(Welcome to Tales from the Box Office, our column that examines box office miracles, disasters, and everything in between, as well as what we can learn from them.)It is hard to imagine a time in popular cinema without slasher films, yet that’s exactly what happened in the early ’90s once franchises like “Friday the 13th” and “Halloween” had fallen from grace.
But in 1996, when director Wes Craven’s masterwork “Scream” hit theaters, everything changed.
The man who introduced us to Freddy Krueger in “A Nightmare on Elm Street” had revived the slasher genre for a new generation.
Now, it was time for every other studio in town to try and cash in.
What better way to do that than to make another movie by the guy who wrote “Scream?”In a hurried attempt to capitalize on the success of the renewed slasher craze, Columbia Pictures scooped up another
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