Scream and Scream Again

Scream 4 is not in the immediate works, as some sites reported. A blog claiming to be that of the Weinstein Company made the claim recently, and it was picked up and bandied about. The Weinsteins have denied it, and the blog has disappeared.


This has confirmed certain initial suspicions, and cemented my policy of not reporting news if its purveyor uses the possessive in place of the plural and has no basic grasp of sentence structure. The direct cribs from Variety didn't help either.

As far as rumors to fraudulently jump-start, it's not a bad one, seeing as it isn't completely out of the blue. Neve Campbell mentioned a couple years ago that she'd been approached for Scream but wasn't intending to sign on. Wes Craven also spoke of the project (without too much interest).

In the meantime, you can always check out Final Stab, a 2001 slasher by absurdly prolific DTV auteur David DeCoteau. It's called Final Scream in the UK, having come out just a year after the pitiful conclusion to the Scream trilogy, and apparently made the bootleg rounds in the U.S. as Scream 4. Who knew people were claiming to have bootleg copies of Scream 4?