.
Cregger has bested the 2nd weekend drop for 2 out of 3 of Peele's films:
Get Out (2017)
$4.5M opening
15% week 2 drop
$176.2M domestic total
$255.8M worldwide
98% RT
Us (2019)
$71M opening
53% week 2 drop
$175.1M domestic total
$256.1M worldwide
93% RT
Nope (2022)
$44.4M opening
58% week 2 drop
$123.3M domestic total
$171.2M worldwide
83% RT
New Line picked up Weapons for $38M (w/ $5M going to Cregger to direct). And is fully recouped.
It had the top per-screen average of any film in the top ten with $7.2K/screen.
Here is the trailer.
Here’s the breakdown of the rest of the top 10:
$14.5M - Freakier Friday (Disney)
$54.8M domestic total
$70.1M worldwide
$42M budget
RT: 73%
Week 2
Although it opened higher (sans inflation), this took a steeper drop than the first film:
Freaky Friday (2003)
$22.2M opening (vs. Freakier Friday’s $28.6M opening)
$13.4M week 2 - 39% drop (vs. Freakier Friday’s 49% drop)
$110.2M domestic total
$160.8M worldwide
$20M budget
It is expected to be recouped by next weekend and will benefit from its iconic Disney brand recognition as it continues to expand internationally.
$9.25M - Nobody 2 (Universal)
$16M production budget
RT: 78%
Week 1
This opened higher than the previous film in the series:
Nobody (2021)
$6.8M opening
$27.6M domestic total
$57.5M worldwide
Nobody 2 opened 34% lower than the average action sequel. Although it should be noted that these films have a relatively small budget for a studio action film. It should have no problem recouping.
The first film also did a remarkable $9.6M in domestic DVD and Blu-ray sales.
$8.8M - The Fantastic Four: First Steps (Marvel)
$247M domestic total
$451.6M worldwide
$200M+ production budget
RT: 73%
Week 4
The Fantastic Four: First Steps has eclipsed the previous iterations by nearly 1.5x:
Fantastic Four (2005)
$56.1M opening
$154.7M domestic total
$333.5M worldwide
Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007)
$58.1M opening
$170M domestic total
$301.9M worldwide
Fantastic Four (2015)
$25.7M opening
$111.8M domestic total
$167.9M worldwide
The Fantastic Four: First Steps took a mild week 4 drop of 44%. Much better than the 60% drop in its third week and 67% week 2 drop. That’s holding identical to a couple of the recent lesser-liked Marvel films:
Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
70% week 2 drop
60% week 3 drop
44% week 4 drop
$106M opening
RT: 46%
Captain America: Brave New World (2025)
68% week 2 drop
47% week 3 drop
44% week 4 drop
$88.5M opening (3-day)
RT: 49%
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is on track to recoup.
$7.5M - The Bad Guys 2 (Universal)
$57.2M domestic total
$101.4M worldwide total
$80M budget
RT: 85%
Week 3
This opened lower and had a much larger 2nd weekend drop than the first film. Although its week 3 drop of 29% was lower:
The Bad Guys (2022)
$23.95M opening weekend (vs. Bad Guy 1’s $22M)
$16.2M week 2 - 32% drop (vs. Bad Guy 1’s $10.4M - 53% drop)
$9.5M week 3 - 41% drop (vs. Bad Guy 1’s $7.5M - 29% drop)
$97.5M domestic total
$250.4M worldwide
These films perform well overseas, with China making up nearly a third of the international box office for the last film.
$5.3M - Superman (Warner Bros.)
$340.9M domestic total
$592.6M worldwide total
$325M budget
RT: 83%
Week 6
It has exceeded the domestic gross of the past two solo Superman films:
Superman (2025)
$125M domestic opening
$340.9M domestic total
$592.6M worldwide total
Man of Steel (2013)
$116.6M domestic opening
$291M domestic total
$670.1M worldwide
Superman Returns (2006)
$52.5M domestic opening
$200.1M domestic total
$391.1M worldwide
This is a huge win for James Gunn, the current head of DC Studios. Already, topping all the total grosses DC’s last releases:
Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)
$134.1M worldwide
Blue Beetle (2023)
$130.8M worldwide
The Flash (2023)
$271.4M worldwide
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)
$440.2M worldwide
Black Adam (2022)
$393.5M worldwide
The international numbers are the one thing slowing Superman down from recouping, including marketing costs; it is said to need to earn $700M to recoup.
$4.8M - The Naked Gun (Paramount)
$42M domestic total
$65.4M worldwide total
$42M budget
RT: 90%
Week 3
The new Naked Gun is still trailing the original series (which only played domestically) by a large margin:
The Naked Gun (1988)
$9.3M opening ($25M w/ inflation)
$78.8M domestic total
The Naked Gun 2½ (1991)
$20.8M opening ($49.2M w/ inflation)
$86.9M domestic total
Naked Gun 33⅓ (1994)
$13.2M opening weekend ($28.7M w/ inflation)
$51.1M domestic total
The Naked Gun (2025)
$16.8M opening weekend
$42M domestic total
We’re going to hazard a guess that the good word of mouth based on Liam Neeson’s standout performance in a comedy will bring strong results in the following weeks and help this recoup.
$2.9M - Jurassic World Rebirth (Universal)
$332.1M domestic total
$813.1M worldwide total
$225M budget
RT: 52%
Week 7
Jurassic World Rebirth will earn less than every other film in the reboot after its week 7 total was lower than the rest of the series:
Jurassic World (2015)
$208M three-day weekend
$624.1M week 7 domestic total
$643.4M domestic total
$1.67bn worldwide
$150M budget
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
$148M three-day weekend
$405.6M week 7 domestic total
$417.7M domestic total
$1.31bn worldwide
$170M budget
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
$145M opening
$365.7M week 7 domestic total
$376.9M domestic total
$1bn worldwide
$583.9M budget (highest budgeted film of all time)
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)
$332.1M week 7 domestic total
On the plus side, Jurassic World Rebirth has recouped its budget, as there’s still a dinosaur-sized appetite for these films.
$2.66M - F1 (Apple)
$182.8M domestic total
$584.6M worldwide total
$250-$300M budget
RT: 83%
Week 8
The film had the lowest drop of any film this weekend, losing only 9%. This was because it was re-released in IMAX.
Overall, the film has outperformed internationally by a significant margin, which tracks as F1 is much more popular overseas.
It is Apple’s top-performing film of all time by over 2.5x:
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
$68M domestic total
$158.8M worldwide
Napoleon (2023)
$61.5M domestic total
$221.4M worldwide
Not factoring in inflation, this is Brad Pitt’s highest-grossing film of all time:
World War Z (2010)
$66.4M domestic opening
$540.5M worldwide total
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
$50.3M domestic opening
$487.3M worldwide total
The hope is that after this good result, Apple will re-enter the theatrical business (like Amazon), versus the pivot to streaming after a series of expensive failures (Argylle, Fly Me to the Moon).
$1.6M - Shin Godzilla (GKIDS)
$4.4M domestic total
$78.1M worldwide
462 week (
RT: 91%
Week 62 (9 year 4K re-release)
This is a great result for a foreign language re-release in the US. GKIDS, the US distributor for Miyazaki and more, has great reach with its audience. They were the original distributor for Shin Godzilla in 2016.
Here are the lowest-grossing films of the week:
$31K - Lilo & Stitch (Disney)
$421.7M domestic total
$1.028bn worldwide
$477 /screen average
Week 13
$12.2K - The Glassworker (Watermelon Pictures)
$48.1K worldwide
$12.2K /screen average (highest/screen average of the weekend)
Pakistan’s first hand-drawn animated feature film
Week 1
$4K - Suspended Time (Music Box Films)
$4K/screen average
Premiere: Berline
Week 1
A24 and Apple’s Highest2Lowest opened this weekend on 220 screens. The film stars Denzel Washington and is directed by Spike Lee. Some estimates put it at earning nearly $900K, which would give it an impressive per-screen average of over $4K/screen.
Lionsgate’s Americana earned approximately $500K in its opening weekend. Although official numbers have not yet been released. The film stars Sydney Sweeney and Paul Walter Hauser. It originally premiered at SXSW in 2023. This would put it at earning a low $445/screen average across 1,123 theaters.
Sony Pictures Classics’ East of the Wall earned $355K in its opening weekend. The film earned a low per-screen average of $567. Sony picked up the film at Sundance.