The marketplace is clearly missingDune: Part Two, which was originally slated to release this weekend before being delayed to next year owing to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. Instead, Universal’sFive Nights at Freddy’stopped what turned out to be one of the lowest-grossing weekends at the domestic box office this year. The horror film, an adaptation of the popular video game franchise,plummeted by over 75%in its second weekend of release, after delivering a record opening a week ago.
The movie grossed an estimated $19 million this weekend, taking its running domestic total past the $113 million mark. The film’s $80 milliondomestic debutsetnumerous records– it was the biggest Halloween debut ever, andthe biggest in Blumhouse’s history– but it was also front-loaded. The franchise’s fans came out in large numbers to check the movie out on opening weekend, defying a day-and-date streaming release, but thepoor reviewsseem to have deterred any return business.
Despite that,Five Nights at Freddy’sis now among only five films to have grossed more than $100 million domestically despite a day-and-date streaming release, joining the likes ofBlack Widow($183 million),Jungle Cruise($117 million),Dune($108 million) andGodzilla vs. Kong($101 million).
Weekend Gross
Five Nights at Freddy’s
$19.4 million
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour
$13.7 million
Killers of the Flower Moon
$7 million
$5 million
$2.5 million
Taylor Swift Has Come to the Industry’s Rescue Again
As it did in its record-settingopening weekend,Taylor Swift’sThe Eras Tourconcert film is proving to be the saving grace at the box office once again. The movie is exceeding expectations in its fourth weekend, adding nearly $14 million to its domestic tally.The Eras Tourhas now grossed almost $170 million domestically, as it enters the second leg of its international rollout this weekend with over $200 million in the bank globally.
Martin Scorsese’sKillers of the Flower Moonis taking the number three spot for the second weekend in a row. The three and a half hour epic, produced by Apple, grossed an estimated $7 million this weekend, finally cracking the $50 million mark domestically.Killers of the Flower Moonwas produced on a reported budget of over $200 million, and is the first film produced by a streamer to get a proper theatrical run. But despite the involvement of A-list talent both in front of and behind the camera, and excellent reviews, the film is going to have a tough time recovering its budget theatrically. Globally, the moviepassed the $100 million marka few days ago.
The fourth spot this weekend was claimed by directorSofia Coppola’s acclaimedPriscilla, a drama about the complex relationship betweenElvisandPriscilla Presley. Pegged as an antithesis to Baz Luhrmann’s hitElvisbiopic from a couple of years ago, the movie grossed a little over $5 million in its first weekend of wide release. The top five was rounded out by the inspirational Mexican dramaRadical, starringEugenio Derbez, which edged outThe Exorcist: Believerwith $2.5 million across its first three days of release from just over 400 domestic theaters. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Can you survive five nights? The terrifying horror game phenomenon becomes a blood-chilling cinematic event, as Blumhouse — the producer ofM3GAN,The Black Phone, andThe Invisible Man— bringsFive Nights at Freddy’sto the big screen. The film follows a troubled security guard as he 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.
