{"id":1219735,"date":"2022-01-17T10:06:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219735"},"modified":"2022-01-17T10:06:15","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T15:06:15","slug":"box-office-scream-scares-off-spider-man-with-30-6m-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/box-office-scream-scares-off-spider-man-with-30-6m-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2018Scream\u2019 Scares Off \u2018Spider-Man\u2019 with $30.6M Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbox-office-scream-scares-off-spider-man-with-30-6m-debut%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219735&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/scream2022-640x335.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After a month at no. 1,&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/film-reviews-entertainment-arts-and-entertainment-movies-ec537f02aa1316b20984935ff925e228\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">\u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;has finally been overtaken at the box office.&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/film-reviews-entertainment-reviews-arts-and-entertainment-movies-f05516ec885b1856d31d145638fa1088\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Paramount Pictures\u2019 \u201cScream\u201d reboot&nbsp;<\/a>debuted with $30.6 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScream,\u201d a self-described \u201crequel\u201d that is both the fifth film in the franchise and a reboot introducing a new, younger cast, led all releases over the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Paramount forecasts that it will total $35 million including Monday\u2019s grosses. \u201cScream,\u201d which cost about $24 million to make, added another $18 million in 50 international markets.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>That made for a solid revival for the self-aware slasher franchise. Rights to the \u201cScream\u201d films, once a reliable cash cow for Harvey and Bob Weinstein\u2019s Miramax Films, were acquired by Spyglass Media Group, which produced the new film with Paramount. This \u201cScream,\u201d helmed by Matt Bettinello-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, was the first not directed by Wes Craven,&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ebf797cf67bc455783a662cd8b7e7341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">who died in 2015<\/a>. It features original \u201cScream\u201d cast members Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette alongside new additions Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega and Jack Quaid.<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, \u201cScream\u201d is the first box-office success in a year that Hollywood hopes will see a return to weekly stability at movie theaters. January is typically a quiet period at the box office, but the surge of the omicron variant in COVID-19 has further upended release plans of some winter movies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of our traditional measures were indicating a solid opening, but as I kept telling people: We\u2019re still in this thing and it\u2019s very difficult to determine what will actually happen,\u201d said Chris Aronson, distribution chief for Paramount. \u201cNow we\u2019re open, people have seen the movie and we\u2019re off and running. Hopefully this becomes another building block toward building the business back and getting it back to some semblance of normalcy.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d slipped to second place but continued to rise in the record books.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo Way Home\u201d grossed $20.8 million in its fifth weekend of release. Sony Pictures predicts that with another $5.2 million on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, \u201cNo Way Home\u201d will reach a domestic cumulative total of $703.9 million Monday, edging \u201cBlack Panther\u201d and moving into fourth place all-time. That puts it behind only \u201cAvatar\u201d ($760 million), \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d ($858 million) and \u201cStar Wars: The Force Awakens\u201d ($936 million). Globally, \u201cNo Way Home\u201d has grossed $1.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Universal Pictures\u2019&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/film-reviews-entertainment-lifestyle-movies-parades-ad515ed1ca1a45c67ed1d9c790daf1e7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">\u201cSing 2\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;landed in third place in its fourth weekend with $8.3 million over the three-day weekend. The animated sequel has grossed $122.1 million domestically and $96.3 million internationally.<\/p>\n<p>While the debut of \u201cScream\u201d could be celebrated by Paramount, which postponed most of its top 2021 releases to 2022 (movies including \u201cTop Gun: Maverick\u201d and \u201cMission Impossible 7\u2033), its performance also typified current box-office realities. Superhero movies and genre films that appeal to younger audiences have bounced back to near pre-pandemic levels, while films skewing older haven\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScream,\u201d which received largely favorable reviews (81% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and a B+ CinemaScore from audiences, fared better than the last installment, 2011\u2019s \u201cScream 4.\u201d That film launched with $19.3 million. The audience for the new \u201cScream\u201d was 42% under the age of 25, Sony said. But any success needs to pull from various demographics, and \u201cScream\u201d also appealed to fans of the early franchise entries. Some 23% of ticket buyers were over 35.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The only other new widely released movie over the weekend was \u201cBelle,\u201d&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/film-reviews-entertainment-lifestyle-movies-hayao-miyazaki-deba17876987d4d8d4fb3deda378f8b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Mamoru Hosoda\u2019s critically acclaimed anime riff on \u201cBeauty and the Beast.\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;It debuted with $1.6 million in 1,326 theaters.<\/p>\n<p>Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>1. \u201cScream,\u201d $30.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>2. \u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home,\u201d $20.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u201cSing 2,\u201d $8.3 million.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>4. \u201cThe 355,\u201d $2.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>5. \u201cThe King\u2019s Man,\u201d $2.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>6. \u201cBelle,\u201d $1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>7. \u201cAmerican Underdog,\u201d $1.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>8. \u201cWest Side Story,\u201d $948,000.<\/p>\n<p>9. \u201cLicorice Pizza,\u201d $880,000.<\/p>\n<p>10. \u201cThe Matrix Resurrections,\u201d $815,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After a month at no. 1,\u00a0\u201cSpider-Man: No Way Home\u201d\u00a0has finally been overtaken at the box office.\u00a0Paramount Pictures\u2019 \u201cScream\u201d reboot\u00a0debuted with $30.6 million in ticket sales over &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}