Factual error: In the beginning of the movie, the killer calls Cotton on his cell phone. When the killer hangs up on him, you hear a dial tone. When someone cuts you off on a cell phone, you don't get a dial tone. (00:02:40)
Scream 3 (2000)
1 factual error
Directed by: Wes Craven
Starring: Beth Toussaint, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Emily Mortimer, Jenny McCarthy, Kelly Rutherford, Lance Henriksen, Liev Schreiber, Neve Campbell, Patrick Dempsey, Roger Jackson
Other mistake: On the back cover of Scream 3 in the Scream trilogy on DVD, the town of the original killings is referred to as Greensboro twice. The correct name of the town is Woodsboro, of course.
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Question: Is there any significance to the code '1288' Sydney uses at her mountain hideaway?
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Answer: Not expressly, though it could have been the date of some significant event (December of 1988) but someone as security-conscious as Sydney now is wouldn't be stupid enough to have her code be something that could be guessed.