Scream 7 Box Office Brutally Crashes With Franchise's Worst Week 2 Drop

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Asa Germann as Lucas looking intense in Scream 7

Published Mar 7, 2026, 12:49 PM EST

Brennan Klein (he/him) is a senior news writer at Screen Rant, host of the Attack of the Queerwolf podcast, and contributor at Alternate Ending and Horror Press. He has been writing and podcasting about pop culture (especially horror movies) for over a decade at platforms including Blumhouse, Fangoria, Dread Central, The Backlot, and Arrow in the Head.

Scream 7 is being chased away from theaters.

The Scream 7 release kicked off on February 27 with a record-shattering opening weekend. With $63.6 million, it earned the best domestic debut of the entire 30-year-old horror franchise. Additionally, its global debut of more than $97 million saw it take just three days to outgross the entire run of 2011's Scream 4.

Per Deadline, as of Saturday morning, Scream 7 is projected to drop to No. 2 behind Pixar's Hoppers during its sophomore weekend with a 3-day domestic box office gross of $16.3 million. While it has outpaced the new release The Bride! (which is projected to hit No. 3 with a debut between $8 and $10 million), it has been slammed with a brutal 74% drop that marks the worst of the franchise by a wide margin.

The previous biggest drop for the franchise was earned by 2011's Scream 4, which fell 62.4% during its own sophomore weekend. While its drop could fluctuate slightly from projections once its Sunday numbers come in, it is currently set to tie with the 2024 horror movie The Front Room and Werewolves for the 113th biggest week 2 drop of all time.

While horror tends to be more frontloaded than many other genres and can often have sophomore weekend drops of 60% or more, the Scream movies have largely avoided that trend. Below, see a breakdown of how every installment in the franchise has performed at the domestic box office during its first two weeks and overall worldwide:

Title

Domestic Debut

Week 2 Drop

Worldwide Total

Scream (1996)	$6.3 million	+42.8%	$173 million
Scream 2 (1997)	$32.9 million	-57.7%	$172.4 million
Scream 3 (2000)	$34.7 million	-53%	$161.8 million
Scream 4 (2011)	$18.7 million	-62.4%	$96 million
Scream (2022)	$30 million	-59.3%	$138.8 million
Scream VI (2023)	$44.4 million	-61%	$169.1 million
Scream 7 (2026)	$63.6 million	-74% (proj.)	TBD

This drastic fall would see it dropping even further than notable recent flops including the Sony Spider-Man Universe movie Morbius (-73.8%), A24's Opus (-73.4%),and Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis (-73.3%).

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