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

December 7, 2025

UPDATE: 2025/12/07 07:58 EST BY BRENNAN KLEIN

Five Nights At Freddy’ 2 Hits $63M, Surging Past Saturday’s $56.5M Projections

This article was originally written Saturday AM and has been updated Sunday AM with up-to-date box office projections (in bold). Scroll down for a full chart and further analysis.

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 Variety, as of Saturday morning, Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is projected to earn a 3-day total of $63 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 and Saturday morning’s $56.5 million projections. Because the expected sophomore weekend haul of Zootopia 2 is only $43 million, 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:

Title	Domestic Debut
Ocean’s Eleven (2001)	$38.1 million
The Last Samurai (2003)	$24.3 million
Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé (2023)	$21.8 million
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)	$18.2 million
Krampus (2015)	$16.3 million

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 has also nabbed the records for the best December opening weekend for a Universal release and for the horror genre in general.

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 2will be greenlit before long.

This Weekend’s Domestic Box Office Top 5

Below, see the full domestic Top 5 chart for the weekend:

#	Title	3-Day Total	Cumulative (Domestic)
1	Five Nights at Freddy’s 2	$63 million	$63 million (weekend 1)
2	Zootopia 2	$43 million	$220.5 million (weekend 2)
3	Wicked: For Good	$15.6 million	$295.8 million (weekend 3)
4	Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution	$10.2 million	$10.2 million (weekend 1)
5	Now You See Me: Now You Don’t	$3.5 million	$55.3 million (weekend 4)

With a new title debuting at No. 1, there has been a lot of movement on the chart. Zootopia 2 and Wicked: For Good have fallen one spot apiece, with the former hitting No. 2 with a 51.7% post-Thanksgiving drop and the latter falling to No. 3 with a shocking 74.7% drop, continuing its swift collapse at the box office.

In spite of earning the best opening weekend in history for a Broadway adaptation and passing the $400 million global milestone in less than 14 days, Wicked: For Good is sinking like a stone as its run continues in spite of the fact that it has earned an A CinemaScore.

While audiences are generally feeling positive about the movie, the sequel seems to be encouraging fewer return visits to the theater from its core audience than the original 2024 Wicked.

Meanwhile, Now You See Me: Now You Don’t has been knocked down two places, swerving around the new anime release Jujutsu Kaisen: Executionto hit No. 5 with a drop of 49.3%. In the process, Predator: Badlands (No. 4 last weekend) and The Running Man (No. 5) have both been bumped out of the Top 5 completely.

The runaway success of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 has helped push the weekend to an overall projected domestic gross of $150 million, which is the best in history for the post-Thanksgiving frame.

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