“Scream 7” made a killing in its first weekend at the box office, generating $97.2 million in worldwide ticket sales.
The latest installment in Paramount and Spyglass Media’s long-running slasher series has collected $33.1 million overseas and $64.1 million domestically. Those returns mark a global, international and North American record for the franchise, which began with 1996’s “Scream.”
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Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original “Scream,” directed the seventh installment, which follows a new Ghostface killer who targets the daughter of Neve Campbell’s resilient heroine Sidney Prescott. Campbell returned to the franchise after sitting out the sixth entry over a salary dispute.
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