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LOS ANGELES - "Paranormal Activity" has won a weekend battle of fright films over part six of the "Saw" franchise. The upstart chiller "Paranormal Activity" went into nationwide release and took over the No. 1 spot with $22 million. That compares to just $14.8 million for the debut of "Saw VI," a franchise that has been an annual Halloween fixture since 2004.

It was the worst opening ever for Lionsgate's "Saw" series, whose previous low was $18.3 million for the original movie. Subsequent installments of the "Saw" franchise all opened at $30 million or better.

This time, horror fans simply gravitated toward "Paranormal Activity" instead of "Saw VI."

"`Paranormal' ate their lunch," said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. "There's no other way to explain it."

After four weeks in narrower release, distributor Paramount slotted "Paranormal Activity" into 1,945 theaters. That still was just under two-thirds of the 3,036 theater count for "Saw VI."

"Paranormal Activity" raised its total haul to $62.5 million. The low-budget movie was shot for a reported $15,000 but has become a horror sensation because of online fan buzz.

The previous weekend's No. 1 movie, the Warner Bros. tale "Where the Wild Things Are," fell to No. 3, just behind "Saw VI" with $14.4 million. Spike Jonze's adaptation of the beloved children's book by Maurice Sendak raised its total to $54 million.

Among other wide releases, Summit Entertainment's "Astro Boy" opened at No. 6 with $7 million, Universal's "Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant" debuted at No. 8 with $6.3 million and Fox Searchlight's "Amelia" premiered at No. 11 with $4 million.


http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies.ap.org...h-22-million-ap


Ding dong the wicked witch is dead. My guess is they'll throw probably another one or two just to make some money before it goes out Friday the 13th style and it's remade in 10 years like every other money making horror movie and this shit cycle continues.

This post has been edited by Collin Skyfire on October 25, 2009 07:26 pm

Its supposed to go to seven I think. Personally I plan on seeing it, but I always watch them with Alex and he's in ireland until like the 31st :/.

This post has been edited by Cody Storm on October 25, 2009 07:40 pm

Saw 7 will be the last one.

I saw both films. Paranormal Activity is amazing for a low budget film that was actually filmed in the directors house in I believe 07? Both are great movies and I would suggest that you see them. Saw 6 is easily the best release since the original. I'm not surprised that it got beat out by PA. PA has been a huge internet sensation...I mean their catcher is "the first movie released by the public" and you get to demand for it to play in theatres near you. Paranormal Activity also got a lot of it's viewers off of internet rumors and misconceptions. Many people believe that the film was a true story, but after extensive research I just found that it was based on true events..which nearly every movie is "based" on true events. PA was def. more scary though, as Saw is not a horror movie at all and is suspense/thriller. The gore puts it in the horror category (collin told me this lol). Either way they are both great...a few others I hope to catch are The Fourth Kind and Shutter Island. I really don't like Leonardo DiCaprio, but that movie looks sick.

I promise you Shutter Island will be one of the best movies of 2010!

Martin Scorsese is a great director.

^^^ Agreed. Maybe we won't have a lot of issues after all ;) :rock:

The Departed was such a good movie there were suppose to make a 2nd one taking off with Marky Mark but I guess there not.