'Five Nights at Freddy's' scares up boffo box office opening

LOS ANGELES, United States - New horror film "Five Nights at Freddy's" shot to the top of the North American box office this pre-Halloween weekend, taking in an estimated $78 million -- a frighteningly good opening for a film also available via streaming.

"Freddy's" take, reported by industry watcher Exhibitor Relations, made it an instant winner for Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions, which spent just $20 million to make the video game-based film -- which is also streaming on Universal's Peacock service. Watch more News on iWantTFC Down a notch after leading the box office for two weeks was "Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour," at $14.7 million.

In third place, also down one spot from its debut last weekend, was Martin Scorsese's history-based epic "Killers of the Flower Moon," at $9 million. Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone star in the dark story about the 1920s murders of Native Americans by evildoers coveting their oil wealth.

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Scary 'Freddy's' film scores big N. America openingLOS ANGELES (AFP) - New horror film 'Five Nights at Freddy's' shot to the top of the North American box office this pre-Halloween weekend, taking in an estimated $78 million -- a frighteningly good opening for a film also available via streaming.
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