Five Nights At Freddy's 2 Races Past Zootopia 2 With Record-Breaking Box Office Debut

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is pulling ahead of Zootopia 2 with a record-breaking debut haul. The sequel to Blumhouse’s 2023 adaptation of the Five Nights at Freddy’s games debuted on December 5, during the same frame as the sophomore weekend of Disney’s mega-hit Zootopia 2.

The animated movie debuted with a 5-day haul of $158.8 million that marked the second-best Thanksgiving debut of all time behind 2024’s Moana 2. It was expected to hit No. 1 during its sophomore weekend thanks to its broad appeal (it has a CinemaScore of A) and the heights it managed to reach during its debut.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is projected to earn a 3-day total of $56.5 million at the domestic box office. This is a huge jump from its original projections. As of Wednesday, it was only expected to debut between $35 and $40 million.

It has also leaped past Friday evening’s projections of up to $45 million. Because that total is the expected sophomore weekend haul of Zootopia 2, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 should easily claim the No. 1 spot during its opening weekend.

This total for 2025’s Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 also marks the best domestic debut in history for a movie premiering on the first weekend of December, which is typically a light weekend where the box office slumps between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Below, see the previous Top 5 best debuts for the first weekend of December:

In spite of this record-breaking total, the new movie is still coming in slightly below the opening weekend of the original Five Nights at Freddy’s, which earned a whopping $80 million in spite of being available to stream on Peacock at the same time.

However, it remains to be seen how high the sequel can climb by the end of Sunday. It could still close the gap even more, considering how much it has already exceeded expectations. Additionally, the original movie’s debut was very much an outlier, marking one of Blumhouse’s best opening weekends of all time.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 reportedly cost $36 million, which could place its estimated break-even point somewhere around $90 million. However, if it has the same trajectory as the original movie, even if it doesn’t climb higher than $56.5 million this weekend, it could gross $205.9 million by the end of its run, far surpassing that benchmark.

Holiday releases tend to have strong week-on-week holds, so the new movie could also avoid the staggering 76.2% drop that marred the original’s sophomore weekend and eventually become the highest-grossing movie of the franchise so far. Should that be the case, it seems highly likely that the third installment teased by the ending of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 will be greenlit before long.

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