\n\tHistorically, the first weekend of December\/post-Thanksgiving frame is one of the worst weekends of the year. But if you book it, they will come. Specifically, a tentpole and that\u2019s Universal and Blumhouse\u2019s Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 which is looking at $35M-$40M+ domestic, and another $30M+ abroad for a global start around $70M. <\/p>\n
\n\tEven though the sequel, which has Emma Tammi back in the director\u2019s chair, is bound for the No. 2 spot, behind Disney\u2019s second weekend of Zootopia 2<\/a> (around $50M, -50%, due to great word of mouth), it\u2019s going to be a very bountiful weekend at the box office, potentially surpassing last year\u2019s first weekend of December record of $137.2M. That\u2019s with the third weekend of Wicked: For Good added in which is eyeing around a -55% hold or $27.7M. <\/p>\n \n\tThe top three movies last year in the first frame of December \u2013 Moana 2, Wicked, and Gladiator II\u2013 grossed just over $100M. <\/p>\n \n\tIn addition, there\u2019s a lot of low single digit openings from a slew of classic and indie label wide entries, i.e. Bleecker Street\u2019s British satire Fackham Hall (1,112 theaters), Lionsgate\u2019s distribution deal of Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (which has limited showtimes given its length at 1,100), Sony Pictures Classics\u2019 Daniel Radcliffe, Jonthan Groff, Lindsay Mendez filmed stage musical, Merrily We Roll Along (1,200 theaters), GKIDS\u2019 Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution (1,833 theaters), and IFC\u2019s 1000 Nights of Hero (1,000 theaters). <\/p>\n \n\tThe first Five Night at Freddy\u2019s played during fall 2023 when the strikes walloped the box office, debuted to an amazing $80M stateside, a record for a day-and-date release as the title received a simultaneous release on Universal\u2019s streaming service Peacock. Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s pulls in a highly devout 18-25 demo, guaranteed to show up at cinemas in full costume. It doesn\u2019t matter where reviews are as the franchise is critic-proof, chapter one getting hit by critics at 33% on Rotten Tomatoes and an A- on CinemaScore. The sequel is booked at 3,300 theaters. Previews start at 2PM on Thursday. Collectively,\u00a0the trailers for\u00a0Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2\u00a0have scared up nearly 400 million global views to date.<\/p>\n \n\tThe offshore read on Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 is that it will come in lower than that previous film. We are in a different time and at a different momentum. The Josh Hutcherson part two hits 76 markets. Those include majors Korea and France which open on Wednesday, followed by Mexico, Brazil, Italy, Germany and Australia on Thursday; and then the UK and Spain on Friday. Japan comes later, on January 23. Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s finaled at $137.2M domestic, $271.5M global and minted $161M in profit during its first cycle.<\/a> <\/p>\n \n\tIn Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2, more than one year has passed since the supernatural nightmare at Freddy Fazbear\u2019s Pizza. Former security guard Mike (Hutcherson) and police officer Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail) have kept the truth from Mike\u2019s 11-year-old sister, Abby (Piper Rubio), concerning the fate of her animatronic friends.\u00a0However, Abby sneaks out to reconnect with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, which sets into motion even more chaos, and a new gang of robotic cohorts, from the dumpy, haunted pizza parlor. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Historically, the first weekend of December\/post-Thanksgiving frame is one of the worst weekends of the year. But if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,28949,206,77793],"class_list":{"0":"post-328812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-five-nights-at-freddys-2","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-zootopia-2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}