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‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ Breaks Blumhouse and Halloween Box Office Records With $130 Million Worldwide
It’s been a long journey to the big screen for the popular video game franchise Five Nights at Freddy’s, and fans of the game damn sure showed up to support the killer animatronics.
Universal and Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s movie had a MASSIVE opening weekend, scaring up $78 million and topping the box office here in the United States.
Worldwide, the film opened to $130.5 million in its debut weekend!
What’s particularly impressive about this massive debut is that Five Nights at Freddy’s was also released on Peacock the same day it hit theaters, shattering the notion that day-and-date releases are bad for the box office. Even with the film available at a low cost at home – Peacock starts at just $5.99 per month – audiences turned out in droves to see it in theaters.
But just how incredible is that $130.5 million opening? Well, it’s Blumhouse’s best worldwide debut of all time, and it’s also the biggest opening weekend for a horror film directed by a woman (Emma Tammi). Five Nights at Freddy’s was made on a production budget of just $20 million, so most of this is already pure profit for Blumhouse and Universal.
Of note, the $78 million domestic debut for Five Nights at Freddy’s makes it the biggest opening ever for Halloween weekend, yet another record the film has already shattered.
We are DEFNITELY getting more Five Nights at Freddy’s movies. Stay tuned.
In the film, “a troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy’s won’t be so easy to make it through.”
Five Nights at Freddy’s is directed by Emma Tammi (The Wind, Blood Moon) and is written by Scott Cawthon, Emma Tammi and Seth Cuddeback.
Jim Henson’s Creature Shop handled the film’s monster animatronics.
Five Nights at Freddy’s is a horror video game series in which you must survive the titular five nights at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza from the dangers of animatronic characters.
NEON has been absolutely slaying the marketing game for their horror output this year, and they’re kicking the Longlegs campaign into high gear with one more month until release.
A cryptic ad in The Seattle Times today (seen below) has led clever horror fans to discover TheBirthdayMurders.net, the brand new official viral marketing website for Longlegs.
The in-universe website details the victims of the serial killer known as Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), described as a “Satan-worshipping psycho” who has terrorized families throughout the Pacific Northwest for nearly three decades.
The website details, “A bloody trail of bodies here in the great state of Oregon attests to the depraved savagery of this one-of-a-kind serial killer. With over three dozen victims that we know of, LONGLEGS is one of the most prolific mass murderers ever to have graced the region, and his gruesome endeavors are the stuff of nightmares. At first, all of the killings appeared to be straightforward murder-suicides: the handiwork of average men who suddenly snapped and slaughtered their wives and children. But a series of eerie coded messages left at the crime scenes indicate that someone – or something – is influencing these horrific crimes. The cryptic letters are signed by someone calling himself LONGLEGS.”
“With thirty-eight kills to his name, LONGLEGS has torn apart the lives of eleven different families throughout the Beaver State. His victims were good people: honest fathers, decent mothers, innocent little children.”
The website is loaded with secrets, clues, and gruesome (faux) crime scene photos, and you might even find a mention of yours truly nestled in there. Poke around. Stay a while.
Longlegs arrives in theaters July 12.
The upcoming serial killer horror movie marks the return of director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel). Nicolas Cage stars alongside Maika Monroe, with Monroe playing an FBI agent and Cage playing a serial killer.
In the film, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.
The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, disturbing images and some language.”
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