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Weapons’ Scores 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, Inspires $25M Opening Projections

Built on an anthology-style narrative with immersive online marketing, the film has earned unanimous praise just weeks before its August 8 release.

Julia Garner staring at the ceiling in Weapons.
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Alex Lilly at a classroom desk with clown makeup and an unnerving smile in Weapons
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Overview

  • Weapons holds a perfect 100% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on its first 11 reviews.
  • Warner Bros.’ immersive marketing included a two-hour-and-seventeen-minute surveillance video and the MaybrookMissing.com faux news site.
  • Critics laud the film’s anthology-style structure and interconnected character vignettes for deepening its central mystery.
  • Deadline projects the horror thriller could debut to $25 million or more in its opening weekend.
  • Julia Garner stars as a suspended teacher probing the disappearance of 17 third-grade students alongside Josh Brolin as a desperate parent.