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Melissa Barrera Slams 'Scabby' Scream Co-Stars Who Returned For Latest Sequel

Melissa Barrera Slams 'Scabby' Scream Co-Stars Who Returned For Latest Sequel

Melissa Barrera Melissa Barrera has shared her take on her former Scream colleagues who made the decision to return for the franchise’s controversial latest instalment. Back in 2023, Melissa was publicly fired from the film series after sharing support for Palestine and writing on social media that Gaza is being “treated like a concentration camp” back in 2023. “People have learnt nothing from our histories. And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen. THIS IS GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING,” she said in the posts at the time.  Melissa also pointed out that “censorship is very real” and that she’d been “actively looking for videos and information about the Palestinian side” because “western media only shows the other side”. “Why they do that, I will let you deduce for yourself,” she added. At the time, the film’s production company Spyglass released a statement saying they “have zero tolerance for antisemitism or the incitement of hate in any form, including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion or anything that flagrantly …

Melissa Barrera calls the Scream 7 cast ‘scabs’ after her Hollywood exile: ‘They have to live with that’

Melissa Barrera calls the Scream 7 cast ‘scabs’ after her Hollywood exile: ‘They have to live with that’

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Melissa Barrera is not holding back her true thoughts on Scream 7 three years after she was fired from the horror movie franchise for speaking out against Israel. Three years after production company Spyglass dismissed Barrera from her lead role in the movie over her social media posts regarding the conflict in Gaza, the 35-year-old actor opened up about the backlash in a new interview with Variety, in which she criticized her former colleagues for siding with the people who fired her. After Barrera’s exit, and co-star Jenna Ortega’s subsequent decision to drop out along with the director, Scream 7 scrambled to restructure the film by bringing back some of the franchise’s original stars, including Neve Campbell and Matthew Lillard. When asked if she considers the people who agreed to do the movie after she was fired to be “scabs” who …

Scream 7 defies protests over Melissa Barrera firing to break box office record

Scream 7 defies protests over Melissa Barrera firing to break box office record

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Scream 7 has smashed box office records to become the highest-grossing film in the long-running franchise. The series began with 1996’s Scream, and the new film sees the return of original writer Kevin Williamson as writer-director. As Variety reports, Scream 7 made $97.2 million in worldwide ticket sales on its opening weekend, generating $64.1 million in North America and a further $33.1 million overseas. The previous opening weekend record was held by 2023’s Scream VI, which made $44.4 million domestically. The impressive box office performance comes after the film’s premiere was interrupted by activists gathered outside the Paramount Studios lot in Los Angeles. They had gathered to protest the film’s controversial firing of Melissa Barrera over Instagram posts that were deemed antisemitic by the film’s production company. open image in gallery The killer ‘Ghostface’ appearing in ‘Scream 7’, which has broken …

Simu Liu pushes DCU to cast Melissa Barrera in new Wonder Woman movie

Simu Liu pushes DCU to cast Melissa Barrera in new Wonder Woman movie

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Simu Liu has pitched his co-star Melissa Barrera to play Wonder Woman in DC Studios’ upcoming movie. After working opposite Barrera in Peacock’s new spy seriesThe Copenhagen Test, Liu said he became convinced that the Scream star would dominate the superhero role. “She really pushes herself,” Liu told JoBlo about Barrera in a recent interview. “I don’t know who might be listening to this interview, James Gunn or anybody else out there. But I think she really pushes herself. There were a couple of moments during stunt training where I was like, ‘That’s Wonder Woman-esque.’ I’m just throwing it out there.” He continued to rave about the activist, saying: “After the whole season and after all the training that she had been through, Melissa was looking really sharp as a fighter, and so, she came to set and she was just …