After a month without.
1, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ has finally been overtaken at the box office.
Paramount Pictures’ reboot ‘Scream’ debuted with $ 30.6 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.
‘Scream’, a “requel” that is a good self-described fifth film in the franchise and reboot introduces new, young players, led all releases over the holiday weekend of Martin Luther King Jr.
Paramount estimates that it will be a total of $ 35 million included grosses Monday.
The film cost about $ 24 million to make, add another $ 18 million in 50 international markets.
That made for a strong revival of the franchise sword self-aware.
The right to ‘Scream’ films, once a reliable cash cow for Harvey and Bob Weinstein of Miramax Films, which was acquired by Spyglass Media Group, which produces the new film by Paramount.
It’s “Scream,” led by Matt Bettinello-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, was the first not directed by Wes Craven, who died in 2015.
It features an original “Scream” actress Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette along with new additions Melissa Barrera Jenna Ortega and Jack Quaid.
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Especially, ‘Scream’ is a box-office success of the first year that Hollywood hope will see a return to stability in the movies weekly.
January is usually a quiet time at the box office, but the surge variant omicron in COVID-19 has further upside planned release several films winter.
“All of our traditional measures that show a solid opening, but as I keep telling people: We’re still in this thing and it’s very difficult to determine what will actually happen,” said Chris Aronson, head of distribution for Paramount.
“Now we go to, people have seen the movie and we started running.
Hopefully this become another building block towards rebuilding the business and regain some semblance of normalcy.”
Meanwhile, ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ slipped to second position but continued to rise in the record books.
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1 at the weekend box office in the US 4; Film exceeds the number of ‘Titanic’ became the sixth best-selling release
‘No Way Home’ grossed $ 20.8 million in the fifth weekend of release.
Sony Pictures predicts that with another $ 5.2 million in the Martin Luther King Jr.
Day, ‘No Way Home’ will achieve a cumulative domestic total of $ 703.9 million Monday, edging ‘Black Panther’ and move into fourth place all-time.
That puts it behind only ‘Avatar’ ($ 760 million), ‘Avengers: Endgame’ ($ 858 million) and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ ($ 936 million).
Globally, ‘No Way Home’ has grossed $ 1.6 billion.
Universal Pictures’ ‘Sing 2’ landed in third place in its fourth weekend with $ 8.3 million during the three-day weekend.
Animated sequel has grossed $ 122.1 million domestically and $ 96.3 million internationally.
While the debut ‘Scream’ could be celebrated by Paramount, which delayed the release of the top 2021 to 2022 (including the movie ‘Top Gun Maverick “and” Mission Impossible 7 “), the performance is marked when the reality of the box-office.
superhero movies and movie genres that appeal to young audiences has bounced back near its pre-pandemic, while skewed older movie yet.
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‘Scream’, which received mostly favorable reviews (81% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and B + CinemaScore from the audience, fared better than the last installment of 2011 is ‘Scream 4’.
film was launched with $ 19.3 million.
The audience for the new “Scream” is 42% under the age of 25, Sony said.
But any success needs attractiveness of various demographics, and ‘Scream’ also appealed to fans of the initial franchise entries.
Some 23% of the ticket buyers more than 35.
New films widely released another only during the weekend is ‘Belle’, Mamoru Hosoda’s critically acclaimed anime riff on “Beauty and the Beast.” It debuted with $ 1.6 million in 1,326 theaters.
estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at US and Canadian theaters, according to comScore.
1.
“Scream,” $ 30.6 million.
2.
“Spider-Man: No Way Home,” $ 20.8 million.
3.
“Sing 2,” $ 8.3 million.
4.
“The 355,” $ 2.3 million.
5.
“King Man,” $ 2.3 million.
6.
“Belle,” $ 1.6 million.
7.
“American Underdog,” $ 1.6 million.
8.
“West Side Story,” $ 948 000.
9.
“Licorice Pizza,” $ 880,000.
10.
“The Matrix resurrection,” $ 815 000.