Scream 6 Release Date Announced - & It's Much Sooner Than Expected
Following the success of the new Scream, Paramount greenlights Scream 6 for a 2023 release. 2022's Scream, the fifth film in the franchise, brought in a new creative team to breathe life back into the franchise, whose last installment, Scream 4, was released in 2011. Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin directed the film from a script by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick. Scream was dubbed a «requel,» serving as both a reboot and a sequel that brought back legacy characters while also introducing new ones to take the reigns of the franchise. Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette all returned for the fifth film, with Skeet Ulrich popping in for a surprising, de-aged role. The newcomers to the cast include Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid, Dylan Minnette, Jasmin Savoy Brown, and Melissa Barrera as the new lead.
Scream opened in January to critical and audience acclaim, with many touting it as the best in the franchise since 1996's original. The film was instantly successful, earning $30 million in its opening weekend, which almost beat the total domestic earnings ofScream 4's $38 million. The new Scream now sits just shy of $140 million at the worldwide box office, putting it on par with the returns seen from the franchise's original trilogy. Given that the budget for 2022's Scream was reported to be around $24 million, the financial returns are more than enough to warrant Scream 6 which was announced recently.
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The official Scream announced that Paramount and Spyglass have given Scream 6 a March 31, 2023 release date. The creative team behind the reboot is set to return for Scream 6, with Gillett and Bettinelli-Olpin once again at the helm
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