‘Scream’ Film Review: Slasher Series Returns With Laughs, Terror, and Meta-Commentary Intact

th feature film, Allen returns to a well that is not so much dry as desiccated. The movie opens with Wallace Shawn as our Allen doppelgänger, Mort Rifkin. Mort, an anxious former professor, is also a dedicated cinephile and self-defined intellectual who spends the next hour and a half complaining vociferously to his analyst.He’s reminiscing about a troubled trip to Spain’s San Sebastián Film Festival, which he recently took with his publicist wife, Sue (Gina Gershon).

Angelique Jackson As Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston get embroiled in another international caper for “Murder Mystery 2,” the Netflix sequel has rounded out its ensemble cast.Mark Strong, Mélanie Laurent, Jodie Turner-Smith, Kuhoo Verma, Enrique Arce, Tony Goldwyn, Annie Mumolo and Zurin Villanueva have signed on for second installment, with Adeel Akhtar’s Maharajah and John Kani’s Colonel Ulenga returning.“Murder Mystery 2” will be directed by Jeremy Garelick from a script by James Vanderbilt, with revisions by Garelick.Sandler and Aniston produce the project under their respective banners (Sandler for Happy Madison with Allen Covert, and Aniston for Echo Films). Also producing are Tripp Vinson for Vinson Films, James Stern for Endgame Entertainment and Vanderbilt.

Neve Campbell is opening up about the ending of the new movie Scream and why she questioned a twist that happened in the film.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not seen the new “Scream” movie. This story contains major spoilers.Neve Campbell admits she wasn’t too sure about signing on for the new “Scream,” the fifth installment of the horror franchise, because she couldn’t imagine doing it after the death of Wes Craven.But 25 years after the first film was released, directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin were able to convince not only her, but fellow legacy cast members David Arquette and Courteney Cox, to return to Woodsboro.“Wes was brilliant and the reason this is such a successful franchise.

Jack Quaid is sharing some behind-the-scenes secrets from the set of Scream!

Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features EditorSPOILER ALERT: Do not read unless you have seen the 2022 horror film “Scream,” currently playing in theaters.The “Scream” movies know about rules. Since the series launched with the first film in 1996, inspiring countless homages and parodies, a few things have been constant.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterSPOILER WARNING: This story discusses crucial plot developments — including a major death and who is behind the murders in the movie — in the 2022 horror film “Scream,” currently playing in theaters.When the filmmakers behind the new “Scream” — directors Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and executive producer Chad Villella, collectively known as Radio Silence — first read the script by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick, they loved how it applied this franchise’s self-aware sensibility to the state of franchise filmmaking itself.

“Scream” movie without some new blood?Among the young cast members joining the franchise for this, the fifth (!) installment in the outrageously popular horror series that began with Wes Craven’s stone cold masterpiece in 1996, are Melissa Barrera, Kyle Gallner, Mikey Madison, Dylan Minnette, Jenna Ortega and, of course, Jack Quaid. Quaid plays Richie, the boyfriend of Barrera’s Sam, who gets roped into a murder mystery connected to events from the 1996 original.

Scream queen. Over 25 years after becoming a global sensation thanks to Scream, Neve Campbell’s net worth has continued to thrive. But her salary over the years for each of the Scream movies might surprise you.

“Scream” franchise (technically the fifth entry but without a number). She plays Sam, whose younger sister (Jenna Ortega) is attacked by a new killer dressed in the iconic Ghostface mask.

NEW YORK -- After a month at no. 1, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has finally been overtaken at the box office. Paramount Pictures' “Scream” reboot debuted with $30.6 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.“Scream,” a self-described “requel” 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.

This story contains SPOILERS about the new “Scream” film. Like any great “Scream” movie, the fifth film in the franchise is movie-literate and wildly self-aware.

What’s your favorite scary movie?That is the question that kicked off the iconic “Scream” franchise way back in 1996. And the franchise is back, 11 years after the last installment (“Scream 4”) hit theaters.

“When Wes (Craven) passed, I already said goodbye to it,” says original Scream franchise scribe Kevin Williamson today on Deadline’s Hero Nation podcast.

Ring. Ring.Twenty-six years after the original, “Scream” calls again. We're now up to the fifth film in the franchise, but the first since 2011's “Scream 4.” Enough time has passed that this one, titled simply “Scream,” bears no number, no caller ID.

2.5 stars (out of 4)

“You’re the most derivative yet,” Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) says as she faces down yet another Ghostface killer. It serves as both a dressing down of the most recent iteration of the iconic villain and also a meta assessment of the fifth film in the “Scream” franchise.