Late summer breakout Weapons from New Line/Warner Bros added an estimated $12.4m from 3,416 locations and returned to the top after four weekends as a muted Labor Day holiday session closed out the season.

Zach Cregger’s missing schoolchildren horror stands at $134.6m in North America and more than $230m worldwide. It has been a late-arriving star of a season that for a moment some thought would cross $4bn for the first time since Barbie and Oppenheimer powered the summer of 2023.

Not this year. According to Comscore on Sunday morning all combined releases earned an estimated $83m for the weekend. Summer closed on an estimated $3.76bn, approximately 0.2% or $7m behind 2024.

The calculation includes KPop Demon Hunters , which Netflix put into cinemas for an exclusive two-day en

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