‘Scary Movie’ Roars Around The Globe With Franchise Best $105M WW Opening

June 7, 2026 7:48am

Paramount and Miramax brought big screens comedies back this weekend as Scary Movie hit a franchise best opening at $105.5M around the globe. Divided up that was a $55M domestic best star for the Wayans brothers starring and written film and another $50.5M overseas bow. Note, the global start here is better than Paramount and Spyglass’ Scream 7 franchise record $97M global bow.

Overseas, Scary Movie’s $50.5M No. 1 at the foreign B.O. across 53 markets (95% of the pic’s footprint) repped the biggest start for the comedy franchise, 75% bigger than Scary Movie 3 which was the previous record holder in the franchise. Europe took in $26M, and Europe was $21.5M.

EntTelligence says that stateside, Scary Movie pulled in 3.76M admissions, with 41% of Saturday’s business being after 8PM.

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