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There Is No ‘Scream 5’ Update, Sorry.
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?
Released by Eli Roth’s label The Horror Section last year, Joe Begos (VFW, Christmas Bloody Christmas) horror movie Jimmy and Stiggs is getting an official spinoff movie.
Variety reports that director Sebastián De Caro has acquired the Argentine spin-off rights to Jimmy and Stiggs from The Horror Section, and he’s not planning a straight up remake.
“The film will follow new characters facing the same extraterrestrial threat in Argentina, expanding the universe Begos created into new territory,” Variety details in their report.
Eli Roth and Joe Begos will Executive Produce the upcoming spinoff movie.
“Working with Eli Roth and Joe Begos is an incredibly exciting adventure,” De Caro said. “Jimmy and Stiggs struck me as a brilliant kind of madness — it blew my mind with its energy and humor — and the chance to expand that universe in my own country is the biggest creative challenge I’ve ever taken on.”
Eli Roth said in a statement shared by Variety this afternoon, “Horror is truly global, and any story can be applied to local culture. I cannot wait to see how this film honors and expands the universe of a wildly original film by the one and only Joe Begos.”
Meanwhile, you can watch Joe Begos’ Jimmy and Stiggs on Digital outlets now. The drug-fueled, neon-soaked alien invasion splatterfest is written and directed by Begos, who shot the film in his apartment during the pandemic.
A perfect storm of lousy news sees out-of-work filmmaker Jimmy spiral into a bender, during which he claims to have been abducted by aliens. Fearing their return, he contacts his old friend Stiggs to help him gear up for war. Begos stars alongside Matt Mercer (Contracted), practical alien puppets, and a whole lot of gore captured on 16mm film.
Daniel Kurland wrote in his review, “The world needs more playful, gonzo small-scale-yet-apocalyptic horror films like Jimmy and Stiggs. It’s a movie that has constant tricks on display and perpetually sprays blood in the audience’s face, but there’s an earnest center to it all.”
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