Analysis of the weekend box office results, the upfront ad sales haul and highlights from Variety’ s annual Truth Seekers documentary event in New York are on deck for today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast.

“Weapons” showed its strength in its second weekend, hanging on to the No. 1 spot with just a 43% drop from its week-ago opening. Rebecca Rubin, Variety ‘s senior film and media reporter, noted that “Weapons” has been a pleasant surprise for distributor Warner Bros. from the start.

“Horror is known for really dropping like a rock at the box office and so this is a really great hold. It’s definitely attributed to the great reviews but also really just the electric word of mouth people are going to see this movie, having a really great time in the theater and then telling the

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