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**‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ opens
with a massive $63M U.S. debut, dominating the box office 🔥. Meanwhile, Disney’s ‘Zootopia 2’ crosses an incredible
$915M globally 🌎✨.
Get the full breakdown, records, and what comes next!**
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Animatronics
are making magic at the year-end box office, between sequels Five Nights at Freddy’s and Zootopia 2.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, opening two months after Black Phone 2 put horror maestro Jason Blum
back in the driver’s seat, topped the domestic box office chart with a sizeable
$63 million from 3,412 theaters to score the top opening ever for the
post-Thanksgiving frame, among other milestones.
Overseas,
the Universal and Blumhouse movie took an equally stellar $46.1 million from 76
markets for an early global total of $109 million against a net production of
$36 million before marketing.
Critics
snubbed the profit monster — Freddy 2‘s
current ranking on Rotten Tomatoes is 13 percent, compared to 33 percent for
the first — but audiences don’t seem to give a hoot. Freddy’s 2 earned a B CinemaScore (not bad for a
horror title) and strong exits. 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 domestically: the sequel looks to score the second-best horror
opening of the year so far 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. Overseas, it is likewise the second-best
opening of the year.
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.
Walt
Disney Animation’s record-smashing
Thanksgiving tentpole Zootopia 2 easily
came in second in its third weekend with $43 million from 4,000 sites, bringing
its domestic total to $220.6 million. Overseas, the sequel took in another $219
million for an astonishing foreign tally of $695.3 million as it speeds toward
the $1 billion mark at the global box office. Only one other Hollywood pic has
achieved that feat so far this year, Disney’s Lilo & Stitch.
Zootopia continues to make history in
China, where it has now earned $430 million to rank as the second-biggest
Hollywood title of all time behind Avengers: Endgame,
unadjusted. And it debuted to $12.3 million in Japan, the second-biggest
Hollywood launch of all time behind fellow Disney animated blockbuster Frozen 2. Other milestones: it is already the biggest
international grosser of the year among Western releases, helping to push
Disney past the $5 billion mark in worldwide ticket sales for the second year
in a row, and only the third time since 2018 (no other studio has ever cleared
the $5 billion mark).
Universal
and Jon M. Chu‘s Wicked:
For Good fell a relatively steep 73 percent in its third weekend
to an estimated $16.8 million from 3,985 locations for an impressive domestic
tally of $297 million through Sunday. Still, that’s behind the $322.1 million
earned by the first Wicked at
the same point in time (the first installment, opening over Thanksgiving 2024,
declined 55 percent in its third outing). Similar to Zootopia, Wicked 2 shattered numerous
records during its opening weekend before Thanksgiving. Execs
both inside and outside of Universal believe Wicked: For Good still
has plenty of time to make up ground.
Internationally, Wicked: For Good grossed $13 million from 80
markets for a foreign total of $143.2 million and $440.1 million globally.
GKIDS’
new anime pic Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution came
in fourth in North America with an estimated $10 million from 1,823 cinemas.
Two
Lionsgate titles came in fourth and fifth — Now You See Me: Now You
Don’t and Quentin Tarantino’s Kill
Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
Now You See Me celebrated crossing $200
million in worldwide ticket sales after earning another $3.5 million
domestically from 2,626 theaters and $9 million overseas from 85 markets. The
pic’s domestic tally through Sunday is $55.3 million and north of $154.3
million overseas for an estimated global total of nearly $210 million.
The Whole Bloody Affair took
in an impressive $3.25 million from 1,198 sites. The project 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.
At
the specialty box office, Focus Features’ awards contender Hamnet came in eighth place as it expanded into
744 theaters, grossing an estimated $2.3 million for an early domestic cume of
$4.2 million. The plan is to go slowly in terms of rolling out the drama in
order to take advantage of various nominations.
Dec. 7, 7:56 a.m.:
Updated with revised estimates.
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