Warner Bros cemented another milestone in a notable summer as Zach Cregger’s critically lauded horror Weapons crossed $100m at the North American box office.

The threshold has traditionally carried automatic cachet in the trade press without too much scrutiny of costs. However in this case it is meaningful and affords the studio bragging rights, factoring in the $172.6m worldwide running total, given a reported $38m production budget in additional to several tens of millions in marketing spend and the split with exhibition.

Weapons added $2.4m on Thursday to reach $100.3m. It stars Juia Garner and Josh Brolin as a teacher and a parent who attempt to discover the whereabouts of all but one of a class of schoolchildren who fled their homes at the same time in the middle of the night and

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