{"id":2048,"date":"2009-10-24T04:54:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T04:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2009-10-24T04:54:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T04:54:02","slug":"nightmare-on-elm-street-series-ranks-4-on-yahoos-top-five-highest-grossing-horror-franchises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/nightmare-on-elm-street-series-ranks-4-on-yahoos-top-five-highest-grossing-horror-franchises\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightmare on Elm Street series ranks #4 on Yahoo!&#8217;s top five highest-grossing horror franchises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Nightmare on Elm Street series ranks #4\" href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/feature\/by-the-numbers-horror-franchises.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo!<\/a><\/strong> posted the top five highest-grossing horror franchises.  <em>A Nightmare on Elm Street<\/em> ranks #4.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i23.photobucket.com\/albums\/b394\/nightmarewebmaster\/pseudoblog_nightmarenew135.jpg\" alt=\"A Nightmare on Elm Street\" \/><strong>4. A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET<\/strong><br \/>\nTotal Gross: $307,420,075<br \/>\nNumber of Films: 8<br \/>\nAverage Gross: $38,427,509<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years ago, Robert Englund first put on the hat, sweater, and razor-clawed glove to become Freddy Kruger in Wes Craven&#8217;s &#8220;A Nightmare on Elm Street.&#8221; He played the role seven more times on film, including &#8220;Freddy vs. Jason,&#8221; which is the most successful movie for both characters. This April, Oscar-nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley will be taking over as Freddy in an updated version, which will surely push the series into the top three on this list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo! posted the top five highest-grossing horror franchises. A Nightmare on Elm Street ranks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/nightmare-on-elm-street-series-ranks-4-on-yahoos-top-five-highest-grossing-horror-franchises\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,300],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-a-nightmare-on-elm-street","tag-yahoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightmareonelmstreetfilms.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}