\n\tUniversal and Blumhouse\u2019s $36M net sequel Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 is looking to bring some life to what is typically an off weekend at the post holiday Thanksgiving box office. Last night, the sequel, which has director Emma Tammi back in the director\u2019s chair, made $7.2M, which is -30% off from the $10.3M of the first film. <\/p>\n
\n\tThat first movie based on the 2014 videogame brought out a rabid fanbase, and at a time when the actors strike didn\u2019t permit any kind of cast publicity. The pic went on to post an Oppenheimer $80M opening during the final weekend of October; and that\u2019s even with a theatrical day-and-date availability on Peacock. This time, it\u2019s a pure theatrical release for part 2. <\/p>\n
\n\tPreviews began yesterday at 2PM in 3,000 locations. Last night\u2019s number is above that of A Quiet Place: Day One (a June release which posted $6.8M in previews and a $52.2M opening) and under that of Venom: The Last Dance ($8.5M previews, and $51M opening). Remember, it\u2019s post-Thanksgiving, it\u2019s only 20 days until Christmas, and there\u2019s a lot of shopping to be done by people, and parties to attend. <\/p>\n
\n\tFive Nights at Freddy\u2018s pulled in an audience that was 80% under 25, unprecedented in this day and age, and though more male skewing than female, 57% to 43%, the concern is that the female portion of this demo may not expand over the weekend. Heading into today, the forecast for Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 was $35M-$40M+ with Disney\u2019s second frame of Zootopia 2<\/a> set to win with $50M. The first Friday for Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s was $39.6M, with previews repping 26% of that number. Saturday fell a big -39%, which could have been partly due to the front-loaded nature of the crowd and the fact that the movie was available on Peacock. <\/p>\n \n\tTop 5 for the week:<\/p>\n \n\t1.) Zootopia 2 (Dis) 4000 theaters, Wk $118.8M\/Total $177.4M\/Wk 1<\/p>\n \n\t2.) Wicked: For Good (Uni) 4,115 theaters, Wk $72.7M (-65%), Total $280.2M\/Wk 2 <\/p>\n \n\t3.) Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t (LG) 3,092 theaters, Wk $9.1M (-39%), Total $51.2M\/Wk 3 <\/p>\n \n\t4.) Predator: Badlands (Dis) 2,750 theaters, Wk $6.1M (-40%), Total $86.4M\/Wk 4<\/p>\n \n\t5.) The Running Man (Par) 2,749 theaters, Wk $4.86M (-47%), Total $35.3M\/Wk 3<\/p>\n \n\tMore. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal and Blumhouse\u2019s $36M net sequel Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2 is looking to bring some life to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,28949,206,77793],"class_list":{"0":"post-332360","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\/332360","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=332360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}