FRIDAY PM: Don’t question the worth of theatrical, at all. A historically dead weekend post Thanksgiving is no longer as Universal/Blumhouse’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is opening to a No. 1 take of $45M-$47M at 3,412 theaters. That’s a record for first frame of December. This is after a $24.5M Friday including last night’s previews.

The Post-Thanksgiving/first weekend of December’s previous opening record? The 2003 Tom Cruise movie The Last Samurai which debuted to $24.2M. Freddy’s 2 cash also beats the No. 1 haul of Frozen II in the post-Turkey period which was $35.1M; that pic’s third frame.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is prevailing over the second weekend of Disney’s Zootopia 2 which is eyeing $10M today, for around $45M for the weekend at 4,000 locations, -55

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