20 Things You Didn't Know About Scary Movie
11. It Grossed $278 Million Worldwide
Given the declining popularity of the spoof movie by the late 1990s, expectations weren't exactly high for Scary Movie being anything more than a modest success - but in the least, its low $19 million budget prevented it from ever being a catastrophic failure.
As it turned out, the film ended up grossing a stonking $278 million worldwide, far outpacing anyone's wildest expectations and ensuring a glut of sequels quickly followed.
Though all four Scary Movie sequels were commercially successful, not a single one of them got anywhere close to the original's box office performance. It captured a cultural moment in time perfectly, and audiences couldn't get enough of it.