The mask that Wes Craven’s Scream forever immortalized as Ghostface was originally a mass-produced mask that bore the name “Peanut-Eyed Ghost.” Inspired by Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream,” the mask was released by Fun World in the early ’90s, and the story goes that Scream‘s production team stumbled upon it in a house while they were […]
The complaint from Paramount and Spyglass reads, “Alterian has never legally established that it owns the rights to the Ghostface mask, and it will not be able to prove it now in this litigation. And seeking to disrupt the release of a completed motion picture mere weeks before its release—the seventh installment of a franchise that Alterian watched grow in silence for three decades—is an outrageous attempt to shake down.”
Alterian’s argument? THR notes, “Fun World had no right to license the mask, saying that it created the underlying design first, which was later copied by Fun World, the suit says.”
Scream 7, slashing into theaters February 27, has been mired in headline-making messiness from the very beginning. From the firing of Melissa Barrera to the exit of Jenna Ortega and the recent use of AI as part of the marketing campaign, much of the chatter about Scream 7 thus far has been less than positive. We’ll see if that changes once the film is unleashed.
Stay tuned for much more on all things Scream 7.
