Weekend box office report: 15 to 17 August 2025

1. Weapons

Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Adam Bhala Lough
Writer(s): Adam Bhala Lough
Actors(s): Nick Cannon, Paul Dano, Mark Webber
Runtime: 83 min
Total gross to date: $6,254,096.00
Weekend gross: $1,557,829.00
Number of cinemas: 653
Site average: $2,386.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Warner Bros
Change from last week: -45
Weeks on release: 2

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 4.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 0%

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2. Materialists

A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Celine Song
Writer(s): Celine Song
Actors(s): Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal
Runtime: 116 min
Total gross to date: $1,287,221.00
Weekend gross: $1,287,221.00
Number of cinemas: 678
Site average: $1,899.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Change from last week:
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%

Metacritic: 69/100

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3. Coolie

A wealthy, but evil man named Zafar Khan, has fallen in love a girl named Salma and wants to marry her, but she and her father do not let him. Zafar is arrested for various crimes and is imprisoned for 10 years, but when he is discharged, he sees that Salma is married to a good man named Aslam Khan. Zafar Khan, wants to convince Salma to marry him but Salma refuses. Zafar plots his revenge by flooding the region in which Salma lives in, killing her father, injuring Aslam and Salma, causing her to lose her memory. During this catastrophe, Salma is also separated from her young son, Iqbal. Zafar abducts Salma and tells the world she is his wife. He also adopts an infant from an orphanage in Kanpur, a boy named Sunny, for Salma to raise on the advice of a psychiatrist. Meanwhile, Iqbal is reunited with his uncle, who has lost his wife and son in the flood. The uncle will raise Iqbal as his own, as they have no more family. Years pass, and Iqbal and his uncle work as coolies. Iqbal has grown up to a be a dashing, confident young man, and is considered the leader of the local coolies. He organizes a labor strike, which brings the station to its knees. A young, budding reporter, named Sunny, is covering the story. While speaking to Sunny, Iqbal sees a picture of Sunny's mother who turns out to be Salma. Iqbal rushes to Salma's house to see her after all these years, but upon meeting her son, she has no recollection of him. Zafar is infuriated by Iqbal's trespass and has his guards severely beat him, while he takes Salma to the psychiatrist to administer electric shocks on her so that her memory never returns. Iqbal and Sunny become friends, and both find love, Iqbal with a Christian girl and Sunny with a childhood sweetheart. Things are looking up, but the coolies uncover a banking and housing scandal against them. After a series of run-ins with the corrupt parties, Iqbal finds himself in a fight to the death with Zafar. What will happen to Zafar? Will his true colours be expose or will he continue to punish Salma till her death?

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Manmohan Desai, Prayag Raj
Writer(s): K.K. Shukla, Kader Khan, Prayag Raj
Actors(s): Amitabh Bachchan, Waheeda Rehman, Rishi Kapoor
Runtime: 177 min
Total gross to date: $939,508.00
Weekend gross: $939,508.00
Number of cinemas: 203
Site average: $4,628.00
Country of origin: India
Distributor: Lights On Entertainment
Change from last week:
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10

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4. Freakier Friday

22 years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike ...

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director(s): Nisha Ganatra
Writer(s): Jordan Weiss, Elyse Hollander, Mary Rodgers
Actors(s): Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters
Runtime: 110 min
Total gross to date: $4,027,369.00
Weekend gross: $915,704.00
Number of cinemas: 666
Site average: $1,375.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Disney
Change from last week: -47
Weeks on release: 2

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.0/10

Metacritic: 60/100

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5. The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Matt Shakman
Writer(s): Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, Jeff Kaplan
Actors(s): Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Runtime: 114 min
Total gross to date: $20,807,289.00
Weekend gross: $688,026.00
Number of cinemas: 638
Site average: $1,078.00
Country of origin: UK/USA
Distributor: Disney
Change from last week: -50
Weeks on release: 4

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.3/10

Metacritic: 65/100

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6. The Bad Guys 2

The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do "one last job" by an all-female squad of criminals.

Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Director(s): Pierre Perifel, JP Sans
Writer(s): Aaron Blabey
Actors(s): Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, Craig Robinson
Runtime: 104 min
Total gross to date: $8,821,350.00
Weekend gross: $542,738.00
Number of cinemas: 683
Site average: $795.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Universal
Change from last week: -33
Weeks on release: 4

Ratings:

Rotten Tomatoes: 86%

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7. The Naked Gun

Only one man has the particular set of skills - to lead Police Squad and save the world.

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Akiva Schaffer
Writer(s): Dan Gregor, Doug Mand, Akiva Schaffer
Actors(s): Liam Neeson, Paul Walter Hauser, Pamela Anderson
Runtime: 85 min
Total gross to date: $5,673,134.00
Weekend gross: $531,660.00
Number of cinemas: 627
Site average: $848.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Paramount
Change from last week: -52
Weeks on release: 3

Ratings:

Rotten Tomatoes: 87%

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8. Together

It is the 1970s and a group of very different individuals live together as a community. One of the members' sister, Elisabeth, needs a new place to stay with her children after having had enough of her alcoholic and abusive husband. Elisabeth is neither a socialist nor a feminist nor into the green movement but ends up loving living in the community where they all learn from each other. The film makes a little fun of people with strong ideals and "square" minds whether they be vegans, communists or people who absolutely disgust vegans or socialists. In the end, the message of the film is that people can grow and gain from bonding with each other. It also shows how we need to shape up a little for this to work, either through working on our behaviour that affects other people badly (like alcoholism or abuse) or the need to set boundaries and not let other people walk all over oneself.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Lukas Moodysson
Writer(s): Lukas Moodysson
Actors(s): Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Emma Samuelsson
Runtime: 106 min
Total gross to date: $504,490.00
Weekend gross: $504,490.00
Number of cinemas: 529
Site average: $954.00
Country of origin: Australia/USA
Distributor: Entertainment
Change from last week:
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%

Metacritic: 84/100

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9. War 2

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Director(s): Ayan Mukerji
Writer(s): Aditya Chopra, Shridhar Raghavan, Abbas Tyrewala
Actors(s): N.T. Rama Rao Jr., Hrithik Roshan, Kiara Advani
Runtime: N/A
Total gross to date: $503,416.00
Weekend gross: $503,416.00
Number of cinemas: 286
Site average: $1,760.00
Country of origin: India
Distributor: Yash Raj
Change from last week:
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

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10. Nobody 2

Suburban dad Hutch Mansell, a former lethal assassin, is pulled back into his violent past after thwarting a home invasion, setting off a chain of events that unravels secrets about his wife Becca's past and his own.

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Director(s): Timo Tjahjanto
Writer(s): Umair Aleem, Derek Kolstad, Bob Odenkirk
Actors(s): Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd
Runtime: 89 min
Total gross to date: $475,724.00
Weekend gross: $475,724.00
Number of cinemas: 490
Site average: $971.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Universal
Change from last week:
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

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11. Jurassic World Rebirth

Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Gareth Edwards
Writer(s): David Koepp, Michael Crichton
Actors(s): Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey
Runtime: 133 min
Total gross to date: $34,295,552.00
Weekend gross: $330,916.00
Number of cinemas: 490
Site average: $675.00
Country of origin: UK/USA
Distributor: Universal
Change from last week: -50
Weeks on release: 7

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 51%

Metacritic: 50/100

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12. Superman

Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned.