Paramount/Spyglass Media’s Scream VIis headed to a franchise-record opening of $50M+ worldwide from roughly 50 offshore territories including domestic.
The most recent Scream pic opened to $48M WW, $30M from U.S./Canada last year. The highest opening for the Kevin Williamson-conceived horror series was Scream 3, which opened to $34.7M domestic in 2000.
Scream VI, which sees the return of filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, could pull in anywhere north of that figure to possibly $40M at 3,670 theaters, as we first told you.
Scream VI will get loud at the box office thanks to PLF screens this weekend. There’s a fan screeningin 3D that starts at 5 p.m.
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