'Five Nights at Freddy's 2' Ryan Green/Universal Pictures Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment Logo text It's official: Blumhouse is back in fine form. Five Nights at Freddy's 2, opening two months after Blumhouse hit Black Phone 2 debuted, is on course to win the weekend with a sizeable $56.6 million from 3,412 theaters at the domestic box office to score the top opening ever for the post-Thanksgiving frame, among other milestones. That is not adjusted for inflation. Critics snubbed the Universal and Blumhouse sequel - Freddy 2's current ranking on Rotten Tomatoes is 13 percent, compared to 33 percent for the first - but audiences don't seem to mind. Freddy's 2 earned a B CinemaScore (not bad for a horror title) and strong exits. Related Stories Movies Is There A Sequel on the Way? What Comes Next After 'Wicked: For Good' Person of Interest 'Five Nights at Freddy's 2' Star Elizabeth Lail Lives for the Thrill And while it won't match the $80 million domestic launch of the first Five Nights at Freddy's, it's hard to compare the two because of markedly different play patterns. Other milestones: the sequel looks to score the second-best horror opening of the year so domestically behind Atomic Monster's The Conjuring Last Rites (Atomic Monster and Blumhouse merged in 2024); the year's highest opening so far for a PG-13 horror pic ahead of Predator: Badlands; and the highest December horror opening ever at the domestic box office ahead of Scream 2. In 2023, Blumhouse's box-office horror phenomenon Five Nights at Freddy's, based on the blockbuster game series by Scott Cawthon about the oversized animatronic animal figures that inhabit Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, became the highest-grossing horror film of the year in earning north of $300 million globally. Josh Hutcherson returns to lead the cast, with Emma Tammi also returning to direct. The sequel topped Friday's chart with a whopping $30.1 million, including previews. Disney's record-smashing Thanksgiving tentpole Zootopia 2 is looking at a second-place finish with $45 million from 4,000 sites, bringing its domestic total to north of $222 million through Sunday. Universal and Jon M. Chu's Wicked: For Good is falling off a relatively steep 75 percent in its third weekend to an estimated $15.6 million from 3,985 locations for a domestic tally of $296 million through Sunday, versus $322.1 million for the first Wicked at the same point in time (the first installment, opening over Thanksgiving 2024, declined 55 percent in it third outing). Similar to Zootopia, Wicked 2 shattered numerous records during its opening weekend before Thanksgiving. GKIDS' new anime pic Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution is slotted to come in fourth with an estimated $10 million from 1,823 cinemas. Two Lionsgate titles - Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair and Now You See Me: Now You Don't - are duking it out for fifth place with around $4 million each. They are playing in 1,198 and 2,626 theaters, respectively. The Whole Bloody Affair unites 2003's Kill Bill: Vol 1 and 2004's Kill Bill: Vol 2 for the first time and includes a new and never-before-seen anime sequence. The film's run time is well over four hours - or 281 minutes - but that, thankfully, includes a 15-minute intermission. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up wicked for good Is There A Sequel on the Way? What Comes Next After 'Wicked: For Good' Saudi Arabia Ana de Armas Opens Up About Her "Beautiful Friendship" With Keanu Reeves; Becoming an Action Star by Accident Saudi Arabia 'Game of Thrones' Director Alik Sakharov to Film 'Unbroken Sword' at Saudi Arabia's New PlayMaker Studios Toronto Film Festival 'Nika & Madison' Director Talks Native Resilience, Police Brutality and U.S. DEI Rollback THR's Original Podcasts How Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' Predicted the Jeffrey Epstein Saga Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere This Was Sound Engineer Tod Maitland's Biggest Challenge Mixing 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere' wicked for good Is There A Sequel on the Way? What Comes Next After 'Wicked: For Good' Saudi Arabia Ana de Armas Opens Up About Her "Beautiful Friendship" With Keanu Reeves; Becoming an Action Star by Accident Saudi Arabia 'Game of Thrones' Director Alik Sakharov to Film 'Unbroken Sword' at Saudi Arabia's New PlayMaker Studios Toronto Film Festival 'Nika & Madison' Director Talks Native Resilience, Police Brutality and U.S. DEI Rollback THR's Original Podcasts How Stanley Kubrick's 'Eyes Wide Shut' Predicted the Jeffrey Epstein Saga Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere This Was Sound Engineer Tod Maitland's Biggest Challenge Mixing 'Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere'