Update (May 6th, 2015): I have confirmed, unfortunately, that there is NO movement on a fifth Scream also of this writing.
A few hours ago I was sent an article with an “update” about Scream 5.
The update was a story that referenced old articles about the sequel, without links, and treated them as fresh news/sources. With two seconds of effort, I found the old editorials and learned they’re from last summer. Old news to say the least.
I hoped it would blow over, but sites are now picking up the story as if there’s “movement” of a fifth Scream.
There isn’t, at least according to my source inside of Dimension. With MTV’s “Scream” series set to premiere this summer, who knows what that could do to reinvigorate the franchise that nearly ended with a feud between franchise director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson (they kissed and made up right after). Williamson has said he has the fifth planned with a sixth already in his mind…
With that said, the 2011 Scream 4 underperformed, not even topping $40M (the production budget) here in the States. It did, however, make close to $100M worldwide. Harvey Weinstein said in 2013 that he personally would love to “end the franchise” with a fifth and final film. So, it is only a matter of time.
Let’s at least use this wasted post for a value discussion: what do you want from the fifth film, if it were to ever come into fruition?