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Grade A19 sourcesHIS-01225

Weapons

Film · 2025 · Viral

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Cryptic marketing and running-pose memes accompanied a $270 million worldwide horror hit.

Trailer · Warner Bros. on YouTube

Kayla

@luv2read13 · Aug 8, 2025

149.2K119
Post · @luv2read13 on X
Clip · TikTok
Weapons poster: children running into the dark, seen from behind
Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema
Weapons teaser poster
Adweek
Weapons wide key art: running silhouettes
Warner Bros. / New Line Cinema
Weapons | Official Trailer 2
Warner Bros. on YouTube
Julia Garner in 'Weapons'
Deadline
A TikTok using the Weapons run
@luv2read13 on X
A boy at a window, seen from behind, in Weapons
Variety
Amy Madigan, Oscar winner for Weapons
The Hollywood Reporter
Zach Cregger, writer-director of Weapons
Kevin Paul / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 4.0
Weapons Los Angeles premiere, July 31, 2025
The Hype Magazine
The Weapons run meme template
Know Your Meme

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How it works
Reach84Contagion35Breadth100Velocity48Longevity3164

Numbers

Worldwide theatrical gross, live tracker at research date
$270.1M
As of Oct 22, 2026 · The Numbers
Peak proxy date
Week of Aug 10, 2025
Aug 5 ’25 to Week of Aug 10, 2025
Platforms
7
Started on Box office
Leverage
7.1×
$270.1M on $38M budget

Mechanics

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  • Press loop
  • Pairing
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How it spread

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Warner promoted a missing-children mystery through a website, trailers and planned creator stunts. The film opened at number one, and running memes and Gladys costumes spread. The tracker later recorded $270 million worldwide.

Proxy date; not a directly measured attention peak. Dates use the stated precision; chart positions are date anchors.

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Timeline (16)

  1. April 2025

    Warner Bros. precursor · Apr 14 ’25

    Warner launched Maybrook News with a fictional report about children disappearing at 2:17 a.m.[1]

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  2. Warner Bros. precursor · Apr 29 ’25

    Warner released the first full trailer; Deadline covered its missing-classroom premise.[2][3]

    Julia Garner in 'Weapons'

  3. June 2025

    Warner Bros. precursor · Jun 23 ’25

    A countdown livestream led into the second trailer and another set of unexplained images.[4]

  1. precursor · Jul 31 ’25

  2. seed · Aug 5 ’25

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Origin
Mixed
Sector
Entertainment
Region
US
Worldwide theatrical gross, live tracker at research date
$270.1M
As of Oct 22, 2026 · The Numbers
Evidence
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