Summer is now in its August sleep with the overall weekend for all titles falling under $100M for the second time this season with an estimated $93M per ComScore. The last time this happened in 2025 was during the second weekend of summer, May 9-11, when all movies grossed just over $84M per Box Office Mojo. While summer at $3.4 billion remains ahead of last year’s heat wave by +2%, as we mentioned last weekend, we’re unlikely to hit $4 billion mark. The last time summer did that, was pre-Covid.

As we said earlier this week, thank God Warner Bros moved Weapons into the late summer, or else we wouldn’t be feeling a pulse. The Zach Cregger pic’s hold for weekend 2 stands at -43% for a second frame of $25M after a $7.4M Friday and Saturday of $9.6M, +29%.

While Weapons isn’t having the dips of Get Out (-15%) and Sinners (-5%) in its second weekend, any time a horror movie is holding better than -50%, that’s remarkable, and this original horror movie is posting a second weekend that’s better than 2025’s other big horror pics, Final Destination: Bloodlines (-63%) and 28 Years Later (-68%). Weapons has PLF and Imax, the latter grossing $1.8M stateside for a $10.5M running cume in weekend 2.

Global for Weapons, which only cost New Line $38M+, stands at $148.8M.

Disney’s Freakier Friday looks to come in with a second weekend at $14.5M, -49%.

Universal’s Bob Odenkirk uber-violent action sequel Nobody 2 despite solid exits of a B+ CinemaScore (the first one received an A-) and 4 stars and a 62% definite recommend on Comscore/Screen Engine’s PostTrak, is coming in softer than expected with a $9.25M opening after a $3.8M Friday and Saturday of $3.1M.

The movie was cheap at net $25M before P&A spend, and clearly this is a Lionsgate model meat and potato action movie aimed at older dudes (the overall 45+ set who showed up at 40%). In fact, Lionsgate’s winter action movies did better with Den of Thieves 2 at $15M and Flight Risk at $11.5M. However, what’s unfortunate here is that the audience (at least from a dollar-wise perspective) for Nobody 2 didn’t expand that much from the original’s opening, which posted $6.8M. With moviegoers skittish about returning to cinemas after Covid when the first title opened in 2021, the following for this IP has only grown so much.

No John Wick phenomenon going on here with this 87North production. The original John Wick, similar to the first Austin Powers, boomed on home entertainment fueling bigger theatrical openings and grosses for its part 2.

It’s unfortunate for Nobody as these movies are a great homage to Steve McQueen titles like The Hunter and Clint Eastwood movies such as Every Which Way But Loose. Nobody 2 has PLFs which are driving 29% of the weekend with an even play across the country, however, prominent in the West.

AMC Burbank 16 is the single leading venue with just over $28K through Saturday night. Diversity demos for the overall 68% male leaning movie were 52% Caucasian, 21% Hispanic and Latino, 12% Black and 8% Asian American.

Clearly, the fans were carrying the torch for Nobody 2 on social with RelishMix noticing overall positive sentiment and very little negative chatter. The social media universe for the sequel at close to 190M was 59% above action-drama genre norms across TikTok, Facebook, X, YouTube and Instagram combined. During Covid, the first movie’s stats were 53% lighter. Interesting to note that the social media reach on Rami Malek’s The Amateur was lower at 89M, but that movie opened higher at $14.8M.

Sunday box office numbers updated in bold:

via Deadline