- German govt sees economy shrinking again in 2024
- Ex-UK soldier denies passing secrets to Iran intelligence
- Creator's death no bar to new 'Dragon Ball' products
- Three Kosovo Serbs on trial over 'secession plot' attack
- Van Gogh museum to launch Impressionism show
- French minister ups ante in Eiffel Tower Olympic rings row
- Japan PM calls snap election to 'create a new Japan'
- German police shut pro-Palestinian camp over Thunberg invite
- Chinese stocks tumble on lack of fresh stimulus
- Trio wins chemistry Nobel for protein design, prediction
- SE Asian summit urges end to Myanmar violence but struggles for solutions
- Wimbledon replaces line judges with electronic system
- Record-breaking Root hits hundred as England power to 351-3
- Record-breaking Root hits hundred as England's power to 351-3
- Sabalenka relishes 'much-needed' tennis rivalry with Swiatek
- Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson set for six weeks out
- Taylor Swift got police escort to London gigs after Austria terror plot
- Cook tips Root to break Tendulkar's all-time runs record
- British skull auction sparks Indian demand for return
- Joe Root: England's elegant Test record-breaker
- Braving war: Lebanon's 'badass' airline defies odds
- Klopp to return as head of Red Bull football operations
- Hezbollah strikes Israel, says it foiled Israeli incursions
- Jurgen Klopp to return as head of Red Bull football operations
- Sinner to face Medvedev in Shanghai Masters quarter-finals
- US weighs Google breakup in landmark trial
- Record-breaking Root guides England to 232-2 in reply to Pakistan's 556
- Japan PM dissolves parliament for 'honeymoon' snap election
- Chinese stocks tumble on stimulus upset, Asia tracks Wall St higher
- 7-Eleven owner confirms new takeover offer from Couche-Tard
- Goodbye Tito? Tomb at risk as Serbs argue over Yugoslav legacy
- Restoration experts piece together silent Sherlock Holmes mystery
- Sinner avoids Shanghai deja vu with assured Shelton win
- Pyongyang to 'permanently' shut border with South Korea
- Trumpet star Marsalis says jazz creates 'balance' in divided world
- No children left on Greece's famed but emptying island
- Nepali becomes youngest to climb world's 8,000m peaks
- Climate change made deadly Hurricane Helene more intense: study
- A US climate scientist sees hurricane Helene's devastation firsthand
- Padres edge Dodgers, Mets on the brink
- Can carbon credits help close coal plants?
- With EU funding, Tunisian farmer revives parched village
- Sega ninja game 'Shinobi' gets movie treatment
- Boeing suspends negotiations with striking workers
- 7-Eleven owner's shares spike on report of new buyout offer
- Your 'local everything': what 7-Eleven buyout battle means for Japan
- Three million UK children living below poverty line: study
- China's Jia brings film spanning love, change over decades to Busan
- Paying out disaster relief before climate catastrophe strikes
- Chinese shares drop on stimulus upset, Asia tracks Wall St higher
'Scream' still echoes, topping N. America box office
Twenty-seven years after the first "Scream" movie raised goosebumps, a sixth installment opened atop the North American box office this weekend, taking in an estimated $44.5 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Sunday.
That was "an excellent opening for an elite horror movie," said analyst David A. Gross, and it came as the film world's glitterati were converging on Hollywood for the evening's Oscar presentations.
A Paramount/Spyglass Media product, "Scream VI" again combines mystery and black comedy.
This edition stars Melissa Barrera, Jenna Ortega and Skeet Ulrich; it is the first in the series not to star Neve Campbell, who failed to reach terms with the studio.
Last week's top film, MGM's boxing drama "Creed III," came in second, with a take estimated at $27.2 million for the Friday-through-Sunday period.
Michael B. Jordan directs -- his first time in that role -- while again playing title character Apollo Creed.
In third was "65," a new sci-fi thriller from Sony and Columbia Pictures, at $12.3 million.
Adam Driver plays a pilot whose spaceship crashes on an unknown planet, which turns out to be the Earth of 65 million years ago, and has to protect himself and a young passenger from dinosaur attack as well as from a huge asteroid that is about to extinguish much of life on Earth.
Marvel and Disney's "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" placed fourth, at $7 million. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly star as the winged title characters.
And in fifth place was Universal's horror comedy "Cocaine Bear," at $6.2 million. Keri Russell plays a woman hunted through the Tennessee woods by a bear that had come upon, and unwisely consumed, a stash of drugs.
Finally, while ticket sales and Oscar wins do not always coincide, these were Hollywood's top earners last year, according to Gross: "Avatar: The Way of Water" ($2.28 billion); "Top Gun: Maverick" ($1.49 billion); "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" ($859 million); "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" ($455 million), "Elvis" ($287 million), and "Everything, Everywhere All at Once" ($106 million).
Rounding out this weekend's top 10 were:
"Jesus Revolution" ($5.2 million)
"Champions" ($5.2 million)
"Avatar: The Way of Water" ($2.7 million)
"Demon Slayer: To the Swordsmith Village" ($1.9 million)
"Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" ($1.7 million)
A.Rodriguezv--AMWN