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Katcy Stephan Gravitas Ventures has acquired worldwide rights to Uinta Productions and Paper Street Pictures’ “Snow Valley,” the directorial debut from the late Brandon Murphy. Murphy, who died in January 2022, was the screenwriter for “Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard.” He also wrote the script for “Snow Valley,” which was in post production at the time of his death.

“Oppenheimer” star Cillian Murphy rips into his 2005 movie “Red Eye” in GQ magazine’s latest March cover story.“I love Rachel McAdams and we had fun making it,” Murphy told GQ. “But I don’t think it’s a good movie. It’s a good B movie.”In the psychological thriller, directed by Wes Craven, Murphy plays Jackson Rippner, who’s seated next to Lisa Reisert (McAdams) on a red-eye flight from Dallas to Miami — and whose evil terrorist intentions are revealed once the plane takes off when he tells her he’s going to assassinate the US deputy head of Homeland Security.“When I was a younger actor, I was really, really hard on everything that I was in,” said Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”).

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Timothy Olyphant has had a long and storied Hollywood career over the past two and a half decades, with two of his most lauded roles yet in this year’s “Full Circle” and “Justified: City Primeval.” But the actor likely wouldn’t have landed his big roles like Raylan Givens on “Justified” without crucial early ones like “Scream 2.” In a recent conversation on the Bingeworthy podcast, Olyphant talked about the notorious production of Wes Craven‘s 1997 sequel, one shrouded in secrecy due to a leaked script that revealed the identity of the movie’s killers.

, Hayden Panettiere made a welcomed return to the slasher franchise over a decade later in. During a visit with ET, the 33-year-old actress looked back on her first installment in the series and what it has meant getting to play Kirby again, especially now that the movies are as big as ever. Released in 2011, was the first long-awaited sequel following the initial trilogy, marking the return of the original three players — Neve Campbell (Sidney), Courteney Cox (Gale) and David Arquette (Dewey) — as they faced off with Ghostface once again. Set in Woodsboro, the new film also featured a number of new high school characters played by the likes of Panettiere, Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Nico Tortorella, Marielle Jaffe and Erik Knudsen. After watching the clip of Kirby reciting all the horror remakes as she tries to save Charlie (Culkin) from Ghostface, Panettiere reflected on her longtime friendship with Culkin.

The franchise first launched in 1996 from screenwriter Kevin Williamson and the late director Wes Craven. Five sequels and nearly 30 years later, Ghostface is more popular now than ever -- thanks in part to the new creative team, Radio Silence, who took over ahead of last year’s successful reboot.Directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet, most known for their witty 2019 slasher, were at the helm again for an Easter egg-filled sixth entry, and this time they held nothing back as they moved the action from Woodsboro to New York City.In, Ghostface targets the core four survivors — Samantha Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), her sister, Tara (Jenna Ortega), and twins Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding, respectively) — who were first introduced in (2022). This time, they're joined by a new group of friends played by Devyn Nekoda, Jack Champion, Josh Segarra and Liana Liberato.For the first time in the 27-year franchise, Sidney Prescott does not appear in the film due to a salary dispute with actress Neve Campbell.

Emily Longeretta Warning: This story contains major spoilers for “Scream VI,” in theaters now. Anytime a “Scream” movie drops, it’s safe to assume fans want to see it multiple times, especially to catch all the Easter eggs. The sixth movie, written by James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick and directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, picks up plenty of threads from the last film. This time, Tara (Jenna Ortega) enrolls in college in New York City, attempting to leave the past in the past. Making it hard is her overprotective sister, Sam (Melissa Barrera), who struggles to move forward since the internet is convinced she actually orchestrated the last killings. Along with Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox), “Scream VI” also marks the return of Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown, respectively) and “Scream 4” survivor Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere), who now works as an FBI agent and comes to New York after hearing about Ghostface’s return.

Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: This interview contains spoilers from “Scream VI,” now playing in theaters. The casual horror fan probably noticed a few iconic masks and monsters in the “Scream VI” subway scene: There’s Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Pinhead and even modern staples like Florence Pugh’s flower dress from “Midsommar” and a group of tethered people from Jordan Peele’s “Us.” But costume designer Avery Plewes and directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett went went to inconceivable lengths to pack more than 50 Easter eggs, costumes and blink-and-you-miss-it references into the latest “Scream.” Tracking down Ghostface in New York City, the “Scream VI” crew, consisting of Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega), Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown), Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding), Ethan Landry (Jack Champion) and Danny Brackett (Josh Segarra), pile into the subway to confront the latest masked killer. However, it’s Halloween time, which means the train car is packed with throngs of New Yorkers in creepy costumes.

“Scream VI” after a four-year hiatus — and she didn’t believe she could do it.“It was daunting, honestly,” the 33-year-old said about getting back into the film biz in a new interview with Entertainment Weekly.“I was a little bit worried. I was worried that I couldn’t act anymore.

Ghostface wants to remain a secret.

Ghostface returns — again. After the success of the latest Scream film, Gale Weathers and the gang are coming back for another round of scares.

The call will most assuredly be coming from inside the house starting tomorrow, as “Scream” will be available to purchase on Digital starting on March 1.Paramount Home Entertainment announced on Monday that the fifth “Scream” film, which was released exclusively in theaters on Jan. 14, will be available to purchase on Digital starting March 1 and is coming to 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD on April 5, all with a bevy of bonus content that goes inside the making of the new movie.The new “Scream” film brings back original cast members Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette alongside newcomers like Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, Jenna Ortega, Jack Quaid and Marley Shelton for an all-new story from the directing team of Radio Silence, who recently helmed the delightfully violent whodunit “Ready or Not.”The bonus content for the home video release includes a full filmmaker commentary, a featurette focusing on the legacy characters as Campbell, Cox and Arquette discuss why they came back for a fifth film, a featurette on the new characters featured in the film and another featurette honoring original “Scream” director Wes Craven who died in 2015.

Scream film has been given the green light following the success of the fifth entry in the slasher movie franchise.It comes after the new chapter, which saw the original films’ core cast reprise their roles, with Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette all returning to face off against the notorious masked serial killer Ghostface, pulled in $106.7million (£78.4million) globally following its release last month.Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett will return to direct, with James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick penning the script. Production is set to begin this summer.“We are tremendously grateful to the fans around the world who enthusiastically received our film.

Scream 6 is a go!

NEW YORK -- After a month at no. 1, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has finally been overtaken at the box office. Paramount Pictures' “Scream” reboot debuted with $30.6 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.“Scream,” a self-described “requel” that is both the fifth film in the franchise and a reboot introducing a new, younger cast, led all releases over the Martin Luther King Jr.

A meaningful return. David Arquette detailed how it felt to work with his ex-wife, Courteney Cox, on the new Scream movie a decade after their split.

Scream revival is on this list. In May 2020, Neve Campbell talked about the movie’s early stages and Wes Craven, the franchise’s original director, who passed away in 2015. “I definitely had a period where I was thinking it would just be too odd to do a movie without Wes, and I wasn’t certain that I would want to do that,” Campbell “But, I think enough time has passed.

After launching his career in horror in the ‘70s, the next decade brought Wes Craven a ton of success thanks to his “Nightmare on Elm Street” franchise. By the ‘90s, however, after directing what he thought was the end of ‘Nightmare’ franchise with 1994’s “New Nightmare,” Craven was apparently ready to leave horror behind and start making other types of films.

By Wes Craven‘s third decade reinventing Hollywood horror, the “Nightmare on Elm Street” creator found himself asking, “What’s the point of all this slashing?” He then embarked on a third act of socially critical and self-reflexive scary movies: “The People Under The Stairs” (1991), “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare” (1994), and “Scream” (1996).

“Scream 5” is almost here.Two of the infamous horror franchise’s original stars, Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard, recently took a walk down memory lane in an interview with Variety — and the 51-year-old actors teased whether their characters could pop up again.As fans may remember, teens Stu (Lillard) and Billy (Ulrich) were — spoiler alert — behind Ghostface’s gory killings, and both died in the first 1996 film.

Horror fans will be delighted to know the fifth Scream movie is coming back and it looks to be every bit as terrifying as we feared.

told entertainment site Bloody Disgusting that Craven was “miserable” while filming the sequels. “I don’t think anyone gave ‘Scream’ a lot of credence,” he said in an interview published Thursday.“I mean, I don’t think anyone gave us a chance, because we were coming in with a director that wasn’t necessarily young and hot.

Courteney Cox took to Instagram on Thursday to celebrate the end of production on the upcoming fifth installment in the franchise.The actress shared a heartfelt slideshow of snapshots to commemorate the occasion, which began with a throwback photo of herself and the original film's director, the late horror maestro Wes Craven, who died in August 2015.«Scream just wrapped,» Cox captioned the post.

David Arquette appeared in four “Scream” movies directed by Wes Craven, who passed away of brain cancer in 2015 at age 76.

The ‘70s represented some of horror’s most creative and exciting developments. Criterion Channel is taking the month of October to delve into this influential decade’s fright-filled contributions with their newest collection—‘70s Horror.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentSonia Ammar, an up-and-coming French-Arab singer, model and actor, has joined the cast of “Scream 5,” Spyglass and Paramount’s relaunch of the famous horror film franchise. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett from the filmmaking group Radio Silence (“Ready or Not”) will direct the movie, taking over from the late horror master Wes Craven, who directed the previous four “Scream” movies.

Scream actor David Arquette has detailed what to expect from upcoming sequel Scream 5.The film, currently set for a 2022 release, is the first in the franchise to be made following the death of iconic horror director Wes Craven, who helmed the first four.“The directors coming on board were really inspired by Wes for themselves in their lives and careers, and it’s an opportunity to continue with his legacy,” Arquette told NME.“But it’s gonna be really sad without him, I’ve been thinking about it

Courteney Cox will return to her role as Gale Weathers in a new Scream film, she has confirmed.

David Arquette is set to reprise his role as Sheriff Dewey Riley in the upcoming Scream reboot, it has been announced.

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It was recently revealed that a new sequel could be in the works, and Matthew Lillard — who starred in the 1996 original — says he'd be down to come back.