

Windsor College seniors Maureen Evans and Phil Stevens attend a sneak preview of Stab, a film based on the events of the Woodsboro Massacre. The film's soundtrack achieved moderate sales success, reaching number 50 on the Billboard 200.

Elfman's contribution had been specially written for the film, but Zimmer's score for Broken Arrow was controversially used in the film, replacing Beltrami's own work. Despite these issues, Scream 2 earned $172.4 million at the box office, only $683,362 less than Scream, and received positive reviews from critics, with some arguing that it surpassed the original in quality.īeltrami received positive critical reception for his score for evolving the musical themes of the characters created in Scream, although some critics claimed that the most memorable pieces from the film were created by composers Danny Elfman and Hans Zimmer. Combined with the film's rushed schedule, the script was rewritten often pages were sometimes completed on the day of filming. The film suffered controversy following its significant issues with plot information leaking onto the Internet, revealing the identity of the killers. Following a successful test screening of Scream and the film's financial and critical success, Dimension moved forward with the sequel while Scream was still in theaters, with the principal cast all returning to star, Craven to direct and Beltrami to provide music. Williamson provided a five-page outline for a sequel to Scream when auctioning his original script, hoping to entice bidders with the potential of buying a franchise. Like its predecessor, Scream 2 combines the violence of the slasher genre with elements of comedy, satire and " whodunit" mystery while satirizing the cliché of film sequels. Scream 2 takes place two years after the first film and again follows the character of Sidney Prescott (Campbell), and other survivors of the Woodsboro massacre, at the fictional Windsor College in Ohio, where they are targeted by a copycat killer using the guise of Ghostface. It was followed by three sequels, Scream 3 (2000), Scream 4 (2011), and a fifth film, which began filming in September 2020. The film was released on December 12, 1997, less than a year after the first, by Dimension Films, as the second installment in the Scream film series. It stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jamie Kennedy, Laurie Metcalf, Jerry O'Connell, Elise Neal, Timothy Olyphant, Jada Pinkett and Liev Schreiber.


On April 20, 2014, Kottonmouth Kings (Daddy X, D-Loc, and The Dirtball) released their debut album without Johnny Richter, titled “The Buddah Shack EP,” which was their first release without Richter.Scream 2 is a 1997 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. Later in 2013, it was reported that Daddy X and KMK have teamed together to establish a new record label called “United Family Trust.” Kottonmouth Kings frontman Johnny Richter quit the band in October 2013, although he is still contracted to Subnoize Records. Daddy X and KMK departed Subnoize Records as a result of disagreements between Daddy X and Kevin Zinger, according to a source. In 2006, the Kottonmouth Kings performed as the opening act at the Cannabis Cup and were awarded “Band of the Year” by High Times magazine. With the release of their third studio album, High Society, in 2000, they started to achieve mainstream popularity, and in the autumn of 2001, they embarked on a tour with D12/Primer 55 and Bionic Jive. The song “Suburban Life,” which featured on the soundtrack of the film Scream 2, was the group’s first major hit and brought them widespread recognition.Ī year after forming in the summer of 1998, the Kottonmouth Kings released their first album, Royal Highness, on Capitol Records. They are made up of Daddy X (formerly of Humble Gods and X Pistols, as well as former singer of Doggy Style), Lou Dog (formerly of Humble Gods and former drummer of Doggy Style), D-Loc, DJ Bobby B, and the newest member/vocalists: The Dirtball. The Kottonmouth Kings, who define themselves as “psychedelic hip-hop punk rock,” formally founded in 1994 and have been touring since. The Kottonmouth Kings are a hip hop group from the city of Placentia in the county of Orange in the state of California.
