Five Nights at Freddy’s opening weekend was absolutely massive

It’s been a good year for video game adaptations at the box office. It’s been a good year for video game adaptations at the box office. Super Mario Bros. MovieIt’s the first time a movie based on a videogame has been released. Five Nights at Freddy’s has set a new benchmark for second place. In its first three days, the movie grossed $130m in North America and $78m worldwide.

Five Nights at Freddy’s massive success is due in no small part to the huge fanbase of the video games it’s based on. This game series began in 2014 and is still going strong today, thanks in part to the dedicated YouTube audience.

This fan enthusiasm is likely to be the cause of disparity in attendance between teams. Five Nights At Freddy’s reviews and the fan reaction. The movie received mostly negative reviews but it has an A- Cinemascore. This means that the people who left the showings had a good time.

Addition to FNAF’s impressive success at the box office is the fact that it was available on Peacock the same day as its theatrical release. Universal and Peacock tried this strategy before but it was not as successful. Halloween Kills49 Million dollars Halloween ends on October 31. ($40 million). However, Five Nights at Freddy’s impressive day-and-date success isn’t just limited to Peacock. It’s also the biggest box office for a same-day streaming movie ever, beating the Halloween movies and Dune ($41 million). The only same-day movie with a technically bigger opening weekend is Marvel’s Black Widow, which was released on Disney Plus on the same day it came out theatrically, but watching it at home required an additional $30 purchase alongside the streaming subscription, so it’s not exactly the same thing.

This year, the rest of box office was shaky. Mario has been a massive success. BarbieThen, OppenheimerThere have been a lot more disappointments than that. Mission Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One. But if there’s anything we’ve learned over the course of the pandemic and the slow revival of the box office over the last two years, it’s horror fans love movie theaters, and they’re willing to buy tickets to movies that interest them.