Box Office: ‘Weapons’ Wins Quiet Labor Day With $12.4M, ‘Jaws’ Beats ‘Caught Stealing,’ ‘The Roses’
A half a century later, Steven Spielberg‘s Jaws still has plenty of bite as the troubled 2025 summer season comes to a close.
The original summer blockbuster, celebrating its 50th anniversary, is opening in second place at the four-day Labor Day box office behind Zach Cregger‘s August sleeper hit Weapons, which remains in first place for the fourth weekend in a row with an estimated four-day gross of $12.4 million and $10.2 million for the three-day weekend proper. The horror pic, yet another win for Warner Bros. and New Line, looks to finish Monday with a global tally of $234.6 million.
Booked in 3,200 cinemas, Jaws is looking at a four-day haul of $9.8 million — rival studios show it coming in north of $10 million — and $8.1 million for the three days. Either way, that’s enough to swim past Darren Aronofsky‘s new movie starring Austin Butler and Zoë Kravitz, as well as Searchlight’s The Roses.
The fact that a 50-year movie is doing better than the two studio offerings underscores a rough-and-tumble summer for Hollywood studios and exhibitors, with domestic revenue barely able to match last year’s disappointing $3.67 billion, which was down from 2023’s $4.09 billion. Comscore is estimating that 2025 domestic summer ticket sales will come in 0.2 percent behind 2024, or a difference of $7 million. Heading into summer, most were confident that the season would match 2023’s $4 billion-plus.
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Despite strong reviews, Sony and Aronofsky’s crime caper is opening in third place with an estimated four-day gross of $9.5 million from 3,578 theaters and $7.8 million for the three days (that’s in line with muted expectations).
Disney’s holdover Freakier Friday is holding in fourth place with an estimated $6.5 million for three days and $8.3 million for the four.
Both Caught Stealing and The Roses were slapped with a tepid B CinemaScore from audiences. Exits were stronger on PostTrak, however.
The Roses, an update of the classic divorce comedy, is rounding out the top five in North America with an estimated four-day gross of $8 million from 2,700 locations, and $6.3 million for the three days. It opened to a stronger $9.2 million overseas — Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Coleman lead the cast — for an estimated launch of $17.2 million.
More to come.
