Yahoo Movies Five Nights at Freddy's has set an impressive new record
Five Nights at Freddy's is now officially the highest-grossing Blumhouse Productions movie ever.
Adapted from the cult horror video game, and starring The Hunger Games' Josh Hutcherson and Scream's Matthew Lillard, it's amassed $296,225,010 at the box office to date (via The Numbers), which makes it the company's most financially successful release since Split.
Reacting to this new record, boss Jason Blum shared on X: "FNAF is the BIGGEST @blumhouse film of ALL-TIME. Just passed SPLIT. thanks to Emma Tammi, Scott Cawthon, cast & the New Orleans crew, the Henson team, & our partners @universalpics & @peacock. @jhutch1992, @matthewlillard, @Piperrubios, @elizethdlail."
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Despite welcoming lukewarm reviews, Five Nights at Freddy's also earned the US's third-biggest horror opening of all-time last month - $78 million - behind the two It chapters.
On a worldwide scale, it brought in a staggering $130 million that weekend.
Director Emma Tammi's decision to get her movie PG-13 rated seems to have worked wonders, then, who was forced to defend it after some criticism from fans.
"It felt like it was important and really exciting to be able to include a younger audience to come see this movie," she told GamesRadar.
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"But we also, of course, wanted to deliver on the scares and at least the implied violence of a kill, even if you don't see everything."
Tammi went on to add: "I personally find it sometimes more fun and creative to figure out the way to show the thing without explicitly showing the thing or without graphically showing the thing. It lets your mind go to even darker places sometimes than when you show all the gore in the guts."
Five Nights at Freddy's is in cinemas now.
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