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| 1 | Weapons (2025 film) |  |
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Jordan Peele tried to bring to his production company the work of another comedian turned horror director, Zach Cregger, but lost to New Line Cinema the newest one from the Barbarian auteur. One night all but one of the children in a class vanish, and it's up to their teacher, her ex who is a cop, and one of their parents, to discover where they wound up, facing some scares along the way. Intriguing trailers built up hype, and the end result had both critics and audiences embracing how Weapons alternates between a creepy atmosphere and shocking moments, to the point it took the top of this list and will also do so at the box office, in spite of competition that includes #5 (where the teacher, Julia Garner, also appears), #8, and the belated sequel Freakier Friday. |
| 2 | SummerSlam (2025) | |
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The second night of this WWE event saw more division title matches than the first one, leading up to a street fight (mostly within MetLife Stadium) for the WWE Championship between Cody Rhodes and the retiring John Cena. Rhodes won the match and the belt, which Cena handed to him, then left Cena in the ring to thank the audience. Brock Lesnar (pictured) appeared, reminding everyone of their rivalry since 2003, and seemingly sent a message to Cena that his retirement won't be an easy one. |
| 3 | Loni Anderson | |
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This American actress, best known for her not-so-dumb blonde role as Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati, died on August 3, just days before she would turn 80. She was nominated twice in the role for an Emmy Award, and her career lasted until 2023. She was also married for six years to Burt Reynolds. |
| 4 | Sydney Sweeney |  |
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The controversy over this actress's American Eagle Outfitters ad, manufactured or not, drew support for Sweeney from US president Donald Trump and vice president JD Vance. |
| 5 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps |  |
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Released theatrically on July 25, this Marvel Comics film has doubled its $200+ million budget at the box office. It's the first film of the superheroes team to surpass the 2005 FF film monetarily. A sequel is in development, as it also the first film in the MCU's Phase Six - whose next theatrical releases in 2026 are Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Avengers: Doomsday (featuring the Four's archenemy in the comics). |
| 6 | Deaths in 2025 |  |
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Beware of Darkness Watch out now, take care Beware of the thoughts that linger Winding up inside your head... |
| 7 | ChatGPT | |
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An update to the popular chatbot happened during the week with the release of GPT-5. |
| 8 | Superman (2025 film) | |
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The launch of the DC Universe is the most sucessful superhero movie of the year, bound to make box office close to $600 million. Yet its digital download release is set for August 15, after little over a month in theaters! |
| 9 | Wednesday (TV series) | |
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*snap, snap* 3 years after taking Netflix by storm, the latest take on The Addams Family had half of its second season released, where Wednesday Addams sees more murders and mysteries threatening her school for outcasts. |
| 10 | War of the Worlds (2025 film) | |
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The War of the Worlds has been repeatedly adapted, with Hollywood's most famous versions from 1953 and 2005 updating the book's Victorian setting to a contemporary one. During the pandemic, there was an attempt to do it again in screenlife form, allowing its cast of Ice Cube, Clark Gregg and others to just film from their homes, and the fact that after filming it took 5 years for the movie to come out is not a good sign. Hence as this War of the Worlds got added to Amazon Prime Video's catalogue, critics lambasted the movie (with product placement for Amazon being a particularly mocked element!) and whatever audiences decided to check it out didn't approve it either. |
| Rank | Article | Class | Views | Image | Notes/about |
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| 1 | Weapons (2025 film) | |
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This year, Julia Garner already saw her husband fall into lycanthropy in Wolf Man, and she's being scared again playing a formerly alcoholic teacher who one day has all but one child in her class vanish into the night, forcing her to investigate. Weapons was considered one of the best horror movies of the year and by opening with $43 million domestically, already covered its budget and made Warner Bros. have six straight movies opening over $40 million (after A Minecraft Movie, Sinners, Final Destination Bloodlines, F1 and #8), a streak they might extend next month with The Conjuring: Last Rites. A prequel to Weapons, possibly focused on the movie's villain, is in the works. |
| 2 | Coolie (2025 film) | |
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On the heels of Saiyaara at the Indian box office, this Tamil action thriller, written by Lokesh Kanagaraj, has received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and audiences, respectively; mainly equally divided with its two halves: praise for the first half, and criticism for the second. |
| 3 | War 2 (film) | |
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War was one of Bollywood's biggest hits in 2019, 2023's Pathaan would estabilish it as part of the YRF Spy Universe, so now a proper sequel has hit Indian theaters, again with Hrithik Roshan wrecking havoc. |
| 4 | Deaths in 2025 | |
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Release your mind Fast forward to the secrets of your code Your life's on overload Delete or save... |
| 5 | ChatGPT | |
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| 6 | Alien: Earth | |
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The long-standing horror sci-fi franchise gets its first television foray, where two years before the original Alien a spaceship carrying that horrifying thing also known as the Xenomorph crashes on an island. |
| 7 | Wednesday (TV series) | |
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The first half of the second season, following the morbidly macabre at her school, released on August 6, guaranteeing its return (and possible permanence) on this list through its second-half release in three weeks. |
| 8 | Superman (2025 film) | |
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The two biggest superhero movies of the year, even if with box office earnings not as massive as the genre's heyday. DC launched its new shared cinematic universe with its landmark character, and in spite of getting close to $600 million worldwide Superman is already on video-on-demand, apparently because director James Gunn wanted it available as lead-up to the next project that will hit HBO Max this week. Marvel did the first universally well-received adaptation of its "first family" (also featuring #1's star Julia Garner as Shalla-Bal the Silver Surfer), that will end with earnings around $500 million, and its cast is set to return in Avengers: Doomsday, featuring the F4's archenemy in the comics. |
| 9 | The Fantastic Four: First Steps | |
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| 10 | Danielle Spencer (American actress) | |
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This actress was best known for her role as the sassy sister on What's Happening!! in the late-1970s and its sequel. She then went on to be a veterinarian. In 2014, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and died from stomach cancer at age 60 on August 11. |
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