Country’s Fastest-Growing Restaurant to Give Away Free Tickets to The Year’s Most Anticipated Horror Movie, In Theatres March 10th
Los Angeles, CA (RestaurantNews.com) Dave’s Hot Chicken, the scrappy late-night pop-up turned national hot chicken sensation, today announced a collaboration with the Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s hit movie franchise, Scream. The partnership is connected to the release of the year’s most anticipated horror film, Scream VI, and promises to be a hot collab for fans of both franchises.
In celebration of the collab, fans can win tickets to the movie at every Dave’s Hot Chicken restaurant from coast to coast. The restaurants will also be handing out Scream-themed swag (while supplies last), and on the day of the movie’s nationwide release, March 10, Dave’s New York City flagship restaurant near Times Square will undergo a Scream-themed takeover.
Details of the collaboration include:
- From February 24 through March 10, a QR code-driven contest at all Dave’s Hot Chicken restaurants nationwide, where guests can win four Fandango Movie Tickets to see the film in theaters.
- NYC flagship store takeover on the movie’s release day, March 10, with life-sized cutouts, movie posters and an incorporation of the iconic Scream knife into the store’s Screaming Chicken signage.
- Social media postings on TikTok and Instagram announcing the sweepstakes and on March 10 at the NYC flagship Times Square store.
All the killer details can be found at DavesHotChicken.com/screammovie.
Dave’s Hot Chicken specializes in Hot Chicken Tenders and Sliders, along with sides of house-made Kale Slaw, creamy Mac n’ Cheese and crispy French Fries. Offered at seven spice levels ranging from No Spice to Reaper® (which requires a signed waiver for those who dare), each piece of hand-breaded chicken is spiced to order, using a spice blend crafted specifically for its heat level or no-spice. The brand began a few years ago as a parking lot pop-up and drew lines around the block, with rave reviews by its fanatic Instagram followers.
About Dave’s Hot Chicken
In a modern-day American dream story, Arman Oganesyan and best friend Chef Dave Kopushyan, along with brothers Tommy and Gary Rubenyan, launched Dave’s Hot Chicken in a parking lot pop-up in 2017. Dave’s Hot Chicken quickly took off, opening its first brick-and-mortar restaurant in East Hollywood. In 2019, the team struck a deal with Wetzel’s Pretzels co-founder and former CEO, Bill Phelps, and movie producer John Davis to begin franchising the Dave’s Hot Chicken concept throughout the U.S. and beyond. The company has sold the rights to more than 700 franchise locations in the U.S. and Canada and will open an additional 60 locations this year. Harkening back to an Eater LA blog that helped propel early interest in the brand, the company’s mission is to “blow their minds.” Additional brand investors include Billboard’s Artist of the Decade, Drake, former California First Lady Maria Shriver, actor Samuel L. Jackson, and Good Morning America anchor and retired NFL player Michael Strahan. For more information, visit www.daveshotchicken.com.
About SCREAM VI
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter. In Scream VI, Melissa Barrera (“Sam Carpenter”), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy Meeks-Martin”), Mason Gooding (“Chad Meeks-Martin”), Jenna Ortega (“Tara Carpenter”), Hayden Panettiere (“Kirby Reed”), and Courtney Cox (“Gale Weathers”) return to their roles in the franchise alongside Jack Champion, Henry Czerny, Liana Liberato, Dermont Mulroney, Devyn Nekoda, Tony Revolori, Josh Segarra, and Samara Weaving. At the helm are Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (“Scream,” 2022) “Ready or Not,”) with James Vanderbilt (“Scream,” 2022, “Murder Mystery,”) & Guy Busick (“Scream,” 2022, “Ready or Not,”) co-writing the screenplay. Project X Entertainment’s Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein are serving as producers (“Scream,” 2022). Creator Kevin Williamson and the third member of Radio Silence, Chad Villella, are executive producing alongside Spyglass’ Gary Barber and Peter Oillataguerre, Courteney Cox, Ron Lynch, Cathy Konrad and Marianne Maddalena.
About Paramount
Paramount Global (NASDAQ: PARA, PARAA) is a leading global media and entertainment company that creates premium content and experiences for audiences worldwide. Driven by iconic studios, networks and streaming services, Paramount’s portfolio of consumer brands includes CBS, Showtime Networks, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount+, Pluto TV and Simon & Schuster, among others. Paramount delivers the largest share of the U.S. television audience and boasts one of the industry’s most important and extensive libraries of TV and film titles. In addition to offering innovative streaming services and digital video products, the company provides powerful capabilities in production, distribution and advertising solutions. For more information about Paramount, please visit www.paramount.com and follow @ParamountCo on social platforms.
About Spyglass Media Group, LLC
Spyglass Media Group, LLC is a premier entertainment company, led by Chairman & CEO Gary Barber, focused on developing, producing, financing and distributing motion pictures and television programming for worldwide audiences. Spyglass’ film productions include the relaunched horror franchise “Scream” (2022) and its next installment “Scream VI” (2023), the reinvention of “Hellraiser,” the box office hit “The Upside,” the upcoming horror film, “Thanksgiving,” and the high school comedy “Incoming” as well as the iconic fashion competition television series “Project Runway.”
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