Scream knocks Spider-Man off the top of the North American box office

(Los Angeles) The new version of the saga Scream, which topped the North American box office this weekend, confirms the craze for horror films by dethroning Spiderman, remained first in the ranking for a month, according to provisional estimates from the specialist firm Exhibitor Relations published on Sunday.

Scream, fifth of the name, collected 30.6 million dollars in American and Canadian cinemas from Friday to Sunday, and should reach 35 million at the end of this long weekend with a holiday Monday in the United States, where the civil rights leader Martin Luther King is commemorated.

The Paramount film, which stars the original 1996 version stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette, is more good news for the industry still trying to recover from the long months of closed theaters due to the pandemic.

The other really good news remains Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latest episode of the adventures of the spider-man, which passes second with honorable receipts for a fifth week, of 20.8 million (26 million expected counting Monday), after having remained firmly clinging to the head of the box -office for four weeks.

Sony’s film, the first in the COVID-19 era to rake in more than $1 billion including international, has now grossed $704 million in North America.

Third on the podium, the animated film from Universal Studios Song 2 loses a place with 8.2 million this weekend (10 million expected over four days), and 119 million in four weeks of operation.

Another Universal product, the spies of The 355, played by actresses Jessica Chastain, Penelope Cruz, Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong’o and Fan Bing-Bing, also go down a notch, to fourth place, with 2.3 million (3 million expected by Monday) .

Finally, still in the field of intelligence, The King’s Man, spy movie prequel Kingsman, with actors Ralph Fiennes, Gemma Arterton and Rhys Ifans, is fifth with a similar result.