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Weekend Box Office – PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Scares Up Another $22 Million For First Place

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 25th, 2009 at 10:49 am

Friday’s box office results spelled trouble for the once mighty “Saw” franchise in the form of Paramount’s upstart horror pick-up “Paranormal Activity”. Luckily for film fans, Saturday’s attendance rates could offer no quarter to the fearsome Jigsaw killer who finished outside of first place for the first time since the original “Saw” debuted back in 2004. Playing in about 1,000 fewer venues, “Paranormal” didn’t just manage to keep its lead throughout the three day frame, its solid performance also kept those “Saw VI” numbers down to about half of what the film’s predecessors averaged from 2005 to 2008.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Paranormal Activity	$22,000,000	$62,400,000
2	Saw 6	$14,800,000	$14,800,000
3	Where the Wild Things Are	$14,420,000	$53,960,000
4	Law Abiding Citizen	$12,713,000	$40,317,000
5	Couples Retreat	$11,097,000	$78,213,000
6	Astro Boy	$7,017,000	$7,017,000
7	The Stepfather	$6,500,000	$20,312,000
8	Vampire’s Assistant	$6,347,000	$6,347,000
9	Cloudy w/Meatballs	$5,600,000	$115,200,000
10	Zombieland	$4,300,000	$67,300,000

Friday Box Office – PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Slashes Past SAW VI

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 24th, 2009 at 10:49 am

“Paranormal Activity” continued its impressive run on Friday as the horror phenom managed to wrestle first place away from the “Saw” franchise for the first time in four years. “Saw VI” could only scare up an estimated $7 million from its 3,036 venues which means that any hope of another $30 million weekend for the Lionsgate series is now lost. So sad. “Paranormal” went from 760 screens last weekend to just shy of 2,000 on Friday, earning another $7.6 million in the process. The pre-holiday week was not nearly as kind to Friday’s also-rans. Relativity/Universal’s “Cirque de Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant” fell short of the top five with $2.2 million, proving that sticking ‘vampire’ in the title is not enough to lure “Twilight” fans away from the coming of “New Moon”. The news was even worse for Summit/Imagi’s “Astro Boy” which could only manage a $1.8 million debut from over 3,000 screens.  Last weekend’s top earner, “Where the Wild Things Are”, fell a disappointing 64% to third place while Fox Searchlight’s “Amelia”, on 818 screens, fell off the radar altogether. Check back tomorrow for complete details and the final three day estimates.

	Title	Friday	Total
1	Paranormal Activity	$7,600,000	$48,100,000
2	Saw 6	$7,000,000	$7,000,000
3	Where the Wild Things Are	$4,400,000	$43,900,000
4	Law Abiding Citizen	$4,100,000	$31,700,000
5	Couples Retreat	$3,700,000	$70,800,000

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