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Weekend Box Office – PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 Claims October Opening Record with $54 Million

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 23rd, 2011 at 10:06 am

Earlier this week, it seemed like Paranormal Activity 3 was looking at an opening weekend in the $35-$40 million range, or just slightly less than what its predecessor took in on this week last year.  Instead, the three-quel has crushed all projections with an estimated take of $54 million from 3,321 locations.  At this point that stands as the highest October debut and the biggest supernatural horror opening of all-time, unseating 2010’s Paranormal Activity 2, of course.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Paranormal Activity 3	$54,000,000	$54
2	Real Steel	$11,300,000	$67.2
3	Footloose	$10,900,000	$30.9
4	The Three Musketeers	$8,800,000	$8.8
5	Ides of March	$4,900,000	$29.1
6	Dolphin Tale	$4,500,000	$64.6
7	Moneyball	$4,100,000	$63.7
8	Johnny English	$3,800,000	$3.8
9	The Thing	$3,100,000	$14
10	50/50	$2,800,000	$28.7

Weekend Box Office – SAW 3D Collects $24.2 Million on Tepid Halloween Weekend

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: October 31st, 2010 at 9:23 am

It’s Halloween, and you know what that means! Big rusty traps that split your jaw, crawling naked through broken glass and, of course, the fun of cutting off your own foot. You know. The classics. For the seventh year running a Saw movie has been submitted by Lionsgate for your approval. Through the magic of 3D, the franchise that gave us last year’s anemic Saw VI had a chance to redeem itself. And it kind of delivered.

	Title	Weekend	Total
1	Saw 3D	$24,200,000	$24.2
2	Paranormal Activity 2	$16,500,000	$65.7
3	Red	$10,800,000	$58.9
4	Jackass 3D	$8,500,000	$101.7
5	Hereafter	$6,400,000	$22.2
6	Secretariat	$5,000,000	$44.7
7	The Social Network	$4,700,000	$79.7
8	Life as We Know It	$4,200,000	$43.7
9	The Town	$2,000,000	$87.6
10	Conviction	$1,800,000	$2.4

SAW VI DVD Review

by Scott Wampler    Posted: February 6th, 2010 at 11:33 pm

Saw VI is here to remind us that Lionsgate doesn’t have any problem pumping $10-20 million into a half-baked horror film if it means that they’ll take the top spot at the box office on Halloween weekend.  It’s hard to believe this series has sustained itself for 6 films, but here we are.  So, did director Kevin Greutert put some life back in the Saw series, or is this just the cash-grab from Lionsgate that this critic suspected?  Find out after the jump, my precious snowflakes.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 Gets Ready To SAW Audiences In October

by Bill Graham    Posted: January 18th, 2010 at 10:09 pm

Whenever a film becomes a smash hit, there are the inevitable rip-offs and finally the sequel. For Paranormal Activity, we already have news that the director that cut his teeth on Saw VI has come aboard the untitled and mysterious sequel to the hit that tore into audiences worldwide for over $150 million last year despite only having a budget of $15,000.

According to THR, Kevin Greutert will direct the sequel while Michael R. Perry will write. Greutert edited the first five Saw films and sat in the director’s chair for the sixth installment last October. Meanwhile, Perry has hopped from a variety of TV shows, but is best known for his writing on The Guardian and Millennium. Not exactly the ideal guys to put behind the sequel, but there is a silver lining:

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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