(CNN) — Sequels are the gift that keeps on giving for Hollywood this holiday season.

Universal Pictures’ “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” zoomed past Disney’s “Zootopia 2” to take the top spot at the weekend box office. The video game adaptation grossed an estimated $63 million domestically.

“Freddy’s 2” blew past estimates that it would earn as much as $55 million. The first “Freddy’s” movie, based on the video game series with jump-scaring animatronics, opened in 2023 to $80 million and finished with $137.3 million domestically — the highest-grossing horror movie that year.

The “Zootopia” sequel finished No. 2 this weekend with $43 million to raise its domestic gross to about $220 million since opening last weekend.

“After a lot of hand-wringing over the October box office, which was a d

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