Neve Campbell passed on starring in 'Scream VI,' but the new horror flick cleaned up at the box office anyway ... suggesting that legacy characters are, in fact, disposable as the franchise moves forward.
skipped out on the latest 'Scream' movie due to money negotiations -- but the studio's decision to move on seems to have paid off regardless ... big time, in fact.
'Scream 6,' which just hit theaters Friday, smashed through an opening weekend box office record that the films before it had set ... raking in about $44.5 million domestically through Sunday, which blows out the previous benchmark set by 'Scream 2' years ago -- $32 mil. Last year's"Scream V" came close to touching that, with about $30 mil through 3 days of a 4-day holiday weekend ... but this new figure is by and far the best any of these movies have ever done. Paramount's gotta be happy -- it only cost $35M to make this latest slasher.
Interestingly ... they achieved this without Neve, which was a gamble. Fact is, she's been the face of the 'Scream' franchise since the start ... and her decision to exit last year was controversial. She claimed Paramount wouldn't pay her what she thought she was worth.At the time, Neve was quoted as saying ..."As a woman I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to 'Scream.
Funny enough, legacy characters are actually alluded to in the new installment . Ghostface, at one point, talks about how nobody cares about long-standing heroes from decades past ... and that the"rules" of re-quels have totally changed.
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