With‘s Friday release via Paramount, Project X Entertainment principals James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein kick off a pivotal month for their indie production and financing company launched in 2019.
The latest (and possibly goriest) installment in the iconic horror franchise, which Project X is currently steering alongside Spyglass Media Group and the filmmaking collective known as Radio Silence, scored $5.7M in Thursday night previews and is expected to set an opening weekend record for Scream, netting somewhere between $35M-$40M domestic.
Veteran writer, director and producer Vanderbilt teamed with Ready or Not‘s Guy Busick to write both last year’s Scream “requel,” which grossed over $137M globally, and this year’s follow-up, once again centered on Ghostface killing survivors Sam (Melissa Barrera), Tara (Jenna Ortega), Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and Chad (Mason Gooding), which watches as our “Core Four” set out for a fresh start in New York City.
It’s not long, of course, before trouble finds them once again, with the quartet being forced to fend off new attempts on their lives.
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