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# ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s’ opens with a shocking $78M weekend
- URL: https://www.theomnicosm.com/the-box-office-report-five-nights/
- Published: 2023-10-30T11:01:14.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-19T16:00:21.000Z
- Description: The video game adaption blew away the debuts of several 2023 debuts from major franchises.
- Author: Bill Kuchman
- Tags: Popculturology • The Box Office Report, Popculturology, Five Nights at Freddy's

Hello! Welcome to **The** **Box Office Report** for the weekend of Oct. 27-29, 2023.

## 1\. Five Nights at Freddy’s

**Weekend gross:* $78M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $78M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

“I’m sorry, what?” is what I actually said out loud as I looked at this weekend’s box office results for the first time and saw that *Five Nights at Freddy’s* debuted at $78 million.

That a bigger opening weekend than *John Wick: Chapter 4* ($73.8 million), *Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny* ($60.4 million), *Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning (*$54.7 million) and *Fast X* ($67 million).

I don’t know much about *Five Nights at Freddy’s*, but the movie clearly had enough built-in fans to propel it to an opening weekend this big, especially considering that the movie was also released on Peacock this weekend.

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## 2\. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

**Weekend gross:* $14.7M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $149.4M* 
**Last weekend:* 1st* 
**Percent drop:* 56*

*Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour* is a bizarre movie when it comes to box office performance. There would be serious questions about a movie that opens with $90M+ weekend but then has yet to crack the $150 million mark two weekends later. This isn’t a normal movie, though. It doesn’t play Monday through Wednesday (and has “Friday” screenings on Thursdays). Was that a smart strategy? Did **Taylor Swift** and company leave money on the table by not showing *The Eras Tour* during the week? I know that they wanted to make it a special “weekends only” thing, but what about people who don’t have off the traditional Saturday/Sunday weekend?

## 3\. Killers of the Flower Moon

**Weekend gross:* $9M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $40.7M* 
**Last weekend:* 2nd* 
**Percent drop:* 61*

*Killers of the Flower Moon* suffered a significant drop its second weekend, falling 61 percent to muster up less than $10 million on the heels of a $23.3 million debut.

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## 4\. After Death

**Weekend gross:* $5.1M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $5.1M* 
**Last weekend:* New release* 
**Percent drop:* NA*

I had never heard of *After Death*, but a quick google shows me that it’s from Angel Studios, [the group that brought us ](https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/entertainment/after-death-review/index.html?ref=theomnicosm.com)[*Sound of Freedom*](https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/entertainment/after-death-review/index.html?ref=theomnicosm.com)[ and its totally legit box office haul …](https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/27/entertainment/after-death-review/index.html?ref=theomnicosm.com)

## 5\. The Exorcist: Believer

**Weekend gross:* $3.1M* 
**Total domestic gross:* $59.4M* 
**Last weekend:* 3rd* 
**Percent drop:* 46*

Yes, *The Exorcist: Believer* has outgrossed every other movie in the *Exorcist* franchise but the original, but the gap between these two films ($112.7 million worldwide versus $428.8 million worldwide) definitely justifies [the changes coming to any future productions](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/exorcist-believer-deceiver-sequel-1235614190/?ref=theomnicosm.com).

*Box office numbers via* [*The Numbers*](http://www.the-numbers.com/?ref=theomnicosm.com) *based on Sunday estimates.*

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