Five Nights At Freddy’s “wins” the box office again
The video game adaptation had a massive drop-off after its huge opening weekend, but still beat out Taylor Swift and Martin Scorsese
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Blumhouse’s Five Nights At Freddy’s adaptation has triumphed at the box office for the second week in a row—albeit for a definition of “triumph” that has a whiff of the ol’ Pyrrhic victory to it. Variety reports that the PG-13 horror flick suffered a pretty tremendous 76 percent drop in box office returns from its first week in theaters to its second, bringing in just $19.4 million this weekend. Some critics have pointed to the film’s simultaneous streaming release on the paid tiers of Peacock as a big factor in the fall, after diehard fans swarmed the theaters to see the movie together last week.
Of course, there’s another way to look at that big dip—which was large even by the standards of second-week box-office falls, which can be fairly precipitous after opening weekend. Which is to say that Freddy’s only had so far to drop because it pretty much demolished expectations during its first week in theaters, bringing in more than $90 million over the Halloween weekend. And it’s not like $19.4 million is anything to sneeze at in any case, especially for a horror film that was made with a mere $20 million budget.
It doesn’t hurt that actual new movies didn’t make much of an impact in theaters this weekend, either, with neither Meg Ryan’s What Happens Next or Daisy Ridley’s The Marsh King’s Daughter cracking the top five films of the weekend. Marsh King, which had a limited release, brought in less than $1 million, averaging out to a little less than $800 per screen.
The other winners, then, were old favorites: Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour came in second, at $13.5 million, ahead of Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon at $7 million even. Priscilla and Radical brought up the rear, with Sofia Coppola’s biopic bringing in $5.1 in domestic markets over the weekend.
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Is this one that folks will still want to see after 10 or 20 years? Something like Blade Runner?
Maybe if you know the games, you’d appreciate it But knowing nothing about it myself (my son brought me to see it) I thought it was one of the all time worst movies I’ve ever seen. Horrible acting, and directing, and a “script” that must have been written by AI. Just all around godawful.
It was 100% “for the fans”. My son had his friend sleep over and he’s a huge fan so they wanted to watch it. About the only joy I got out of it was when I saw MatPat because I was all “I know that guy and he said the thing”. My son liked it okay but his super fan friend spent the next several hours explaining everything we did not get and what it meant, etc. I realize that in the past I’ve been the super fan explaining to others so I don’t fault him. Just not my thing.
Horrible acting, and directing, and a “script” that must have been written by AI.So what you’re saying is it has what it needs to become a billion+ dollar franchise? Bring on the sequels!
Disney should buy it! It would take even less effort than the minimal amount they spend on the MCU!
At least you’re not being an overdramatic cunt.
You’ll never go broke flogging shit that nerds have seen before to nerds. Quality doesn’t matter, and if they do have issues with it, they’ll prefer to pay the producers money first because they think it means the producers have to listen to them.Easy money.
I haven’t heard good things but FNAF has made 10x its budget worldwide. Pretty massive success.
I don’t think you know what the term “Pyrrhic victory” means.
Why should that stop them?
Wow, I never thought I’d hear the words “beat out Taylor Swift” on
– The AV Club.
Somebody tell Barsanti his crush’s movie is bombing.
That’s why he wants her in a blockbuster movie so badly.
“albeit for a definition of “triumph” that has a whiff of the ol’ Pyrrhic victory to it”
Yeah, after the movie’s record-breaking opening AND record-breaking Peacock debut, the nearly-$20 million dollars of free money at this weekend’s BO really damaged FNAF, didn’t it?