Much like the homicidal animatronic mascots populating Blumhouse’s hit video-game adaptation, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 murdered box-office expectations over its opening weekend in theaters to capture the top spot among new movies in wide release. Initially estimated to pull in between $30 million and $40 million in its first three days, the critically crapped-upon sequel to 2023’s FNAF grossed a startlingly strong $63 million across 3,400 North American screens to defeat the weekend’s presumed winner, the Disney animated buddy-cop comedy Zootopia 2 (in its second week in theaters).

Arriving on a spot on the movies-release calendar long thought to be a financial dead zone for Hollywood, that tally comes with a few superlatives. It is a record-breaking post-Thanksgiving opening (

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