Even though Universal/Blumhouse-Atomic Monster’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 at $63M domestic didn’t beat the original movie’s $80M opening, it was still pretty damn good, particularly for a PG-13 horror movie in December. Let’s take a look at the Emma Tammi direccted film, which also raked in $46M abroad for a $109M global opening. It should be noted that the sequel was a pure theatrical release unlike its first chapter which went day-and-date theatrical with Universal streaming service Peacock.
DOMESTIC
Biggest Opening Ever for a Post-Thanksgiving Theatrical Release, beating Warner Bros’ 2003 Tom Cruise epic The Last Samurai ($24.2M).
Biggest Opening Ever for the 49th Weekend of the Year, ahead of 2001’s Warner Bros. movie, Ocean’s Eleven ($38.1M).
Biggest No. 1 Weekend For a Movie During Post-Thanksgiving Weekend, beating last year’s record set by Moana 2 which had a second weekend in the post holiday frame of $51.2M.
Biggest Weekend Ever in the Post-Thanksgiving Period for All Titles at $150M, ahead of last year’s record of $137.2M.
Biggest December Horror Opening, topping 1997’s Scream 2 at $32.9M.
Biggest December Opening for Universal Pictures, besting 2005’s King Kong at $50.1M.
Biggest Opening for PG-13 Horror Film in 2025, surpassing Predator: Badlands at $40M.
2nd Largest Horror Opening of 2025, behind only The Conjuring: Last Rites at $84M. With this debut, Blumhouse–Atomic Monster now holds four of the top 10 biggest horror openings of the year (The Conjuring: Last Rites, Five Nights At Freddy’s 2, Black Phone 2 and The Monkey)
3rd Biggest Opening for a PG-13 Horror Movie, after 2023’s Five Nights at Freddy’s at $80M and 2013’s World War Z at $66.4M.
INTERNATIONAL
In Mexico at $6.9M, both the 2nd Biggest Universal Horror Opening of All-Time and the 2nd Biggest for Blumhouse, beating Five Nights at Freddy’s.
UK/Ireland with $4.4M reps Universal’s Biggest Horror Opening of All-Time, beating Five Nights at Freddy’s (excluding previews).
Brazil with $3.2M, is the Biggest Universal December Opening of All-Time, Universal’s 2nd Biggest Opening Ever for a Horror Film, and Blumhouse’s 2nd Biggest Opening Ever (ahead of Five Nights at Freddy‘s).
Spain with $2.9M is Blumhouse’s Biggest Opening Ever (excluding previews).
Australia with $2.4M is 2nd Biggest Blumhouse Opening of All-Time (behind Five Nights at Freddy’s), and the 3rd Biggest Universal Horror Opening of All-Time (behind Us and FNAF).
