The Friends alum joins previously announced Scream castmember David Arquette who is also coming back as Dewey Riley. Cameras will roll on the Spyglass Media Group-Paramount Production in Wilmington, North Carolina.

The next Scream is being directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett of the filmmaking group Radio Silence (Ready or Not, V/H/S) from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt (Murder Mystery, Amazing Spider-Man) and Guy Busick (Ready or Not, Castle Rock).

Creator Kevin Williamson and the third member of the Radio Silence trio, Chad Villella, are executive producing with Project X Entertainment's Vanderbilt, Paul Neinstein and William Sherak serving as producers. In addition to her iconic role as Monica on Friends, which landed Cox a SAG ensemble win, she also starred, executive produced and directed 12 episodes of ABC's Cougar Town Cox. Cox serves as an executive producer and host on Facebook Watch's documentary series, 9 Months with Courteney Cox via her Hopper Productions banner and Ample Entertainment, which has been on for two seasons

The actress, who landed a Golden Globe a Best Actress TV Comedy nomination for her work on Cougar Town, will soon be seen in the upcoming Starz horror comedy, Shining Vale, from Divorce creator Sharon Horgan and Trial & Error co-creator Jeff Astrof.

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The Scream franchise through four movies that began in 1996 have grossed over $600M at the global box office. The late Wes Craven directed all four movies. Williamson wrote the original film as well as Scream 2 and Scream 4.