Refresh for latest…: Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s is gaming its way to an estimated $130.6M global opening, higher even than we had it yesterday as this phenom is now eyeing a $52.6M bow from 64 international box office markets.
As Anthony has chronicled, the domestic $78M opening is a stunner — and amid the day-and-date Peacock bow. Overseas, the play is purely theatrical and has set a number of records.
Globally, this is the biggest horror opening of 2023 ahead of The Nun II, and best for Blumhouse ever, topping Halloween. Overseas, Fazbear and crew lead the biggest original horror opening of the year, and the second biggest horror debut, in line with The Nun II.
Latin America has been super dialed in to FNAF with Mexico the top opening market at $10.8M, followed by the UK ($6.3M), Australia ($3.8M), Brazil ($3.9M) and Germany ($2.6M).
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