Five Nights at Freddy’s has passed an important box office milestone despite a huge drop in its second weekend. The Blumhouse horror movie is based on the video game franchise of the same name, which was created by the movie’s co-screenwriter Scott Cawthon. It stars Josh Hutcherson as Mike, an orphaned young man who takes a nighttime security job in order to provide for his younger sister, only to discover the animatronics at the closed-down family restaurant Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza have minds of their own and are hiding a dark secret.
Per Deadline, the Five Nights at Freddy’s box office has dropped 78% in its second domestic weekend, only taking in $17.8 million. This is a catastrophic drop, even considering the fact that it’s a horror movie and the genre typically has larger-than-normal drops of 60% or more. However, this hasn’t prevented the movie from taking the No. 1 spot at the box office for the second weekend in a row and passing the major $100 million milestone thanks to its cumulative domestic total of $112 million.
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