{
  "id": "scream",
  "title": "Scream",
  "description": "Seven Ghostface films, the Lakewood television story and Resurrection, with the six If I Die web shorts, narrative music videos and licensed playable side stories. Calendar conflicts are explained instead of turning each sequel into another universe.",
  "continuities": [
    {
      "id": "films",
      "label": "Films & connected material",
      "note": "All seven released films form one continuing history. Contradictory anniversary dialogue and screen props affect individual calendar dates, not the continuity itself. Qualified games and promotional stories are included here with their own canon badges and overlapping era windows."
    },
    {
      "id": "lakewood",
      "label": "Lakewood — MTV seasons 1–2",
      "note": "Emma Duval, Brandon James and the Lakewood survivors have their own screen history, rather than Sidney’s Woodsboro cases. Season two follows roughly three months later; its Halloween special makes a separate eight-month jump. The six If I Die messages belong around the second-season opening."
    },
    {
      "id": "resurrection",
      "label": "Resurrection — VH1 reboot",
      "note": "A genuine television reboot with Deion, a different cast and a different murder history. Episodes 1–6 form one continuing Halloween story. The use of the film mask and voice does not establish that this is a sequel to either Lakewood or Sidney’s films."
    }
  ],
  "entries": [
    {
      "id": "maureen",
      "title": "Scream / Scream 3 — Maureen’s murder and Roman’s earlier recording",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "1995; about one year before the original Woodsboro killings",
      "order": 1995,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1996 / 2000",
      "description": "The family tragedy and earlier recording explain Sidney’s first encounter with Ghostface.",
      "note": "Optional embedded backstory, not a separately released prequel. The one-year anniversary anchors the murder; Roman’s earlier approach is not assigned an invented exact day.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "first-clock",
        "screen-conflicts"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "1995",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OEIL54",
      "productName": "Scream (1996) — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact original-film Blu-ray linked by Miramax; actual title checked. Check region and any expired digital offer.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "film1",
      "title": "Scream — original Woodsboro story",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "1996; the first Woodsboro Ghostface killings",
      "order": 1996,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1996",
      "description": "Sidney and her friends recognize the rules of a horror film unfolding around them.",
      "note": "Established franchise calendar anchor; later anniversary dialogue corroborates it. No unsupported exact September day is printed here.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film1",
        "screen-order",
        "amazon1"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "1996",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OEIL54",
      "productName": "Scream (1996) — Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Exact original-film Blu-ray linked by Miramax; actual title checked. Check region and any expired digital offer.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "storyGroup": "woodsboro-original"
    },
    {
      "id": "mk-ghostface",
      "title": "Mortal Kombat 1 — Ghostface DLC, intros and ladder ending",
      "type": "Game / DLC",
      "date": "est. 1996 departure; Mortal Kombat’s New Era has no synchronized Scream year",
      "order": 1996.1,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "November 2024",
      "description": "Billy’s playable crossover includes character interactions and an ending about carrying his violence into another world.",
      "note": "Placed beside original-era Billy as a qualified overlapping branch, not a further canonical Woodsboro murder spree. Developer identification plus the ending’s Woodsboro departure support the estimate; no invented Earthrealm year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "mk",
        "mk-ending"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 1996 · New Era",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://blog.playstation.com/2024/11/18/how-netherrealm-makes-ghostface-work-in-the-world-of-mortal-kombat-1/",
      "productName": "View official DLC details",
      "productMatch": "Exact Ghostface DLC information; base-game ownership / compatible platform required. An exact Amazon package guaranteeing this DLC was not verified.",
      "actionLabel": "View official DLC details",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "randy-tape",
      "title": "Scream 3 — Randy’s recorded trilogy warning",
      "type": "Film segment",
      "date": "est. 1996–1998; recorded before Randy’s death in Scream 2",
      "order": 1996.9,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2000",
      "description": "Randy records his advice for surviving a concluding chapter.",
      "note": "Optional nested recording. The playback occurs in the Hollywood story, but its making must precede his death. Calendar window stays broad because the Windsor year conflicts.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "screen-order",
        "film2",
        "film3"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 1996–1998",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OEIL5O",
      "productName": "Scream 3 — home edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact third-film product linked by Miramax; retailer title checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "film2",
      "title": "Scream 2 — Windsor College",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. 1997–1998; about one to two years after Woodsboro",
      "order": 1997.5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "1997",
      "description": "A college premiere and a new copycat force the survivors back into the story.",
      "note": "One-year summaries / later memorial dates and two-year dialogue disagree. Keep one sequel in a bounded calendar window, rather than silently treating its 1997 release as the sole authority.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film2",
        "screen-conflicts",
        "amazon2"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 1997–1998",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OEIL5E",
      "productName": "Scream 2 — home edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact sequel product linked by Miramax; retailer title checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "film3",
      "title": "Scream 3 — Hollywood / Stab 3",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. 1999–2000; several years after the first attacks",
      "order": 1999.5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2000",
      "description": "Murders on a film set expose the hidden history behind Sidney’s family tragedy.",
      "note": "Reported fax / dialogue dates point to 1999 while other series chronology uses 2000. Actual fax frame not personally inspected. Both readings preserve the position between Windsor and the fifteen-year anniversary.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film3",
        "screen-conflicts",
        "amazon3"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 1999–2000",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OEIL5O",
      "productName": "Scream 3 — home edition",
      "productMatch": "Exact third-film product linked by Miramax; retailer title checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "what-if",
      "title": "Creed — What If, Scream 3 narrative music video",
      "type": "Music video",
      "date": "est. late 1990s–early 2000s; contemporary promotional setting",
      "order": 1999.6,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2000; current HD upload 2009",
      "description": "Ghostface enters a macabre band-centered miniature story with David Arquette.",
      "note": "Campaign-era window, not the upload year or a certified incident between film scenes. The dream / comic framing is promotional and does not establish a resurrected film character.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "creed",
        "creed-story"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 1990s–2000s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHjFzw1TUg",
      "productName": "Watch on YouTube",
      "productMatch": "Exact official artist-channel narrative video, rather than a soundtrack album substituted for the short.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch on YouTube",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "film4",
      "title": "Scream 4 — the fifteenth anniversary",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "2011; fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders",
      "order": 2011,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2011",
      "description": "Sidney’s return and a book tour collide with another generation’s remake of the killings.",
      "note": "1996 + the stated fifteen-year anniversary gives 2011. Amazon’s introductory ten-year blurb is inconsistent and is not followed.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film4",
        "four-clock",
        "amazon-guide"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "2011",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DGM8SCYQ",
      "productName": "Scream 4 — digital film",
      "productMatch": "Exact fourth-film Prime Video product linked by Amazon’s own guide. Product request returned 503; region / current offer not certified.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "mobile",
      "title": "SCRE4M — official Scream 4 mobile game",
      "type": "Game",
      "date": "est. 2000s–2010s; modern Woodsboro scenario window",
      "order": 2011.1,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2011",
      "description": "Players direct an anonymous Ghostface through short killing scenarios while avoiding witnesses and police.",
      "note": "Same franchise era as the fourth-film campaign, but not verified as its exact plot or additional canon murders. Release month varies across databases. Retired game remains in the inventory with honest access limits.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "scre4m",
        "scre4m-story"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 2000s–2010s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.mobygames.com/game/96982/scre4m/",
      "productName": "View retired game record",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed mobile game record. No current official app-store purchase or legitimate Amazon game edition recovered; not an APK download.",
      "actionLabel": "View retired game record",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "film5",
      "title": "Scream — Carpenter sisters / fifth film",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. 2021–2022; twenty-five-year anniversary reading gives 2021",
      "order": 2021.5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2022",
      "description": "Sam returns to Woodsboro after Tara is attacked, and the survivors face a legacy-obsessed killer.",
      "note": "Paramount explicitly says twenty-five years after the original: 1996 + 25 = 2021. Reported laptop / later-film references point to 2022. The bounded date preserves the contradiction; it does not create a canon dispute.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film5",
        "screen-conflicts",
        "amazon-guide"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 2021–2022",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DLB2QQ8N",
      "productName": "Scream (2022) — digital film",
      "productMatch": "Exact fifth-film product linked by Amazon’s own guide. Product request returned 503; this is not the 1996 disc.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "film6",
      "title": "Scream VI — New York Halloween",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. Halloween 2022–2023; approximately one year after the fifth-film story",
      "order": 2022.5,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2023",
      "description": "The Carpenter sisters and their friends try to start again in New York.",
      "note": "2022 follows the twenty-five-year / 2021 reading; later labels and references support 2023. Directors confirm a close continuation. This is Halloween, not the film’s March release. Exact prop calendar / memorial frames remain an inspection gap.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film6",
        "six-interval",
        "screen-conflicts"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 2022–2023",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FKB8CM59",
      "productName": "Scream VI — digital film",
      "productMatch": "Exact sixth-film product linked by Amazon’s own guide. Product request returned 503; availability must be checked locally.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "board-game",
      "title": "Scream The Game — Funko / app narration",
      "type": "Board game / audio",
      "date": "Modern era; one real-time night scenario, exact year unstated",
      "order": 2022.6,
      "canon": "Non-canon connected",
      "release": "2023",
      "description": "A cooperative Woodsboro survival scenario uses Ghostface calls and scene objectives.",
      "note": "An explicitly overlapping playable story window. Actual rules text provides no fictional year; the product’s 2023 copyright does not date the murders. Variable player deaths do not rewrite the films.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "board",
        "rules",
        "amazon-board"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "Modern era · one night",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Actual official six-page rulebook text checked; retailer and licence matched. Full companion-app voice script / every scene card not inspected.",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BL8HRDH4",
      "productName": "Funko Games — Scream The Game",
      "productMatch": "Exact Funko / Prospero Hall item 70515; matching retailer listing retrieved. Companion app requirements / current regional support should be checked.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "film7",
      "title": "Scream 7 — Sidney and Tatum",
      "type": "Film",
      "date": "est. 2026; later than the New York case",
      "order": 2026,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "February 27, 2026",
      "description": "A new killer targets the life Sidney has built with her family.",
      "note": "Released-film reporting supports a contemporary 2026 placement. Tatum’s age does not reconcile every earlier reference to Sidney’s children; no invented birth year or exact November day. Full calendar / dialogue inspection still required.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "film7",
        "seven-clock",
        "seven-release",
        "amazon7"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 2026",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GLYDQK9N",
      "productName": "Scream 7 — 4K Steelbook + Blu-ray",
      "productMatch": "Actual retailer title checked for the seventh film. Check regional discs / digital-code terms; bonus editions vary.",
      "actionLabel": "View on Amazon"
    },
    {
      "id": "twisting",
      "title": "Twisting The Knife — Parts 1–2 / extended narrative video",
      "type": "Music video / short film",
      "date": "est. 2020s; Scream 7 promotional story window",
      "order": 2026.1,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "2026",
      "description": "The official soundtrack video stages its own Ghostface-centered horror narrative with Mckenna Grace.",
      "note": "Parts 1–2 are one continuing promotional story, with an extended digital edition also documented. Its performers / appearances are not proof that it happens to Sidney’s family between film scenes.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "knife1",
        "knife2",
        "knife-edition"
      ],
      "continuity": "films",
      "railLabel": "est. 2020s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sMdT9pkvKE",
      "productName": "Watch Part 1 on YouTube",
      "productMatch": "Exact official first part; second part linked separately. No album-only product substituted for the narrative video.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch Part 1 on YouTube",
      "eraWindow": true,
      "productLinks": [
        {
          "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNE2jvC5syo",
          "productName": "Watch Part 2 on YouTube",
          "productMatch": "Continuation of the same official video; grouped with Part 1, not another feature film.",
          "actionLabel": "Watch Part 2 on YouTube"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "brandon",
      "title": "Scream: The TV Series — Brandon James backstory",
      "type": "TV segment",
      "date": "1994; Lakewood’s earlier murder history",
      "order": 1994,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2015–2016",
      "description": "Past violence and the Brandon James legend shape Emma’s present.",
      "note": "Optional embedded scenes and recollections. The 1994 year is established in the episode-history inventory; not an independent prequel release.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "lakewood-clock",
        "episode-list"
      ],
      "continuity": "lakewood",
      "railLabel": "1994",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Relative / stated chronology",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": false,
      "productUrl": "https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200365216/s02-e13-halloween-special",
      "productName": "Watch / select season on Tubi",
      "productMatch": "Licensed series viewing page with all three seasons in the season selector. Select the indicated season; region / ads apply. An exact Amazon season edition was not recovered; no first-season DVD is substituted for season two.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch / select season on Tubi"
    },
    {
      "id": "lakewood1",
      "title": "Scream: The TV Series — Season 1, Episodes 1–10",
      "type": "TV series",
      "date": "est. autumn 2015; one continuing Lakewood case",
      "order": 2015.8,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2015",
      "description": "A viral video precedes attacks that reconnect Emma’s friends to Lakewood’s past.",
      "note": "Grouped season: the present-day case continues without a season-sized jump. Reported later January 2016 prop and the three-month interval support autumn 2015; no full ten-episode prop audit claimed.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "lakewood-clock",
        "episode-list"
      ],
      "continuity": "lakewood",
      "railLabel": "est. autumn 2015",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200365216/s02-e13-halloween-special",
      "productName": "Watch / select season on Tubi",
      "productMatch": "Licensed series viewing page with all three seasons in the season selector. Select the indicated season; region / ads apply. An exact Amazon season edition was not recovered; no first-season DVD is substituted for season two.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch / select season on Tubi"
    },
    {
      "id": "if-i-die",
      "title": "Scream: If I Die — all six survivor messages",
      "type": "Web shorts",
      "date": "est. winter 2015–2016; around the second-season opening",
      "order": 2016.01,
      "canon": "Assumed canon",
      "release": "May 2016",
      "description": "Audrey, Brooke, Emma, Jake, Kieran and Noah leave final-message videos at Noah’s urging.",
      "note": "Actual in-character narrative rather than ordinary cast interviews. Their presence and the campaign’s second-season premise support this window, before Jake’s second-season fate; precise filming order is not established.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "if-die",
        "episode-list"
      ],
      "continuity": "lakewood",
      "railLabel": "est. winter 2015–2016",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/scream-mtv-season-two-previews/",
      "productName": "View six original MTV short listings",
      "productMatch": "Exact contemporary inventory embeds all six original MTV videos. Current complete playback unverified; not sold as part of an unrelated film edition.",
      "actionLabel": "View six original MTV short listings",
      "eraWindow": true
    },
    {
      "id": "lakewood2",
      "title": "Scream: The TV Series — Season 2, Episodes 1–12",
      "type": "TV series",
      "date": "est. January–February 2016; roughly three months after Season 1",
      "order": 2016.08,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2016",
      "description": "Emma returns and another killer exploits the survivors’ secrets.",
      "note": "Season kept together; cast interview confirms the three-month gap. January report / calendar dates are secondary-reported and remain an interior verification gap. The later Halloween special is separated because of its explicit jump.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "lakewood-official",
        "three-months",
        "lakewood-clock",
        "episode-list"
      ],
      "continuity": "lakewood",
      "railLabel": "est. winter 2016",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200365216/s02-e13-halloween-special",
      "productName": "Watch / select season on Tubi",
      "productMatch": "Licensed series viewing page with all three seasons in the season selector. Select the indicated season; region / ads apply. An exact Amazon season edition was not recovered; no first-season DVD is substituted for season two.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch / select season on Tubi"
    },
    {
      "id": "halloween",
      "title": "Scream — Halloween / Halloween II",
      "type": "TV special",
      "date": "est. Halloween 2016; eight months after Kieran’s arrest",
      "order": 2016.83,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "October 2016",
      "description": "A remote-island trip brings the Lakewood survivors into another murder story.",
      "note": "One continuous two-part special, often licensed as one 82-minute episode. Tubi explicitly supplies the eight-month interval. The broad 2016 calendar reading stays estimated because reported winter props and the approximate interval do not align to an exact day.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "tubi",
        "lakewood-clock",
        "episode-list"
      ],
      "continuity": "lakewood",
      "railLabel": "est. Halloween 2016",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200365216/s02-e13-halloween-special",
      "productName": "Watch / select season on Tubi",
      "productMatch": "Licensed series viewing page with all three seasons in the season selector. Select the indicated season; region / ads apply. An exact Amazon season edition was not recovered; no first-season DVD is substituted for season two.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch / select season on Tubi"
    },
    {
      "id": "killer-party",
      "title": "Scream — Killer Party, MTV narrative promo",
      "type": "Promotional short",
      "date": "est. 2010s; contemporary house-party window",
      "order": 2015.7,
      "canon": "Promotional only",
      "release": "May 2015",
      "description": "A party of MTV personalities has turned deadly as the Scream cast arrives.",
      "note": "Overlapping campaign-era window, not an incident whose deaths are imposed on the other MTV series. Official BTS and the contemporary promo release confirm the original miniature narrative; full standalone replay not recovered.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "party",
        "party-story"
      ],
      "continuity": "lakewood",
      "railLabel": "est. 2010s",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/trailers/439161-youre-invited-to-a-killer-party-in-the-new-scream-promo",
      "productName": "View original promo release",
      "productMatch": "Exact contemporary promo record; current standalone authorized playback not verified. Official making-of is separately linked.",
      "actionLabel": "View original promo release",
      "eraWindow": true,
      "productLinks": [
        {
          "productUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZK9cuHErPE",
          "productName": "Watch official making-of",
          "productMatch": "Official MTV production video; clearly a making-of rather than a replacement advertised as the complete narrative short.",
          "actionLabel": "Watch official making-of"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "resurrection-past",
      "title": "Scream: Resurrection — childhood Halloween",
      "type": "TV segment",
      "date": "est. 2000s; Deion / Marcus childhood",
      "order": 2008,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "2019",
      "description": "A childhood Halloween encounter supplies the reboot’s central trauma.",
      "note": "Optional flashback. Broad childhood era only: no exact year derived by subtracting an unverified age from the release year.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "resurrection-view",
        "lakewood-clock"
      ],
      "continuity": "resurrection",
      "railLabel": "est. 2000s childhood",
      "segment": true,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://tubitv.com/es-us/tv-shows/200365217/s03-e01-the-deadfast-club",
      "productName": "Watch opening episode on Tubi",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed episode containing the opening history; ads / region apply.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch opening episode on Tubi"
    },
    {
      "id": "resurrection",
      "title": "Scream: Resurrection — Episodes 1–6",
      "type": "TV series",
      "date": "est. Halloween 2018; late-2010s contemporary story",
      "order": 2018.83,
      "canon": "Confirmed canon",
      "release": "July 2019",
      "description": "Deion and his friends are targeted by Ghostface in a new murder history.",
      "note": "The commonly reconstructed 2018 placement is an estimate from the episode chronology, not the 2019 broadcast date. Full phone / calendar prop inspection remains open. Six episodes form one case, so no mechanical episode-by-episode splitting.",
      "sourceIds": [
        "resurrection-view",
        "lakewood-clock",
        "reboot",
        "episode-list"
      ],
      "continuity": "resurrection",
      "railLabel": "est. Halloween 2018",
      "segment": false,
      "confidence": "Evidence-based estimate",
      "inspection": "Source / inventory checked; full work not inspected",
      "estimated": true,
      "productUrl": "https://tubitv.com/es-us/tv-shows/200365217/s03-e01-the-deadfast-club",
      "productName": "Watch / select Season 3 on Tubi",
      "productMatch": "Exact licensed Resurrection first episode; select the rest of Season 3. No verified Amazon six-episode product was recovered.",
      "actionLabel": "Watch / select Season 3 on Tubi"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "season",
      "title": "Paramount+ — Halloween 2026 franchise programming",
      "url": "https://www.paramountplus.com/sneak-peak/best-horror-movie-franchises/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "September 3, 2026 programming article lists all seven released Scream films for this Halloween. Seasonal / current-release selection, not an unsupported popularity ranking."
    },
    {
      "id": "film1",
      "title": "Miramax — Scream (1996)",
      "url": "https://www.miramax.com/movie/scream/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official original-film synopsis, cast and corresponding Amazon edition link. The release field alone is not proof of the fictional year."
    },
    {
      "id": "film2",
      "title": "Miramax — Scream 2",
      "url": "https://www.miramax.com/movie/scream-2/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official Windsor College sequel identity and corresponding Amazon edition. No exact calendar interval in this synopsis."
    },
    {
      "id": "film3",
      "title": "Miramax — Scream 3",
      "url": "https://www.miramax.com/movie/scream-3/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official Hollywood / Stab 3 story and home edition. Its synopsis misspells Woodsboro as Greensboro; the typo is not another town or continuity."
    },
    {
      "id": "film4",
      "title": "Paramount+ — Scream 4",
      "url": "https://www.paramountplus.com/movies/video/HbjjZrdUNYpMTvcI1OKw5q320Lbx197E/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact fourth-film viewing page. Date is checked separately against the anniversary plot, not copied from release metadata."
    },
    {
      "id": "film5",
      "title": "Paramount — Scream (2022)",
      "url": "https://www.paramount.com/movies/scream",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official synopsis explicitly says twenty-five years after the first Woodsboro killings; 1996 + 25 gives 2021. Prop / later-film references complicate an exact calendar claim."
    },
    {
      "id": "film6",
      "title": "Paramount — Scream VI",
      "url": "https://www.paramount.com/movies/scream-vi",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official New York sequel synopsis and 2023 copyright. The current page also has a plainly conflicting 2011 Year field: do not import that into either the story date or release date."
    },
    {
      "id": "film7",
      "title": "Paramount — Scream 7",
      "url": "https://www.paramount.com/movies/scream-7",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Released Sidney / Tatum story and current digital viewing options. Not a future placeholder. Full film / every calendar prop not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "seven-release",
      "title": "Paramount+ — Scream 7 streaming announcement",
      "url": "https://www.paramountplus.com/sneak-peak/where-to-watch-scream-7/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "May 28, 2026 streaming announcement confirms February 27 theatrical release. Its claim about Williamson directing Scream 2 is erroneous; only release / availability facts used here."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon-guide",
      "title": "Amazon — first-six-film product links",
      "url": "https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/scream-movies-watch-prime-video",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Corresponding Prime Video links for films 4–6 recovered from Amazon itself. Its fourth-film ten-year synopsis conflicts with the fifteen-year anniversary plot and is not used for chronology. Digital requests returned 503 during this check; current regional offers are not promised."
    },
    {
      "id": "first-clock",
      "title": "Scream — original story / Maureen anniversary inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(1996_film)",
      "kind": "Secondary / story inventory",
      "note": "First-film plot identifies the approaching anniversary of Maureen’s murder. Used with later continuity evidence, not as a substitute for a full legal film inspection."
    },
    {
      "id": "four-clock",
      "title": "Scream 4 — anniversary plot inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_4",
      "kind": "Secondary / story inventory",
      "note": "Plot describes the fifteenth anniversary of the original murders. 1996 + 15 = 2011; no invented September day."
    },
    {
      "id": "screen-conflicts",
      "title": "Scream — calendar / prop contradiction register",
      "url": "https://scream.fandom.com/wiki/Continuity_Errors",
      "kind": "Secondary / prop and dialogue inventory",
      "note": "Cross-check for Windsor’s one/two-year discrepancy, Hollywood’s four-year / 1999–2000 conflict and the Carpenter-era anniversary / prop discrepancies. These interior details are reported by the register, not personally verified frame by frame."
    },
    {
      "id": "screen-order",
      "title": "Scream — story and embedded recording inventory",
      "url": "https://scream.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline",
      "kind": "Secondary / chronology inventory",
      "note": "Used narrowly for the 1996 anchor and Randy’s pre-death recording shown in film three. Specific fan-derived days and every birthdate are not adopted."
    },
    {
      "id": "six-interval",
      "title": "Radio Silence — sixth-film interval interview",
      "url": "https://comicbook.com/movies/news/scream-vi-directors-confirm-time-between-fifth-and-sixth-movies/",
      "kind": "Creator interview / secondary host",
      "note": "Directors describe a relatively short interval after film five; confirms continuation, not a separate reboot. Does not alone settle the contradictory year props."
    },
    {
      "id": "seven-clock",
      "title": "Scream 7 — contemporary AP film review",
      "url": "https://apnews.com/article/2b1e332ba001cff3214824041115e772",
      "kind": "Secondary / contemporaneous film inspection",
      "note": "Contemporary released-film review describes Sidney’s seventeen-year-old daughter and a 2026 setting. Used for an explicitly estimated 2026 placement; no birth-year arithmetic used to erase the daughter-age continuity problem."
    },
    {
      "id": "lakewood-official",
      "title": "MTV — second-season announcement",
      "url": "https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/mtv/releases/?view=104796-scream-the-tv-series-returns-for-second-killer-season-tuesday-may-31st-at-1000-pm-etpt-on-mtv",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Network announcement identifies Emma’s return and the continued Lakewood case. Archive may region-restrict access; original announcement’s premiere scheduling changed later."
    },
    {
      "id": "lakewood-clock",
      "title": "Scream — Lakewood / Resurrection chronology inventory",
      "url": "https://scream.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline_(TV_Series)",
      "kind": "Secondary / episode chronology inventory",
      "note": "Reports the 1994 Brandon James history, autumn 2015 first season, January 2016 report prop, Halloween 2016 and Resurrection’s separate late-2010s story. Calendar props / full episodes not directly inspected; estimates remain estimates."
    },
    {
      "id": "three-months",
      "title": "Bex Taylor-Klaus — second-season return interview",
      "url": "https://www.tvline.com/interviews/scream-spoilers-season-2-premiere-death-bex-taylor-klaus-interview-718833/",
      "kind": "Cast interview / secondary host",
      "note": "Contemporary cast interview explicitly discusses the three-month jump between seasons. Conflicts with the six-month retail blurb at JustWatch; cast / episode chronology takes precedence."
    },
    {
      "id": "episode-list",
      "title": "Scream — episode and short inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scream_episodes",
      "kind": "Secondary / episode inventory",
      "note": "10 first-season episodes; 12 continuing second-season episodes plus Halloween / Halloween II; 6 reboot episodes. Also identifies the six If I Die webisodes. After Dark is an aftershow, not another story season."
    },
    {
      "id": "tubi",
      "title": "Tubi — actual licensed Halloween special",
      "url": "https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/200365216/s02-e13-halloween-special",
      "kind": "Primary / licensed viewing edition",
      "note": "Licensed 82-minute edition combines Halloween / Halloween II, explicitly eight months after Kieran’s arrest. Current season selector includes three seasons. Viewing is ad-supported and region-dependent; full episode not played."
    },
    {
      "id": "reboot",
      "title": "The Hollywood Reporter — VH1 reboot announcement",
      "url": "https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/scream-reboot-moves-vh1-gets-july-debut-trailer-1220774/",
      "kind": "Secondary / network announcement reporting",
      "note": "Contemporary network / trade announcement: new cast, six episodes, three-night July 2019 event. Reboot identity warrants a separate continuity; release year is not automatically its story year."
    },
    {
      "id": "resurrection-view",
      "title": "Tubi — The Deadfast Club",
      "url": "https://tubitv.com/es-us/tv-shows/200365217/s03-e01-the-deadfast-club",
      "kind": "Primary / licensed viewing edition",
      "note": "Exact licensed Resurrection opening episode: Deion and a figure from his past. Use the season menu for the continuing six episodes; the page language can vary by region."
    },
    {
      "id": "if-die",
      "title": "MTV — six If I Die messages, contemporary embed inventory",
      "url": "https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/scream-mtv-season-two-previews/",
      "kind": "Primary network copy / secondary archive",
      "note": "Network-credited premise and six original MTV embeds checked: Audrey, Brooke, Emma, Jake, Kieran and Noah. Noah asks survivors to leave messages. Original video IDs recovered; current playback could not be verified. Full videos not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "party",
      "title": "MTV — Killer Party behind the scenes / official production record",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZK9cuHErPE",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official MTV upload identifies the cross-show murdered-partygoer campaign and participants. A behind-the-scenes record, not the complete narrative short itself."
    },
    {
      "id": "party-story",
      "title": "Killer Party — contemporary MTV promo announcement",
      "url": "https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/trailers/439161-youre-invited-to-a-killer-party-in-the-new-scream-promo",
      "kind": "Secondary / contemporary campaign record",
      "note": "Contemporary release of the actual promo; unlike a trailer made only from episode clips, the party deaths and arriving Scream cast form an original miniature story. Full authorized standalone replay not recovered in this check."
    },
    {
      "id": "scre4m",
      "title": "Scre4m — licensed mobile game edition inventory",
      "url": "https://www.mobygames.com/game/96982/scre4m/",
      "kind": "Secondary / game edition inventory",
      "note": "TWC / Codeglue 2011 iOS, iPad and Android game; Ghostface-player killing scenarios. Exact original store product is retired. Different sites disagree about day/month, so only 2011 is used for release."
    },
    {
      "id": "scre4m-story",
      "title": "Scream 4 mobile game — story / availability inventory",
      "url": "https://scream.fandom.com/wiki/Scream_4_(mobile_game)",
      "kind": "Secondary / gameplay inventory",
      "note": "Woodsboro scenarios and anonymous player killer, not a verified retelling of Jill / Charlie’s exact plot. Retired from both app stores. No unofficial APK access offered."
    },
    {
      "id": "board",
      "title": "Funko — Scream The Game, item 70515",
      "url": "https://funko.com/lu/scream-the-game/70515.html",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Exact Scream licence, Woodsboro setting, cooperative survival framing and custom app narration. Not merely a mask-branded unrelated puzzle."
    },
    {
      "id": "rules",
      "title": "Funko — actual six-page Scream rulebook",
      "url": "https://funko.com/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-funko-master-catalog/default/dwf7c062bc/images/Games%20PDFs/70515_Scream-TheGame-Instructions.pdf",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual six-page rules text checked: personalized app calls, real-time survival, scene cards and variable deaths. No fictional year supplied in the checked rules; 2023 copyright is not a story date."
    },
    {
      "id": "mk",
      "title": "NetherRealm — Ghostface developer article",
      "url": "https://blog.playstation.com/2024/11/18/how-netherrealm-makes-ghostface-work-in-the-world-of-mortal-kombat-1/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Developer identifies Billy Loomis under the mask and describes Ghostface’s scripted presentation / two assisting killers. November 2024 DLC release; no claim that the Mortal Kombat crossover happened in Sidney’s film history."
    },
    {
      "id": "mk-ending",
      "title": "Mortal Kombat Warehouse — actual Ghostface ending transcript",
      "url": "https://www.mortalkombatwarehouse.com/mk12/endings/#Ghostface",
      "kind": "Secondary / transcribed game interior",
      "note": "Read the transcribed in-game ending: departure from Woodsboro during an attempted kill, arrival in another world and intent to livestream murders. Supports a narrative inclusion. Transcript host is secondary; original full cinematic not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "creed",
      "title": "Creed — What If, official music video",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHjFzw1TUg",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official artist-channel video, originally associated with the Scream 3 campaign. Song / upload dates are not fictional dates; current HD upload is a reissue."
    },
    {
      "id": "creed-story",
      "title": "What If — Scream 3 narrative video inventory",
      "url": "https://loudwire.com/creed-what-if-scream-3-scene-best-horror-soundtrack-rock-song/",
      "kind": "Secondary / video narrative review",
      "note": "Describes the original Ghostface / band narrative and David Arquette appearance. The dream / comic video does not supply an exact sequel date. Full video not inspected."
    },
    {
      "id": "knife1",
      "title": "Ice Nine Kills / Mckenna Grace — Twisting The Knife, Part 1",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sMdT9pkvKE",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official Scream 7 soundtrack video, first part. Not an extra released Scream feature. No complete playback / calendar audit performed."
    },
    {
      "id": "knife2",
      "title": "Ice Nine Kills / Mckenna Grace — Twisting The Knife, Part 2",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNE2jvC5syo",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official second part; grouped with Part 1 as one continuous promotional narrative."
    },
    {
      "id": "knife-edition",
      "title": "LEONINE / Paramount — Scream 7 home-edition bonus inventory",
      "url": "https://www.leoninedistribution.com/filme/698c4b5d4528b193d0d4fe62/scream-7",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official distributor lists music video and deleted scenes. Does not guarantee every retailer / region has the extended digital cut."
    },
    {
      "id": "cod",
      "title": "Activision / Blizzard — Scream Ghostface operator bundle",
      "url": "https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/23737879/scream-x-ghostface-is-back-available-now-in-a-limited-time-bundle",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official 2021 Scream licence / limited operator event. No distinct authored Scream campaign chapter verified; recorded in boundaries rather than inventing a new film incident."
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd",
      "title": "Behaviour — The Ghost Face story",
      "url": "https://deadbydaylight.com/game/characters/the-ghost-face/",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Official Danny Johnson / Roseville biography. This is not Billy / Stu / a Scream sequel simply because the separately licensed Fun World mask looks familiar."
    },
    {
      "id": "dbd-licence",
      "title": "Official Dead by Daylight Wiki — licence distinction",
      "url": "https://deadbydaylight.wiki.gg/wiki/Ghostface",
      "kind": "Secondary / official community wiki",
      "note": "Explicitly distinguishes Behaviour’s original persona from the mask licence. Used to cross-check the official character biography."
    },
    {
      "id": "franchise",
      "title": "Scream — cross-media franchise inventory",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(franchise)",
      "kind": "Secondary / franchise bibliography",
      "note": "Cross-check of released films, television and games. Does not establish a licensed prose / comic narrative edition. Fan novels, in-fiction Gale books and the unrelated British Scream! comic must not be substituted."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon1",
      "title": "Amazon US — Scream — original film",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OEIL54",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual corresponding retailer listing retrieved. Films 1–3 were linked by Miramax, film 7 by the home-edition coverage; no stock, code redemption or region guarantee."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon2",
      "title": "Amazon US — Scream 2",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OEIL5E",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual corresponding retailer listing retrieved. Films 1–3 were linked by Miramax, film 7 by the home-edition coverage; no stock, code redemption or region guarantee."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon3",
      "title": "Amazon US — Scream 3",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004OEIL5O",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual corresponding retailer listing retrieved. Films 1–3 were linked by Miramax, film 7 by the home-edition coverage; no stock, code redemption or region guarantee."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon7",
      "title": "Amazon US — Scream 7 — 4K Steelbook",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GLYDQK9N",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual corresponding retailer listing retrieved. Films 1–3 were linked by Miramax, film 7 by the home-edition coverage; no stock, code redemption or region guarantee."
    },
    {
      "id": "amazon-board",
      "title": "Amazon US — Funko Scream The Game",
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BL8HRDH4",
      "kind": "Primary",
      "note": "Actual corresponding retailer listing retrieved. Films 1–3 were linked by Miramax, film 7 by the home-edition coverage; no stock, code redemption or region guarantee."
    }
  ],
  "scope": [
    {
      "title": "Printed novels, comics, manga and audio dramas",
      "type": "Print / audio",
      "status": "No verified licensed narrative edition recovered",
      "note": "Publisher / franchise inventory checks did not identify an official prose novelization, comic run or standalone audio drama. Gale’s books, Stab films and Noah / Stavo’s graphic novel exist inside the screen stories; do not turn them into real products. Fan novels and the unrelated British Scream! horror comic are excluded. This is a documented search boundary, not a claim no obscure licensed edition can ever surface.",
      "sources": [
        "franchise",
        "episode-list"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Call of Duty — Scream operator / The Haunting",
      "type": "Game crossover",
      "status": "Licence verified; distinct campaign narrative not established",
      "note": "The official limited 2021 bundle adds Ghostface, weapons and themed presentation. No separate authored Scream campaign story was verified. Cosmetic/operator availability is not an additional Woodsboro killing spree. Reassess if an original scripted promotional story or campaign chapter is recovered.",
      "sources": [
        "cod"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Dead by Daylight — The Ghost Face / Danny Johnson",
      "type": "Game / lore",
      "status": "Different licence and original killer",
      "note": "Danny Johnson’s Roseville history is a Behaviour story using the Fun World mask, not a verified Scream film character. Do not import all of its lore / cosmetics into Sidney’s chronology just because the mask is similar.",
      "sources": [
        "dbd",
        "dbd-licence"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Deleted and alternate scenes / extended editions",
      "type": "Home-video narrative variants",
      "status": "Included with their containing story; detailed scene audit open",
      "note": "Released alternate scenes belong beside the corresponding film, not at their disc release date or in invented sequel branches. The seventh film’s distributor verifies deleted scenes and its music video. Every earlier retail bonus / alternate take has not been inspected; no exhaustive bonus-interior claim.",
      "sources": [
        "knife-edition",
        "film1",
        "film2",
        "film3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "Stab, Gale’s books, Scary Movie and View Askewniverse cameos",
      "type": "Nested stories / parody / cameos",
      "status": "Not automatically separate franchise works",
      "note": "Stab footage and recordings remain embedded in the films that present them. Scary Movie is an independent parody; a Jay / Silent Bob cameo does not authorize importing their whole universe as Scream canon. Real narrative retellings may be added beside the original when an official edition is verified.",
      "sources": [
        "franchise",
        "film3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "title": "After Dark, documentaries, music-only albums, masks and attractions",
      "type": "Ancillary media",
      "status": "Not all merchandise is narrative",
      "note": "After Dark is a discussion show. Scores and songs without a verified original fictional video are not separate story events. No complete licensed attraction script or standalone narrative comic interior recovered in this run; do not certify an uninspected maze / merchandise item as an additional canon incident.",
      "sources": [
        "episode-list",
        "franchise",
        "board"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "audit": {
    "checked": "2026-10-23",
    "status": "Research edition — verification gaps disclosed",
    "checks": [
      "Reviewed seven released films against current studio inventory; Scream 7 is available in 2026, not an unreleased placeholder. Main film chronology remains one history despite date conflicts.",
      "Reviewed 10 + 12 + 2 + 6 television episodes: each continuing season grouped; the two-part Halloween special separated for its eight-month jump. Resurrection is the announced reboot, not Lakewood season four.",
      "Cross-checked six If I Die titles and original MTV embed IDs; original narrative Killer Party and two soundtrack-video stories included with honest replay / inspection limits.",
      "Checked actual Funko six-page rulebook text. Product copyright is not a story year; app narration is part of the containing game, not a duplicate audio drama.",
      "Developer confirms MK1 Billy; read the full Ghostface ending transcript on its secondary host. The crossover is included as non-canon connected material. Danny Johnson’s separate mask licence is not silently relabelled Scream.",
      "Reviewed reported anniversary / prop contradictions before approval: Windsor 1997–1998, Hollywood 1999–2000, Carpenter stories 2021–2023 remain bounded; films do not become disputed canon because their clocks conflict.",
      "Retail links matched from Miramax / Amazon primary routes, exact Scream 7 Steelbook and Funko product pages. No fan-book Amazon product, unrelated novel or retired mobile APK substituted.",
      "Reviewed the complete pre-build table for missing films / TV special / six shorts / narrative games, duplicate episode counts, continuity, estimates, media labels and access wording before page generation."
    ],
    "gaps": [
      "Full films / all TV episodes were not frame-audited. Exact original props, anniversary contradictions and Tatum’s age need primary scene verification; no exact disputed calendar day is asserted.",
      "If I Die original MTV videos and complete Killer Party standalone replay could not be verified as currently playable. Inventory and original embeds are recovered, but complete interiors were not inspected.",
      "Full SCRE4M campaign, Funko companion narration / scene-card scripts and original MK1 ending cinematic remain uninspected. Retired / time-limited content availability is qualified.",
      "The narrative music videos are verified official editions / campaign stories, but full playback and all variants / extended cuts were not audited. Their promotional era windows are not canonical film dates.",
      "No official narrative novel / comic / manga / standalone audio edition found in the checked inventory. Older regional print, complete home-video deleted-scene catalogues, attractions and retired web campaign scripts remain bibliography checks rather than invented entries.",
      "Exact Amazon season sets were not recovered; legal Tubi editions are offered. Amazon itself supplies films 4–6 matching digital routes, but their requests returned 503 and current regional offers are not guaranteed."
    ],
    "publishReady": true
  }
}