‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’ First Look: The Animatronic Creatures Have Broken Out Of The Pizza Parlor – CinemaCon

The bear from Five Night’s At Freddy‘s wobbled onstage in full plastic regalia. But surprise! It was horror cinema architect Jason Blum at Universal’s CinemaCon presentation.

“I love to save money,” said the producer known for thrifty genre budgets, “and on the first movie, I was in the suit the entire time.”

He then showed off the crowd how he loves to play dress-up with photos of him dressed as the Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz (“The Wicked people back stage didn’t like it), his get-up as M3GAN, and a family photo where they all dressed up as a night at the movies (Blum was dressed as a movie poster marquee, his kids were dressed as candy concessions and Sprite).

Blum announced to great cheers from theater owners, that the sequel is coming out exclusively in theaters, not day and date with Peacock.

The clip to the sequel of Blumhouse’s biggest hit was quick: Images of how the animatronic animals out in the public — at a school, at a fair, with Matthew Lilliard’s sinister voiceover.

Emma Tammi returns to direct Freddy’s 2 off a script she co-wrote with Cawthon and Seth Cuddeback. Josh Hutcherson is back as Mike, the security guard who must babysit the zany, spooky and dumpy Chuck-e-Cheese like pizza parlor. Matthew Lillard, who we learned was the villain in the first pic, is back as well as Piper Rubio as Abby and Elizabeth Lail as Vanessa.

“They’re out there Mike” Vanessa tells her beau.

The first movie opened during the actors strike, day-and-date on Peacock, and defied all challenges in the fall 2023 fall box office marketplace. The movie based on the hit video game was an anomaly performing equally well in theaters and on Peacock since it was a hot, fan-frenzied franchise opening to an unprecedented $80M and ending its domestic run at $137.2M and just over $291M WW. Five Night’s Freddy‘s was Peacock‘s most-watched film or series ever in its first five days at the time in Oct 27, 2023, besting previous record-holders Halloween Ends, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Bel-Air and The Best Man: The Final Chapters. (Wicked now holds the Peacock debut viewership record).

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 opens on Dec. 5.