{"id":2305277,"date":"2026-02-28T17:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2305277"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:25:18","slug":"box-office-scream-7-kills-with-28-8-million-on-opening-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/box-office-scream-7-kills-with-28-8-million-on-opening-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Office: \u2018Scream 7\u2019 Kills With $28.8 Million on Opening Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/p>\n

\u201cScream 7<\/a>\u201d easily slashed its way to the top of the Friday box office, knocking off last week\u2019s champion, \u201cWuthering Heights<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The seventh installment in the long-running slasher franchise grossed $28.8 million on Friday from 3,540 North American locations. Paramount<\/a> and Spyglass are hoping for $60 million through opening weekend, which would mark the best debut in series history.<\/p>\n

\u201cScream 7<\/a>\u201d sees the return of Neve Campbell<\/a>\u2019s Sidney Prescott, who relocates to Woodsboro for a quiet life with her daughter, only to have Ghostface try to burn it all down. Campbell<\/a> stars alongside fellow original cast members Courteney Cox<\/a>, David Arquette<\/a> and Matthew Lillard<\/a>, as well as Isabel May<\/a>, Jasmin Savoy Brown<\/a>, Mason Gooding<\/a>, Anna Camp<\/a>, Joel McHale<\/a> and Mckenna Grace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Paramount is poised for a major payday, it wasn\u2019t easy getting \u201cScream 7<\/a>\u201d off the ground. Preproduction was plagued by a myriad of major setbacks, including the exit…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cScream 7\u201d easily slashed its way to the top of the Friday box office, knocking off last week\u2019s champion, \u201cWuthering Heights.\u201d The seventh installment in the long-running slasher franchise grossed $28.8 million on Friday from 3,540 North American locations. Paramount and Spyglass are hoping for $60 million through opening weekend, which would mark the best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2305278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2305277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Box-Office-\u2018Scream-7-Kills-With-288-Million-on-Opening.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305279,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305277\/revisions\/2305279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2305278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}