User blog:Ceauntay/Scream 5 Announces Its Budget Production Cost

Dimension Films and Wes Craven made an announcement of Scream 5's production budget, and it says that it will be a very expensive movie.

It reports that the fifth installment of the Scream film series will cost $50 million to produce, which is breaking a new record. It has now become one of the most expensive horror films of all-time. This film is also more expensive by taking $10 million more to both Scream 3 and Scream 4, which both made $40 million, and made about $161 million worldwide and $80 million worldwide, respestivetly.

Scream 5's $50 million budget will be including a release in 3D, the first film ever to be released in 3D theaters, which will have a good shot of scaring people up at the box office as it can make at least more money than all the films, especially Scream 4, which disappoints when it opened with $18.6 million in its opening weekend, the second lowest opening for a Scream film yet, before it got off a solid start when it made only $80 million worldwide. Scream has a disappointing opening with just $6 million in December 1996, but did quite good when it brought in $103 million domestically, and $173 million worldwide.

Scream 2 and Scream 3 made strong openings when they made more than $30 million in December 1997 and February 2000, respectively. However, they went lower than unexpected. When Scream 2 made $101 million domestically with $172 million worldwide, Scream 3 is the final entry when it brought in lower than unexpecting with $89 million and $161 million worldwide, leaving Scream 4 a downer with just $35 million domestically, and again $80 million worldwide. The film is still playing in theaters, and it will luckly ended up with about $40 million domestically, and about $100 million worldwide. Eventually, the films made over $500 million worldwide, as all five films will expecting to make $600-700 million worldwide.

If Scream 5 can make a huge opening with about $45 million, it should be breaking a record for biggest opening for a horror film of all-time taking over Friday the 13th with $40 million. With that record, it will be the highest-grossing Scream film into the seires.

Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette will reprise their roles for this final installent as Sidney Prescott, Gale Riley and David Riley. Newcomers will be Ryan Phillippe as Adam, Dakota Fanning as Amy, Jennette McCurdy as Mandy, Alexander Ludwig as Dustin, Jonathan Lipnicki as Andy, and Dean Collins as Lucas. Scream 5 will be released on June 15, 2012.