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Jan 14, 2022 · A new killer dons the Ghostface mask and targets a group of teenagers in Woodsboro, 25 years after the original murders. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette return as Sidney, Gale and Dewey, along with new stars like Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega.
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- Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
- 2022-01-14
Scream is an American murder mystery and meta slasher franchise that includes six films (and a seventh in active development), a television series, merchandise, and games. [1] [2] The first four films were directed by Wes Craven.
Scream is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. It stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, and Drew Barrymore.
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Twenty-five years after Billy Loomis and Stu Macher's killing spree in Woodsboro,[a] high school student Tara Carpenter is home alone when she is attacked by Ghostfaceand left hospitalized. In Modesto, Tara's estranged older sister Sam Carpenter is informed by Wes Hicks, one of Tara's friends, about the attack. Sam returns to Woodsboro with her boy...
Previous Scream actors Matthew Lillard (Stu Macher), Drew Barrymore (Casey Becker), Jamie Kennedy (Randy Meeks), Hayden Panettiere (Kirby Reed), Henry Winkler (Arthur Himbry), and Adam Brody (Hoss) provide voiceovers for partygoers who participate in a toast for Wes, which doubles as a tribute for Wes Craven. Additional voice overs in the toast are...
Development
In 2011, Wes Craven confirmed he was contracted to work on a fifth and sixth installment of the Scream franchise, to be made if the fourth film achieved a successful release and reception. Following difficulties with script rewrites on Scream 2, Scream 3, and Scream 4, often with pages only being ready on the day of filming, and the related stress of the situation, Craven stated that he would need to see a finalized version of a script for Scream 5 before committing to the production. Kevin W...
Bettinelli-Olpin and Gillett and casting
In March 2020, it was announced that Radio Silence's Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett would direct the fifth installment, with Kevin Williamson serving as an executive producer, and that the film had already entered official development, with filming planned to begin in May 2020. The filmmakers were in the midst of developing Cocaine Bear when the producers approached them to direct the film. In May 2020, it was announced that Neve Campbell was in talks to reprise her role as Sidney Pr...
Filming
Principal photography was originally scheduled to begin in Wilmington, North Carolina, in May 2020, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming instead began on September 23, 2020, under the working title Parkside. Filming took place across several avenues in Wilmington, including exterior shots of Williston Middle School and interior shots of Cardinal Lanes Shipyard and 10th Street (between Ann and Castle streets). The film was awarded $7million in rebates by the North Carolina Fil...
Theatrical
The film was released on January 14, 2022, by Paramount Pictures. The film's red carpet premiere was scheduled for January 11, 2022, but was canceled due to the extended COVID-19 pandemic and rise of the Omicron variant.
Home media
In the United States, Scream was released digitally on March 1, 2022. It was released on Ultra HD Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD on April 5, 2022, by Paramount Home Entertainment. The film grossed $4.5million in home sales.
Box office
Scream grossed $81.6million in the United States and Canada, and $57.2million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $138.9million. Deadline Hollywood estimated the net profit of the film to be $56.7million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues. In the U.S. and Canada, Scream was originally projected to gross at least $20million from 3,661 theaters over its four-day opening weekend, which included the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Some estimates were higher; Variety...
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 76% based on 303 reviews, and an average rating of 6.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "The fifth Scream finds the franchise working harder than ever to maintain its meta edge – and succeeding surprisingly often." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 60 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average...
In January 2022, Neve Campbell and the film's directors expressed interest in making future films in the series. A sixth film was officially green-lit on February 3, 2022, with the same creative team returning.Courteney Cox confirmed her involvement that March. In May 2022, it was announced that Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, a...
Oct 12, 2021 · Watch the new Scream movie trailer. Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghost...
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Oct 12, 2021 · Neve Campbell (“Sidney Prescott”), Courteney Cox (“Gale Weathers”) and David Arquette (“Dewey Riley”) return to their iconic roles in Scream alongside Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner ...
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Dec 20, 1996 · A masked killer targets a teenage girl and her friends in a small town, using scary movies as part of a deadly game. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, soundtracks, and more for this classic slasher film.
