Scream 3

Scream 3 is a 2000 American slasher film created by Kevin Williamson, directed by Wes Craven and written by Ehren Kruger, starring Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette and David Arquette. It was released on February 4, 2000 as the third installment in the Scream film series. The events of the story are set three years after those of Scream 2 and follows Sidney Prescott (Campbell) who has gone into self-imposed isolation following the events of the previous two films but is drawn to Hollywood after a new Ghostface begins killing the cast of the film within a film "Stab 3". Scream 3 combines the violence of the slasher genre with comedy and "whodunit" mystery while satirizing the cliché of film trilogies. Unlike the previous Scream films, there was an increased emphasis on comedic elements and the violence and horror was reduced in response to increased public scrutiny about violence in media following the Columbine High School massacre. The film was the concluding chapter of the Scream series until it was revived with a sequel, Scream 4, in 2011.

Williamson provided a five-page outline for two sequels to Scream when auctioning his original script, hoping to entice bidders with the potential of buying a franchise. Williamson's commitments to other projects meant he was unable to develop a complete script for Scream 3 and writing duties were undertaken by Ehren Kruger who discarded much of Williamson's notes. Craven and Marco Beltrami returned to direct and score the film respectively as they had with the previous two series entries. Production was troubled with script rewrites, with pages sometimes only ready on the day of filming, and scheduling difficulties with the main cast.

Scream 3 performed both financially and critically worse than its preceding films, earning over $161 million and with many critics claiming that the film had become what Scream originally "spoofed". Despite negative criticism the film did receive praise with reviewers calling it the perfect end to the Scream trilogy. As of 2012, the film is currently the number 3 highest-grossing slasher-film in North America, following Scream at number 1 and Scream 2 at number 2.

The film's soundtrack was well-received, spending fourteen weeks on the Billboard 200 and reaching a high of #32.

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