One of the most encouraging post-cavestic events for exhibitors arrived in April 2022. The franchise "Crick"After lying asleep for more than a decade, she suddenly strucked life with the fifth film in the history of the property, simply titled "Creek". Horror fans gathered on theaters in large numbers to provide some juice for the flags of the American box office; The sequel made $ 33 million during its four -day open weekend before leaving for $ 137.7 million worldwide. The films did not come back exactly (they are not yet), but this was a reminder of studios and exhibitors who, at least, the horror genre is as much (potentially) banking as always.

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One of the reasons for the mass success of Scream (2022) and its sequel from 2023, "Scream VI", was Slasher Franchise's skillful ability to integrate a new series of multicolored characters into this previously existing world, inhabited by old favorites, such as Neu Campbell, Courtney Cox and Day. Particularly effective was the duo of Melissa Barrera and ENENA Ortega such as sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter, the latest young people hunting from Ghostface. After surviving the sixth film, the fans were stopped to see brothers and sisters on carpenter hunting again (or, who knows, maybe even Get up Hunter) in the seventh installment.

And then everything broke up.

Barrera was sharply fired from the project In November 2023, when she announced what was considered controversial remarks about the Israel-Hamas war. This followed the departure of directors Tyler Gillet and Matt Bethinelli-Olpin (who made a way for the talented steering "Happy Day of Death" Christopher Landon), who left some fans to feel like the property had just shot at the foot. Then, the day after Barrera was canned, news emerged that Ortega withdrew. Is this done in solidarity with her co-Starvala? Or was there anything else about it? With her new film "Unicorn Death" right now in theaters, Ortega is finally opening up for her decision.

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At that time it was reported Ortega came out of "Skric VII" a few months before a barrier was fired. However, in a recent interview for CuttingOrtega said the choice of the seventh "scream" film was a strict matter of vibration - and those vibrations were terribly bad until it was officially forbidden. As she said at the intersection:

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"It had nothing to do with salary or scheduling. Melissa things were happening, and it was all to fall apart. If" Scream VII "shouldn't have been with that team of directors and those people with whom they were inbust, then it didn't seem like a real move for me in my career at the time."

The sudden, fully unplanned cycle -cibo -calf to the carpenter's nail polish sent fans to the Tisa. Christopher Landon began catching wandering on social media, so it was no surprise when he came out of the director's chair in December 2023. After all, after all. Announced series creator Kevin Williamson That he will take over the helm of "Scream VII", making his first theater feature as a director of "Learning Mrs Tingle" in 1999. The only good news for the franchise fans is that "scream" (2022) and "Script VI" Script Guy Busik remained to write the sequel (from the story it developed with Jameseims Vanderbilt).

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"Scream VII" is currently scheduled to reach the theaters on February 27, 2026, with Campbell returning to the property After spending the Scream VII because of the payment dispute. Will its involvement be enough to save this badly damaged property? We have to wait and see, but it was certainly not ideal to chase the two young actors who brought a new generation to "screaming".