Scream 7 Secures Biggest Box Office Opening Weekend of the Scream Franchise

Scream 7 has enjoyed a immense container bureau opening weekend, with astir $100 cardinal secured from theaters globally.

The slasher flick made $64.1 cardinal domestically and $33.1 cardinal internationally, mounting a franchise grounds for opening play container office. In total, Scream 7 brought successful $97.2 million, making it apt that the movie volition stroke past the beingness container bureau of each of the erstwhile Scream films, this archetypal of which released 30 years agone successful 1996. To enactment Scream 7’s home opening play into context, 2023’s Scream 6 antecedently held the franchise’s home opening play grounds with $44.4 million.

Nostalgia has played a large portion successful Scream 7’s opening play success. Neve Campbell, who stars arsenic bid protagonist Sidney Prescott, returned for Scream 7 aft skipping Scream 6 implicit a wage dispute. According to Variety, Campbell secured a astir $7 cardinal woody for Scream 7, whereas Courteney Cox, who plays newsman and seasoned execution spree subsister Gale Weathers, was paid $2 million.

IGN’s Scream 7 reappraisal returned a 6/10. We said: “Scream 7 packs successful plentifulness of satisfying slasher action, adjacent if it gets a small excessively comfy playing the hits (and heavy cuts and slayer tracks).”

Check retired our Scream 7 ending explained to find retired what it each means for the future. Speaking of which, this week, Scream 7 writer and manager Kevin Williamson revealed Neve Campbell already has a “great” thought for Scream 8, which helium promised would beryllium made arsenic agelong arsenic Scream 7 is simply a success. Well, it already looks similar Scream 7 is simply a success, truthful Scream 8 feels similar a definite thing.

Away from Ghostface’s stabby shenanigans, the precise antithetic Wuthering Heights, starring Margot Robbie arsenic Cathy and Jacob Elordi arsenic Heathcliff, is present up to an awesome $192 cardinal globally aft different $22.552 cardinal this weekend. And for those inactive keeping score, Disney said that aft 11 weekends, Avatar: Fire and Ash has grossed an estimated $1.48 cardinal worldwide ($401.2 cardinal home / $1.079 cardinal international), aft different $5.4 cardinal was added this weekend. 2009's Avatar 1 remains the highest-grossing movie of each clip (not adjusted for inflation), earning a staggering $2.9 cardinal crossed respective theatrical runs. 2022's Avatar: The Way of Water has earned $2.3 billion, meanwhile, cementing its spot arsenic the third-highest grossing movie of each time. Fire and Ash looks similar it volition apical retired astatine astir $1.5 billion. Writer and manager James Cameron is yet to awesome that Avatar 4 and 5 are decidedly going to happen, arsenic container bureau watchers wonderment whether Fire and Ash has done good capable to person the powers that beryllium astatine Disney to determination ahead.

And finally, Disney's Zootopia 2 has grossed an estimated $1.86 cardinal worldwide ($425.8 cardinal home / $1.433 cardinal international) aft 14 weekends.

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