Paramount’s ‘Scary Movie’ opens with $55 million (opens in new tab)

Paramount and Miramax’s sixth “Scary Movie” film opened at No. 1 in North America with an estimated $55 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales over the June 5-7 weekend, according to studio estimates and Comscore figures cited in the reports. The R-rated horror spoof grossed $50.5 million internationally, bringing its global opening to $105.5 million. The comedy sequel beat Amazon MGM’s “Masters of the Universe,” which opened with $29.3 million domestically; Vietnamese reports put its prod...