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Jenna Ortega will no longer star in 'Scream VII'. Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter Ortega informed 'Scream' studio Spyglass months ago that she did not intend to return. This news comes a day after Melissa Barrera was dropped from 'Scream VII' following a series of social media posts amid the Israel-Hamas War.

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00:00Jenna Ortega will not be returning as Tara Carpenter in Scream 7.

00:04Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter Ortega informed Scream Studios' Spyglass months ago

00:09that she did not intend to return to the franchise.

00:12This news comes a day after Melissa Barrera was dropped from Scream 7

00:15following a series of social media posts amid the Israel-Hamas war.

00:19Sources insist that Ortega's departure has nothing to do with Barrera's firing.

00:23Barrera has made dozens of posts about the war in recent weeks.

00:26She wrote in one post on Instagram Stories,

00:28Gaza is currently being treated like a concentration camp.

00:32Cornering everyone together with nowhere to go, no electricity, no water,

00:36people have learned nothing from our histories.

00:38And just like our histories, people are still silently watching it all happen.

00:42This is genocide and ethnic cleansing.

00:44A spokesperson for Spyglass, the company behind the Scream franchise,

00:47issued a statement that read,

00:48Spyglass's stance is unequivocally clear.

00:51We have zero tolerance for anti-Semitism or the incitement of hate in any form,

00:55including false references to genocide, ethnic cleansing, Holocaust distortion,

00:59or anything that flagrantly crosses the line into hate speech.

01:03THR has reached out to a rep for Barrera.

01:05The actress starred as Sam Carpenter in the 2022 feature Scream,

01:08which helped revitalize the franchise and earned $137.7 million globally.

01:14She also starred in Scream 6, which was released in March of this year and made $168.9 million.

01:20Filmmaker Christopher Landon is set to direct Scream 7.

01:23Following the news of Barrera's firing on Tuesday, Landon wrote on social media,

01:27This is my statement, with a heartbreak emoji.

01:29Everything sucks. Stop yelling.

01:31This was not my decision to make.

01:32He later deleted the post.

01:34Earlier on Tuesday, news broke that Susan Sarandon had been dropped by talent agency UTA

01:38following comments at a pro-Palestinian rally in New York City on November 17th.

01:43For much more on this story and the latest updates, go to THR.com.

01:46This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

01:49This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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