[This story contains spoilers for Scary Movie 6.]
Within two weeks of release, Michael Tiddes’ Scary Movie (2026) is already the third-highest grossing installment in the Wayans brothers’ parody franchise that’s been dormant since 2013.
The six-film series — which launched with 2000’s Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer send-up, Scary Movie — has now accumulated over $1 billion at the worldwide box office, cementing its status as the most successful parody/spoof property in cinematic history. On a modest $30 million budget, the sixth installment scored a franchise-record opening weekend of $55 million, delivering a much-needed win for theatrical comedies after their sharp decline that began around 2016. Furthermore, Scary Movie 6 represents a triumphant homecoming for the Wayans family after the Weinsteins’ Dimension/Miramax unceremoniously ousted them from the franchise they created following Scary Movie 2 (2001).
Tiddes, who honed his comedic and horror chops during the early days of YouTube, also climbed the ranks of the Wayans’ inner circle at the same time. He worked as an assistant to the brothers’ writing/producing partner, Rick Alvarez, on their post-Scary Movie 2 films, White Chicks (2004) and Little Man (2006). Those experiences eventually turned into a chance to direct the Wayans’ 2013 found-footage parody, A Haunted House, which grossed $60 million against a $1.5 million budget. That opportunity led to five more directorial outings including the most recent Scary Movie.
“Coming up through the ranks of the Wayans, I knew how important the Scary Movie franchise was to them, and I really wanted to deliver for these guys. They’re like family. So I wanted to make a classic like the two originals,” Tiddes tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Each Scary Movie chapter goes after different eras of genre movies, and one of the early creative decisions that Tiddes, co-writer Alvarez and the Wayans co-writers of Marlon, Shawn, Keenen and Craig made was to realign with the Scream franchise, particularly Scream 5 (2022). Knowing that the Scream franchise is highly meta, they also decided to use the Wayans’ dismissal from the franchise to fuel the Ghostface killers’ motivation.
As part of a three-fold reveal of Ghostface killers, Marlon and Shawn’s characters of Shorty and Ray are the last duo to unmask themselves, citing the aforementioned desire for revenge against the characters who appeared in Scary Movie films without the Wayans. (Anna Faris, who’s played the franchise final girl in five out of the six chapters, recently revealed that Keenen Ivory Wayans asked her to sit out Scary Movie 3 as an act of solidarity with the family, but she had a contractual obligation.)
“We wanted to address the underlying issue that the franchise was taken away from them. So we knew the beginning and the end that we wanted, and we knew the statements we wanted to make: ‘This is our fucking franchise. We’re not giving it back to anybody now,’” Tiddes says. “The motivation for our Ghostfaces is probably stronger in Scary Movie 6 than it ever was in Scream. Audiences are connecting with that, and they’re loving it.”
Similar to Scream 5, Scary Movie 6 purports to be a legacy sequel by introducing a new generation of characters alongside the legacy characters of Cindy (Faris), Brenda (Regina Hall) Shorty (Marlon Wayans), Ray (Shawn Wayans) and Doofy (Dave Sheridan). Generally speaking, the aim of these types of films is to prolong a franchise’s shelf life by having the established characters pass the torch to a younger generation. They serve as an entry point for a new audience while baiting the existing audience with nostalgia.
Originally, the new generation of characters, including Cindy’s two daughters and Brenda’s twins, survived the ending of Scary Movie 6. But during post-production, Tiddes and co. reshot the ending to have the legacy characters subvert the trend of passing the torch. After the Wayans went through so much to regain the franchise, it would be illogical for them to hand over the reins to new characters so soon. Thus, the movie ends with Shorty and Ray putting aside their grievances with Cindy and Brenda to leave the remaining new characters for dead in a burning house. (Bear in mind, none of the Scary Movie films follow strict continuity so this ending doesn’t necessarily preclude the new characters from appearing in future installments.)
“With Scary Movie 6 being a story about the Wayans losing the franchise and then getting it back, it just felt like the ending would be funnier and more meta and more of a social satire if they said, ‘Fuck those kids. This is our franchise. We’re keeping it,’” Tiddes shares.
Scary Movie 6 pre-scheduled additional photography in late March 2026 so that the creative team could keep their parody as timely and topical as possible. Teyana Taylor shot her opening scene that addresses her recent Oscar defeat just a week after she lost the Oscar for her supporting turn in One Battle After Another. But given the current box office sensations of Obsession and Backrooms, Tiddes certainly wishes the timing had allowed for spoofs of those horror movies. ”I wish they had both come out a couple months earlier. It would’ve been a lot of fun to play with those movies, but hey, there’s always Scary Movie 7,” Tiddes teases.
Below, during a spoiler conversation with THR, Tiddes (pronounced titus with a middle d) also addresses the Melissa Barrera/Scream 7 joke that hit the cutting room floor along with the original ending.
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After a franchise-best opening weekend and worldwide gross that is nearing $180 million, Scary Movie 6’s performance must feel good on so many different levels, especially since it’s a franchise homecoming for the Wayans.
It’s surreal to be the number-one comedy in the world, and it’s exciting because comedy is back. There’s nobody I would’ve loved to bring it back with more than the Wayans brothers. It’s been fantastic to see the reception, and I think we made a fantastically funny movie. People are having a lot of fun watching it.
Critics have never been enamored with these movies, but moviegoers consistently show up for each installment. The franchise seems to be critic-proof.
Yeah, I agree. The critics do what they do. They critique, and they’re very critical. I just don’t know if they know how to have fun, but audiences do. They know that fun is what this movie is all about. Our goal with Scary Movie was to bring laughter back to the world. We needed it again. Comedy has had a departure the last ten years, and we wanted to bring it back in a big way. The opening weekend showed that audiences are ready to go back to the movies and have a good time. They want to laugh, and they don’t want to take things so seriously. Life is too serious to be taken seriously. None of us are getting out of here alive. We’ve got to enjoy things while we’re here, so let your 16-year-old self enjoy comedy again.
Michael Tiddes attends the Scary Movie premiere at Paramount Pictures Studios on June 3 in Los Angeles.
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How’d you originally team up with the Marlon Wayans and the rest of the family?
I had the unique pleasure of starting my career with the Wayans and their producing/writing partner, Rick Alvarez. I worked as his assistant on White Chicks and Little Man. From then on, I was intertwined with the Wayans. My filmmaking and love of comedy just connected with them. So I came up through their camp and was invited to the lab to watch the mad scientists create. I got to see how they make their amazing comedies and how they go after big laughs.
Our relationship has grown since then, and Scary Movie is my sixth movie with Marlon as actor and director. He and I have a child-like joy in making people laugh from big, funny, crazy set pieces. We see eye to eye quite a bit, and we love to push R-rated comedy to the edge. We’ve made a ton of really fun movies, and I’m lucky to do what I love with the guys that I love.
As the new movie makes clear, the Wayans were removed from the franchise following Scary Movie 2. Were the Haunted House movies a way to keep their interest in horror parodies going since they couldn’t be a part of Scary Movie any longer?
It was probably less about trying to replace Scary Movie with Haunted House and more that they’re very keen on seeing where the world is in film. At that time, audiences were really into found-footage movies, like the Paranormal Activity franchise and The Devil Inside, and the subgenre felt ripe for a send-up. At the time, I’d just done a television show on Fox. I was also making very small music videos and short films. So they thought that I was the perfect person to deliver authentic Wayans comedy because I came up through the family.
The Wayans also wanted to explore the idea of making a low-budget film that was unattached to a studio, and I have always been able to do a lot with a little. I have this unique ability to make a hundred bucks look like a million dollars and pull things off fast and furiously in a very short amount of time. So Haunted House was that first exploration into micro budgets, and we made that movie on our own for a million and a half dollars over 20 days.
It then made $18.1 million opening weekend. We were number two [behind Zero Dark Thirty], but the headlines that weekend were more about Gangster Squad finishing number three. No one even mentioned us, which was crazy. But we had a big smash that went on to do $60 million worldwide, and we ended up doing a sequel right away. [Writer’s Note: Marlon has previously alleged that the Weinsteins tried to buy the distribution rights to A Haunted House so they could shelve it and use the ideas toward their then-upcoming Scary Movie 5.]
Kai Cenat as Himself, Scary Movie Ghost Face, Marlon Wayans as Shorty, Craig Wayans and Maurice Mo Hill as Shorty’s Friends in Scary Movie.
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How complicated was it for the Wayans to reclaim the Scary Movie franchise?
With the Weinsteins now being out of the business and Miramax being co-owned by Paramount, Jon Glickman came in to run Miramax [in 2024]. He’s always been a fan of the Wayans brothers, and he knew they were the right way to revitalize the franchise. So he reached out to Marlon to see if they would be interested in doing it.
There were definitely some obstacles along the way. Before Glickman took the reins, I know [Miramax/Paramount] went down the road with some other filmmakers who I don’t think delivered a script that was up to par. So Glickman was smart. He knew that if they wanted to make the franchise work again in 2026, they needed the real essence of those films to bring it back authentically. Marlon then agreed, and he wanted to make sure his brothers were involved.
Shawn [Wayans] and Keenen [Wayans] were game, as was [their nephew] Craig [Wayans] and Rick [Alvarez]. They all wrote a fantastically funny script that’s very edgy and on the heartbeat of what’s going on in horror right now. It gave me a playground of opportunities. I got to delve into so many movies that I’m a fan of. How often do you get a chance to play in the Jordan Peele sandbox of Get Out and then mess around with Scream, Longlegs and Terrifier? So it was really fun to be a chameleon and find a way to organically bring them into Scary Movie.
It must’ve meant a lot when you were asked to helm it.
Yeah, it did mean a lot to be able to take over their biggest franchise. Coming up through the ranks of the Wayans, I knew how important the Scary Movie franchise was to them, and I really wanted to deliver for these guys. They’re like family. So I wanted to make a classic like the two originals.
The Wayans have numbers on you. There’s an infinite amount of them and only one of you. So what’s the dynamic throughout each phase of production?
It’s a fantastic collaboration. I’ve known these guys for so long, and it’s all very honest. We’re always talking about trying to make the best movie and trying to find the best joke. They’re always pushing the envelope, and I’m always trying to elevate the scenes. If a joke is not working in a scene, I’ll say, “Can we make it work somewhere else?” Then we’ll get together to reinvent that joke in another scene until it works.
What changes did you want to make compared to the first two that Keenen directed?
It was important to contemporize the film now that 26 years have passed since the original. I wanted to give the movie a new visual life by making it cinematic and making it feel like it belonged in 2026. I wanted the pacing to take you on a ride. People have described it as a fever dream of comedy, and I think that’s a good way to put it.
It still engages with the original movie more than any of the sequels.
Yeah, the heartbeat of the original Scary Movie was Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. So we went back to our roots by looking at Scream 5 and Scream VI. Scream 5 brought the legacy cast back to introduce a new cast to a new generation of moviegoers that maybe weren’t so connected with the original Scream. So we thought that it was very meta to jump on that bandwagon and play with that in our movie. But couldn’t have done this movie without the “core four” of Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Shawn and Marlon.
Marlon Wayans (left), Regina Hall and Shawn Wayans in Scary Movie.
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What were the ground rules with Scream and other Paramount properties?
I’m not sure, to be quite honest with you. I never asked. I always pushed the comedy as far as I could. I kept expecting someone to say no, but they never did. So we didn’t worry about that, and we just strayed true to making a Wayans comedy.
If you cracked a joke about Melissa Barrera’s exit from the Scream franchise, do you think you would’ve heard something about it from the powers that be?
Well, it’s out there that we did have a Melissa joke at one point in a different ending, but we decided to go back and change that ending for a variety of reasons. I still think people would’ve definitely connected with it [per the spirit of the movie]. I know there’s a lot of people on one side for Melissa. I never really got into the details of it all, but I know that she was iconic in Scream 5 and Scream VI.
So who knows? I’m open to working with everybody, and she would’ve been a really fun cameo in the movie. I wish I knew [that she wanted to appear]. We never really thought of putting her in it.
Scary Movie 6 and Scream 7 were likely being developed at the same time, and so you would think that there would be communication between the two to avoid any accidental overlap. But it sounds like you guys were left to your own devices.
Yeah, they kept both movies very separate. We never got to see a script for Scream 7. We never got to see any sneak previews. We saw the trailer like everybody else when it came out, and we had to go see the movie opening night to completely understand what was going on in it. So there was no direct crossover whatsoever.
Teyana Taylor found out she lost the Oscar on March 15, so did she basically film her opening scene right after that?
Yeah, we literally shot that sequence a week after the Oscars. We waited for the Oscars to end because she was very, very busy having her moment in the awards world. So the Oscars happened, and then a week later, we were doing additional photography in Atlanta with her.
Did you schedule additional photography from the start so that you could account for anything that emerges late in the game?
Yeah, that’s the strategy that goes into these movies. You want to be as timely as possible. You want to keep up politically and pop culturally. It’s hard to make movies about pop culture because the news cycle moves so quickly now. So you always build in the opportunity to go back to either fix things that didn’t work or add new things to the mix like Michael. That movie came out right before us, and it did a massive amount of business. So we wanted to take advantage of those opportunities so that we could deliver something that feels like it just happened yesterday. We want the audience to say, “How did they do this so quickly?” So that was always part of the plan from the beginning.
The marketing aspect of this movie was really cool too. I don’t think any movie has ever parodied films live as they were coming out. We put a Scream-like trailer in front of Scream 7. We put our Jermaine Jackson parody in front of Michael. We did a Backrooms lead-up joke in front of Backrooms. I don’t think anyone’s ever done that.
Jermaine got more screen time in your movie than he did the Michael movie.
(Laughs.) That’s hilarious.
Have you been torturing yourself over the fact that Obsession and Backrooms didn’t come out slightly sooner so that you could also spoof them in a more significant way via additional photography?
Yeah, I wish they had both come out a couple months earlier. It’s fantastic to see these younger filmmakers coming up from YouTube and making such a huge impact on the horror world and film in general. It would’ve been a lot of fun to play with those movies, but hey, there’s always Scary Movie 7.
You also cut your teeth on YouTube?
Yeah, I was a YouTube director 20 years ago when YouTube was just starting out. I was doing comedy videos, and that’s how I built my résumé to get to where I am. But no one knew what it was back then and what it would become. Now it’s grown in such a way that younger filmmakers can really make a mark for themselves.
There’s also a pipeline between sketch comedy and horror. Jordan Peele and Zach Cregger are the most notable examples. The operating theory is that the timing of a joke and a scare involve a similar discipline. Do you see it that way?
I do. My first short film was a horror film, and I’ve also done a lot of sketch comedy. Comedy and horror definitely are birthed from very similar seeds. There is a familiarity between the two. The two genres are very similar in the sense that you’re teasing a release. With horror, you’re teasing the tension to the scare or the kill. And with comedy, you’re always teasing the tension to the joke. The math is very similar, and they go hand in hand.
But I do think comedy is a lot more complex and difficult. It’s the hardest genre to do in film. It requires the confidence to go off-script and ad lib. As a director, you have to embrace your comedy actors and their jokes and what they bring to the characters. You then have to steer things in the right direction so that you’re accomplishing the purpose of the scene and moving the characters forward.
(Spoiler Warning.) Considering their dramatic history with this franchise, it was a wise choice to make Marlon and Shawn’s characters the final two Ghostface killers. They sought revenge against the characters who appeared in Scary Movie 3 through 5. Honestly, that motivation is more inspired than some of the high-profile slasher films in recent memory. Did everybody land on that pretty early?
Yeah, knowing the Wayans were getting their franchise back, we wanted to address the underlying issue that it was taken away from them. So we knew the beginning and the end that we wanted, and we knew the statements we wanted to make: “This is our fucking franchise. We’re not giving it back to anybody now.” It’s meta like Scream, but Scary Movie just takes it to the next level. And I think you’re right. The motivation for our Ghostfaces is probably stronger in Scary Movie 6 than it ever was in Scream. Audiences are connecting with that, and they’re loving it.
Olivia Rose Keegan as Sara, Cameron Scott Roberts as Jack, Benny Zielke as Jess, Ruby Snowber plays Elle, Gregg Wayans as Brad, Sydney Park as DEI and Marlon Wayans as Shorty in Scary Movie.
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(Spoiler Warning.) On top of that, you set up this generational passing of the torch only to have the legacy characters reject the younger characters by leaving them for dead in a burning house. The original ending had Cindy’s daughters, Sarah (Olivia Rose Keegan) and Tuesday (Savannah Lee Nassif), and Brenda’s twins (Gregg Wayans’ Brad and Sydney Park’s Dei) survive like a typical legacy sequel. Did you realize in post that it didn’t make sense to pass the torch to a new generation when the Wayans just got the franchise back after 25 years?
Yeah, it was something that we were wrestling with during the filming of the movie. The ending that’s in there now was something we came up with while shooting the movie, but we didn’t shoot it until additional photography. After we finished principal photography, we watched the original ending, and the new idea for the ending just kept sitting with us. We were like, “You know what? It would be more impactful.” The original ending was a coda where we wrapped the characters’ stories up individually, and it just didn’t feel as effective.
We were also inspired by Scream 7’s Macher house fire, which came out while we were shooting. We’re always looking to connect the dots between the two franchises as much as possible. So we thought, Wow, it would be so cool if we could incorporate the house fire. And a lot of effort went into finding a location that evoked the Macher house for our own house. So, with Scary Movie 6 being a story about the Wayans losing the franchise and then getting it back, it just felt like the ending would be funnier and more meta and more of a social satire if they said, “Fuck those kids. This is our franchise. We’re keeping it.”
We also wanted to end the movie on a big joke, and I really wanted to end on the core four together. So the new ending we’d already been thinking about became perfect, and then we shot it during additional photography. Having the core four walk away with their naked asses out felt so Scary Movie. It’s the last thing the audience sees, and we send them out on a big laugh. We were so sold on it. We had to do it.
It’s a real “kiss my ass” moment.
Exactly. Rewriting and punching up scenes is what’s cool about comedy. I always encourage ad libbing and trying to find lightning in a bottle. So things are always evolving, and when we finished the original shoot, the ending was still evolving in our heads. Thankfully, as I said earlier, we planned ahead and put some money aside to do additional photography. We then took that opportunity to really give our finale a big kiss-my-ass punch.
(Spoiler Warning.) Plus, if you’re going to make fun of legacy sequels throughout the entire movie, you don’t want to do what they all do by repositioning the classic characters around the new ones. So bucking that trend was a sound choice.
Yeah, if there is a Scary Movie 7, I’d have to have the core four back, but nobody ever really dies in Scary Movie. Maybe the rope broke and the kids escaped so they can pop back up in 7 for more fun. But nobody is taking out the core four. That’s impossible.
Yeah, Shorty, Ray and Brenda died in the first movie, so anything is possible.
That’s right. We had a joke in the movie at one point where they start talking about that. They go over each death: “Hey, I died. I got a dick in my ear. And Brenda, she died multiple times too.” Then it came all the way around to Cindy, and they’re like, “What about you? ” And she’s like, “I got divorced.” But she’s the final girl. She’s the only one that couldn’t die. Anyway, that joke didn’t make it, unfortunately.
Anna Faris as Cindy and Regina Hall as Brenda in Scary Movie 6.
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Did you have time to test the new ending?
We did. The test audience did enjoy the original ending where we followed the [Ghostface] reveals with the wrap-up coda for each individual storyline. But it’s just not that type of movie.
It’s too clean.
Yeah, you do something like that in a family drama. These movies are about the jokes. These movies are about shocking and surprising the audience by setting up an expectation and then subverting that expectation. Originally, Shorty was out in the front yard for the very final moment, and the runaway rollercoaster from the beginning crashes into him and kills him. And some test audiences were a little mad that we killed Shorty. They were like, “Wait, what? You can’t kill Shorty.” And I found that funny because these characters, as we just talked about, never really die.
But there was a little disappointment in the fact that we were killing Shorty, and we already felt motivation in our gut that we wanted to send the audience out on a huge laugh. You want people walking out chuckling and talking about the ending, but the original ending just didn’t do that for us.
It sounds like you cut a lot of material in general. For example, the Longlegs side story was much bigger, originally. Do you think that material will make it onto the home video release?
Yes, I think so. There’s a good collection of deleted scenes. We try to take advantage of shooting as much as possible and then deciding what our favorites are and what makes sense to the structure and the story. I’ve been pitching a director’s cut. Maybe we’ll call it “The Snowflake Cut” and show some of the deleted scenes that crossed the lines. We were just talking about the DVD last week, and I gave a whole list of things that I think should be on it. I don’t get to make that final decision, but I hope that they include them.
I grew up on DVDs. I love the behind-the-scenes special features. They’ve gone away a little bit over the last decade and a half, but I think that the pendulum is swinging back. I think people are going to want to have physical media again and actually own their movies. And if they’re going to own the DVD, then we should give them some extras to enjoy.
Cindy’s daughter, Tuesday, is referred to as Wednesday at one point. Cindy’s older daughter, Sarah, then points out that the movie can’t reference Wednesday due to legal reasons. Is there any truth to that joke?
I think it’s merely just a joke, but maybe there is a legality between it. Rick Alvarez would be better to talk to about that because he actually is a lawyer. We were just making fun of a Wednesday-like character and pointing out that we might get in trouble for making the joke because she is tied to her own big world. We cross all the lines. We’re the type of people who will say things first and then ask questions later. We should probably grow up a little bit at some point.
Along those lines, did Shaquille O’Neal truly join the film because Kevin Hart said no?
Kevin Hart said no. That was true. But I don’t think that’s why Shaq joined.
Marlon’s Shaq impression really got me.
That was one of the funniest moments for me too. Marlon does it so well. He’s done it many times, and we always love when he does it. But now he had to do it in front of Shaq who stands 7 feet tall, and I was like, “Ooh, how’s this going to go? ” So it was hilarious to see him do that impression in front of him, and I’m not sure if Shaq was acting in that moment where he said, “Enough!” It was a great response to his impression.
And what about Jordan Peele? The marketing made a joke about him saying “nope,” but was he actually asked?
Yeah. Marlon worked with Jordan on Him, and they know each other very well. So Marlon did ask him, and he said no just because he was busy. He excitedly asked Marlon, “Are you guys going to get me? Are you going to do any of my movies?” So he told him we were going to go after Get Out, and I think that’s when he asked him if he was available or not.
Marlon Wayans plays Shorty in Scary Movie.
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Besides all the Obsession and Backrooms material you’re going to have available, have you guys already started pitching a lot of other potential ideas for Scary Movie 7?
Seeing Scary Movie 6 become what it’s become, we’ve definitely been getting excited about it. We’ve all been sitting around and talking: “What should we do for Scary Movie 7? What are the next iterations of Scary Movie going to be down the road?” Scary Movie 6 is a return to the slasher parody, and we’re parodying a lot of other movies that have to do with the slasher subgenre. We do go off a little bit here and there, but we tried to keep the main parodies in the slasher world. The first Scary Movie was also a slasher parody, but Scary Movie 2 was more a send-up of The Exorcist and haunted mansion stories.
So what’s next? Is it a parody of psychological thrillers? Is it a zombie-type theme? If there is a Scary Movie 7, it’ll be exciting to see what specific subgenre we’ll choose to make the heartbeat of the film. There’s just so many to choose from out there.
Producer Marlon Wayans and Director Michael Tiddes on the set of Scary Movie 6.
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Years from now, when you and Marlon reminisce about the making of Scary Movie 6, what day will you likely recall first?
We’ll probably talk about the last day. It was a 16-hour day, and we were parodying Get Out and Nosferatu. In the Get Out scene alone, there are six or seven physical gags. From getting sucked through the chair to evoking its visual originality, a lot went into those moments. So we were both absolutely exhausted, but we both felt like we accomplished the rollercoaster movie that we had set out to make.
***Scary Movie 6 is currently playing in movie theaters.
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