Scary Movie (film series)
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Region 2 DVD Box cover for the first four films
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| Directed by |
Films: 1, 2 Keenen Ivory Wayans Films: 3, 4 David Zucker Film: 5 Malcolm D. Lee |
| Produced by |
Films: 1, 2 Marlon Wayans Shawn Wayans Films: 3, 4 Robert K. Weiss Film: 5 David Zucker Phil Dornfield |
| Written by |
Jason Friedberg Aaron Seltzer Marlon Wayans Shawn Wayans Craig Wayans Buddy Johnson Phil Beauman Alyson Fouse Greg Grabiansky Dave Polsky Michael Anthony Snowden Pat Proft Craig Mazin Jim Abrahams |
| Starring |
Anna Faris Regina Hall Marlon Wayans Shawn Wayans Charlie Sheen Anthony Anderson Kevin Hart Simon Rex Leslie Nielsen Carmen Electra Chris Elliott Ashley Tisdale Erica Ash |
| Music by |
Films: 1 David Kitay Films: 2 Mark McGrath Films: 3, 4, 5 James L. Venable |
| Cinematography |
Films: 1 Francis Kenny Films: 2 Steven Bernstein Films: 3 Mark Irwin Films: 4 Thomas E. Ackerman Films: 5 Steven Douglas Smith |
| Edited by |
Films: 1 Mark Helfrich Films: 2 Tom Nordberg Richard Pearson Peter Teschner Films: 3 Jon Poll Films: 4 Craig Herring Tom Lewis Films: 5 Sam Seig |
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Production
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| Distributed by |
Miramax Films The Weinstein Company |
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Release date
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2000 - 2013 |
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Running time
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337 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $177 million |
| Box office | $896,555,030 |
Scary Movie is a series of American horror comedy parody films created by Keenen Ivory Wayans with his younger brothers, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans, that mainly specialize in parodying horror films, which have collectively grossed over $895 million at the box-office worldwide. The two main recurring actors of the first four installments were Anna Faris and Regina Hall as Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks, joined by new or recurring actors and characters.
The franchise was conceptualized by The Wayans Brothers, who wrote and directed the first two films before leaving the franchise. Their entries were produced by Dimension Films and distributed by two different studios: Miramax Films, as it was originally the studio's genre film label during executive producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein's run and produced the first three films, and The Weinstein Company—the brothers' subsequently formed studio—which produced the rest of the series' release after the Weinsteins departed Miramax and took the Dimension label with them. The franchise had 1 movie in 2013 with Scary Movie 5, which doesn't have Anna Faris or Regina Hall, but with new characters, and is still in the original film series and timeline.
Scary Movie is the first film that premiered in the series. Scary Movie was the highest-grossing film of the series, grossing $278,019,771 worldwide. It is a spoof of several films, with a focus on the Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer series.
After a group of teenagers (consisting of Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris), Bobby Prinze (Jon Abrahams), Buffy Gilmore (Shannon Elizabeth), Greg Phillipe (Lochlyn Munro), Ray Wilkins (Shawn Wayans), and Brenda Meeks (Regina Hall)) accidentally hit an old man with their car they decide to dump his body in a lake and never talk about it again (in a spoof of I Know What You Did Last Summer). A year later a person with a Scream mask kills them one by one.
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