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By Kayleigh Donaldson | Film | March 2, 2026
As Paramount threatens to devour the entirety of Hollywood after winning the totally unnecessary battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, their victory at the box office was the cherry on top. Never mind that the dessert itself is rotten. Scream 7 won over horror fans despite abysmal reviews and a call to boycott over the sacking of Melissa Barrera. The studio was savvy to market it around the return of Neve Campbell and lean hard into the nostalgia mining that this franchise typically mocks. So, it managed to scare up $64.1 million from 3,540 locations.
It didn’t hurt that the movie had zero competition. The next highest-grossing debut of the weekend was a concert documentary, Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined. Apparently, this band is quite popular? I’m in touch with the youth of today! Anyway, it landed at number four with $4.3 million. That put it behind “Wuthering Heights”, which has now made over $72.3 million domestically in three weeks. It’s doing even more business overseas, with a worldwide total of $192 million. Pretty dang good for an R-rated romance, it must be said.
At number 13 is Uma Musume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era, an anime movie based on a manga/anime/video game franchise about anthropomorphized racehorses, with $900,000 from 600 cinemas.
In limited release news: Dreams, a political drama starring Jessica Chastain, took in $95,000 from 188 places; and For Worse, a rom-com about a newly divorced woman going off the rails as she tries to keep up with her much younger date, earned $10,908.
This coming week sees the release of the new Pixar film, Hoppers, and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s horror-romance-musical The Bride!
You can check out the rest of the weekend box office numbers here.
