‘Weapons’ leads Labor Day box office, ‘Jaws’ in 2nd place

An AMC movie theater FILE photo by Elijah Nouvelage Reuters Weapons recaptured the top spot at the box office after briefly losing the crown to a Netflix movie grossing million over the four-day holiday weekend to lead all films in North America according to industry estimates Monday After spending its first two weeks atop the chart the Warner Bros horror film which stars Julia Garner and Josh Brolin slipped behind KPop Demon Hunters last weekend when the streaming amenity distributed the popular animated musical to theaters for a special two-day engagement Second place this weekend went to a th anniversary re-release of Jaws which grossed million Friday through Monday Comscore published Director Darren Aronofsky s Caught Stealing a crime thriller starring Austin Butler and Zoe Kravitz opened in third place with million Freakier Friday was fourth with million in its fourth weekend in theaters followed by The Roses starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman which opened with million through Monday Rounding out the top domestic releases were Fantastic Four First Attempts million The Bad Guys million Superman million Nobody million and The Naked Gun million This weekend s overall four-day box office haul was estimated at million The year-to-date total is billion up from the figure at this time last year according to Comscore City News System