Weekend Thread: Scream - 30.60m

Great opening. Scream 4 made 38M total. Nothing new the next 2 weeks either so it should have decent legs.

We all go a little mad sometimes…..

Matthew Lillard said fuck this I’m going for mine. This is the last act, I’m a psychopathic serial killer in this film and I just killed a bunch of people. I’m dialing this shit up to 11 on the over-the-top scale and it makes sense in the film. Perfect..even Skeet Ulrich in one shot at his face before he stabs him is looking at him like this dudes nuts.

Agreed..and I’ll go one step further. I think it should’ve gotten nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress (Cox). Just a classic horror slasher film that breathed new life into the genre.

Scream was a phenomenon, didn’t Lillard, Ulrich, and Arquette make the Vanity Fair cover for the next generation of actors issue the following year?

Yes, they did. Scream is actually one of my favorite box office runs ever. It didn't even open that particularly great, only #4, but it kept growing and growing, until it pulled itself over 100m. That was a phenomenon type of run. Next year Scream 2 broke the December record, only to be bested by Titanic's second weekend two weeks later. 

Like most big hits, it was a case of a lot of a lot of talent being together at the right place and time, and the execution coming together perfectly. 

Wasn't particularly fond of the new Scream, but it's nice to see something other than Marvel/DC/Disney turn a profit at the b.o.

It really depends on how far they expand it, it's still technically in limited release. The thing about PTA's movies is, is it that they usually expand really well, but collapse rather fast after. LP in specific, has been playing rather well to its audience. I guess it depends on how much MGM thinks they can get out of the film, and how far they'll go with it. Not even sure the awards will help it much in that regard, though.

For a horror franchise that's 25 years old being released during the middle of January, that's pretty fantastic.

Yup...........Ulrich is better and a better character much better actually and more complex - first of all he gets the classic line (Fnck you ...........we've already played that game, and you lost......remember?) - one of the best burns in modern movies.

He's also far sadder because he shows you flashes of sensitivity and well roundedness that is all an act - he "could be normal" but is quite literally a bad seed or a psychologically damaged bad seed.............. that he then twists back on the characters in many sly ways (and line readings)..........Lillard is just nuts , Ulrich is covincingly and disturbingly sociopathic.

Btw, I wrote about Wes Craven (link below, page 1, worth a read imo) and once in a way that kind of covers why if you are talking about the actors in the first place in a Wes Craven movie - you're misrepresenting the movie somewhat (at least prior to Red Eye) - all the Craven movies usually would work regardless of the cast really - even if you gave a great performance IN a Craven movie - you are always subject to him and his laid out vision.

Lillard is not a worthy BSA for Scream imo  - I mean I'm as big a contarian as anyone but no - I can name a lot of people more deserving than him - but Wes Craven is actually deserving of a BD nod. That's the case in both of his greatest works - Nightmare on Elm Street & Scream. He's America's Dario Argento - a great director who stayed in one type of film (almost) exclusively that limited the way in which he's perceived by people too stupid to look at him as a master of genre only - he was that and more at his best.

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