Scream
American slasher film
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March 2025 | David Arquette announced his return to reprise his role as Dewey Riley in Scream 7. |
January 7 2025 | Filming for Scream 7 officially began. |
2024 | Stu's photo appears on the investigation board in Scream VI, with his red robe and the TV used to kill him featured in the Ghostface shrine. |
December 2024 | Courteney Cox confirmed her return to the film. |
December 2024 | Additional cast members Anna Camp, Celeste O'Connor, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown were announced for Scream 7. |
November 2024 | Isabel May was reported to portray Sidney Prescott's daughter in the film. |
October 2024 | Paramount announced Scream 7 would be released on February 27, 2026. |
March 2024 | Neve Campbell announced her return as Sidney Prescott for Scream 7, with Kevin Williamson announced as the film's director. |
2023 | Ghostface (voiced by Jackson) became a playable character in the fighting game Mortal Kombat 1. |
December 23 2023 | Christopher Landon announced he was no longer associated with the Scream 7 sequel. |
November 21 2023 | Production plans for Scream 7 were pushed back after Melissa Barrera was fired from the film. |
August 2023 | Christopher Landon was announced as the director for Scream 7, though he would later leave the project in December. |
March 10 2023 | Scream VI released, continuing the franchise's modern storyline. |
March 10 2023 | Release of Scream 6, developed by the same directors and screenwriters as the fifth film. |
2022 | Lillard makes vocal cameos in Scream (2022) as the voice of Ghostface and appears as a background partygoer participating in the 'To Wes!' toast. |
2022 | Williamson reflected on the queer undertones in Scream, stating he was hesitant to explicitly present the gay aspects of the characters and that any queerness was 'coded and maybe accidental'. |
2022 | Varèse Sarabande released the film's score in a limited-edition six-disc box CD set and digitally, along with a four-LP record set with a jacket that turns into a Ghostface mask. |
2022 | Fifth Scream film released, serving as a legacy sequel that reunites original cast members with a new ensemble of characters. |
June 6 2022 | Neve Campbell announced she would not return as Sidney Prescott for the sixth film, citing unresolved contract and salary negotiations with Paramount. |
June 3 2022 | Dermot Mulroney joined the cast of the sixth Scream film. |
May 11 2022 | Hayden Panettiere confirmed to reprise her role as Kirby Reed from the fourth film. |
May 10 2022 | Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, and Jenna Ortega announced to return for the sixth Scream film. |
March 2022 | Film scheduled for release on March 10, 2023, with Courteney Cox confirmed to reprise her role as Gale Weathers. |
February 3 2022 | Sixth installment of the Scream franchise was officially greenlit, with the same creative team returning and production planned to begin in mid-2022 in Montreal, Canada. |
January 14 2022 | Scream is released by Paramount Pictures, marking the fifth installment in the franchise. |
January 14 2022 | Reboot of Scream released, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett, marking a new era for the franchise. |
January 14 2022 | Release of Scream 5, the first film in the series not directed by Wes Craven, with Kevin Williamson returning as an executive producer. |
2021 | Jamie Kennedy noted he was still being approached by fans about his iconic horror rules monologue from the film. |
2021 | Kevin Williamson revealed in an interview that he subconsciously coded Scream movies with gay survival themes, drawing parallels between Sidney's survival tactics and his own experiences as a gay man. |
2021 | For the film's 25th anniversary, Scream was remastered and released on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in a steelbook case, including a new documentary 'A Bloody Legacy: Scream 25 Years Later' featuring new interviews with cast and crew. |
November 2020 | Kevin Williamson confirms the film's official title will be simply 'Scream'. |
September 22 2020 | Filming for the fifth Scream movie begins. |
July 31 2020 | Courteney Cox confirms her return to the Scream franchise for the fifth installment. |
March 2020 | Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett are announced as directors for the fifth Scream installment, with Kevin Williamson serving as executive producer. |
March 2020 | David Arquette is confirmed to reprise his role as Dewey Riley in the fifth Scream film. |
November 2019 | Spyglass Media Group acquires the rights to make a new Scream film. |
July 8 2019 | Third and final season of Scream, subtitled 'Resurrection', premiered on VH1. |
2017 | Director Jordan Peele credited Scream as a direct inspiration for his influential horror film Get Out. |
October 10 2017 | Keke Palmer confirmed Roger L. Jackson would return as the voice of Ghostface for the third season. |
September 18 2017 | Announcement that the original Ghostface mask from the film series would appear in the third season. |
July 19 2017 | The Hollywood Reporter announced potential transition of the series into an anthology format after the third season. |
April 26 2017 | MTV announced a reboot of the series for the third season with a new cast and setting, with Brett Matthews as the main showrunner. |
October 14 2016 | MTV renewed the Scream television series for a six-episode third season. |
May 30 2016 | Second season of Scream TV series premiered. |
2015 | Premiere of the MTV anthology television series Scream, which followed new characters and was not canon to the film series. |
August 30 2015 | Wes Craven died of brain cancer, with the first-season finale including a tribute to him during the opening credits. |
June 2015 | Bob Weinstein initially denies the possibility of a fifth film, suggesting the MTV television series as the franchise's future path. |
April 12 2015 | First trailer for the Scream TV series aired during the MTV Movie Awards, revealing the premiere date of June 30, 2015. |
April 2 2014 | Jill Blotevogel selected to write the show, focusing on a viral YouTube video that triggers a murder investigation in Lakewood. |
September 30 2013 | Harvey Weinstein expresses interest in producing a fifth Scream installment. |
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