Five Nights at Freddy's has generated $299 million at the worldwide box office.
Five Nights at Freddy's has generated $299 million at the worldwide box office.
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How Russell Binder sees game intellectual properties as a hub-and-spoke system

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Russell Binder has been an entertainment and gaming licensing agent in Hollywood for more than two decades.

As founding partner at Striker Entertainment, Binder’s latest success is the Five Nights at Freddy’s film, based on the games by Scott Cawthorn. Binder was executive producer on the film, which came out from Blumhouse on Peacock’s Universal Studios in October and has generated $299 million at the worldwide box office — even though the game itself first debuted back in 2014.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.