'Scream' Ends 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Box Office Reign With $30.6M Killer Debut

"Scream" topped the box office during its release over the weekend.

The fifth installment in the iconic horror film franchise made $30.6 million at the domestic box office. It ended the four-week reign of "Spider-Man: Now Way Home," Entertainment Weekly reported.

The movie is the first to be noted helmed by the late director, Wes Craven, who passed away in 2015 due to brain cancer. "Scream" is expected to make $36 million by the end of the four-day holiday weekend, according to Comscore.

The new installment still features the Ghostface mask terrorizing a new group of teenagers in the quiet town of Woodsboro, 25 years after the original series of gruesome murders happened. It stars Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Jack Quaid and Dylan Minnette. The original cast members Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette also return in the sequel.

EW's Joshua Rothkopf said the newest film "trots out its legacy cast with the flourish of a magician pulling off a well-practiced trick." However, while it paid homage to the original director, it "doesn't build its sequences with the same meat-and-potatoes solidity as Craven did."

The film received mixed reactions on Twitter. Some found it entertaining. Others said they expected more.

"The new scream movie was so good!" one commented.

"SCREAM was predictable but entertaining, the true villain of the movie was not listening to yo f--king elders everybody could've lived had they listened to Dewey, like literally, like bruh," another added.

"I won't speak on spoilers cause some people still wanna see 'Scream,' but the new movie reminds me of the new saw movie 'Spiral,' it was shaping up to be a great movie until the twist and it just went straight downhill. 'Spiral' was still worse don't get me wrong but 'Scream' sucked lmao," a third user added.

The "Scream" cast members appeared on "The Drew Barrymore Show" ahead of its release. In a promo, titled "Scream Week," Barrymore received a call from Ghostface, referencing her short stint in the 1996 slasher film.

"And my character didn't quite make it, but I'll be here too," the host said, speaking of her character Casey Becker's opening scene.

The new movie has a similar opening scene with Ortega, who plays Tara Carpenter. She admitted that she felt pressured to reimagine the original sequence, mainly because Barrymore's scene "is one of my favorite scenes of all time across the board in cinema," the "You" actress told Entertainment Tonight's Matt Cohen.

"It could not have been done more perfectly so it's hard because I know that all the 'Scream' films since have been sort of a reiteration or kind of play on that scene so it's wanting to make this one somewhat different," she explained to ET. "I wanted to make it my own but I also wanted to make sure that the acknowledgment and respect for Drew, Wes [Craven] and Kevin [Williamson] was there."