EJ Moreno looks at horror video game movie adaptations… Last year, Five Nights at Freddy’s joined a small list of horror video games that made it to the big screen. Its fate was similar to many: dominating the box office but leaving a bad taste in the critic’s mouth. For the most part, the entire […]
Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 set for Fall 2025
A sequel always made sense, with Five Nights At Freddy’s moving beyond being a force in video games and becoming a horror film smash hit for Blumhouse and Universal. The studio announced they’d be doing a follow-up soon after 2023’s Five Nights At Freddy’s dropped on Peacock and in cinemas, but now we’ve learned when […]
Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 is officially in development
With its fan love and successful box office, a sequel to Five Nights At Freddy’s was always in the cards, but it has taken some time to get official confirmation. Now, the lead actor behind the film confirms they are officially moving forward with the sequel. Speaking with Variety, Josh Hutcherson says the studio and crew […]
Five Night’s at Freddy’s becomes Blumhouse’s highest grossing movie
Five Nights at Freddy’s is a massive hit for Blumhouse—actually, the studio’s biggest film of all time now. The horror video game adaptation has grossed $136 million at the domestic box office, with an additional $160 million from overseas markets. That puts the film at $295 million after 31 days of release. The box office haul […]
Five Nights at Freddy’s smashes Halloween and video game movie records with monstrous opening weekend
Five Nights at Freddy’s survived the critical slashing it got and scared up an impressive opening weekend and some rave reviews from fans. Many expected Universal and Blumhouse’s PG-13 horror film to do great business on the Halloween weekend. Still, no one could’ve predicted the film to bring in a record-smashing $78 million this weekend […]
Five Nights At Freddy’s tipped for $50 million domestic box office opening
Universal and Blumhouse’s years in the making adaptation of popular videogame Five Nights At Freddy’s is set to make an impressive debut at the North American box-office this weekend, with industry experts pegging an opening above $50 million. In news as surprising as one of the many jump scares that populate the horror survival video […]
Five Nights At Freddy’s director on having brutal kills with a PG-13 rating
Five Nights At Freddy’s is the signature jump scare game, and transitioning that to the big screen in a “for everyone” way should be easy. But what about the infamous kills? Well, director Emma Tammi claims she found a way to keep the kills just as brutal as you’d expect but still make that PG-13 […]
Five Nights at Freddy’s featurette takes us behind-the-scenes of the movie adaptation
With a little over a week to go until the release of Five Nights at Freddy’s, a ‘look inside’ featurette has arrived online for video game adaptation which sees stars Josh Hutcherson, Matthew Lillard, Jessica Weiss, Jade Kindar-Martin, Kevin Foster, and director Emma Tammi, along with crew members and the team from Jim Henson’s Creature […]
“They just want to play” in latest Five Nights At Freddy’s teaser
Blumhouse Productions will be hoping to dominate this year’s Halloween with their Exorcist sequel and the big-screen adaptation of Scott Cawthon’s 2014 survival videogame Five Nights At Freddy’s, for which Universal Pictures has just released a creepy new teaser. Directed by Emma Tammi, with Jim Henson’s Creature Shop assisting Blumhouse Productions in bringing the game’s […]
Five Nights at Freddy’s character posters tease the horrors that await
Following yesterday’s trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s, a batch of character posters have landed online featuring the supernatural horror’s murderous animatronic mascots Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Cupcake and Foxy; check them out here… The movie follows a troubled security guard as he begins working at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. While spending his first night on […]
