Scream has dethroned Spider-Man: No Way Home at the box office for the lengthy Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, with an estimated four-day revenue of $35 million.
It's also good enough for Paramount and Spyglass, who collaborated on the revamp, to bring back the famous slasher franchise.
Scream's three-day domestic weekend gross is expected to be $30.6 million, a strong showing given the omicron variation and a new rise in COVID-19 infections.
Scream made $18 million in 50 foreign markets. The United Kingdom is a country in Europe. With $3.4 million, they took the lead.
Younger moviegoers, who have been the most likely to return to theaters, are to credit for the film's success. Males made up the majority of ticket buyers, though there were many of girls as well (53 percent versus 47 percent).
A significant 67 percent of ticket purchasers were between the ages of 18 and 34. Scream performed best in the western United States, the south, and the northeast, with the midwest and southeast somewhat under-indexing. Canada had a very low 1.5 percent market share on 3 percent of total sites due to the closure of cinemas in Ontario and Quebec.
Scream premieres more than 25 years after Wes Craven's first film was released. The new film is the fifth installment in the franchise and a direct sequel to Scream 4 from 2011. It's the first time Craven hasn't directed a film.
The latest Scream received a B+ CinemaScore, which is an excellent rating for a slasher film. It also pulled a lot of people out.
The directing duties are split between Matt Bettinello-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Courteney Cox and Neve Campbell, as well as Marley Shelton, David Arquette, Skeet Ulrich, Heather Matarazzo, and Roger L. Jackson, reprise their roles, while newcomers Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette, and Jack Quaid join the Scream cast.
Scream follows a new Ghostface-masked killer who is on the hunt for a group of teenagers who are researching the town's history.
With an expected four-day haul of $26 million, including $20.8 million for the three days, Spider-Man: No Way Home slid to No. 2 in its fifth weekend. When it reaches $703.9 million on Monday, the movie will become one of just four films to ever break the $700 million mark at the domestic box office. It also surpassed $900 million overseas, resulting in a staggering global haul of $1.62 billion on Sunday.
With Illumination's Sing 2 and female action spy film The 355, Universal captured the Nos. 2 and 3 slots on the domestic weekend chart, respectively.
The 355 struggled again in its second weekend, grossing a total of $2.8 million over four days, including $2.3 million in the first three days. The domestic gross for the picture is little around $10 million.
The King's Man, a 20th Century Fox and Disney film, rounded out the top five with a projected four-day holiday gross of $3 million, bringing the total to $92 million.
