Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 Poised for a Killer Box Office Debut
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is stalking into theaters on December 5, 2025, and early tracking is downright scary: Variety says the sequel is eyeing a shocker of an opening that could jolt the holiday box office.
Early box office predictions for Five Nights at Freddy's 2 are in, and they paint a weirdly split picture: not remotely the rocket launch of the first movie, but still a very solid start for a horror sequel with this kind of budget.
Release date and opening weekend outlook
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 hits theaters on December 5, 2025. Per Variety, the sequel is tracking for a $35 million to $40 million domestic opening. With a rumored $51 million price tag, that range would be a healthy kick-off for Blumhouse and Universal.
Context matters here, though. The first Five Nights at Freddy's in 2023 stunned everyone with an $80 million domestic opening. That was with a day-and-date rollout on Peacock, which usually clips theatrical grosses. It kept rolling to $297.1 million worldwide, making it the biggest release in Blumhouse history. The sequel is not expected to match those heights, but based on these projections, it still looks like a profitable play.
So what is FNAF 2 actually about?
The story jumps ahead a year after the nightmare at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. In a nice touch of small-town mythmaking, the animatronics have become urban legends, and the locals went and built an event around it: Fazfest. That is both exactly what a town would do and exactly how you end up with more problems.
'Former security guard Mike (Josh Hutcherson) and police officer Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail) have kept the truth from Mike's 11-year-old sister, Abby (Piper Rubio), concerning the fate of her animatronic friends,' the official synopsis reads. 'But when Abby sneaks out to reconnect with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, it will set into motion a terrifying series of events, revealing dark secrets about the true origin of Freddy's and unleashing a long-forgotten horror hidden away for decades.'
Cast and crew
- Returning: Josh Hutcherson as Mike, Elizabeth Lail as Vanessa, Piper Rubio as Abby, Theodus Crane as Jeremiah, Matthew Lillard as William Afton
- New faces: Freddy Carter, Wayne Knight, Mckenna Grace, Skeet Ulrich
- Director: Emma Tammi
- Screenplay: Scott Cawthon, based on his Five Nights at Freddy's game series
- Producers: Scott Cawthon and Jason Blum
Bottom line: the sequel's opening is tracking far lower than the original's jaw-dropper, but for a mid-budget horror follow-up, $35-$40 million domestic out of the gate is nothing to sneeze at. Expect less of a phenomenon this time, but still a win.