The sixth installment in the acclaimed horror film series is off to the best start in Paramount Studios’ franchise history since its release in 1996, according to these estimates for Friday-Sunday box office earnings in the United States and Canada.
At the time, the film by Wes Craven, who died in 2015, had rejuvenated the genre with a mixture of terror and self-irony, a recipe for which “Scream” always bets.
For this sixth installment, in which the terrifying “Ghostface” operates in New York, the fetish actress of the series Courteney Cox appears again, but also the star of the series “Wednesday”, Jenna Ortega.
In the box office ring, “Scream 6” this weekend left “Creed III,” the ninth film in the “Rocky” boxing saga and the first without Sylvester Stallone, in second place, which grossed $27.2 million. .
“Creed III” tells the story of Adonis Creed, the son of Apollo, who this time comes out of retirement for a long-awaited confrontation against a friend of old.
This is the first film directed by Michael B. Jordan, who also plays the lead role.
In third place was Sony Studios’ new sci-fi thriller “65,” starring Adam Driver, with $12.3 million. It was followed by “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” with $7 million, and in fifth place was “Intoxicated Bear” with $6.2 million.
The other five films on the top 10 list were:
6. “Jesus Revolution” (5.2 million)
7. “Champions” (5.2 million)
8. “Avatar 2” (2.7 million)
9. “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – To the Swordsmith Village” (1.9 million)
10. “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” (1.7 million)