Video game adaptation ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ notches $130 million global debut

This image released by Universal Pictures shows, from left, Bonnie, Freddy Fazbear and Chica in a scene from"Five Nights at Freddy's."

Blumhouse, the company behind “Paranormal Activity,” “Get Out” and recent horror hits like “M3GAN” and “The Black Phone,” produced “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” which was directed by Emma Tammi and stars Josh Hutcherson, Mary Stuart Masterson and Matthew Lillard. The popular video game series, in which a security guard has to fend off murderous animatronic characters at a run down family pizza restaurant, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, was created by Scott Cawthon and first released in 2014.

And it paid off: “Five Nights at Freddy’s” is his company’s biggest opening of all time, surpassing “Halloween’s” domestic and global debut. The opening weekend audience was very young, with an estimated 80% under the age of 25, and predominately male . They gave the film an A- CinemaScore, which could be promising for future weekends.

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