'Scream' still echoes, topping N. America box office

LOS ANGELES, March 20 ------ Twenty-seven years after the first "Scream" movie raised goosebumps, a sixth installment opened atop the North American box office this weekend, taking in an estimated $44.5 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations.

That was "an excellent opening for an elite horror movie," said analyst David A. Gross, and it came as the film world's glitterati were converging on Hollywood for the evening's Oscar presentations. Or two years" back in 2020, a condition that left her "struggling mentally and physically."

MGM's boxing drama "Creed III," came in second, with a take estimated at $27.2 million for the Friday-through-Sunday period. In third was "65," a new sci-fi thriller from Sony and Columbia Pictures, at $12.3 million. Marvel and Disney's "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" placed fourth, at $7 million. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly star as the winged title characters.

Source: mb.com.ph