Entertainment News Roundup: Box Office: 'Scream' Debuts to Bloody Impressive $30.6 Million

Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs. Box Office: 'Scream' Debuts to Bloody Impressive $30.6 Million "Scream," a reimagining of a horror franchise that appeared to have run out of steam, dominated the box office, earning a scary good $30.6 million.

Following is a summary of current entertainment news briefs.

Box Office: 'Scream' Debuts to Bloody Impressive $30.6 Million

"Scream," a reimagining of a horror franchise that appeared to have run out of steam, dominated the box office, earning a scary good $30.6 million. The sequel is projected to earn $35 million over the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, a spectacular result considering that "Scream" only cost $25 million to produce. It also represents some positive news for the bruised and battered cinema industry, considering that "Scream's" success comes amid a spike in COVID-19. It helps that "Scream's" target demographic is younger, which means that they may not have been as spooked by the highly contagious omicron variant that is fueling the latest iteration of a seemingly endless pandemic. Paramount and Spyglass Media backed the reboot, which marks the first new chapter in the "Scream" series in a decade and shares a title with 1996 original -- the "Scream" saga is apparently so over integers. The film also brings back familiar faces such as Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, and David Arquette, who is once again haunted by a serial killer in a Ghostface mask. "Scream" debuted in 3,664 locations.