Scream has dethroned Spider-Man: No Way Home at the box office for the lengthy Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, with an estimated four-day revenue of $35 million.
It’s also good enough for Paramount and Spyglass, who collaborated on the revamp, to bring back the famous slasher franchise.
Scream’s three-day domestic weekend gross is expected to be $30.6 million, a strong showing given the omicron variation and a new rise in COVID-19 infections.
Scream made $18 million in 50 foreign markets. With $3.4 million, the United Kingdom took the lead. Scream follows a new Ghostface-masked killer who is on the hunt for a group of teenagers who are researching the town’s history.
With an expected four-day haul of $26 million, including $20.8 million for the three days, Spider-Man: No Way Home slid to No. 2 in its fifth weekend. When it reaches $703.9 million on Monday, the movie will become one of just four films to ever break the $700 million mark at the domestic box office. It also surpassed $900 million overseas, resulting in a staggering global haul of $1.62 billion on Sunday.