Scream 4 won’t open in theaters until next weekend but the famed Ghostface killer mask is featured prominently on the cover of this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine. While we wait the long 7 days until Scream 4 is unleashed upon the world, we can look to EW magazine to tide us over with [...]
Scream 4 won’t open in theaters until next weekend but the famed Ghostface killer mask is featured prominently on the cover of this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine. While we wait the long 7 days until Scream 4 is unleashed upon the world, we can look to EW magazine to tide us over with as much info about the movie as can be shared before the film officially opens next week. Check out this week’s Scream cover of EW magazine and check out new clips from the film below.
Released in December 1996, Scream was a sleeper hit that grossed just $6 million in its first weekend but went on to rake in $103 million in the U.S. The winking, self-aware thriller, directed by A Nightmare on Elm Street’s Wes Craven, followed a group of teens well versed in the rules of horror films — and spoke to a young audience just as savvy about the genre’s clichés. It yielded two sequels, which amassed $101 million and $89 million, respectively. In total, the franchise surpassed more than half a billion dollars internationally. On April 15, after eleven long years, it’s finally returning to theaters, along with original cast members Courtney Cox, David Arquette, and Neve Campbell. Fans should feel lucky that there’s another installment arriving at all, given how easily Scream 4 could have fallen apart. As they reveal in this week’s cover story, screenwriter Kevin Williamson and Dimension Films co-chairman Bob Weinstein clashed repeatedly and vociferously over details, resulting in a script that was in flux throughout the shoot. “I always prided myself on coming to the set with a shot list,” says Craven. “But quite often we’d literally get pages the night before, sometimes the day of. That part was very stressful.” “Everyone was second-guessing everything, because everyone wanted it to be so perfect,” Williamson recalls … Of course, Weinstein and Williamson were not the only couple undergoing a crisis in their relationship. During their six weeks together on set in Michigan, Cox and Arquette were weathering a rough patch in their 11-year marriage (the pair eventually announced in October that they had separated). Somehow, they managed to keep their struggles private. “I was absolutely clueless, and I spent a lot of time around them,” says Hayden Panettiere, who plays a teen targeted by the Ghostface killer back in the fictional town of Woodsboro (the franchise’s original setting). “It never crept into work or made anyone uncomfortable.” Adds Craven: “The only thing that was odd was that when he finished his shooting, he didn’t go home. Then we started to wonder what was going on.”
Without question, Scream is one of my all-time fave film franchises. The first film came out in the prime of my youth and it left an indelible impact on me. Seeing Scream in theaters again will spark much nostalgic love in me, I’m telling you … it’s one of the main draws for me. I am SO excited, I can’t even tell you. Here are a couple of clips from the film that have been screened on late night TV shows:
Sydney may be a grown woman, but she still knows what’s up … and I am really anxious to see her in action again. We get EW delivered to our home so I’ll be watching my mailbox for this issue. I really cannot believe Scream is coming back to theaters. It seems like AGES ago that we learned the film was going into production … and here we are, just a week away from release. Woot!!
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