‘Scream’ box office dethrones ‘No Way Home’ with $13 m

Paramount and Spyglass’ ‘Scream’ got off to an excellent start at the domestic box office yesterday, easily dethroning ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ with a $13.35 million Friday gross, reports Forbes.

That’s the biggest R-rated single-day gross since ‘Halloween Kills’ (a $22.8 million Friday and $17.3 million Saturday toward an understandably frontloaded $49 million debut frame) in mid-October 2021. It’s Paramount’s biggest opening since ‘A Quiet Place part II’ which earned $19 million on Friday toward a $47 million Fri-Sun/$57 million Fri-Mon Memorial Day weekend launch last year.

According to the Collider, this is poised to best the previous MLK weekend record for a horror picture, which was held by Andy Muschietti’s Mama. Scream’s three-day opening is in the same range as its predecessors’—‘Scream 2’ opened to $32.9 million back in 1997; ‘Scream 3’ made $34.7 in 2000; ‘Scream 4’, however, couldn’t crack $20 million in its opening weekend in 2011.

Four-time champion ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ made $5.1 million on Friday, for an estimated three-day haul of $21.4 million, and $26.7 million across four days. ‘No Way Home’ also raced past fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe hit Black Panther on the all-time chart.