Twenty-six years after launching, the Wayans Brothers’ Scary Movie franchise has finally crossed $1 billion at the global box office.
The latest Paramount-Miramax reboot, Scary Movie, recently hit the $100M mark at the domestic box office with $100.5M stateside, and $108M abroad for a current global running total of $208.5M in its third week. The pic before P&A spend, cost $30M.
Add that to the previous titles’ reported global cumes: Scary Movie ($278M), Scary Movie 2 ($141.2M), Scary Movie 3 ($220.6M), Scary Movie 4 ($178.2M) and Scary Movie 5 ($78.3M).
The current Scary Movie is the first pure R-rated comedy (not a hybrid action or superhero genre movie) to cross $100M since 2017’s Girls Trip. Scary Movie opened to $105.5M worldwide, repping a franchise record.
The latest Scary Movie brought the Wayan Brothers back together (thanks to Miramax boss Jonathan Glickman and former head of Paramount Global Marketing Marc Weinstock, who is an EP here) with the franchise as writers, stars and producers. David Zucker had taken over as director for installments three through five. The latest version, financed by Miramax, was directed by Michael Tiddes. Also returning here for the latest Scary Movie were series stars Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Marlon Wayans, Cheri Oteri and Dave Sheridan.
Scary Movie joins The Devil Wears Prada as the second franchise to cross $1 billion worldwide this summer, that Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci PG-13 comedy doing so across two movies.