In second place, Disney\u2019s Freakier Friday \u2014 a fresh spin on the 2003 body-swap hit \u2014 reunited Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as the mother-daughter duo who trade places once again. With an \u201cA\u201d CinemaScore and a $42 million budget, the family comedy\u2019s $29 million debut sets it up for long-term success at the box office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last weekend\u2019s champ, Marvel\u2019s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, fell to third with $15.5 million in its third weekend. Despite a huge $117.6 million opening, the superhero film has seen steep drops, now at $230 million domestic and likely to finish behind DC\u2019s Superman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rounding out the top five were The Bad Guys 2 with $10.4 million and The Naked Gun with $8.3 million. Elsewhere, Angel Studios launched fantasy comedy Sketch to $2.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With strong word-of-mouth and repeat viewing potential, both Weapons and Freakier Friday could help keep late-summer box office numbers sizzling.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The summer movie season is wrapping up with a bang as Weapons and Freakier Friday dominated the weekend box office, claiming the top two spots and giving theaters a welcome boost. Warner Bros. ” Weapons”, a twisty horror from writer-director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), opened to an impressive $42.5 million. The $38 million film \u2014 about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_gspb_post_css":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_url":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Box-Office-Weapons-Strikes-Big-With-42.5M-Debut-Freakier-Friday-Opens-Strong-at-29M-150x150.png","medium":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Box-Office-Weapons-Strikes-Big-With-42.5M-Debut-Freakier-Friday-Opens-Strong-at-29M-300x176.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Box-Office-Weapons-Strikes-Big-With-42.5M-Debut-Freakier-Friday-Opens-Strong-at-29M-768x451.png","large":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Box-Office-Weapons-Strikes-Big-With-42.5M-Debut-Freakier-Friday-Opens-Strong-at-29M.png","1536x1536":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Box-Office-Weapons-Strikes-Big-With-42.5M-Debut-Freakier-Friday-Opens-Strong-at-29M.png","2048x2048":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Box-Office-Weapons-Strikes-Big-With-42.5M-Debut-Freakier-Friday-Opens-Strong-at-29M.png","trp-custom-language-flag":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Box-Office-Weapons-Strikes-Big-With-42.5M-Debut-Freakier-Friday-Opens-Strong-at-29M-18x12.png"},"post_author":"Astra","assigned_categories":"Movies","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Box](\"https:\/\/geeksace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Box-Office-Weapons-Strikes-Big-With-42.5M-Debut-Freakier-Friday-Opens-Strong-at-29M.png\")
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