{"id":333440,"date":"2025-12-07T20:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333440\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:01:10","slug":"five-nights-at-freddys-2-opening-to-historic-57-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/333440\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Opening to Historic $57 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAnimatronics are making magic at the year-end box office<\/a>, between sequels Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s and Zootopia<\/a> 2.<\/p>\n

\n\tFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2<\/a>, opening two months after Black Phone 2 <\/a>put horror maestro Jason Blum back in the driver\u2019s seat, topped the domestic box office chart with a sizeable $63 million from 3,412 theaters to score the top opening ever for the post-Thanksgiving frame, among other milestones.<\/p>\n

\n\tOverseas, the Universal and Blumhouse movie took an equally stellar $46.1 million from 76 markets for an early global total of $109 million against a net production of $36 million before marketing.<\/p>\n

\n\tCritics snubbed the profit monster \u2014 Freddy 2\u2018s current ranking on Rotten Tomatoes is 13 percent, compared to 33 percent for the first \u2014 but audiences don\u2019t seem to give a hoot. Freddy\u2019s 2 earned a B CinemaScore (not bad for a horror title) and strong exits. And while it won\u2019t match the $80 million domestic launch of the first Five Nights at Freddy\u2018s, it\u2019s hard to compare the two because of markedly different play patterns.<\/p>\n

\n\tOther milestones domestically: the sequel looks to score the second-best horror opening of the year so far domestically behind\u00a0Atomic Monster\u2019s The Conjuring Last Rites<\/a> (Atomic Monster and Blumhouse merged in 2024); the year\u2019s highest opening so far for a PG-13 horror pic ahead of\u00a0Predator: Badlands; and the highest December horror opening ever at the domestic box office ahead of\u00a0Scream 2. Overseas, it is likewise the second-best opening of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2023, Blumhouse\u2019s box-office horror phenomenon\u00a0Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s, based on the blockbuster game series by Scott Cawthon about the oversized animatronic animal figures that inhabit Freddy Fazbear\u2019s Pizza, became the highest-grossing horror film of the year in earning north of $300 million globally. Josh Hutcherson<\/a> returns to lead the cast, with Emma Tammi also returning to direct.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe sequel topped Friday\u2019s chart with a whopping $30.1 million, including previews.<\/p>\n

\n\tWalt Disney Animation\u2019s record-smashing Thanksgiving tentpole <\/a>Zootopia 2<\/a> easily came in second in its third weekend with $43 million from 4,000 sites, bringing its domestic total to $220.6 million. Overseas, the sequel took in another $219 million for an astonishing foreign tally of $695.3 million as it speeds toward the $1 billion mark at the global box office. Only one other Hollywood pic has achieved that feat so far this year, Disney\u2019s Lilo & Stitch.<\/p>\n

\n\tZootopia continues to make history in China, where it has now earned $430 million to rank as the second-biggest Hollywood title of all time behind Avengers: Endgame, unadjusted. And it debuted to $12.3 million in Japan, the second-biggest Hollywood launch of all time behind fellow Disney animated blockbuster Frozen 2. Other milestones: it is already the biggest international grosser of the year among Western releases, helping to push Disney past the $5 billion mark in worldwide ticket sales for the second year in a row, and only the third time since 2018 (no other studio has ever cleared the $5 billion mark).<\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal and Jon M. Chu<\/a>\u2018s Wicked<\/a>: For Good fell a relatively steep 73 percent in its third weekend to an estimated $16.8 million from 3,985 locations for an impressive domestic tally of $297 million through Sunday. Still, that\u2019s behind the $322.1 million earned by the first Wicked at the same point in time (the first installment, opening over Thanksgiving 2024, declined 55 percent in its third outing). Similar to Zootopia, Wicked 2<\/a> shattered numerous records during its opening<\/a> weekend before Thanksgiving. Execs both inside and outside of Universal believe Wicked: For Good still has plenty of time to make up ground.<\/p>\n

\n\tInternationally, Wicked: For Good grossed $13 million from 80 markets for a foreign total of $143.2 million and $440.1 million globally.<\/p>\n

\n\tGKIDS\u2019 new anime pic Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution came in fourth in North America with an estimated $10 million from 1,823 cinemas.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo Lionsgate titles came in fourth and fifth \u2014 Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t and Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Kill Bill<\/a>: The Whole Bloody Affair<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tNow You See Me celebrated crossing $200 million in worldwide ticket sales after earning another $3.5 million domestically from 2,626 theaters and $9 million overseas from 85 markets. The pic\u2019s domestic tally through Sunday is $55.3 million and north of $154.3 million overseas for an estimated global total of nearly $210 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Whole Bloody Affair\u00a0took in an impressive $3.25 million from 1,198 sites. The project unites 2003\u2019s\u00a0Kill Bill: Vol 1\u00a0and 2004\u2019s\u00a0Kill Bill: Vol 2\u00a0for the first time and includes a new and never-before-seen anime sequence. The film\u2019s run time is well over four hours \u2014 or 281 minutes \u2014 but that, thankfully, includes a 15-minute intermission.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the specialty box office, Focus Features\u2019 awards contender Hamnet came in eighth place as it expanded into 744 theaters, grossing an estimated $2.3 million for an early domestic cume of $4.2 million. The plan is to go slowly in terms of rolling out the drama in order to take advantage of various nominations.<\/p>\n

\n\tDec. 7, 7:56 a.m.: Updated with revised estimates. <\/p>\n

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