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With weeks of viral marketing and a promotional campaign driven by social networks like Twitter and Facebook behind it, Oren Eli's Paranormal Activity (Paramount) expanded into just under 2,000 theaters on Friday and successfully took the box office with an estimated $22 million and an astounding cumulative gross of $62.5 million after less than a month in theaters. It's surely going to be considered one of the memorable phenomena of 2009, having cost less than $15,000 to produce, the rights sold to Paramount for roughly $300,000 and then being distributed by one of the most unique and unconventional methods we've seen in some time. The L.A. Times is even reporting that Paramount has the option to make a sequel, which you can read about here.
Unfortunately, the success of Peli's surprise hit also signified the first major hurdle in the seemingly unstoppable success of the "Saw" franchise, as the sixth installment Saw VI (Lionsgate) finally fell victim to the laws of diminishing returns, opening with just $14.8 million, less than half the opening of the previous four installments. It was the lowest opening for the annual franchise which kicked off in 2004 with the original movie opening with $18.3 million, at the time a huge success considering the film only cost a million to make. Certainly the success of Saw, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival that year, has paved the way for low-budget horror films like Paranormal Activity, which was first seen at the smaller Slamdance Film Festival in 2008.
As far as the rest of the box office, Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (Warner Bros.) tanked in its second weekend, dropping 56% to third place with $14.4 million and a ten-day total of $54 million, while the Gerard Butler-Jamie Foxx thriller Law Abiding Citizen (Overture Films) is starting to catch up in their respective second weekends, dropping just 40% to make $12.7 million in its second weekend and $40.3 million total.
The hit situational comedy Couples Retreat (Universal) took fifth place with $11.1 million and $78.2 million total.
As far as the two new movies for younger people, the animated adventure Astro Boy (Summit) opened in sixth place with $7 million, while Paul Weitz's young adult fantasy Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (Universal) settled for eighth place, grossing just $6.3 million in its first weekend, averaging roughly $2,300 per site in 2,754 theaters.
In between the two new movies, Screen Gems' remake of The Stepfather dropped to seventh place with $6.5 million, a modest 44% drop from its opening week, and $20.3 million total.
The Top 10 was rounded out by Sony's dual hit comedies, the animated Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs with $5.6 million, bringing its total to $115.2 million, and the R-rated Zombieland, which added $4.3 million to its total take of $67.3 million.
The Top 10 grossed roughly $105 million, down 9% from the same weekend last year when Disney's High School Musical 3 topped the box office with over $40 million, followed by the previous "Saw" installment Saw V with $30 million.
Opening in 11th place, Mira Nair's biopic Amelia (Fox Searchlight) starring Hilary Swank as the legendary aviator, took in $4 million in 818 theaters, averaging nearly $5,000 per site, the second best average in the Top 12 after Paranormal Activity.
Lars von Trier's controversial Antichrist opened with $73.5 thousand in 6 theaters in New York and L.A., averaging $12.2k per site, while Katherine Dieckman's Motherhood, starring Uma Thurman, only grossed $58 thousand in 48 theaters.
Worse numbers for Saw franchise ever, but they'll still turn a profit. Wonder if that's it for the theater releases of Saw. With how small the budgets are though I highly doubt it will end until a few more.
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Beautiful. Just beautiful. Maybe now movie studios will realize that both remakes (The Stepfather) and sequels (Saw VI) is not the only way to make money in the horror business.
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concert doc Michael Jackson's This Is It (Sony) would bring in a lot of the King of Pop's diehard fans as well as the morbidly curious, but despite reports of huge advance ticket sales and sell-out shows, it opened rather moderately on Wednesday with $7.4 million in just under 3,500 theaters. It managed to pick up some steam over the normally slow holiday weekend, bringing in an estimated $21.3 million, roughly $6,200 per site, to end up with a weak $32.5 million in its first five days. Even so, the Los Angeles Times reports the concert doc grossed $101 million worldwide in its first five days, which was enough for Sony to extend what was originally intended as a limited two-week run.
Adding another 459 theaters, Oren Eli's DIY horror movie Paranormal Activity (Paramount) dropped to second place with $16.5 million and an astounding one-month total of nearly $85 million. With Halloween over and four new movies opening next week, one wonders whether it can hold up its unstoppable momentum, but $100 million seems guaranteed at this point.
Two returning movies took advantage of the lack of new movies to move up a place as the crime-thriller Law Abiding Citizen (Overture Films), starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, moved up to third place with $7.3 million and $51.4 million total. The Vince Vaughn and friends comedy Couples Retreat (Universal) followed suit, moving back into fourth place in its fourth weekend adding another $6.1 million to its total of $86.6 million.
As expected, Saw VI (Lionsgate) dropped drastically, plummeting 61% to fifth place with $5.6 million and $22.8 million in ten days. Likewise, Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are (Warner Bros.) took another massive hit in its third weekend, dropping 64% to 6th place with $5.1 million and a three week total of $61.8 million.
Screen Gems' remake of The Stepfather joined the weekend's winners, moving up a place to 7th with $3.4 million and just under $25 million total.
The animated adventure Astro Boy (Summit) was another family movie hurt by the Halloween holiday, dropping 55% to eighth place to add another $3 million to its ten-day total of $10.0 million.
Moving up two places and landing in the Top 10 at #9, Mira Nair's biopic Amelia (Fox Searchlight), starring Hilary Swank, benefited from an expansion to hold steady with a minor drop of 22% and another $3 million, followed by Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (Universal) in tenth place with $2.8 million.
The Top 10 grossed roughly $75 million, up slightly from last Halloween weekend where Kenny Ortega's High School Musical 3: Senior Year remained on top of the box office with $15.3 million while Kevin Smith's Zack and Miri Make a Porno took second place with just $10 million.
Opening in 68 theaters in select cities, Troy Duffy's long-anticipated sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saint's Day brought in $462 thousand, just under $7,000 per site to claim the honor of the highest per-theater average for the weekend. By comparison, Jared Hess' Gentlemen Broncos (Fox Searchlight) tanked in a major way, grossing just $10,000 in two theaters. We probably won't be seeing this one following the success of Hess' debut Napoleon Dynamite.
Paranormal Activity still going strong. Amazing stuff.
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God, I'm so proud of Paranormal Activity. Mark my words, this is going to change the horror scene. You're going to see a lot of these types of movies coming out (Both "Real" and demon/ghost ones) being the new fad. It will end up having the same impact that Scream had on creating the teenage slasher fad in the 90's and Texas Chainsaw Massacre had on gritty and remakes.
The Saw series now has an expiration date.
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God, I'm so proud of Paranormal Activity. Mark my words, this is going to change the horror scene. You're going to see a lot of these types of movies coming out (Both "Real" and demon/ghost ones) being the new fad. It will end up having the same impact that Scream had on creating the teenage slasher fad in the 90's and Texas Chainsaw Massacre had on gritty and remakes.
The Saw series now has an expiration date.
Wont it drive you nuts though when this new fad gets beat into the ground beyond belief? Because we know it will happen.
At least with bad comes good, and there should be some good stuff coming out.
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Wont it drive you nuts though when this new fad gets beat into the ground beyond belief? Because we know it will happen.
At least with bad comes good, and there should be some good stuff coming out.
Well of course, this does two main things. For one, it will most likely end the gritty fad which has been needed for a little while. And two, we will get some good movies early on. Every fad eventually gets driven to the ground, but at least horror is being talked about again. I think it's much better to have fad after fad rather than dead periods. Take the early 90's for example. There was basically nothing. A lot of critics tried to claim horror was dead.
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Well of course, this does two main things. For one, it will most likely end the gritty fad which has been needed for a little while. And two, we will get some good movies early on. Every fad eventually gets driven to the ground, but at least horror is being talked about again. I think it's much better to have fad after fad rather than dead periods. Take the early 90's for example. There was basically nothing. A lot of critics tried to claim horror was dead.
Yeah amazing to see horror doing so good. Same with Heavy Metal right now. People claimed that was dead with grunge. Lucky it's back at least for fans like me who are into it.
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