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‘Scream’ Scares Up $3.5 Million in Thursday Night Previews
Back in 2011, Wes Craven’s Scream 4 dialed up an $18 million opening weekend, that sequel released eleven years after Scream 3. Interestingly, the brand new movie has now come along in theaters exactly eleven years after Scream 4, but the circumstances here in 2022 are quite different. For starters, Craven is no longer with us, making Scream the very first movie in the franchise to be directed by someone else. And then, well, there’s that whole pandemic thing…
It’s been impossibly hard to predict how Scream 2022 will perform in theaters this year, but we have a bit of a better idea now that Thursday night’s preview numbers are available.
Via Deadline, Spyglass and Paramount’s Scream scared up $3.5 million in Thursday night previews last night in around 3,000 theaters. As Deadline notes, M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass had the same Thursday night preview figure and ended up legging its way to a $40 million domestic opening weekend, so that potential is certainly there for Scream this weekend.
Deadline also notes, “The hope is that Scream, with a Rotten Tomatoes fresh critics score of 76% and audience score of 90%, can screech past anything in the $20M over four-days.”
Forbes notes, “Scream 4 opened with $1 million in midnight previews in April of 2011, leading to a disappointing $8.2 million Friday and $18.7 million opening weekend.”
Scream 4 ended with $97.2 million worldwide back in 2011, a franchise low thus far.
You can slice into Meagan’s SPOILER FREE review of the brand new Scream right here!
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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