Courteney Cox Is Also Haunted by Those SCREAM 3 Bangs

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Scream 3 is a wild ride. And not just because it attempts to retcon the original film. The chaos is reasonably summed up in two words: Gale’s bangs. Almost as terrifying as the many Ghostface killers, Gale’s haphazard baby bangs live on in infamy. Certainly for Courteney Cox. To promote the latest installment of the franchise, confusingly also simply titled Scream, the core trio—Neve Campbell, David Arquette, and Cox—virtually stopped by The Drew Barrymore Show.

They reminisce with their former co-star about the franchise’s storied legacy and how the new film, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, does right by Wes Craven’s vision for the series. And, of course, they talked about the Scream 3‘s bangs.

Scream‘s resident nosy journalist Gale Weathers has famously wild taste when it comes to her hair. A purposeful choice, it turns out. Courteney Cox told Barrymore that for each installment, she opted for a new look, one that felt “just over the top gross or ugly or too much.” With the bangs, of course, ranking as her worst look.

“That was a big lesson in life because that will forever be on film. And we only had one set. One set of bangs. I remember they were cut on the set,” Cox explained, describing that the person responsible for the bangs put the piece a little too far back on her head and subsequently cut it a little too short. And with the one set of bangs wasted, Gale–and Cox—got stuck with the look. But, we guess if they wanted “too much” look, they got it.

To make matters worse, since the look came together on set, the entire cast was hanging around. And per Campbell, they did a terrible job convincing Cox they liked Gale’s Scream 3‘s bangs. Even looking at an image of Gale’s shoddy cut had Arquette and Campbell reduced to giggles as Cox tried to explain what happened. Which, to be quite honest, feels fair. Sorry Courteney, but those bangs are tragic. If only Barrymore survived the Scream franchise long enough to bestow some baby bang advice. She did, after all, rock them throughout the ’90s.

That is the origin of Gale’s tiny bangs. A sordid tale. But is it her evil origin story? We’ll have to see when Scream (2022) drops on January 14.

If you loved ‘Scream’, check out these 3 horror films with ties to the Shreveport area

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With the newest installment of the “Scream” franchise headed to theaters on Friday, I thought you might want to look at some other famous thrillers that have connections to the Ark-La-Tex area.

While Shreveport is a well-known filming location, you may be surprised at some of the films that have been shot in the area as well as other towns inspiring your spooky favorites.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown

This story of a masked killer terrorizing Texarkana is based off the real murders of five people by the Texarkana Phantom. This movie gets the majority of its source material from books published including “The Phantom Killer” by James Presley who is the nephew of the local sheriff presiding over the case, Bill Presley. Sticking to the realness of the source material, the film was also shot on location and only minor artistic changes were made.

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The Mist

One of Stephen King’s many film adaptations, “The Mist” follows a military experiment gone wrong when an interdimensional rift opens up releasing creatures in a town in Maine. While this film takes place in Maine, it was actually filmed in Shreveport, LA.

Premonition

Sandra Bullock stars in this chilling tale of a woman who wakes to find her husband died the previous day only to wake up the next morning and find him alive and then wake up the next morning to find he died again. While the plot of this movie can be difficult to follow, what makes it so interesting is that it was shot in Shreveport. While filming was set to take place in New Orleans, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina pushed the production further north.

UPDATE: Officials investigate a suspicious package on the Shreveport-Barksdale bridge

Meredith G. White is the arts and culture reporter for the Shreveport Times. You can find her on Facebook as Meredith G. White, on Instagram and Twitter as @meredithgwhite, and email her at mgwhite@gannett.com.

Long Island native Heather Matarazzo reprises her ‘Scream’ role in new thriller

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Ghostface is back — and so is Martha Meeks.

“Scream 3” alumna and Oyster Bay native Heather Matarazzo returns to the slasher film series as Meeks in the highly anticipated release of the new “Scream” movie on Friday, Jan. 14.

And many fans are thrilled about it. “Scream” franchise diehards fretted for months over whether Matarazzo, 39, would join fellow “Scream” stars Courtney Cox, Neve Campbell and David Arquette in the series’ fifth movie, and first in 11 years.

Quoting a “Scream” (2022) movie review this week in the The Portland Mercury, “Matarazzo is marvelously back” as Martha Meeks. In “Scream 3,” released in 2000, a 17-year-old Meeks is introduced as the little sister of Randy Meeks, a character that legions of “Scream” followers wish had not met his demise in “Scream 2” and was still around to appear in the new movie.

The next year, Matarazzo starred in the mega hit “Princess Diaries,” alongside Anne Hathaway, Mandy Moore and the legendary Julie Andrews. Earlier, as an 11-year-old, she earned rave reviews playing the lead in the indie flick “Welcome to the Dollhouse” in 1995. She received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance.

Heather Matarazzo (at left) with her “Princess Diaries” (2001) co-stars Anne Hathaway and Mandy Moore. (Source: Facebook)

Busy Long Island high school years

During her time at Oyster Bay High School, the 2000 graduate split time between her education and her budding film and television career. Below is her photo in the high school’s 2000 yearbook.

Matarazzo has appeared in dozens of films and television programs in an acting career that now spans more than a quarter-century. Her other big screen credits include “The Devil’s Advocate,” “54,” “Saved!,” “The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement,” and more recently, “Sisters.”

On television, she has appeared in “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Roseanne,” “ER,” and “Law and Order,” among other hit shows.

‘Scream’ (2022) trailer

The new “Scream” movie will have limited showings on Thursday, Jan. 13, before its wider theatrical release the next day. It’ll be slashing in movie theaters across Long Island and the country. The film has received positive reviews from movie critics.

Click below to view the movie’s two-minute official trailer.

Neve Campbell’s Net Worth Includes Her Original ‘Scream’ Salary—Here’s What She Made Then Vs. Now

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Scream queen. Over 25 years after becoming a global sensation thanks to Scream, Neve Campbell’s net worth has continued to thrive. But her salary over the years for each of the Scream movies might surprise you.

Long before starring in Scream, Campbell—whose full name is Neve Adrianne Campbell—was born in October 1973 in Guelph, Ontario. She grew up in the Canadian town alongside her three brothers Christian, Alex and Damian. Her mother Marnie was a yoga instructor and psychologist from Amsterdam, while her father Gerry immigrated from Glasgow, Scotland to Canada to teach high school drama classes. While Campbell’s parents divorced when she was only two years old, she was still inspired by the pair’s creative pursuits. In fact, Campbell came from a long line of performers: Her maternal grandparents owned a theater company in the Netherlands, whereas her grandparents on her father’s side were also actors.

When she was six years old, Campbell witnessed a performance of The Nutcracker that would change her life. The budding performer enrolled at the Erinvale School of Dance to study ballet after the performance, before eventually transferring to the National Ballet School of Canada, where she trained and performed in productions of The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. But after suffering a series of dance-related injuries, Campbell decided to make another career-defining move at the age of 15, when she turned to acting instead. She went on to study theatre at the John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute in Guelph, where she starred in local productions of The Phantom of the Opera.

In the early ‘90s, Campbell began branching out to film and television. Her on-screen debut came in 1991 after working on a Coca-Cola commercial. Later that year, Campbell landed an uncredited guest appearance on the show My Secret Identity. The following year, she appeared as Laura Capelli in an episode of The Kids in the Hall before landing her first lead role as Daisy in the Canadian drama series Catwalk. She later appeared as a guest on several Canadian TV series, including 1994’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues.

After landing a number of roles in Canada, Campbell relocated to the United States to make her big break. In 1994, she landed the role of orphaned teen Julia Salinger on the Fox drama series Party of Five, which aired until 2000. She emerged from the series as a teen idol, earning a Teen Choice Awards nomination for Choice TV actress and a Golden Globe Award alongside her cast for Best Drama in 1996. While on the show, Campbell also landed her first feature film role in the supernatural blockbuster, The Craft, which premiered in 1996.

But Campbell’s biggest role to date has to be her role as Sidney Prescott in Wes Craven’s Scream. The film—which remains the highest-grossing slasher film in decades—launched an entire franchise starring Campbell and other original cast members such as Courteney Cox and David Arquette in a series of sequel films, including 1997’s Scream 2, 2000’s Scream 3, 2011’s Scream 4 and 2022’s Scream, otherwise informally known as Scream 5. For her role in the film series, Campbell has earned a number of awards—not to mention, a hefty boost to her net worth.

So, what is Neve Campbell’s net worth today? For everything we know about how much Neve Campbell has earned from her role in the Scream franchise and more, just keep on reading below.

How much did Neve Campbell earn from Scream?

Neve Campbell has starred as scream queen Sidney Prescott in every installment of the Scream franchise to date—and she has earned a pretty penny while doing so.

When Scream premiered in 1996, the film was an instant financial and critical triumph. The first film in the series generated over $173 million at the global box office, making it the highest-grossing slasher film until the release of Halloween in 2018. In 1997, Campbell reprised her role in Scream 2, which grossed over $170 million at the box office. Scream 3, by comparison, made slightly less when it premiered in 2000. The film brought in over $160 million and marked a temporary end to the saga until the franchise’s return over a decade later with 2011’s Scream 4. The fourth film in the Scream franchise earned over $97 million at the box office. According to TheRichest, Campbell’s take-home pay from the first film in the franchise ended up being around $1.5 million. Meanwhile, she reportedly earned a salary bump to $3.5 million for Scream 2 and $4 million for Scream 3.

After four Scream films, Campbell told Entertainment Weekly in 2016 that she would be open to reprising her role once more, but the decision would be “a tough one” following the loss of the franchise’s director, Wes Craven, who died in 2015.

“Wes was so responsible for the success of it and the brilliance of it, and he was a dear, dear friend and a mentor, and I just don’t know how I would feel at the moment if it came around again,” she told the publication at the time. “It would have to be something really special and really different. They’d have to be really convincing about who they decided to bring on as director, and I’d still have to do a bit of soul-searching on that one.”

Five years later, Campbell’s casting as Sidney Prescott was confirmed for the fifth Scream film, directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and planned for release in January 2022. While she was first hesitant to participate after Craven’s death, she was eventually persuaded. “The new directors came to me with this beautiful letter saying that they’ve become directors and love film because of these films, and because of Wes, and they really want to be true to his story and his journey with these films, so I was really happy to hear that,” she told Variety in 2020.

Though Neve Campbell’s Scream 5 salary has yet to be publicly reported, we’d wager to say that she’s earning a significant paycheck based on the massive box office earnings and salaries from the previous four films in the Scream franchise to date.

What is Neve Campbell’s net worth?

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Neve Campbell’s net worth is $10 million as of 2022. This accounts for Campbell’s salaries from each of the Scream franchise films, including her $1.5 million, $3.5 million and $4 million paychecks from Scream, Scream 2 and Scream 3, respectively. While Campbell’s salary for Scream 4 and Scream 5 are unknown, it’s clear that the trajectory of her earnings is only going up from here.

Scream 5 premieres in theaters on January 14, 2022. You can get tickets here for your local showings. Plus, here’s how to watch the Scream movies in order for free.

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‘Scream’ Scares Up $3.5 Million in Thursday Night Previews

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Back in 2011, Wes Craven’s Scream 4 dialed up an $18 million opening weekend, that sequel released eleven years after Scream 3. Interestingly, the brand new movie has now come along in theaters exactly eleven years after Scream 4, but the circumstances here in 2022 are quite different. For starters, Craven is no longer with us, making Scream the very first movie in the franchise to be directed by someone else. And then, well, there’s that whole pandemic thing…

It’s been impossibly hard to predict how Scream 2022 will perform in theaters this year, but we have a bit of a better idea now that Thursday night’s preview numbers are available.

Via Deadline, Spyglass and Paramount’s Scream scared up $3.5 million in Thursday night previews last night in around 3,000 theaters. As Deadline notes, M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass had the same Thursday night preview figure and ended up legging its way to a $40 million domestic opening weekend, so that potential is certainly there for Scream this weekend.

Deadline also notes, “The hope is that Scream, with a Rotten Tomatoes fresh critics score of 76% and audience score of 90%, can screech past anything in the $20M over four-days.”

Forbes notes, “Scream 4 opened with $1 million in midnight previews in April of 2011, leading to a disappointing $8.2 million Friday and $18.7 million opening weekend.”

Scream 4 ended with $97.2 million worldwide back in 2011, a franchise low thus far.

You can slice into Meagan’s SPOILER FREE review of the brand new Scream right here!