Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | December 8, 2025
Five Nights at Freddy’s is a bona fide phenomenon whose popularity fascinates and baffles me. What started life as an indie video game with some solid jump scares has expanded into a full multi-pronged franchise with lore that rivals Viking sagas and a fanbase of intense commitment. The first big-screen adaptation did big business and now the sequel is following in those footsteps. Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 earned $63 million from 3,412 locations, It’s already taken in $109.1 million worldwide. How long before this thing gets to Friday the 13th levels of sequels? Blumhouse won’t let this one get away from them. Also, can we shout out director Emma Tammi for helming both parts of this franchise? It’s so damn common for women directors to kick off a series then be replaced by a man for the sequels. I’m glad that didn’t happen here.
Zootopia 2 sits comfortably at number two, with a total domestic gross of over $220.4 million. In a fortnight, the Disney sequel has become the fourth highest-grossing movie of 2025, with a hefty $915.7 million. It looks like it’ll easily overtake A Minecraft Movie and maybe even Lilo & Stitch to get to the $1 billion mark.
Anime movies continue to do well in 2025. The latest to join the fold is Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution, which debuts at number four with $10.15 million. Nerds rule (but it is worth noting that it’s largely anime aimed at boys that gets these kinds of big cinematic releases in the US.)
When he wasn’t busy trash-talking a random array of actors, Quentin Tarantino was promoting Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, the cinematic release of the two-part saga as the sole film he always intended. Mercifully for QT, people like his movies more than his quippy interviews, so this one landed at number six with $3.25 million from 1,198 cinemas.
At number nine is Dhurandhar, the Indian spy thriller starring Ranveer Singh, with $1.98 million from only 391 cinemas. The Tony-award winning run of the Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along was given a theatrical run because sometimes theatre kids deserve nice things. It earned $1,236,565. That was enough to put it ahead of The Running Man, which has limped out of the top ten with only $36.5 million in total. Ouch.
The parody film Fackham Hall, based on stuffy British period dramas like Downton Abbey (say that title slowly), stumbled to number 13 with $620,909. Sorry, Jimmy Carr. Maybe your Riyadh Comedy Festival earnings will soften the blow.
In limited release news: the historical fantasy romance 100 Nights of Hero took in $250,000 from 828 places; Rosemead, a drama based on true events starring Lucy Liu, grossed $50,243 from one cinema; Kristen Stewart’s directorial drama The Chronology of Water made $18,000; and the latest film by Paolo Sorrentino, La Grazia, grossed $13,850 from one theatre.
This coming week sees the release of dramedy Ella McCay, the Shakespearean anime Scarlet, and the festive horror Silent Night, Deadly Night.
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
