was named chief executive of Miramax in 2024<\/a>, he reached out to Marlon Wayans to see if he\u2019d be interested in reviving \u201cScary Movie.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAlways dreamt of having this moment again,\u201d Wayans said, while thanking Glickman and executive producer Marc Weinstock during a short speech at the movie\u2019s premiere. \u201cI thank you guys for having the vision to go, there\u2019s only one way to do the next \u2018Scary Movie,\u2019 and that\u2019s to bring the Wayans family back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miramax led the production and financing of the film, while Paramount Pictures was the distributor.<\/p>\n
Amazon MGM Studios\u2019 \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d came in second at the domestic box office with $29.3 million, in Mattel Studios\u2019 first film in theaters since the 2023 smash hit \u201cBarbie.\u201d Globally, the movie made $54 million.<\/p>\n
The action adventure movie had a production budget of about $170 million and aimed to reintroduce the \u201880s-era action hero \u201cHe-Man\u201d to a new audience, while also driving the nostalgia of adults who played with the franchise toys or watched the original film and series. The movie is part of Mattel Inc.\u2019s strategy to continue extending its toy brands into the entertainment arena.<\/p>\n
Mattel Chief Executive Ynon Kreiz said last week that \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d didn\u2019t need to match the success of \u201cBarbie\u201d \u201cto have a meaningful economic impact on the company.\u201d<\/p>\n
A24\u2019s runaway hit \u201cBackrooms\u201d came in third at the box office this weekend, continuing its strong performance with a haul of $25.9 million. Focus Features\u2019 \u201cObsession\u201d ($25.6 million) and another YouTube-native property, \u201cThe Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act,\u201d ($12.7 million) rounded out the top five at the box office, according to Comscore data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the Wayans brothers firmly back in the driver\u2019s seat, horror parody \u201cScary Movie\u201d muscled its way past…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[41883,56589,1924,12399,73805,48,52,51,47,50,49,143473,5056,143474,140425,143476,143472,72391,8843,143475,2695],"class_list":["post-350841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-barbie","tag-box-office","tag-film","tag-franchise","tag-he-man","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-marlon-wayans","tag-master","tag-miramax","tag-production-budget","tag-runaway-hit","tag-scary-movie","tag-universe","tag-way","tag-wayans-brother","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}