Overview

• In Ashley Cullins’ book, Jasmin Savoy Brown reflects on Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega leaving the franchise, calling the past year "really sad and stressful."
• Brown says she hopes the Core Four reunite on screen someday, even if it takes decades, while she continues in Scream 7 alongside Mason Gooding.
• Entertainment Weekly recounts that Spyglass fired Barrera over social-media posts it deemed antisemitic, which she denies, and Ortega later said the fallout influenced her decision to exit.
• Former director Christopher Landon says he left about a week after Barrera’s firing, received death threats, and ultimately announced his departure only after the harassment escalated.
• The film has been reoriented around Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott under director Kevin Williamson, with Isabel May and Joel McHale joining the cast, and a theatrical release scheduled for Feb. 27, 2026.