critterdvd

I think it was very smart of everyone involved to wait the decade inbetween films. Had we heard about this movie 8 years ago people would thought of the entire thing as a joke. But with the wait its been enough time that nostalgia is going to play a large factor and it has giving Craven/Williamson 10 years of new material.

Michael Corvin

I rewatched the first one a month or so ago, still really good. The intro with Drew Barrymore is still an amazing sequence. One thing I found odd(?) was that originally coming off the film Matthew Lillard had the funny man part and ate it up in every scene he was in. 10 years later he just comes off as an obnoxious asshole, and I'm sitting there thinking, "why did I ever find this jackass funny?"

LosingMyMind

There's an auction going right now to buy a role in Scream 4. The current high bid is $7,500 and the bidding ends on May 20. Depending on how high the bidding goes, I might throw in a bid at the last minute. I probably wouldn't go higher than $35,000, though.

http://www.charitybuzz.com/catalog_items/201419

Eric D.

Are you serious? That's a lot of money for an extra role and you're not even guaranteed to be in the final cut of the film.

devilshalo

May 20, 2010
Will Ashley Greene, Hayden Panettiere join 'Scream 4'? (exclusive)
By Zorianna Kit and Borys Kit

Dimension is taking the first steps to casting “Scream 4,” which is heading toward a July start date.

Lake Bell is in negotiations to join the franchise, and offers are out to “Twilight” actress Ashley Greene, “Heroes” star Hayden Panettiere and Rory Culkin (“Twelve”) for key starring roles.

“Scream 4” reunites Wes Craven with Kevin Williamson, who kicked off a horror- movie revival with his “Scream” script in 1996. The story brings back original cast members Neve Campbell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox, though the new flick is seen as a passing of the baton to a new generation of slasher victims, with Williamson already under contract to write a fifth installment.

If deals are concluded, Greene would play Campbell’s cousin Jill, essentially the heroine of the movie, and Panettiere would play her best friend, a nerdy film geek. Culkin would play a potential love interest for Jill.

Bell is negotiating to play a police officer who knew Sidney (Campbell) from high school.

Casting is proceeding slowly because Craven and Dimension are not sending the script to agencies in order to protect its secrecy. With only character descriptions, actors are having a difficult time deciding whether certain roles are for them. Reps for the actors declined comment.

Craven, Williamson and Iya Labunka are producing the feature, which is slated for an April 15 release. Original producer Cathy Konrad is not aboard the production and is suing the Weinsteins, alleging that she was cut out of “Scream 4.”

The film will shoot in incentive-rich Michigan. The original was shot in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Bell, repped by UTA and Joannie Burstein, most recently was onscreen in “It’s Complicated.” She voices a role in “Shrek Forever After,” which bows today, and stars in the upcoming features “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy” and “Little Murder.”

pinata242

I love me some Ashely Greene

JTH182

I'm just going to go out on a limb and predict Lake Bell's character is the killer.

I'm not basing that on anything whatsoever except for a pure guess.

glassdragon

I bet the killer will be Wes Craven.. He will all be like "Yeah, bitches I've been trying to kill you people for 4 movies, and I JUST CANT WIN"

fumanstan

Eric D.

I'm cool with all those actors except for Hayden Panettiere. On a different note (), please bring back Marco Beltrami.

mhg83

But she could play the Drew Barrymore character that gets killed within the first ten minutes

Gunde

I have a problem with everyone but Rory Culkin.

LosingMyMind

Yes! Hopefully he's not too high profile now.

dcprules

Really surprised to already see a poster up for this at my local theater.

The Monkees

I'll be very upset if anybody from Twilight is involved in this

dsa_shea

This! Unless they put them in there to make fun of them directly.

LosingMyMind

New poster.

riotinmyskull

is that legit?

TheMovieman

I think it's a fan made one. I remember someone posting it on another forum...

LosingMyMind

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/New-S...ces-18703.html

http://www.shockya.com/news/2010/05/...from-scream-4/

nvm read the comments below

MrSmearkase

You're in luck! Greene is out, but Emma Roberts is in, reports Entertainment Weekly;

GenPion

That is an awesome poster posted above, irregardless of if a fan made it or the studio...

MrSmearkase

Hayden Panettiere and Rory Clukin have officially signed on, from comingsoon.net;

Michael Corvin

Which would be cool since the only other thing people know her from her character was invincible.

MrSmearkase

Good point

I, for one, would welcome the catharsis of watching Claire suffer a painful death. It wouldn't make up for the past 3 seasons, but it's a start.