🎟️ Box Office Breakdown: Warner Bros. just made box office history…

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The Dailies reports on the latest box office news from this week.

Weapons (Warner Bros.)

1. 🔪 Weapons: 🆕 $42.5M domestic opening, $70M global debut. Zach Cregger's follow-up to 'Barbarian' took the #1 spot with a rare A- CinemaScore, already beating his first film's entire domestic run in just three days.
2. 🔄 Freakier Friday: 🆕 $29M domestic opening, $44.5M global debut. Disney's nostalgia play lands in second place, with millennials and women driving strong word-of-mouth (A CinemaScore).
3. 🦸 The Fantastic Four: First Steps: (Wk 3) $15.5M domestic weekend (-60%), $230.4M domestic total, $434.2M global. Marvel's first family continues its steep decline. $500M worldwide is looking like the best-case scenario.
4. 🐺 The Bad Guys 2: (Wk 2) $10.4M domestic weekend (-53%), $43.4M domestic total, $84M global. DreamWorks' animated sequel is hanging in there, though not quite matching the first film's pace.
5. 🔫 The Naked Gun: (Wk 2) $8.4M domestic weekend (-50%), $33M domestic total, $56.4M global. The comedy reboot keeps chugging along with decent holds.
6. 🦸‍♂️ Superman: (Wk 5) $7.8M domestic weekend (-43%), $331.2M domestic total, $578.8M global. DC’s flagship hero just passed 'Batman v Superman' domestically.
7. 🦖 Jurassic World Rebirth: (Wk 6) $4.7M domestic weekend (-46%), $326.8M domestic total, $800M global.
8. 🏎️ F1: (Wk 7) $2.8M domestic weekend (-32%), $178.6M domestic total, $560M+ global. Apple's racing drama becomes summer's biggest surprise hit, nearly matching ‘Superman's’ global haul.
9. 👫 Together: (Wk 2) $2.6M domestic weekend (-62%), $17.2M domestic total. Neon's drama loses significant ground in its second frame.
10. ✏️ Sketch: 🆕 $2.5M 3-day domestic ($5M since Wednesday opening). Angel Studios' horror-comedy for kids got great reviews (96% RT, A- CinemaScore) but couldn't draw a bigger crowd.

The big picture: The box office pulled in $130M this weekend, up 6% from last week but still trailing last year's 'Alien: Romulus' frame by 17%. Summer's sitting at $3.26B (+3% vs 2024), and while that $4B mark remains out of reach, at least we're headed in the right direction. Warner Bros. is on a hot streak with over 26% of the entire 2025 box office so far ($1.45B domestic and counting). They just made history as the first studio to land six straight $40M+ openings: 'Minecraft' ($162.8M), 'Sinners' ($48M), 'Final Destination: Bloodlines' ($51.6M), 'F1' ($57M), 'Superman' ($125M), and now 'Weapons' ($42.5M). Looks like their strategy of balancing original fare with established IP is paying off.

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