‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ gears up for second-best debut at fall box office with roughly $40 million – first look

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a low-brow look at a crazy movie season upended by the actors’ strike and led by Taylor Swift: Universal/Blumhouse’s feature film version of the video game, Five Nights at Freddy’s, is gearing up for an opening of around $40 million. It would be the second best opening at the fall box office since the beginning of the year Taylor Swift: The Eras TourIt opened to $92.8 million. The film opens in theaters and Peacock on October 27.

At worst, it’s in the $30 million range. That said, there are some big numbers, but let’s not exaggerate: A year ago, Universal had the daytime theatrical release of “Peacock.” Halloween ends north of $50 million. The last part by Jamie Lee Curtis directed by David Gordon Green Halloween The films grossed $40 million in three days. The success of the picture on Peacock may have hurt its box office, but the streamer celebrated Halloween ends At the time, it was the most watched film or series of all time on the platform for a weekend.

The heat for FreddyThis suggests that we are in a market where there is clearly no product of choice outside of the female bias Taylor Swift: Eras Tour. In the work Freddy’s The boon in a market where actors can’t advertise due to the strike is the fact that it’s a branded IP and a genre film. For $40 million freddy’s is bigger than it started before the $400 million purchase by Uni/Blumhouse/Morgan Creek The Exorcist: Believer With an opening weekend of $26.4 million, it currently has a total of $47 million through Tuesday.

Freddy’s The first choice for men and women under 25 is to quit smoking, far north of Not mapped ($44 million opening), 2022 Shout ($30 million), Halloween ends treacherously: red door ($33 million) and M3GAN ($30.4 million opening).

Directed by Emma Tammi from a screenplay by Tammi, Scott Cawthon and Seth Cuddeback. Five Nights at Freddy’sBased on the nine-year-old series, it follows a troubled security guard who takes a job at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. On his first night at work, he realizes that the night shift will not be so easy to survive. Soon he will reveal what really happened at Freddy’s. The horror film stars Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Kat Conner Sterling and Piper Rubio, as well as Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard.