{"id":334149,"date":"2025-12-08T04:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334149\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T04:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T04:04:13","slug":"freddys-sequel-surges-at-box-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/334149\/","title":{"rendered":"“Freddy’s” Sequel Surges At Box-Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Universal Pictures<\/p>\n

Going into the weekend, projections for the \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s\u201d sequel weren\u2019t good. The title was projected to land at around $35-40 million, just under half the debut of its predecessor, and that film was impacted by being launched on Peacock simultaneously \u2013 not the case here.<\/p>\n

Well, Universal and Blumhouse will be sighing with relief as actual grosses for the film indicate the movie is on track for a domestic debut of a very robust $63 million. Still down on the first film, but not so drastically and an excellent result for a PG-13 horror movie in December.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the biggest opening ever for a post-Thanksgiving theatrical release, coming in ahead of \u201cThe Last Samurai\u201d with $24.2 million and \u201cStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country\u201d with $18 million.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also the biggest December horror opening, December Universal opening, and PG-13 horror film in 2025. Overseas, the film also pulled in a further $46 million, bringing up its worldwide debut to $109 million \u2013 triple its $36 million production budget.<\/p>\n

Next, Disney\u2019s \u201cZootopia 2\u201d saw a decent 57% drop in its second weekend, pulling in a further $43 million domestically and a stunning $219 million overseas. The film is already up to $220 million domestically and $916 million worldwide \u2013 nearly half of that ($430 million) coming from China alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWicked: For Good\u201d was third with a further $16.7 million domestically \u2013 the title dropping a pretty severe 75% in its third weekend, suggesting its theatrical shelf life is nearly done. It currently stands at $296.6 million domestically and $143.2 million overseas for a $440.1 million worldwide haul.<\/p>\n

Anime \u201cJujutsu Kasen: Execution\u201d debuted in fourth with $10.1 million, while Tarantino\u2019s re-release \u201cKill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair\u201d took sixth place with $3.25 million. \u201cHamnet\u201d saw an expansion which pushed it up into eighth place with $2.3 million in its second weekend. Newcomers \u201cMerrily We Roll Along\u201d and \u201cFackham Hall\u201d bombed on arrival with $1.23 million and $620,000 respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cPredator: Badlands\u201d also overtook \u201cAlien vs. Predator\u201d to become the highest-grossing film in its franchise, the title reaching $180 million worldwide. The overall domestic box-office also had the biggest weekend ever in the post-Thanksgiving period with a $150 million combined haul.<\/p>\n

Source: Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures Going into the weekend, projections for the \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s\u201d sequel weren\u2019t good. The title…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-334149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-bigslider","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}