‘Scream VI’ Slays $5.7M In Previews – Box Office
10.03.2023 - 19:07
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The Paramount/Spyglass Media release of Scream VI is off to a loud start with $5.7M in Thursday previews from its 5PM fan event and and 5:30PM previews at 3,125 theaters. It’s expected that the sixthquel is headed to a franchise record domestic start of $35M-$40M this weekend. Worldwide, the current Scream from Radio Silence is expected to also notch a global record debut of $50M+ from 50 territories.
Scream VI‘s preview cash is higher than the $3.5M Thursday money that Paramount/Spyglass’ previous Scream made and it’s higher than the Thursday money of last week’s MGM/UAR’s Creed III which did $5.45M before also hitting a franchise record start of $58.3M stateside, $100M+ worldwide.
The highest opening for a Scream movie is Scream 3 back in 2000 which posted a 3-day of $34.7M. The last Scream opened to $30M, and legged out to $81M, proving horror movies great worth in the Covid easing theatrical marketplace. Paramount also had A Quiet Place Part II before Scream which teed off the 2021 summer box office over Memorial Day.
Scream VI is produced by Project X’s William Sherak, Paul Neinstein and James Vanderbilt, the latter who also co-wrote the pic.
Sony has the Adam Driver sci-fi movie, 65, which is rated PG-13. It’s expected to hit in the high single digits. Last night it did $1.225M from shows that began at 4PM at 2,901 locations.
Creed III ended its first week at $74.1M at 4,007 theaters. The movie had the Imax screens this past week, which Paramount won’t have for Scream VI, though the horror pic will have the premium large format screens. Creed III made $3M yesterday, -11% from Wednesday.
The rest of the pics were as follows off industry estimates:
2. Cocaine Bear (Uni) 3,571 theaters, Thu $840K (-12% from