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Jenna Ortega opens up about Scream 7 exit: “It had nothing to do with pay or scheduling”

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Jenna Ortega only appeared in two of the soon-to-be seven Scream movies, but she’s made quite an impact with longtime fans of the franchise. That’s why the effects of her shocking exit from Scream 7 are still being felt today. It’s been an odd story of why she left, with scheduling often being cited, but […]

Melissa Barrera cast in Western thriller In the Cradle of Granite

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Melissa Barrera has landed a role in the upcoming Western titled In the Cradle of Granite. Deadline reports that the actress will star in Ariel Escalante’s English-language debut. Escalante previously directed the drama Domingo and the Mist and 2016’s The Sound of Things. In the Cradle of Granite is based on an original screenplay by […]

Movie Review – Your Monster (2024)

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Your Monster, 2024. Written and Directed by Caroline Lindy. Starring Melissa Barrera, Tommy Dewey, Edmund Donovan, Kayla Foster, Kasey Bella Suarez, Taylor Trensch, Brandon Victor Dixon, and Meghann Fahy. SYNOPSIS: After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming Monster living in her […]

Melissa Barrera horror rom-com Your Monster unveils first trailer

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Vertical has released a trailer for Your Monster, the upcoming horror rom-com from writer-director Caroline Lindy. Melissa Barrera stars as Laura, a soft-spoken actor who finds her life falling apart after she is dumped by her boyfriend while recovering from surgery, and moves back to her childhood home to recover where she discovers a terrifying, […]

Movie Review – Abigail (2024)

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Abigail, 2024. Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. Starring Alisha Weir, Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, Kathryn Newton, Angus Cloud, William Catlett, Kevin Durand, Giancarlo Esposito, and Matthew Goode. SYNOPSIS: After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that they’re locked inside […]

Could Melissa Barrera be the first to jump from Scream to Scary Movie?

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Are we going to witness one of the great movies in parody history with an actor going from one of the original genre films to the parody version? Melissa Barrera has treated horror fans with the idea of her appearing in a new Scary Movie. At this year’s CinemaCon, Paramount Pictures announced Neil H. Moritz […]

Radio Silence unleash Abigail with trailer for new horror

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Universal Pictures has released a new trailer for Abigail, the upcoming horror from Scream filmmakers Radio Silence ahead of its arrival in cinemas later this month. The film follows a group of criminals as they break into an isolated mansion to hold the young daughter of a powerful underworld to ransom, but they soon discover […]

Melissa Barrera was set to have three movie arc in Scream, reveals Skeet Ulrich

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We know the new era of Scream films was incomplete when its leads left, but now we’re seeing the scoop of that loss. For those who don’t remember, Melissa Barrera was fired from Scream VII, and Jenna Ortega later dropped out due to scheduling. That obviously put a massive hole in the plans in the […]

Melissa Barrera looks back on her “shocking” firing from Scream 7

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The horror community, especially fans of the Scream franchise, were shocked when news of Melissa Barrera’s firing from Scream VII dropped. Following her comments concerning the Israel and Palestine, which were labelled as anti-Semitic, Barrera was dropped from the upcoming production. That caused a domino effect with both Jenna Ortega announced as exiting and new […]