Eleven years have gone by since the release of a new entry in the Scary Movie horror parody series – but the franchise isn’t going to remain dormant for much longer. Deadline reports that the Miramax label at Paramount, which is now operating under new boss Jonathan Glickman, has given the greenlight to a new Scary Movie sequel, with the plan being to get the film into theatres sometime in 2025. If any writers or a director are attached to the project, they weren’t named in this announcement.
Directed by In Living Color creator Keenen Ivory Wayans from a screenplay written by a bunch of people, the first Scary Movie was released by Dimension Films back in 2000. Scary Movie 2 was released in 2001, and the Wayans remained at the head of the creative team for that one. Keenen Ivory Wayans directed it from a screenplay credited to Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans,...
Directed by In Living Color creator Keenen Ivory Wayans from a screenplay written by a bunch of people, the first Scary Movie was released by Dimension Films back in 2000. Scary Movie 2 was released in 2001, and the Wayans remained at the head of the creative team for that one. Keenen Ivory Wayans directed it from a screenplay credited to Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
The "Scary Movie" franchise now resembles those montages of movie mockery Billy Crystal uses to launch the Academy Awards telecasts he hosts. The targets in "Scary Movie 4" no longer are horror films but any high-profile film released since 2003's "Scary Movie 3". Thus, returning writer-director David Zucker and fellow writers Craig Mazin, Pat Proft and Jim Abrahams go after Oscar winners "Brokeback Mountain" and "Million Dollar Baby" right along with "The Grudge" and "The Village". Anna Faris as the legally blond Cindy and Regina Hall as her libidinous gal pal Brenda return as characters who will (barely) link the comic sketches, sometimes in scene-by-scene re-creations from various movies.
All of which should lead to a strong opening weekend as young film-goers will flock to mock films just going into DVD release. Domestic theatrical potential could reach the $100 million mark.
The movie opens with a "Saw" spoof, in which basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal and talk-show superstar Dr. Phil McGraw are chained to the walls of what appears to be the filthiest bathroom in civilization. O'Neal gets to kid his inability to hit free throws while Dr. Phil demonstrates a less caring, more scoffing side to his instant therapy. This does set a tone.
Next up, Charlie Sheen spoofs his image in the first movie sequence to deal with the serious social problem of death by Viagra overdose. This too sets a tone.
Almost "Grudge"-ingly, the filmmakers give in to the need for a semblance of a plot. Two homes sit next to each other. In one, Cindy essentially encounters all J-horror spoofs. In the other, Craig Bierko essentially plays Tom Cruise playing the blue-collar hero of "War of the Worlds" complete with pissed-off kids.
The movie then takes a happy dive into jokes involving body fluids, bowel problems, pesky ghosts, annoying space aliens, Carmen Electra, strange villages, Michael Jackson, kinky bondage devices, Leslie Nielsen as a befuddled U.S. president more interested in a children's storybook than the invasion of the U.S. and More Carmen Electra -- well, when you've got it, you flaunt it. The whole thing winds up on Oprah's bouncy couch.
The humor emphasizes quantity over quality, but the batting average isn't too bad. And where else can you witness Leslie Nielsen do a nude scene?
SCARY MOVIE 4
The Weinstein Co.
Dimension Films/Miramax Films/Brad Grey Pictures
Credits:
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriters: David Zucker, Craig Mazin, Jim Abrahams
Producers: Craig Mazin, Robert K. Weiss
Based on characters created by: Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Buddy Johnson & Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Executive producer: Kymber Lim
Director of photography: Thomas Ackerman
Production designer: Holger Gross
Music: James Venable
Co-producer: Grace Gilroy
Costume designer: Carol Ramsey
Editors: Craig Herring, Tom Lewis
Cast:
Cindy Campbell: Anna Faris
Brenda Meeks: Regina Hall
Tom Ryan: Craig Bierko
George: Simon Rex
Mahalik: Anthony Anderson
Holly: Carmen Electra
Prisoner: Dr. Phil McGraw
President: Leslie Nielsen
Prisoner: Shaquille O'Neal
Tom: Charlie Sheen
Mrs. Norris: Cloris Leachman
Henry: Bill Pullman
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 83 minutes...
All of which should lead to a strong opening weekend as young film-goers will flock to mock films just going into DVD release. Domestic theatrical potential could reach the $100 million mark.
The movie opens with a "Saw" spoof, in which basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal and talk-show superstar Dr. Phil McGraw are chained to the walls of what appears to be the filthiest bathroom in civilization. O'Neal gets to kid his inability to hit free throws while Dr. Phil demonstrates a less caring, more scoffing side to his instant therapy. This does set a tone.
Next up, Charlie Sheen spoofs his image in the first movie sequence to deal with the serious social problem of death by Viagra overdose. This too sets a tone.
Almost "Grudge"-ingly, the filmmakers give in to the need for a semblance of a plot. Two homes sit next to each other. In one, Cindy essentially encounters all J-horror spoofs. In the other, Craig Bierko essentially plays Tom Cruise playing the blue-collar hero of "War of the Worlds" complete with pissed-off kids.
The movie then takes a happy dive into jokes involving body fluids, bowel problems, pesky ghosts, annoying space aliens, Carmen Electra, strange villages, Michael Jackson, kinky bondage devices, Leslie Nielsen as a befuddled U.S. president more interested in a children's storybook than the invasion of the U.S. and More Carmen Electra -- well, when you've got it, you flaunt it. The whole thing winds up on Oprah's bouncy couch.
The humor emphasizes quantity over quality, but the batting average isn't too bad. And where else can you witness Leslie Nielsen do a nude scene?
SCARY MOVIE 4
The Weinstein Co.
Dimension Films/Miramax Films/Brad Grey Pictures
Credits:
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriters: David Zucker, Craig Mazin, Jim Abrahams
Producers: Craig Mazin, Robert K. Weiss
Based on characters created by: Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Buddy Johnson & Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Executive producer: Kymber Lim
Director of photography: Thomas Ackerman
Production designer: Holger Gross
Music: James Venable
Co-producer: Grace Gilroy
Costume designer: Carol Ramsey
Editors: Craig Herring, Tom Lewis
Cast:
Cindy Campbell: Anna Faris
Brenda Meeks: Regina Hall
Tom Ryan: Craig Bierko
George: Simon Rex
Mahalik: Anthony Anderson
Holly: Carmen Electra
Prisoner: Dr. Phil McGraw
President: Leslie Nielsen
Prisoner: Shaquille O'Neal
Tom: Charlie Sheen
Mrs. Norris: Cloris Leachman
Henry: Bill Pullman
MPAA rating PG-13
Running time -- 83 minutes...
- 4/13/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Opens
Friday, Oct. 24
Determined once again to leave no deserving target unspoofed, Dimension Film's wildly successful Scary Movie franchise is back in business.
With the Wayans brothers having packed it in after the reviled Scary Movie 2, it made perfect sense to recruit David Zucker, the man responsible for those three wacky Naked Gun movies and, with brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams responsible for that highly revered granddaddy of all spoofers, namely 1980's Airplane!
The result is a kinder, gentler brand of parody (as evidenced by the series' first non-R rating) and, for a while there, Zucker and his former writing partner Pat Proft, along with Craig Mazin, look to have tapped into some of that old ZAZ magic.
That is, until it becomes apparent that the same three or four gags are endlessly recycled throughout, and after awhile, yet another crippling blow to the crotch somehow loses its impact.
Still -- though the final take won't come anywhere close to the $157 million scared up by the first installment -- given that PG-13 rating, Scary Movie 3 should have no trouble pulling in sizable young audiences while there's probably still enough of the gross-out element to appeal to fans of the purely puerile.
Morphing the plot lines of The Ring, Signs and that scary 8 Mile, with bits of The Matrix Reloaded and The Others thrown in for good measure, "SM3" kicks off with an amusing prologue in which Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy send up the start of The Ring while having fun with their very blonde images.
Meanwhile a TV reporter (Anna Faris), who has her hands full covering an alien invasion at a farm belonging to Charlie Sheen, stumbles upon a killer videotape that has already claimed the life of her prescient son's (Drew Mikuska)'s schoolteacher (Regina Hall) while striking up a relationship with a white wannabe rap star (Simon Rex) who dreams of having a dream.
In the course of her investigation, she meets up with the Oracle, aka Aunt ShaNeequa (Queen Latifah), Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) and the Architect (George Carlin), and along the way the likes of Denise Richards (in a sick but funny flashback sequence with real-life husband Sheen), Camryn Manheim, Anthony Anderson, Jeremy Piven, D.L. Hughley, Macy Gray, Ja Rule, Master P, Redman, Method Man and the Coors Twins join in the shenanigans.
There are some true moments of inspiration to be found here, including a restaging of the "rap-off" sequence from 8 Mile, which turns out to be judged by none other than American Idol sourpuss Simon Cowell.
Then there's also that goof on The Others, in which Sheen takes the white veil off his oddly acting daughter only to find a shrieking Michael Jackson (Edward Moss), which would have been funnier had it not already been shown a hundred times in all those TV clips.
But by the time Leslie Nielsen is trotted out to reprise his old Naked Gun shtick in the guise of a befuddled U.S. president, the slapsticky formula has long passed its comic expiration date and Scary Movie 3 ends up committing the spoof genre's worst crime: becoming a tired parody of itself.
Scary Movie 3
Dimension Films
Dimension Films presents a Brad Grey Pictures production
Credits:
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriters: Craig Mazin and Pat Proft
Based on characters created by Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Buddy Johnson & Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Andrew Rona, Brad Weston
Director of photography: Mark Irwin
Production designer: William Elliot
Editors: Malcolm Campbell, Jon Poll
Costume designer: Carol Ramsey
Music: James L. Venable
Cast:
Mahalik: Anthony Anderson
Cindy Campbell: Anna Faris
President Harris: Leslie Nielsen
Trooper Champlin: Camryn Manheim
George: Simon Rex
The Architect: George Carlin
The Oracle: Queen Latifah
Orpheus: Eddie Griffin
Annie: Denise Richards
Brenda Weeks: Regina Hall
Tom: Charlie Sheen
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Friday, Oct. 24
Determined once again to leave no deserving target unspoofed, Dimension Film's wildly successful Scary Movie franchise is back in business.
With the Wayans brothers having packed it in after the reviled Scary Movie 2, it made perfect sense to recruit David Zucker, the man responsible for those three wacky Naked Gun movies and, with brother Jerry and Jim Abrahams responsible for that highly revered granddaddy of all spoofers, namely 1980's Airplane!
The result is a kinder, gentler brand of parody (as evidenced by the series' first non-R rating) and, for a while there, Zucker and his former writing partner Pat Proft, along with Craig Mazin, look to have tapped into some of that old ZAZ magic.
That is, until it becomes apparent that the same three or four gags are endlessly recycled throughout, and after awhile, yet another crippling blow to the crotch somehow loses its impact.
Still -- though the final take won't come anywhere close to the $157 million scared up by the first installment -- given that PG-13 rating, Scary Movie 3 should have no trouble pulling in sizable young audiences while there's probably still enough of the gross-out element to appeal to fans of the purely puerile.
Morphing the plot lines of The Ring, Signs and that scary 8 Mile, with bits of The Matrix Reloaded and The Others thrown in for good measure, "SM3" kicks off with an amusing prologue in which Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy send up the start of The Ring while having fun with their very blonde images.
Meanwhile a TV reporter (Anna Faris), who has her hands full covering an alien invasion at a farm belonging to Charlie Sheen, stumbles upon a killer videotape that has already claimed the life of her prescient son's (Drew Mikuska)'s schoolteacher (Regina Hall) while striking up a relationship with a white wannabe rap star (Simon Rex) who dreams of having a dream.
In the course of her investigation, she meets up with the Oracle, aka Aunt ShaNeequa (Queen Latifah), Orpheus (Eddie Griffin) and the Architect (George Carlin), and along the way the likes of Denise Richards (in a sick but funny flashback sequence with real-life husband Sheen), Camryn Manheim, Anthony Anderson, Jeremy Piven, D.L. Hughley, Macy Gray, Ja Rule, Master P, Redman, Method Man and the Coors Twins join in the shenanigans.
There are some true moments of inspiration to be found here, including a restaging of the "rap-off" sequence from 8 Mile, which turns out to be judged by none other than American Idol sourpuss Simon Cowell.
Then there's also that goof on The Others, in which Sheen takes the white veil off his oddly acting daughter only to find a shrieking Michael Jackson (Edward Moss), which would have been funnier had it not already been shown a hundred times in all those TV clips.
But by the time Leslie Nielsen is trotted out to reprise his old Naked Gun shtick in the guise of a befuddled U.S. president, the slapsticky formula has long passed its comic expiration date and Scary Movie 3 ends up committing the spoof genre's worst crime: becoming a tired parody of itself.
Scary Movie 3
Dimension Films
Dimension Films presents a Brad Grey Pictures production
Credits:
Director: David Zucker
Screenwriters: Craig Mazin and Pat Proft
Based on characters created by Shawn Wayans & Marlon Wayans & Buddy Johnson & Phil Beauman and Jason Friedberg & Aaron Seltzer
Producer: Robert K. Weiss
Executive producers: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Andrew Rona, Brad Weston
Director of photography: Mark Irwin
Production designer: William Elliot
Editors: Malcolm Campbell, Jon Poll
Costume designer: Carol Ramsey
Music: James L. Venable
Cast:
Mahalik: Anthony Anderson
Cindy Campbell: Anna Faris
President Harris: Leslie Nielsen
Trooper Champlin: Camryn Manheim
George: Simon Rex
The Architect: George Carlin
The Oracle: Queen Latifah
Orpheus: Eddie Griffin
Annie: Denise Richards
Brenda Weeks: Regina Hall
Tom: Charlie Sheen
Running time -- 84 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 11/4/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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