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Scream(1996)
Released
1996 · FILM

Scream

A determined college student must outwit a masked killer who stalks her hometown with horror‑movie riddles, forcing her to confront buried trauma while fighting to survive the night’s deadly game.

“Someone has taken their love of scary movies one step too far. Solving this mystery is going to be murder.”

Directed by
Galina Kuvivchak Sakhno, Wes Craven
Written by
Galina Kuvivchak Sakhno, Kevin Williamson
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
112 min
HorrorMystery

Synopsis

A year after her mother's murder, a teenage girl becomes the target of a masked killer who uses scary movies as part of a deadly game, along with her friends.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 44+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Patrick LussierShot by Mark IrwinScored by Marco BeltramiDesigned by Bruce Alan Miller

Box Office

1996 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 12× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$173.0M

Budget$14.0M
Worldwide gross$173.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $103.0M — 60% of worldwide · International: $70.0M (40%)

Opening weekend: $6.4M — 6% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $12.2M — 12% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,413 theaters

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Also known as

  • Scream - Schreide
  • Scream - Schrei des Todesde

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