Scream is winning the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend at the box office with a projected four-day gross of $35 million, enough to dethrone Spider-Man: No Way Home.
It’s also good enough to revive the classic slasher franchise for Paramount and Spyglass, who partnered on the reboot.
Scream‘s three-day weekend gross is an estimated $30.6 million, a strong showing considering the omicron variant and another surge in COVID-19 cases.
The movie has younger moviegoers — who have been the most inclined to return to theaters — to thank for its performance. Males led all ticket buyers, but plenty of females turned out as well (53 percent versus 47 percent).
Scream opens more than 25 years after Wes Craven’s original film hit the big screen. The new film is the fifth title in the series and a direct sequel to 2011’s Scream 4.
Audiences gave the new Scream a B+ CinemaScore, a good grade for a slasher pic. It also is drawing strong exits.
Matt Bettinello-Olpin and Tyler Gillett share directing duties. This time, the Scream team sees franchise mainstays, Courteney Cox and Neve Campbell, along with Marley Shelton, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Heather Matarazzo and Roger L. Jackson, reprise their roles, while newcomers include Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette and Jack Quaid.
Scream follows a new Ghostface-masked killer who pursues a group of teenagers trying to learn about the town’s past.
Spider-Man: No Way Home fell to No. 2 in its fifth weekend with an estimated four-day haul in the $25 million on range. Sometime on Monday, the blockbuster will become one of the few films ever to cross the $700 million mark at the domestic box office.
More to come.
Source: Hollywood
