If anything was going to topple Taylor Swift at the box office, it had to be a killer animatronic bear, right?
Swift's "Eras Tour" concert film came second for the weekend, with an estimated $14.7 million, putting its domestic total at $149.3 million.
"Five Nights" is also based on a popular horror-survival video game series that gave it a built-in younger audience.
That helped it overcome generally awful reviews that left the film with a 26% "rotten" rating on movie-review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.
Data firm EntTelligence said the movie accounted for 65% of foot traffic to theaters during the weekend.
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Taylor Swift, Chuck E, EntTelligence, Audiences, Emma Tammi's
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