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Scream 3: Directed by Wes Craven. With Liev Schreiber, Beth Toussaint, Roger Jackson, Kelly Rutherford. While Sidney and her friends visit the Hollywood set of Stab 3, the third film based on the Woodsboro murders, another Ghostface killer rises to terrorize them.
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- Wes Craven
- 2000-02-04
Scream 3 is a 2000 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Ehren Kruger. It stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, Parker Posey, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Foley, Lance Henriksen, Matt Keeslar, Jenny McCarthy, Emily Mortimer, Deon Richmond, and Patrick Warburton. It is a sequel to Scream 2 (1997) and the ...
Despite some surprising twists, Scream 3 sees the franchise falling back on the same old horror formulas and cliches it once hacked and slashed with postmodern abandon. Read Critics Reviews ...
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Synopsis
As bodies begin dropping around the set of STAB 3, a movie sequel based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidneyand other survivors are once again drawn into a game of horror movie mayhem.
Summary
Having experienced the trauma of the killings at Woodsboro and at Windsor College, Sidney Prescott now lives in a secluded area of California where she works as a women's crisis counselor from her home. Her home has a security gate around it and she is now practically an agoraphobic, only leaving her house to walk her pet Golden Retriever. Her whereabouts are unknown even to her surviving friends (save for Dewey and her father). Gale Weathers has become a largely successful news reporter (of...
Main Characters
1. Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott: A 21-year-old recluse living in Monterey, California. She legally changes her name to Laura, and becomes a counselor who works at the California Women's Crisis Counselinghotline. She suffers traumatic nightmares amid the killing spree, and reunites with Dewey and Gale to learn the truth about her mother and the killer's identity. 1. David Arquette as Dwight "Dewey" Riley: The 28-year-old technical advisor on the set of Stab 3. He is hostile towards Gale af...
Supporting Characters
1. Patrick Dempsey as Detective Mark Kincaid: A detective around age 30 with the LAPD who, along with his partner J. Wallace, is assigned to investigate the murder of Cotton Weary. He enlists the help of Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers to solve the new murders and develops romantic interest in Sidney. 1. Scott Foley as Roman Bridger/Ghostface #5: The 29-year-old director of Stab 3 who is unhappy with the position of his life as he is about to turn 30. It is revealed that he is the new Ghostface...
Minor Characters
1. Josh Pais as Detective J. Wallace: Kincaid's partner. He is sarcastic with deadpan humor. 1. Lance Henriksen as John Milton: The president of Sunrise Studios who raped Maureen Prescottwhen she was younger and working as an actress in Hollywood. He is the father of Roman Bridger who kills him as a result of him hurting his mother and abandoning him. 1. Liev Schreiber as Cotton Weary: A former Woodsboro Resident who now hosts his own talk show after gathering fame after the Windsor College m...
A signature device, started in Scream and continued in future films, was the typical "rules" for that type of horror movie being stated by the characters. In Scream 3, Sidney, Dewey, Gale and Randy's sister (Heather Matarazzo), watch a video made by Randy (Jamie Kennedy, in a cameo role) before his death in Scream 2; he states that if the third mov...
Once again, Scream 3uses self-aware characters and generally references itself as a movie most of the time. Most of the story is set in Hollywood and focuses on the making of Stab 3, the film franchise within the story that is based on the events of the trilogy. For instance, actors (Parker Posey and Matt Keeslar) are playing characters that are ac...
Jay and Silent Bob, the popular characters from Kevin Smith's movies, appear as tourists visiting Sunrise Studios. In the original Scream, a VHS copy of their first film Clerks can be spotted in St...Wes Craven makes a cameo dressed as a tourist walking behind Jay and Silent Bob, outside the Stab 3set.Carrie Fisher plays Bianca Burnette, an employee of the studio making Stab 3. Talking with Gale and Jennifer, she says that when she was young she tried to win the casting to play Princess Leia, bu...The name on the empty cinematographer's chair on the set of the fictitious Stab 3is the name of the real film's actual cinematographer, Peter Deming.Jay and Silent Bob, who makes an appearance, mistake Gale for TV reporter Connie Chung. They also ask her about Maury Povich. To return the favor, Kevin Smith, who plays Silent Bob, let Wes Craven...Producer Marianne Maddalena expressed slight frustration at the police station scenes being shot first due to the fact that scripts were being written day-by-day, and they were the most exposition...The second day of filming featured Sidney and Mark's exchange at the police station, which Wes considered his favorite scene of the film. He called it "Beautifully textured" and "scored", praising..."As soon as I thought, I had more secrets", Neve forgets to deliver a comma between 'thought' and 'I' as noted by Patrick Lussier. (1:14:16)This film's ending reveals the true mastermind behind the Woodsboro Murders.Stu Macher was originally gonna be the villain of the movie, having survived his death from the first. He was the mastermind behind a plot of new killings from prison and then targeting Sidney. But...In Scream 3, when Sidney jumped over the bar and stabbed the killer in the back with an icepick, Neve Campbell missed the pad that she was supposed to plunge the pick into and actually hit flesh. S...Scream 3 is the first and so far the only film in the franchise to only have one killer in the movie, if you don't believe the theory that Angelina is the second killer).Main article: Scream 3: The Assembly Cut Two alternate openings exist for Scream 3. The first alternate opening played out almost exactly the same way as the theatrical opening however in this version Cotton attempts to escape through the skylight in his office and is then stabbed in the leg by Ghostface and dragged back down into the house where h...
The film set a record in its opening weekend for the number of screens in the United States: 3,467. This was later surpassed by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone(2001) with 3,762. The film had a sizable opening weekend of over $34 million. It grossed $161 million worldwide. The film received generally mixed reviews from film critics; according ...
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Oct 3, 2023 · The identity reveal of Ghostface in Scream 3 is a surprising twist, with director Roman Bridger turning out to be the killer. Scream 3 reveals that Roman is Sidney's half-brother, and his actions were the catalyst for the events of the entire franchise.
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Cotton Weary, now the host of a successful talk show, is contacted by the newest Ghostface, who demands to know the whereabouts of Sidney Prescott. When Cotton refuses to cooperate, Ghostface breaks into his home and attacks his girlfriend Christine.
