This weekend gave us Austin Butler, two 1980s remakes, and one of the greatest and most successful films of all time. but none of them earned enough to beat the film that has “officially” led the box office for nearly all of August. Somewhere there will be an asterisk next to Weapons — or at least an emoji in the shape of a KPop Demon Hunter — because without those unofficial, unreported grosses from Netflix, we would be talking about Zach Cregger’s film as winning the box office for a fourth straight week, something no film has achieved since Barbie did in the summer of 2023.
King of the Crop: Weapons Retakes Lead over Long Weekend
Another Warner Bros. title for those keeping track, Weapons held off everyone once again with $10.2 million over the three-day weekend and an est