Hazbin Hotel vs. Five Nights at Freddy's

Hazbin Hotel vs. Five Nights at Freddy's is a 2023 American live-action/adult animated supernatural horror musical drama film based on and serving as a crossover between the adult animated television series Hazbin Hotel created by Vivienne "Vivziepop" Medrano and the video game franchise Five Nights at Freddy's created by Scott Cawthon. It was co-produced by YouTube Premium, SpindleHorse Toons, Bento Box Entertainment, Good Universe, Amazon MGM Studios, Film4 Productions, and Blumhouse Productions and distributed by A24, YouTube and Universal Pictures. Directed by Medrano and Damien Leone, who co-wrote the screenplay with Cawthon, Emma Tammi and Seth Cuddeback, the film follows Charlie Morningstar and the rest of the gang at Hazbin Hotel as they clash with the four animatronic mascots of an abandoned family entertainment center, who are alive and ready to kill anyone that gets in their path, although they form an alliance upon learning of a bigger threat that's affecting their respective universes. Erika Henningsen, Stephanie Beatriz, Michael Kovach, Edward Bosco, Kimiko Glenn, and Mick Lauer reprise their respective voice roles from the Hazbin Hotel web pilot and television series, with James Corden, Elizabeth Banks, Chris Pratt, and MeatCanyon voicing new supporting characters; Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, and Dominique Thorne appear in live-action roles, while John Goodman, Kellen Goff, Carolyn Lawrence, David Tennant, and Frank Welker voice the FNAF animatronics.
Development on the film began in November 2019, a month after the pilot for Hazbin Hotel was released for free viewing on Medrano's YouTube channel, as a collaboration between Medrano, Leone and Cawthon after the latter's attempts of making a solo FNAF film failed due to that project's development issues. After they completed writing the screenplay along with Tammi and Cuddeback, they pitched the idea and screenplay to A24, YouTube and Universal Pictures, all of whom accepted it immediately. Gooseworx and The Newton Brothers were announced to be composing the score for the film in October 2022. The cast was confirmed in December, with principal photography beginning in February 2023 in New Orleans and ending in April. Animation for the Hazbin Hotel characters and settings were provided by SpindleHorse and Bento Box using the Toon Boom Harmony software, while the FNAF animatronic characters were built and functioned by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.
Hazbin Hotel vs. Five Nights at Freddy's was released on YouTube Premium, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock on October 26, 2023, and was theatrically released by A24, YouTube and Universal Pictures a day later, on October 27, 2023. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, audiences, and fans of both Hazbin Hotel and FNAF alike, who praised the characters and settings, premise, themes, atmosphere, direction, most of the acting, cinematography, pacing, score and musical numbers, and particularly for its animation, visual effects and the animatronics and how they were utilized, while the screenplay, runtime, Lail's performance, and abrupt mid-credits scene were criticized by some. It has grossed $1.797 billion at the box office against its production budget of $20 million, surpassing Barbie (2023) and Joker (2019) as the highest grossing film of 2023 and the highest grossing R-rated film of all time, respectively.