Five Nights at Freddy’s dropped hard in its sophomore frame but stomped past $100 million at the domestic box office, per Deadline. The horror flick dipped 76% and brought in $19.4M, likely due to its availability on Peacock. Why see a movie twice in theaters when you can watch it at home for $4.99? Also, … Read more
Five Nights at Freddy’s looks to drop near 80% in its second week with a $17 million take, which is still enough for a first place finish With Five Nights at Freddy’s opening to a record breaking $80 million last week, $60 million more than its reported $20 million budget, any further box office dollars … Read more
Nobody saw this coming: The film adaptation of the Five Nights at Freddy’s video game series is a huge hit both in theaters and on streaming. Typically, when a movie premieres at home on the same date it’s in theaters, that diminishes its box-office potential. Not Five Nights at Freddy’s. The film dominated the weekend box office and was watched … Read more
Five Nights at Freddy’s becomes the most-watched movie on the Peacock streaming service in its first five days of release. Blumhouse and Universal Pictures’ Five Nights at Freddy’s has been setting a few box-office records following its debut last week, but it also broke a big record on the Peacock streaming service. The streaming service … Read more
Universal/Blumhouse scored another hit with the big-screen adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy’s, which scored $78 million in its debut, crushing even the most outlandish forecasts by a healthy margin, per Deadline. What’s more impressive is that Five Nights also debuted on Peacock, which typically results in lower-than-expected results. Not here. One could argue the … Read more
Five Nights at Freddy’s scares up an impressive Halloween weekend record with an estimated $78 million debut. The theatrical day and date model has been one that has been scrutinized over the past few years as the world tried to figure out how to release movies during a global pandemic. Warner Bros famously saw their … Read more
Five Night’s at Freddy’s sets records in its impressive debut Numbers have begun rolling in for this last weekend before Halloween and with tracking lying somewhere between $50 million and $90 million for the video game adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy’s, the film is hitting its mark with a projected $78 million opening. That’s … Read more
For a short period there during the pandemic, big films were getting released on streaming the same day they premiered in theaters. Warner Bros. did that for all of their 202 releases via their HBO Max service; Universal did it a few times with their Peacock streaming site on titles like Halloween Kills. But that model was perhaps not the most … Read more
But none of this will surprise the games’ fans, who are presumably familiar with the movie’s eerie tone and still-expanding meta-narrative. Yet while there’s enough ambient dread in this “Five Nights at Freddy’s” feature to indicate why the video games are so popular, there’s more by-the-numbers plotting than needed. Tammi’s “Five Nights at Freddy’s” often … Read more
We’re just days away from the big-screen adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy’s, the popular video game that inspired a legion of YouTubers to make videos in which they overreact to scary, funny, or shocking things. Created by Scott Cawthon in 2014, Freddy’s is a relatively simple concept. Gamers control a security guard tasked with … Read more