Word: scream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thomas Wartmann deserves high marks as well. As a 25-year employee of PepsiCo, he had heard about the company's generous scholarship programs and made a mental note to have Christopher apply for one when the time came. Christopher did apply and "let out a whooping scream" when he won the maximum amount: $8,000. The University of Dayton kicked in $7,500 in scholarship and grant aid (money that won't have to be paid back), leaving the Wartmanns with a bill of just $5,500, which they plan to pay in 10 monthly installments of $550 each...
...that familiar scream you hear belongs to Jamie Lee Curtis, who returns to the series that made her big with "Halloween: H20". While the tag line ("Blood is thicker than water") is a little lame, the advance buzz is that this is almost as good as John Carpenter's great original...
...year-olds--and there are more of them than ever before. "The teenage population is growing faster than any other segment," says Paramount executive Rob Friedman, "and their tastes are more sophisticated than they used to be." They go for hip variations on old themes, flocking to the two Scream films (each earned more than $100 million at the domestic box office) or to a canny thriller like last year's I Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Hewitt and Buffy's Sarah Michelle Gellar (which grossed $72 million on a $17 million budget...
...million, but since it cost only around $10 million, everyone got to see some green. Everyone but the actors. "The teen genre is a godsend to studios, because they can use a bunch of young people in the place of one $20 million star," says Cary Woods, who produced Scream. "And the kids don't get gross percentages, so the studios get nice profits." It's not as if these kids were cobbling Nikes in China--$50,000 to $150,000 is decent pay for a summer job--but young TV stars are the best buy in Hollywood...
...less to advertise than a big summer film. Cost-efficient ads for Disturbing Behavior and Halloween: H20 are blanketing the kid-drams and cable music channels. "When you're marketing a teen movie," notes Bob Weinstein, the Miramax co-chair and boss of Dimension Films, which distributed the Scream epics, "MTV becomes your best friend...