The Wayans are back, and so are the whiplash numbers. The "Scary Movie" reboot, which hit theaters June 12, 2026, posted a franchise-best $55 million domestic opening and $105.5 million globally.
Then came the crash.
In weekend two, the film plunged roughly 71% to about $15.6 million — the worst second-weekend drop in the franchise's history.
The pattern is classic parody: front-loaded curiosity, fast burnout. Audiences rushed in, got the gags, and the word-of-mouth engine stalled.
The Band Is Back Together
Paramount reassembled the core. The Wayans brothers wrote the script. Anna Faris and Regina Hall return — the franchise's beating comic heart. Michael Tiddes directs.
The targets this time are pulled straight from the current horror conversation. The film parodies "Sinners" and "Weapons," two of the genre's recent talking points, threading the reboot's spoofs through movies audiences actually just watched.
That relevance fueled the explosive open. The $55 million launch isn't just good for a parody — it's the best number the franchise has ever logged out of the gate, and the $105.5 million global start gave Paramount an early victory lap.
But parody comedies live and die on novelty, and the 71% drop tells the rest of the story. Once the jokes are spoiled, the repeat business evaporates.
The franchise has always run hot and cold, but a fall this steep is uncharted territory for the series. The opening rewrote one record. The collapse rewrote another.
The good news for Paramount: the film already turned a strong profit on that first-weekend surge, and the spoof formula remains cheap to produce relative to the horror titles it skewers.
The question now is whether nostalgia plus Faris and Hall is enough to keep this revival breathing — or whether the second weekend already wrote the obituary.
Holdover numbers ahead. Stay tuned.
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