Over 36 weekends in 2025, only six have had an original screenplay lead the way. Three of those weekends were dominated by Ryan Coogler’s Sinners . Novocaine had a brief stint with the lowest No. 1 tally of the year. Flight Risk was the first, and F1: The Movie was the last. ( Mickey 17 and A Working Man were based on books, for those looking.) This weekend we had the seventh, with Zach Cregger drawing more interest in his mysterious new horror film than Disney trotting out a sequel after 22 years.

King of the Crop: Weapons Racks Up Another big Win for Warner Bros.

Zach Cregger, the sketch comedian turned horror director, had a solid little word-of-mouth hit with Barbarian back in 2022 for 20th Century Studios. It opened to $10.5 million in September and went on to gross

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