Horror
You almost couldn’t go wrong with a horror title in 2023.
On the big screen there was M3GAN, Talk to Me, Insidious: The Red Door, Scream VI, Evil Dead Rise, The Nun II, Cocaine Bear.
They proved again that a low-budget-for-medium-returns strategy still works.
On the on small screen, Hulu’s No One Will Save You and Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher were popular.
Scream Franchise
Released in March, Scream VI , starring Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, scored the saga’s biggest box office ($168 million) since 1997’s Scream 2.All the pieces were seemingly in place for a trilogy-wrapping seventh film when, in November, Barrera was fired for her social media posts about the Israel-Hamas war.
Then news broke that Ortega had also quietly left the film following a salary dispute — which, in turn, reminded everyone that original franchise star had Neve Campbell likewise left after producers made an offer that, she says, “did not equate to the value I brought to the franchise.”
The current creative concept is wiped out, but also, the whole thing smacks of “We don’t want to pay popular lead actresses a lot of money.”
