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• A special makeup-effects man working with "Tyson" on the set of Stab 3 is named Stan, a possible reference to legendary makeup-FX man Stan Winston.
  
  
• The house used during the climax, where most of the killing takes place, is the same house used as a school in Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).
  
  
• The empty cinematographer's chair on the "Stab 3" set has the name of the actual Scream 3 (2000) cinematographer, Peter Deming.
  
  
• Throughout the movie the actors and actresses complain about the rewrites and the three different scripts for Stab 3. These complaints actually originated with the cast of Scream 3 (2000), because of frequent rewrites and three different endings.
  
  
• Gale mentions Jennifer's relationship with Brad Pitt. Courteney Cox's "Friends" (1994) costar Jennifer Aniston was married to Brad Pitt.
  
  
• Set a record in its opening weekend for number of screens in the U.S.: 3,467 (later surpassed by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) with 3,762).
  
  
• Jay and Silent Bob, the popular drug dealer characters from Kevin Smith's movies, appear as tourists visiting Sunrise Studios who spot Gail Weathers and mistake her for Connie Chung.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Wes Craven] can be seen dressed as a tourist walking behind Jay and Silent Bob, outside the "Stab 3" set.
  
  
• The Song "Red Right Hand" is played in all three of the movies.
  
  
• The horror film rules for a continued sequel as stated in the film are: (1) the killer has got be super human - stabbing or shooting won't be enough to finish him off (2) anyone, including the main character, can die (3) the past will come back to haunt you. Later in the film, Detective Mark Kincaid remarks "All I know about movie trilogies is in the third one, all bets are off".
  
  
• Compared to its two predecessors, "Scream 3" used the least amount of artificial blood. Its tally of 10 gallons compares with 50 gallons for the first film and 30 for the second.
  
  
• Body count: 10
  
  
• It took $34.7 million in its opening weekend, the most any film had ever earned during the January-April period at the time, and the most Miramax had ever earned for any debuting film.
  
  
• Wes Craven only agreed to direct the film after Miramax allowed him to helm the inspirational drama Music of the Heart (1999).
  
  
• Roman Bridger (Scott Foley), the director of the 'movie within the movie', complains that he had to make a horror film before he was allowed to make a classic love story. Something similar happened to director Wes Craven himself: he had to agree to do Scream 3 (2000) before he was allowed to make the musical drama Music of the Heart (1999).
  
  
• Miramax was so concerned about protecting the movie's plot secrets that no journalists were allowed to see the finished film until two days before it opened.
  
  
• Wes Craven filmed three different endings and didn't tell the cast which one he was going to use.
  
  
• The film's original website was a spoof website for Sunrise Studios, the fictional company making "Stab 3", complete with a production list of upcoming films and cast bios of its "Stab 3" stars.
  
  
• It was only after English actress Emily Mortimer had been cast that the production discovered that she didn't have a permit to work in the States. Mortimer was flown to Canada where she was able to obtain the correct permit just as production got underway.
  
  
• "Scream 3" never had a public test screening. The cast and crew only had their first chance to see the finished product at the premiere because of fears of spoilers being put out on the Internet.
  
  
• The main house where most of the actors hang out in actually belongs to "Grease" (1978) director Randal Kleiser.
  
  
• Ehren Kruger was frantically rewriting while filming had started.
  
  
• Patrick Dempsey was hired the day before shooting began. He had one night to learn three big dialog-heavy scenes.
  
  
• Neve Campbell was concurrently shooting "Drowning Mona" and 'Party of Five' during the production of "Scream 3". As her character in "Drowning Mona" had long, streaked hair, she had to wear a wig to play Sidney Prescott, one that took 2 hours to apply each morning.
  
  
• Another idea for Jamie Kennedy to reprise his character Randy Meeks was to have him survive the stabbing in "Scream 2". His family had whisked him away to anonymity to help him recover and keep him safe. This was ultimately deemed to be too far-fetched so Randy was resurrected via a post-mortem video appearance instead.
  
  
• Carrie Fisher helped rewrite some of her lines.
  
  
• Liev Schreiber insisted that Cotton Weary should shrug off his white jacket in the opening teaser. This was mainly because Schreiber had been doing a lot of working out at the time and wanted to show off his pecs!
  
  
• Scott Foley's feature film debut.
  
  
• During the studio tour, the tour guide mention's that the next stop on the tour is the set of "Seinfeld" (1990). Patrick Warburton, who plays Steven Stone in the movie, was famous for role as David Puddy on "Seinfeld" (1990).
  
  
• During Randy's taped message to Sydney, Dewey and Gale, he refers to the Star Wars trilogy. Carrie Fisher, who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy, has an in-joke cameo in the movie as 'Bianca', the studio archive keeper, a former actress who is still mad at losing the Princess Leia role to Fisher, who ('Bianca' reveals) slept with George Lucas to get the part.
  
  
• Lance Henriksen's director character shares the same name as the famous 17th century English writer. The author John Milton is best known for his poem "Paradise Lost." In "Paradise Lost", Satan deceives Adam and Eve to choose temptation over God's Eden. Their decision leaves them expelled from Eden, forever corrupted. "Paradise Lost" suggests the debate concerning whether it is better to be bad than good. Director John Milton in Scream 3 (2000) dupes Maureen Prescott into believing that she can become successful in Hollywood by performing sexual favors. In a similar fashion as Adam and Eve, she loses her innocence to false promises of grandeur, receiving only bit parts in Milton's films. As a result of her corruption by Milton, Maureen Prescott fully embraces promiscuity as evident by the Scream trilogy storyline.
  
  
• Slipknot's "Wait and Bleed" is on the soundtrack. Slipknot is known for wearing masks.
  
  
• The bathroom Sidney finds Angelina in on the set of "Stab 3" is the same bathroom used when Sidney is attacked in the original _Scream_. You can tell by position of doors and soap dispenser design.
  
  
• Neve Campbell made a deal which stated that she could have been on set just for 20 days, which is also why she isn't as predominant a character as she is in the other films.
  
  
• Throughout the film Sydney can be seen to be wearing the Greek letters around her neck that were given to her by her boyfriend Derrick, in Scream 2 (1997), shortly before he was killed.
  
  
• Between Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 3 (2000), David Arquette and Courteney Cox (two of the five actors who feature in all the Scream movies) got married. They met on the set of the first movie, were an item whilst shooting the second and by the third they were married. Courteney added 'Arquette' to the end of her name, as can be seen in the credits. Courteney and David had to cut their honeymoon short to begin filming Scream 3 (2000).
  
  
• Kate Winslet, Shannen Doherty and Charisma Carpenter were all close contenders for the part of Christine. Kelly Rutherford got the part.
  
  
• The green outfit worn by Parker Posey while on set is the same one worn by Courteney Cox in the first movie. All sets for "Stab 3" were replicas of the originals since the sets were destroyed after _Scream (1996)_ wrapped.
  
  
• Parker Posey plays actress Jennifer *Jolie* while Emily Mortimer portrays actress *Angelina* Tyler.
  
  
• Tyson Fox says that Cotton Weary's murderer was "probaby some Stab-fan pissed off they killed Randy in 'Stab 2'." This is a reference to Scream-fanatics being so upset that Randy Meeks was killed in Scream 2 (1997), that Wes Craven got hate-emails at his official website. This was also the root to the idea of Randy surviving the events of "Scream 2" as a twist, which was later turned into a video-recording.
  
  
• Alicia Silverstone was offered the role of Angelina Tyler, but turned it down.
  
  
• Téa Leoni was a strong contender for the role of Jennifer Jolie and was called back several times during casting, but filmmakers ultimately decided Parker Posey was more suitable and was cast instead.
  
  
• Was moved from its original December 10th 1999 release date to February 4th 2000.
  
  
• 'Kate Hudson' was cast in the movie (on the back cover of the VHS copy of "Desert Blue", "Scream 3" is listed in her movie credits) but was replaced. The role she was supposed to play is unknown but it is largely rumored to be either Christine or Sarah.
  
  
• Was intended for release in December 1999, but was pushed back until February of 2000.
  
  
• Was announced when writer Kevin Williamson was writing the script for Scream 2 (1997).
  
  
• Kevin Williamson wrote a script for this movie, until they hired a new writer and disregarded his draft.
  
  

• SPOILER: According to the commentary by Wes Craven, Angelina Tyler (Emily Mortimer) was supposed to be the second killer, as Roman Bridger's girlfriend and ex-classmate of Sidney from _Scream_, but the producers didn't like the idea.
  
  
• SPOILER: The 10 deaths in the movie go in this order: Christine, Cotton Weary, Sarah Darling, Steven Stone, Tom Prinze, Angelina Tyler, Tyson Fox, Jennifer Jolie, John Milton, Roman Bridger (Killer).
  
  

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