"Scream" Team Cox and Arquette Engaged

Wed., Oct. 7, 1998 8:25 AM PDT by Joal Ryan

A love match made on the set of Scream is officially a howling success.

Friends star Courteney Cox, 34, and David Arquette, 27, are engaged, Cox's publicist has confirmed to reporters.

No wedding date has been set.

In the horror hit Scream (and its 1997 sequel), Cox played ambitious TV news reporter Gale Weathers; Arquette played sweet, slow lawman Dewey Riley. Their characters not only survived the requisite bloodbaths (both films' worth), but forged an unlikely coupledom. In real life, the attraction apparently was just as real, if not as unlikely.

It will be the first marriage for both.

Cox previously has been linked with a string of leading men, including Batman star Michael Keaton and Counting Crows singer Adam Duritz.

Arquette, of the acting Arquettes (brother to Rosanna and Patricia), romanced actress Ellen Barkin in 1995, the New York Post says.