Five Nights at Freddy’sTrouncesMarioandHalloween Endsto Smash Streaming Records

tread apart , Halloween Ends . blue ‘ bout ya , The Super Mario Bros Movie . There ’s a young boss in Ithiel Town , and he ’s tall , furred , and reeks of pizza pie . Aftera large weekend at the theatrical loge office , Five Nights at Freddy’s — which released the same sidereal day on Peacock — has also done Brobdingnagian turn for the streamer .

According to a Peacock closet liberation , theEmma Tammi - directed Five Nights at Freddy ’s is now Peacock ’s “ most - learn plastic film or series ever in its first five day on the streaming chopine , surpassing previous criminal record - holders Halloween Ends , The Super Mario Bros. Movie , Bel - Air and The Best Man : The Final Chapters . ”

This is just the cherry on the top of good news show for Blumhouse , which saw the movie rack up $ 132.7 million globally this weekend — estimable enough to be the biggest horror movie opening night of the entire class , as well as the studio apartment ’s big global opening ever . Stateside , it mark the second - biggest opening of all meter for a movie base on a video game ( in that attentiveness , The Super Mario Bros. still has it beat ) , as well as the biggest opening for ahorror movie with a cleaning woman director .

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Not bad for a movie about a bozo ( Josh Hutcherson ) so desperate for a job he agrees to be a security guard at Freddy Fazbear ’s Pizzeria — a blank space where the animatronics do not add up to play . Presumably the next Five Nights news that does n’t involve box - office and streaming numbers will be letting fans knowwhen to expect the sequel . Watch on Peacock here .

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