'Scream 7': How Is the Original Cast Coming Back 30 Years Later? [Potential Spoiler Warning]

Happy Wednesday, folks!

After shaving my head last night out of sheer boredom, I started today off on the right foot when the trades confirmed my scoop from two weeks ago that Sam Worthington will star in Netflix’s latest Harlan Coben adaptation I Will Find You, which sounds like a good project for him.

This afternoon, I spent the day watching my lovely aunt, Amy Sneider, Founder and Editor In Chief of Aspire Design & Home, moderate a Design Weho panel with veteran production designers Peter Gurksi (Hulu’s Mid-Century Modern), Claudia Roque (High Desert), and Kathleen Widomski (Rutherford Falls). Held at the Porcelanosa Showroom, the panel was hugely informative, even to the former Editor in Chief of Below the Line (me!), and everyone did a great job… especially Aunty Amy.

If you still haven’t seen Sean Baker’s Anora despite reading about it for the past six months in this newsletter, it will begin streaming on Hulu on March 17. The film won five Oscars for Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Editing, and Best Actress for Mikey Madison, and Baker went with Neon in the first place because the indie studio promised him a long theatrical window. It seems their faith was rewarded.

Meanwhile, A24 will release Celine Song’s Materialists on June 13, which means it will likely skip the festival circuit unless it gets into Cannes or… opens Tribeca. Set in New York City, the film concerns a love triangle between Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal.

I know Past Lives performed quite well for A24 in the summer of 2023, which is why the studio slotted Materialists for this summer — the studio is looking to make money on this movie, which couldn’t have been cheap given its star power. One of my sources who has seen the film believes it will be commercially successful, though in the event it’s not, they suggested that Song may have recently taken a meeting (or two) with Marvel as she looks to set up her next gig before her next film comes out — a smart strategy for most filmmakers, of course.

Still, Johnson, Evans, and Pascal are all Marvel veterans, so the studio is no doubt aware of what they’re working on, and Song fits the Marvel profile, as other indie darlings hired by the studio include Chloe Zhao (Eternals), Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden (Captain Marvel), Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Daredevil: Born Again), Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi), Cate Shortland (Black Widow), Nia DaCosta (The Marvels), Jake Schreier (Thunderbolts*), and Julius Onah (Captain America: Brave New World).

All of these directors are indie film hires, so it wouldn’t shock me if Song joined the Marvel family down the line. As Past Lives proved, she’s clearly talented…

Tonight, you’ll read my theory about how some of the Scream characters previously thought dead may be “returning” in the upcoming sequel. Plus, my early-bird review of the Jack Quaid action-comedy Novocaine, which screened on Monday night as part of the #AMCScreenUnseen series.

There are also items about Steve Carell’s new HBO movie and the remarkable speed of its turnaround, Rachel Weisz’s new Netflix series, the writers of Lionsgate’s Monopoly movie, the latest addition to the cast of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and a look at the new Alicia Vikander movie The Assessment.

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