{"id":20689,"date":"2025-08-24T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20689\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T18:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:22:07","slug":"weapons-hits-200-million-materialists-hits-85-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/20689\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons Hits $200 Million, Materialists Hits $85 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/weapons\/\" id=\"auto-tag_weapons\" data-tag=\"weapons\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weapons<\/a>\u201d is imminently crossing the $200 million mark at the global box office with ticket sales for the R-rated horror film at $199.4 million to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOver the weekend, \u201cWeapons\u201d collected $13.2 million from 74 overseas markets, boosting its international tally to $83 million after three weekends of release. Outside of the U.S., where \u201cWeapons\u201d has grossed $115.9 million, top territories include the United Kingdom ($11 million), Mexico ($7.5 million) and France ($5.6 million). These are impressive figures for an original horror film, especially one that cost its backers at Warner Bros. just $38 million to produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlthough cinema operators are bracing for the dog days of summer, two other Warner Bros. blockbusters just notched even bigger box office milestones. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/superman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_superman\" data-tag=\"superman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Superman<\/a>\u201d and \u201cF1: The Movie\u201d each surpassed $600 million globally over the weekend, two of only six Hollywood releases to achieve that benchmark in 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cSuperman,\u201d which has been a bigger draw in North America than overseas, has earned $604.5 million after seven weeks of release, including $347 million domestically. \u201cF1,\u201d which has exhibited especially impressive staying power internationally, has generated $603.4 million after nine weeks, including $417 million overseas. What\u2019s even more encouraging is that neither film entered theaters as a guaranteed hit; \u201cSuperman\u201d is the first DC Comics feature to resonate in some time, while \u201cF1\u201d is an adult-skewing tentpole that\u2019s not part of an existing film franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tElsewhere on international charts, Celine Song\u2019s romantic comedy \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/materialists\/\" id=\"auto-tag_materialists\" data-tag=\"materialists\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Materialists<\/a>\u201d added $6.2 million from 57 territories over the weekend. So far, the film has grossed $48.6 million overseas and a sizable $85.1 million globally, marking one of the year\u2019s rare indie success stories. A24 backed the $20 million-budgeted \u201cMaterialists,\u201d which is being released internationally by Sony. The film, led by three movie stars in Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans, follows a New York City matchmaker who finds herself in a love triangle with a wealthy suitor and her ex boyfriend. \u201cMaterialists\u201d inspired <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/health\/fitness\/how-much-rent-materialists-crew-questions-dakota-johnson-s-character-living-in-brooklyn-heights-on-80k\/ar-AA1GQJu2\">some intense online debates<\/a>, adding to its impressive staying power in the U.S. while helping it resonate overseas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWeapons\u201d is imminently crossing the $200 million mark at the global box office with ticket sales for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[18,117,19,17,17834,327,928,819],"class_list":{"0":"post-20689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-materialists","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-superman","15":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}