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Five Nights At Freddy’s and 2023’s video game adaptation success


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The latest video game movie adaptation, Five Nights at Freddy’s saw Blumhouse’s biggest opening weekend ever! What seems to be the key to video game adaptations finding their audience? We take a deep dive into Freddy’s audience, as well as the new religious title After Death, and more on this week’s Behind the Screens.


Topics and times:

  • Five Nights at Freddy’s box office overview - 0:52
  • Five Nights at Freddy’s audience analysis - 1:54
  • Uplift in younger audiences from Five Nights at Freddy’s - 4:52
  • 2023’s video game adaptation success - 6:06
  • After Death box office and audience - 7:57
  • Box office top 5 roundup - 10:28
  • More title shifts - 11:16
  • Next Week - 13:14

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    Box Office Overview:

    • Five Nights at Freddy’s debuted with an $80M domestic box office return, with another $52.7M from 64 international markets for a global opening weekend of $132.7M.
    • Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour grossed a further $15.4M domestically and $53M internationally, bringing its global cumulative total to $202.6M.
    • Killers of the Flower Moon saw a drop of 60% from its opening weekend, bringing in $9.3M domestically.
    • After Death opened on 2,600 screens for a total of $5.1M in the domestic market.
    • The Exorcist: Believer made $3.3M domestically, and internationally reached a total of $61M, bringing its worldwide total to $120.6M.
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