Trivia: When the kids are walking down the stairs in the subway station, you can see one guy walking upstairs dressed as the character Mojo Jojo from "The Powerpuff Girls." Mojo Jojo was voiced by Roger L. Jackson, the same voice actor for Ghostface.
Trivia: The first credited acting role for Hayden Panettiere in five years. Panettiere had taken a four-year hiatus from acting starting in 2018 to work on her physical and mental health after a series of personal issues. When she found out the "Scream" franchise was being brought back in 2022, she called the directors and pitched the idea that her character Kirby could return in a future installment. While her cameo in that film was cut, the directors promised she'd be back for the sixth film.
Trivia: A sequel went into production after this film came out, with stars Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega returning, and Christopher Landon as director. However, in late 2023, all three left the project. Barrera was fired for pro-Palestine social media posts, which the studio claimed were antisemitic despite her stating they were not intended to be. Ortega then left over a pay dispute. Finally, Landon dropped out, calling the situation a "nightmare." (Presumably due to how actresses were treated.)
Trivia: The directors studied "Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan" during pre-production to figure out what they could do to avoid running into similar issues, as that film is widely disliked for failing to take advantage of its New York City setting. The directors jokingly said their biggest takeaway from that film was that they "wanted to make sure that we didn't have a boat in this!" (That film notoriously is mostly set on a boat, with only the final 20 minutes being in New York).
Trivia: Since the movie takes place around Halloween, during the subway scene, you can see random people dressed up in costumes as various horror movie characters and monsters. In at least one shot, you can also see a woman in the background dressed up as Grace from the movie "Ready or Not." "Ready or Not" and "Scream VI" were made by the same producing and directing team. Additionally, Samara Weaving, who played Grace in "Ready or Not," has a cameo in the movie as a film studies professor.
Trivia: The first film in the series in which Ghostface uses a gun while still masked. Up until this film, it was an "unwritten rule" in the series that while masked, Ghostface would only use classic slasher weapons like knives, or the environment around him to kill. Ghostface would only be allowed to use guns when unmasked. The directors decided to break this rule in order to make Ghostface feel like a bigger, much more realistic threat than ever before... he'd break his own rules to get his targets.
Trivia: Kirby is the first character in the franchise to return alive after being supposedly "killed off." Her character was last seen gasping in a pool of blood in "Scream 4," and was loosely implied to have died. However, director Wes Craven loved the character and purposely avoided showing her dead body to make her death slightly ambiguous, in case they wanted to bring her back. A small blink-and-you'll-miss-it easter egg in the fifth film confirmed Kirby in fact survived.
Trivia: This is the only "Scream" movie that doesn't feature series star Neve Campbell. Campbell decided not to return due to a contract dispute, feeling the pay she was being offered by the studio was insultingly low given her history with the series. Her castmates and the directors supported her decision. Almost exactly one year to the day after "Scream VI" was released, Campbell confirmed that she would return for the seventh film, with her contract dispute having been settled in the meantime.
Trivia: Courteney Cox receives "top billing" while having less than 17 minutes of screentime. This is somewhat obscured because the poster and title credits (moved to the end rather than the beginning like most movies) merely list the cast in alphabetical order - except it saves her for last with an "and Courteney Cox" credit. The closing credits make it more apparent, prominently putting Cox first in a cast list more ordered in terms of "significance."
Trivia: Like other films in the series, "Scream VI" is loaded with "easter eggs" for horror fans. One extremely subtle one you may not notice... when the psychologist is attacked at his office by Ghostface, the door-knocking sound effect is actually taken directly from the 2022 slasher-movie "X," which featured "Scream VI" co-star Jenna Ortega.
Trivia: With this film, Courteney Cox (Gale Weathers) and Roger L. Jackson (the voice of "Ghostface") are the only actors to be in every "Scream" movie.
Trivia: When the therapist is watching TV shortly before he is killed, there's a VHS box sitting next to his TV labeled "Dead Meat." This is a reference to the YouTube channel "Dead Meat," in which husband and wife duo James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca do reviews and podcasts on horror movies and media. They're friends with the directors and also had a cameo in "Scream (2022)."
Trivia: When Kirby and Mindy sit down and talk about horror movies, and Mindy alludes to the idea that some people think Stu Macher is really still alive. This is a reference to an extremely popular fan theory that Stu Macher, one of the original two "Ghostface" killers, is still alive and will return in a future film.
Trivia: Dermot Mulroney plays a character named Wayne Bailey, echoing a line from the fictional "Stab 6" in Scream 4: "It could be anyone that we know... Lisa, Bailey, Wayne..."
Answer: Using some conjecture, if the film states the last killings took place in 2022 and treats it like "last year," you can assume it takes place around Halloween 2023. Films are allowed to take place in the future. They don't have to be set around their release date. So how is this a mistake?
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