“Five Nights at Freddy’s” is a 2023 horror film based on the videogame franchise of the same name.
So let’s find out some trivia and facts about the film.
- Five Nights at Freddy’s is a 2023 American supernatural horror film
- It is based on the video game franchise of the same name
- The videogame franchise was created by Scott Cawthon
- Directed by Emma Tammi
- She co-wrote the screenplay with Cawthon and Seth Cuddeback
- From a story by Cawthon, Chris Lee Hill, and Tyler MacIntyre
- In the film stars Josh Hutcherson as a troubled security guard who accepts a night-time job at an abandoned family entertainment center
- There he discovers its four animatronic mascots come alive and are prone to murder people
- Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Matthew Lillard appear in supporting roles
- Development of a Five Nights at Freddy’s film adaptation began in April 2015
- With the involvement of Warner Bros. Pictures. Roy Lee, David Katzenberg, and Seth Grahame-Smith were set to produce it, with Gil Kenan announced as director and co-writer
- After several delays in production, the Warner Bros. version was no longer moving forward and Kenan dropped out of the project
- In March 2017, Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions was announced as the new production company
- With Chris Columbus set to direct and co-write
- Columbus also ultimately left the project
- Emma Tammi was announced as his replacement in October 2022
- The main cast were confirmed in December
- While other cast additions were signed in March 2023
- Principal photography began in February 2023 in New Orleans and ended in April
- Five Nights at Freddy’s was released on Peacock on October 26, 2023
- The film was theatrically released a day later, on October 27, by Universal Pictures
- The film received mixed reviews from critics
- It has grossed $39 million against a $20 million budget
- In the United States and Canada, Five Nights at Freddy’s was released alongside Freelance and After Death
- It was initially projected to gross around $50 million from 3,550 theaters in its opening weekend
- After making $39.4 million on its first day estimates were raised to $78 million
- The first day gross includes $10.3 million from Thursday night previews
- This marks the biggest-ever for a film with a simultaneous streaming release
- On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a25% rating
- Based on 131 critics’ reviews
- With an average rating of 4.5/10
- Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 33 out of 100
- Based on 34 critics
- Indicating “generally unfavorable” reviews
- Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A−” on an A+ to F scale
- While those polled at PostTrak gave it an 77% overall positive score
- Principal photography was initially set to begin in March 2021
- However, due to script issues, filming was delayed
- Filming began in New Orleans on February 1, 2023, under the working title Bad Cupcake, with an estimated production budget, before tax incentives, of $25 million
- The first scene shot of the film was a cameo by the YouTuber, MatPat
- Filming wrapped on April 3
- Lillard began filming his scenes in mid-February
- The Newton Brothers composed the film’s score
- While the fan-made song “Five Nights at Freddy’s” by The Living Tombstone was used for the end credits
- “Talking in Your Sleep” by The Romantics is sung by the animatronics in the film
