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Tuesday 18 January 2022

'Scream' scares off 'Spider-Man' with

$30.6M debut

No Way Home" slipped to
second place but contin-
ued to rise in the record
books.
"No Way Home" grossed
$20.8 million in its fifth week-
end of release. Sony Pic-
tures predicts that with an-
other $5.2 million on Martin
NEW YORK (AP) — After who died in 2015. It fea- Luther King Jr. Day, "No
a month at no. 1, "Spider- tures original "Scream" cast Way Home" will reach a
Man: No Way Home" has members Neve Campbell, domestic cumulative total
finally been overtaken at Courteney Cox and David of $703.9 million Monday,
the box office. Paramount Arquette alongside new edging "Black Panther" and
Pictures' "Scream" reboot additions Melissa Barrera, moving into fourth place

debuted with $30.6 mil- Jenna Ortega and Jack all-time. That puts it behind
lion in ticket sales over the Quaid. only "Avatar" ($760 mil-
weekend, according to Most notably, "Scream" is lion), "Avengers: Endgame"
studio estimates Sunday. the first box-office success ($858 million) and "Star
"Scream," a self-described in a year that Hollywood Wars: The Force Awakens"
"requel" that is both the fifth hopes will see a return to ($936 million). Globally, "No
film in the franchise and a weekly stability at movie Way Home" has grossed
reboot introducing a new, theaters. January is typi- $1.6 billion.
younger cast, led all releas- cally a quiet period at the Universal Pictures' "Sing 2"
es over the Martin Luther box office, but the surge of landed in third place in its
King Jr. holiday weekend. the omicron variant in CO- fourth weekend with $8.3
Paramount forecasts that VID-19 has further upended million over the three-day
it will total $35 million in- release plans of some win- weekend. The animated
cluding Monday's grosses. ter movies. sequel has grossed $122.1
"Scream," which cost about "All of our traditional mea- million domestically and
$24 million to make, added sures were indicating a solid $96.3 million internationally.
another $18 million in 50 in- opening, but as I kept tell- While the debut of "Scream"
ternational markets. ing people: We're still in this could be celebrated by
That made for a solid reviv- thing and it's very difficult Paramount, which post-
al for the self-aware slash- to determine what will ac- poned most of its top 2021
er franchise. Rights to the tually happen," said Chris releases to 2022 (movies
"Scream" films, once a reli- Aronson, distribution chief including "Top Gun: Maver-
able cash cow for Harvey for Paramount. "Now we're ick" and "Mission Impossible
and Bob Weinstein's Mira- open, people have seen 7"), its performance also
max Films, were acquired the movie and we're off typified current box-office
by Spyglass Media Group, and running. Hopefully this realities. Superhero movies
which produced the new becomes another building and genre films that ap-
film with Paramount. This block toward building the peal to younger audiences
"Scream," helmed by Matt business back and getting have bounced back to
Bettinello-Olpin and Tyler it back to some semblance near pre-pandemic levels,
Gillett, was the first not di- of normalcy." while films skewing older
rected by Wes Craven, Meanwhile, "Spider-Man: haven't. "Scream," which
received largely favorable
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"Scream" also appealed to
fans of the early franchise
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buyers were over 35.
The only other new widely
released movie over the
weekend was "Belle," Ma-
moru Hosoda's critically
acclaimed anime riff on
"Beauty and the Beast." q