Twenty-six years after launching, the Wayans Brothers’ Scary Movie franchise has finally crossed $1 billion at the global box office.
The latest Paramount-Miramax reboot, Scary Movie, recently hit the $100M mark at the domestic box office with $100.5M stateside, and $108M abroad for a current global running total of $208.5M.
Add that to the previous titles’ reported global cumes: Scary Movie ($278M), Scary Movie 2 ($141.2M), Scary Movie 3 ($220.6M), Scary Movie 4 ($178.2M) and Scary Movie 5 ($78.3M).
The latest Scary Movie brought the Wayan Brothers back together with the franchise as writers, stars and producers. David Zucker had taken over as director for installments three through five. The latest version, financed by Miramax, was directed by Michael Tiddes.
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