Faris Returns With $55M Opening and a Murder Frame Theory

Scary Movie 6 debuted to a franchise-best $55 million domestic opening weekend while Anna Faris simultaneously discussed anxiety, Hollywood pay gaps, and a divorce that she describes in notably cinematic terms.

Scary Movie 6 opened to $55 million domestically, the highest opening in the franchise's history.
Faris told Variety she lived with persistent anxiety that she would be framed for a murder she did not commit.
She addressed pay disparity in Hollywood, including relative to her former co-stars and ex-husband Chris Pratt.
The interview covers the period following her divorce from Pratt, which was finalized in 2018.
Faris did not specify which murder she feared being framed for.

Anna Faris's Scary Movie 6 opened to $55 million domestically last weekend, the best debut in the franchise's 26-year run, and Variety has the first wide-ranging interview to accompany it.

In conversation with the publication, Faris described a period of severe anxiety that manifested as a specific, recurring conviction: that she was “going to be framed for murder.” She did not elaborate on the theoretical murder or its theoretical perpetrator.

The piece also covers her pay relative to male counterparts over the course of her career, including during the years she worked alongside Chris Pratt, from whom she separated in 2017 and divorced in 2018 after eight years of marriage.

Faris is candid about the professional plateau that followed the original Scary Movie run and the personal dislocation of the divorce period, describing Hollywood as a place where anxiety “has a very specific texture.”

The $55 million opening lands her in a stronger box office position than any prior entry in the franchise, including the 2000 original. The Variety piece runs no comment from Chris Pratt. It does not name the murder.