Thursday, May 28, 2026

Box Office: “Freddy’s” Scares Up $78 Mil, Taylor Swift Comes ThisClose, “Flower Moon” Needs Strike to End NOW

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If you were a Halloween or horror fan, this weekend was a good time.

“Five Nights at Freddy’s” scared up $78 million at the box office. It’s quite a comeback for its two stars, Matthew Lillard, and Josh Hutcherson. They must be opening Champagne as we speak. Jason Blum is certainly the king of horror among producers.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie came thisclose to crossing the $150 million line today. The big event will happen on Tuesday, Halloween, when prices are just $13.13. Swift is also set to sell around 1.4 million copies of her “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” album this week. She’ll be the first artist to sell over a million copies of the same album twice in its first week since the original “1989” did the same thing.

Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” needs the SAG strike to be over NOW. Scorsese has done all the press humanly possible for one person. The actors need to get on the circuit as “Flower Moon” has gotten to $40.8 million in two weeks. This should motivate Apple and Paramount to endorse settling with the union ASAP. This is a masterpiece of a film, and it must be seen on a big screen!

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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