Let’s be honest: if you didn’t see Weapons this weekend, you missed out. Zach Cregger’s hugely buzzy second feature earned rave reviews and massive hype ahead of its launch on Friday, and all weekend film-centric social media was chatting about Weapons , Weapons , and more Weapons . That excitement wasn’t just confined to the digital realm – Cregger’s film was a big box office hit to boot, earning $70 million worldwide in a major win for original horror cinema.

The film pulled in over $42 million at the US box office, and elsewhere around the world earned an additional $27.5 million – that’s even higher than the similarly impressive global debut for Ryan Coogler’s Sinners , which arrived to $63.5 million. (However, Sinners opened bigger than Weapons in the US, earning $4

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