Scream 7 is being chased away from theaters.
The Scream 7 release kicked off on February 27 with a record-shattering opening weekend. With $63.6 million, it earned the best domestic debut of the entire 30-year-old horror franchise. Additionally, its global debut of more than $97 million saw it take just three days to outgross the entire run of 2011’s Scream 4.
Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Scream 7 is projected to drop to No. 2 behind Pixar’s Hoppers during its sophomore weekend with a 3-day domestic box office gross of $16.3 million. While it has outpaced the new release The Bride! (which is projected to hit No. 3 with a debut between $8 and $10 million), it has been slammed with a brutal 74% drop that marks the worst of the franchise by a wide margin.
The previous biggest drop for the franchise was earned by 2011’s Scream 4, which fell 62.4% during its own sophomore weekend. While its drop could fluctuate slightly from projections once its Sunday numbers come in, it is currently set to tie with the 2024 horror movie The Front Room and Werewolves for the 113th biggest week 2 drop of all time.
While horror tends to be more frontloaded than many other genres and can often have sophomore weekend drops of 60% or more, the Scream movies have largely avoided that trend. Below, see a breakdown of how every installment in the franchise has performed at the domestic box office during its first two weeks and overall worldwide:
Title
Domestic Debut
Week 2 Drop
Worldwide Total
Scream (1996)
$6.3 million
+42.8%
$173 million
Scream 2 (1997)
$32.9 million
-57.7%
$172.4 million
Scream 3 (2000)
$34.7 million
-53%
$161.8 million
Scream 4 (2011)
$18.7 million
-62.4%
$96 million
Scream (2022)
$30 million
-59.3%
$138.8 million
Scream VI (2023)
$44.4 million
-61%
$169.1 million
Scream 7 (2026)
$63.6 million
-74% (proj.)
TBD
This drastic fall would see it dropping even further than notable recent flops including the Sony Spider-Man Universe movie Morbius (-73.8%), A24’s Opus (-73.4%), and Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (-73.3%).
Scream 7 may now be feeling the effects of the baggage it brought with it into theaters, which includes a franchise-worst Rotten Tomatoes score of 31% and widespread calls to boycott the movie in the wake of the firing of Melissa Barrera. The Scream (2022) and Scream VI star was let go from the project in late 2023 after sharing pro-Palestine posts on social media.
It ultimately remains to be seen how high Scream 7 can climb by the end of its theatrical run. While its ability to become the franchise’s highest-grossing installment has been cast into doubt, thanks to its huge head start, it has already surpassed its estimated break-even point of $112.5 million, so it should already be in the black by the end of the weekend.
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Release Date
February 27, 2026
Runtime
114 Minutes
Director
Kevin Williamson
Writers
Kevin Williamson, Guy Busick, James Vanderbilt
Producers
William Sherak, Paul Neinstein