five nights at freddy's

Box office: Zootopia and The Housemaid post strong holds while Avatar joins the billion-dollar club

Also: David is now one of the top four Bible movies—live-action or animated—of the past half-century and one of the top four "faith-based" movies ever…

Jan 5 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Avatar holds, Zootopia surges, Marty reigns Supreme in a busy post-Christmas weekend

Also: David had one of the best holds of any Angel Studios release, while Anaconda and Song Sung Blue opened at the low end for Jack Black and Hugh…

Dec 29, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Avatar leads the way while David sets new studio, genre records

The third film in James Cameron's sci-fi series had a slightly softer opening than expected, while David set new records for Angel Studios and the…

Dec 22, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Zootopia 2 retakes the top spot in North America, becomes the top American film of the year worldwide

Also: the week's only new major-studio release, Ella McCay, had the worst opening of any James L. Brooks film even before you take up to 42 years of…

Dec 15, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 shatters early December records

The film—directed, like its predecessor, by Emma Tammi—also marks one of the very few times that a woman has directed two consecutive hits within the…

Dec 8, 2025 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Disney's Wish falls to Napoleon over the Thanksgiving weekend

Both films cost up to $200 million and grossed a little more than $30 million in their first five days, but the discourse around them has been very…

Nov 27, 2023 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: The Hunger Games prequel leads a weekend of (mostly) underperformers

Meanwhile, the latest Trolls movie gets the jump on Disney, and The Marvels has possibly the worst second-weekend drop in superhero-movie history.

Nov 20, 2023 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: The Marvels, Journey to Bethlehem get the holiday season off to a rocky start

The big-budget superhero flick and the low-budget "faith-based" film both set record or near-record lows for their respective genres.

Nov 13, 2023 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: It's back to the doldrums as Five Nights plummets and there are no new (or old!) studio films to pick up the slack

Usually, the weekend after Halloween marks the start of the lucrative winter holiday season. This year... not so much.

Nov 6, 2023 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Five Nights at Freddy's gets the fans out of their houses for Halloween

Far surpassing expectations, it had one of the best openings ever of any horror movie, any video-game movie, any October release, any day-and-date…

Oct 30, 2023 • Peter T Chattaway

Box office: Scorsese, DiCaprio return to the big screen and take streaming with them

Killers of the Flower Moon, which reunites Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio after their separate gigs with Netflix, is the first Apple TV+ film to…

Oct 23, 2023 • Peter T Chattaway

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