The Fall and Rise of ‘Scream 7’: A Fired Star, a $500K Script Rewrite and Neve Campbell’s $7 Million Salary

Variety · 2026-02-25
The Fall and Rise of ‘Scream 7’: A Fired Star, a $500K Script Rewrite and Neve Campbell’s $7 Million Salary

When Ghostface returns to the big screen, the knife-wielding masked murderer is primed to make a box office killing. “Scream 7,” the latest installment in the long-running horror franchise, is tracking a scary-good debut of $45 million to $50 million in North America. Those estimates would deliver a