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PARANORMALIER ACTIVITY?? PARANORMAL ACTIVITIES??
Merrick here...
Because it's so easy to sequelize a "found video" movie once the concept has blown its wad, The Powers That Be are contemplating a sequel to PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
In Viacom's earnings call Tuesday morning, CEO Philippe Dauman said the movie has been one of those surprise hits that comes along only rarely.
Given that a follow-up release wouldn't have the same element of surprise as "Paranormal," it will be key to craft a smart approach to a sequel, he said. "Our team will come up with the right creative and marketing approach," he told analysts.
...says THR HERE.
While it's hard to support this idea from a creative standpoint, I understand it from the business perspective: PARANORMAL costs tens of thousands to make, received a carefully considered release fueled by a savvy marketing campaign, and has brought in nearly $85 million so far.
Given that a follow-up release wouldn't have the same element of surprise as "Paranormal," it will be key to craft a smart approach to a sequel, he said. "Our team will come up with the right creative and marketing approach," he told analysts.
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...but when is this shit coming to London?
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GABRIEL GRAY has made his return. You can probably thank Nerd_Rage_Retard_Strength for drawing him out.
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I hope they finally show those huge hoots. Clearly that's what the spirit was after. Can't say I blame it.
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Was I the only one bored out of his mind watching that movie? I can appreciate what they accomplished but wow... it was boring as hell.
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Was I the only one bored out of his mind watching that movie? I can appreciate what they accomplished but wow... it was boring as hell.
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Okay so I wasn't THAT bored with it... her magnificent chest was the saving grace for me as well.
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SHIT
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AND I CAN TOUCH THEM
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It just wanted a turkey sandwich.
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Like the Art of Noise song.
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Will cost at least $35 million to make and earn maybe $50 million.
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Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. First as tragedy, then as farce.
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With [REC]/Quarantine, Cloverfield, 4th Kind, the are 51 movie by the same director using the "found footage" method it's going to be the law of diminishing returns. People are going to get burned out on "found footage" and a sequal to this will just incite groans of "another one of these movies". Part of the scary appeal and success of Paranormal Activity and even Blair Witch is that people want to be scared and believe these are real events they're watching. With each go round in this format the appeal and believability will just be diluted. Some times you need to listen to Kenny Rogers and know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em.
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Who is naive enough to believe they wouldn't make a sequel? Sign below by bitching.
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*You should never listen to Kenny Rogers when it comes to chicken, whiskey and plastic surgery.
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None on the front page...
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Look at the right side of your screen. See the top ranked TB?
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but when im asked to rate my worst movies of all time, blair witch 2 is number 1. i wont even say they came up with a bad concept (a real film about people going on a fake 'blair witch' tour.. thats pretty clever.) but it really turned out to be one of the most horrible movie going experiences in my life.
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It's always interesting when you rewatch something and suddenly can recognize actors you've come to know since the first time you saw it.
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Saw it once on video. Remember something about video cameras being important to the storyline, or something.
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im a musician, and ive blamed label interference for a bad album before. then i realized that i was just whining. if you make a great album/movie/whatever the powers that be will realize that, and let you be.. if you turn in something that is sub-par to begin with, then they can make it worse, but you have just as much of a the blame. (that goes for you, mr. director of blair witch 2.)
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Can't wait... such a huge fan! (of the first movie, not fat chicks)."Heeeeere leetle peegy... oink, oink, oink!"
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Yes, a real team effort will be sure to craft a great creative solution, packaged with a young, attractive cast to appeal to our key demo targets, and enhanced with new-media-focused marketing strategies that will penetrate core audience social networks for maximum pre-release awareness levels.
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Didn't everyone who saw PA ( I haven't.. never will) end up hating it? Do studios go deaf after a film is released?
"They HATED it? ...MAKE ANOTHER!" -
Holy shit, there's an explosion of doucheosity over in the Avatar TB. Really? C&P-ing the same inane reply into the TB over-and-over? WTF is wrong with people...
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It's like anything in life: If it's done correctly and in a clever way, it could be great. I will preface by saying Paranormal Activity, to me, was terrifying. I NEVER get freaked out by movies hours/days afterwards, but I lost hours of sleep because of this movie. All of your Freddy Kruger's or Jason's don't scare me, because that would never happen. Even things with Aliens don't scare me, because until we're invaded, it's pure fantasy. Seeing a shadow in a dark room happens. Hearing a loud noise out of nowhere happens. The fear of not being alone or something happening while you're sleeping happens every night. And Paranormal Activity tapped into that perfectly. So I have no clue what a sequel could bring, but it all depends upon the concept & execution. If they treat it with the same respect and care they did with #1, I'd go see it.
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...give into this terrorists demands.
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"The Search for Katie." The first half of the movie could be them trying to put together clues to her whereabouts, and then the last half could be hand held footage of the team actually finding her in some creepy sewer or cave or something, all Linda Blair-ed out. I think that could really work if done right. Just my idea.
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Yep. It's the return of the infamous troll, GABRIEL GRAY. And it looks like he's trolling that useless piece of shit, Nerd_Rage_Retard_Strength. I think it's time of the Ban Hammer to make an appearance. Twice.
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We need a spoof.
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nothing else matters
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Nov 03, 2009 1:53:17 PM CST
How about a movie theater filled with people watching the first
by spectrebeeyatch
Ghosts in a movie theater. Otherwise PA should be about documentary footage from the friend we saw in the movie for like two scenes. She leads the way after the police search dies down for Katie. They track her down to like the woods and shit gets crazy.
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Lol.
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You brought this upon us.
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Not always true. Check studio cut of Brazil vs the original cut. Studio interference turned it into something without even an comprehensible storyline, just a mash of scenes without context.
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As I recall Harry gave that a glowing review.
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If that's true, then the anti-savvy marketing campaign for the next "Paranormal Abortion" starts right here, right now. This movie had ZERO SCARES. Unless flickering lights, thumps on the wall and burning ouija boards make you shit your pants in fear. The $85 million so far collected was practically STOLEN from theater-goers - all of whom were LIED TO as to this being an actual horror movie. Lies, I should add, that came hundreds per second on twitter and other social networking sites, such that "Paranormal Activity" has scarcely been off the trending topics on twitter for over a month now. Curiously, the bulk of those tweets were from suspiciously similar "bots" - all proclaiming this sub-Blair Witch suckfest to be "the scariest movie of all time." Motherfucker, please. Not. Even. Close. There are episodes of "Rock of Love" that have been scarier. The "Paranormal Activity" marketing phenomenon needs to come to a screeching halt, right here and right now.
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But it is also only remembered because it is Blair Witch 2. A perfectly forgettable, disposable film. Not awful, but not terribly good either.
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Same thing happened to me with Jurassic Park: The Lost World. Saw it when I was a kid, then didn't watch it again until like a year ago when I caught it on TV and I practically shit myself when I realized Vince Vaughn was in it.
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Take $10m worth of the film's profits, chunk it up into $100,000 grants, and give it to 100 aspiriring film makers to make their best horror films on a shoestring budget.
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By the time the movie hits the video market, the audience has moved onto other things. A sequel, probably a year or two away at the earliest, will be old news.
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The same can be said about Terminator 3, Highlander 2 and The Phantom Menace though.
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Where the hell did all go? All I saw was a door open and close.
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I saw Paranoia Activity yesterday and was totally unimpressed. Anything that profits like it did will obviously get a sequel, and I'm sure it will suck, but really this first film was nothing special. Ouija board: cool. Last couple seconds: startling. Everything else was just dumb. Everytime they go to bed you expect something weird to happen, and it does. Then the next scene is those idiots watching the footage and saying "That's so scary!" Lame. The aspect that I thought was interesting (before seeing it) was the realism, but then they were talking about demons and the ghost whisperer guy was all freaked out and it didn't seem realistic at all. Who's girlfriend isn't scared by weird noises? Isn't it always nothing? I can see how women and children would be scared by this movie, but anyone calling it "the scariest movie in decades" or whatever the trailers say is a huge pussy. In my opinion, Paranormal Activity was neither scary nor good and I will not watch its bastard sequel.
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...1 Man 1 Cup. Now THATS horror! And it would be cheap, gritty and could market it as found footage after the subject was found bled to death with his pants down. Shocker of the century so it would be!
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I agree, except for Highlander 2, which sucked beyond sucking.
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...not be made?
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How did this get 80% on Rotten Tomatoes???? HOW the holy FUCK did 80 percent of film critics sit through an hour and a half of NOTHING and then give it a positive review??? It completely blows my mind. Critics have hated lots of good movies before now, and I've come to accept it, but rarely do all they band together in praise of something that's actually terrible. This is like seeing A.O. Scott praising MEET THE SPARTANS for god's sake.
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Have the actors once again playing themselves in a sort of "overnight success" documentary. Have them joke about "I'm not dead" and "there are no demons." Then, during the making of this making-of documentary, they are haunted again.
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How did this get 80% on Rotten Tomatoes???? HOW the holy FUCK did 80 percent of film critics sit through an hour and a half of NOTHING and then give it a positive review??? It completely blows my mind. Critics have hated lots of good movies before now, and I've come to accept it, but rarely do all they band together in praise of something that's actually terrible. This is like seeing A.O. Scott praising MEET THE SPARTANS for god's sake.
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HELLOW Paranormal Activity! Thats what you get SAW 6! With your ridiculous OVER BUDGETED 11 million dollar flop! Ohhh wait you grossed all your money back. Hopefully Paramount is smart like Lions gate was and keeps the budget low, otherwise its the Grudge franchise all over again.
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How did this get 80% on Rotten Tomatoes???? HOW the holy FUCK did 80 percent of film critics sit through an hour and a half of NOTHING and then give it a positive review??? It completely blows my mind. Critics have hated lots of good movies before now, and I've come to accept it, but rarely do all they band together in praise of something that's actually terrible. This is like seeing A.O. Scott praising MEET THE SPARTANS for god's sake.
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my internet was being a twat for a moment. That or its a fucking poltergeist.
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At my screening, like 25 people walked out, and every one of the males who walked out was a 15 year old in a hoodie with a sideways ball cap on. And EVERY one of these sad little kids made a big display of it as they walked out, loudly saying "I'm not scared by this stupid movie!" or "This shit's so boring I'm just gonna wait for you guys in the lobby!" The best was after the movie ended I walked past a group where one kid had walked out and his friends had stayed, and the guy said "Yeah it was scary, but i left cause it was so dumb." I suspect based on watching this happen right before my eyes that many of the vocal online haters are actually teenage boys who are ashamed that this movie actually created a few moments of anxiety for them. That's right guys, it didn't get to you, you're just too manly that.
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Just because it's not torture porn, or a slasher flick full of buckets of blood, doesn't make it terrible. Sometimes the almost normal and the subdued can be way more terrifying than the loud and obvious. I'm pretty sure nobody here has been attacked by an undead maniac, but how many people can identify with waking up in the middle of the night to a sound in the house they've never heard before? And then you give in to the irrational and start thinking it's something Lovecraftian? Not much of a jump from that to actually having those fears portrayed as justified.
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In which it is discovered that Charles Foster Kane had an illegitimate daughter named Kandi.
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when someone makes a really cheap film that turns out to be awesome, people appreciate it's achievement and are interested in seeing it. When a sequel is released, it's because a movie studio decided to purposely spend a tiny amount of money on a film with the expectation of it raking in big bucks, and what was once an indie film making it big becomes a rich studio trying to rip people off with a cheap product.
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is the only movie i've ever walked out of early.
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is the only movie i've ever walked out of early.
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There I said it. The Wiccan chick is so fucking hot. She makes my dick so hard. So pretty. I like the goth chick too. There is something genuinely cool about that bitch. I like the bugnuts dumb crazy bitch who is pregnant. Her husband is pretty cool. The tour guide dude is the one in that Bruce Cambell T.V. show. ITs got some interesting twists in it, and isn't just a cheap retread of the first movie. The fact that the husband might have killed his wife and she might have gutted her own belly killing the baby, and the wiccan chick tyrying to fuck him and getting repeatedly thrown into trances or possessed is cool shit. I like the back in forth between present and past. I like Marylyn Manson's song in that too.
I may be in the minority but, I like Blair Witch: Book of Shadows. And Blair Witch is way more believable then Paranormal Activity.
The 2 in Paranormal are the heaviest sleepers ever. The dude, doing his best Sasha Baron Cohen is ridiculous. No weapons yea right. Never tell there family what is going on. Yea right. Keep going back to that bedroom. Yea right. Good but not Blair Witch Good. IIn Blair I was tripping that even though it might not be a witch, its still fucked being lost in the woods and getting potentially fucked with by locales. And not knowing what is going on outside your tent is scary. -
make them likeable please. the dude was a douchey dumass and the girl was a fat complaining bitch. no sympathy for them at all.
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then who gives a fuck if it's good?
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the problem is that because the investment is so little, all the studios will be putting together their own version, and the market will be inundated and the audiences will have already tired of this gimmick.
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...especially after all the hype.
My biggest gripe? These dopes, after capturing what in reality would be AMAZING things on camera, as well as horrifying things, do what? Well, let's see... report these groundbreaking findings to basically no one? Check. Continue to sleep in the same bed/room? Check. Continue to sleep in total darkness with the door wide open? Check. Ridiculous. After the "powder" incident, no sane human would be left in that house. And yeah, I know they said it would "follow" them, but come on ... they would at least sleep in shifts and alert the known universe of these findings.
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...and they hired a cool Director who was well versed in parts of the subject matter. But something was just lacking in the execution.
I recall not really hating it when I saw it in theaters, but I instantly forgot about it, never saw it again, and couldn't tell you anything about it.
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This movie's hype is not even close to being warranted. I'm supposed to be excited by a door opening by itself? What's next? "Oooh, that toilet totally flushed itself!!! Truly this is the work of demons!!"
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eleven thousand.
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Hilarious and awesome.
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Hilarious and awesome.
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I can only assume you are mentally retarded, because there was not one iota of sense or logic in your entire post.If you found Paranormal Activity at all frightening, creepy, disturbing, upsetting, terrifying, nightmare-inducing, etc. etc., you have a single-digit IQ.
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I believe toilets figure prominently in part two
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Paranormal Activity II
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I had never been so bored!
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More rubbish from Hollywood, who have run out of ideas and just don't care anymore. These films aren't scary, they're stupid and pretentious, just like the miscreants who are green-lighting these projects.
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I think they're working catering.
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The super cool kids who were bored by PA really need to name some horror movies they didn't think were boring. The nighttime static shots of the couple sleeping are the most memorable horror movie device of the last 10-20 years.
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Katie Featherston is totally hot! If you think she's fat, you must have self image problems. -
...was a nice little zero budget horror movie. It wasn't revolutionary or terrifying. The logic of the film collapsed in the third act and no matter how many times a character repeated that the haunting would follow her I cannot believe there is anyone who would have stayed in the house after the powder incident or after the burned photograph was found. Also, while it was initially believable that the dumb boyfriend would think the whole haunting thing was cool he persisted in this behavior long after any even moderately sane person would have decided to leave. The only caveat is if the folks who made the film intended this behavior from both of them to be another sign of the oppression/suppression/possession phenomena. But if they did they needed to make it clear in the film.
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anyone who has ever tried to make a film on essentially no budget has to admire a lot of what is in this film. And there are genuine chills in it, the trip the girl makes to the swing outdoors and the burned photograph being among them. It's a pretty good no budget film. That's it.
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from the 60s that is mentioned in the movie.
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All of it set to Flock Of Seagulls music.
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Once again, the idiots in charge think copying what's successful is what will work. Bc, barring Blair Witch as an example of a previous successful project, Paranormal Activity worked bc its like the rest of today's horror, right? That said, the movie was terribly disappointing, so this news just sounds shitty to me.
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That's all I was thinking about while watching the movie. It's a damn shame she didn't whip em' out.
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I knew he was in something else before that show.
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I know, at least that chick from Open Water got all naked. I can't believe the interviews when the PA chick says, "I was still working at the time and nobody noticed me." If I was at her work I would have said, "Hey, aren't those the tits I wanted to see naked all through Paranormal Activity?"
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Those pontoons released on the bigscreen would have been a classic. She really needed an unecesarry nude scene like that hot blonde in Open Water.
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Unfortunately, they also have big everything else.anonymous_bitch: I'm happy Katie MooCow appealed to your lesbo sensibilities. Most men I know tend to prefer their fat chicks to be, ummm, NOT FAT and preferably attractive in the face.Nice tits, though; can't argue against that. Setting the twins loose would've added a good $10-$15 million to the gross.
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and to prove that this site is so lazily behind the curb, Steve Martin and Alec baldwin have been announced as the hosts of the 82 annual academy awards.
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I wanna see it, but I wanna watch the Blue Ray.
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good job AICN-I hope you you fat fuckers choke on a turkey leg
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if you are going to put up bunch of classic videos to talk about. whats the point when you cant do it for two. this site is dead. utterly dead.
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two days.
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I dont hate it. There are worse films out there, Quantum Of Solace for example.
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I hate that Paranormal Activity is even mentioned in the same sentence as the Blair Witch Project. Although, I enjoyed Paranormal, seeing it a second time via torrent :), I realized the film has no replay value and is drastically less effective. The thing I loved about the Blair Witch was how believable it all was and the fact that they created this whole myth backed by numerous fake documentaries that helped create this whole Blair Witch universe. Just really creative stuff supported by a film with really good acting and believability. Acting is the most important thing in movies like this, which is why I enjoyed Paranormal since I felt the acting was strong enough to support the concept of the film.
And Blair Witch 2 wasn't that bad but it wasn't good either, but I'm totally up for Blair Witch 3 and drsambecckett1984, You're totally right, Quantum of Solace was just a retched film. -
I am also up for a 3rd, the idea of setting it in the past and explaining the backstory sounds very interesting to me.
I wish someone could invent a machine to erase Quantum Of Solace from my memeory. After I watched it I wanted to scratch my eyes out. -
Nov 04, 2009 4:38:13 AM CST
I actually didn't hate Blair Witch 2
by nomoredirtyjokespleaseweareyanks
Some of it was effective, perhaps if there was less studio interference the director might have mad ea better film. Pretty sure I read that the interview footage was all meant to be played at the end, not intermittently throughout.
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is still one of the biggest grossing bond sequels of all time. apparently. I saw twice and never want to see it again. awful film. usually I am one movie type of guy. I see a film once and thats it. but now and again I see a film ore than once.
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I tried to find something in it that i liked, apart from Gemma Arteton as Fields, there was nothing to reccomend. I hated it more than any Bond film, it destroyed all the good faith built up by Casino Royale.
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Paranormal Activity was the scariest film i've ever seen. Of course like any classic frightener the build up can be tedious (much like Wise's The Haunting) but the payoff was worth it - about the most adrenaline inducing shit i've ever experienced in a cinema. Grown men were physically shaken for about 15 minutes after the screening I was at. That said, I saw the original ending and it seemed to hurt the film. New one is miles better - thanks Senor Spielberg!
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Scariest film i've ever seen in that as an adult nothing creeps me out anymore. Vij came close once, The Woman In Black had it's moments but not since I was a child have I had a sleepless night over a film.
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One is enough. Anything else is a money grab.
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but an overhyped one, at the end of the day it's a clever little no budget horror film, but not a classic on the same level as Psycho, The Exorcist, Poltergeist etc etc, there's also no need for a money grab sequel (I'm much more interested in the director's Area 51 movie)
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That's what I think. Although it will have a bigger budget more special effects and might wind up as bad as Blair Witch 2 was.
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No matter how hard people wanted and told themselves it is. I think it holds up pretty good. Its kind of fun and again, that Wiccan chick is just so holy shit fine.... got damnit here comes another miracle aka an erection.
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if they had a naked Harry Knowles coming up the stairs. MICAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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People who hated it
by Adelai Niska Nov 3rd, 2009
03:33:38 PM
At my screening, like 25 people walked out, and every one of the males who walked out was a 15 year old in a hoodie with a sideways ball cap on. And EVERY one of these sad little kids made a big display of it as they walked out, loudly saying "I'm not scared by this stupid movie!" or "This shit's so boring I'm just gonna wait for you guys in the lobby!" The best was after the movie ended I walked past a group where one kid had walked out and his friends had stayed, and the guy said "Yeah it was scary, but i left cause it was so dumb."
I suspect based on watching this happen right before my eyes that many of the vocal online haters are actually teenage boys who are ashamed that this movie actually created a few moments of anxiety for them. That's right guys, it didn't get to you, you're just too manly that. -
Starring Michael Chiklis as Jason Hawes and David Tennant as Grant Wilson. PG-13. Laughs, thrills and demonic hi-jinks abound when the SyFy Channel's legendary Ghost Hunters are called in to investigate the latest "found footage" supernatural sensation! All bets are off as the team uncovers startling new evidence from the case while Steve gets scared by a spider and Brian Harnois acts like a fucking douchebag.
THIS MOVIE WILL COST TENS OF DOLAR. Y'listening, Paramount? -
"Hi, guys. Wanna see my DVD collection?" AAAAHHHHHHH!
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"So what did you think of X-Men Origins: Wolverine?" Oh God, Katie run! RUN!!!!!!
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They just couldn't leave "good enough" alone.
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This talkback is the gift that keeps on giving. Now Katie Featherson is "fat"? Guess what? If you're a man and you wouldn't have sex with Katie Featherson, then you're not a heterosexual. We're really supposed to believe that the average AICN talkbacker is dating a model? Welcome to the internet. None of the people bitching about PA could make anything nearly as good. And none of the people bitching about the actress in PA being fat are going to have sex with anyone as attractive this weekend.
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The first one sucked ass. I expected to be scared, maybe not as scared as I've ever been in my entire life, but at least a LITTLE scared. Instead, I was bored to death. Have less than no interest in a sequel. Everyone in the showing that I went to afterwards were just stunned by how non-scary the film was. Didn't even come close to living up to the hype.
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... and I'd have sex with Katie Featherston.
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there were some hot babes in it....i think they got nekked too.
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SUCKED.
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No, no, no... you've got it all wrong. Let me explain:OK, basic math--- the transitive property: if A=B and B=C, then A=C. Sho 'nuff. Here then, is the Fat Chick Transitive Property:A) Katie Featherston is a fat chick.B) Guys don't like to fuck fat chicks.C) As she IS a fat chick, guys do not want to fuck Katie Featherston. Now, in this case even though A=B and B=C, A does not necessarily equal C. Guys will FUCK a fat chick (boink to the oink); they just won't admit to it or be seen in public with Miss Peegy.Think what you want, but I can sum up her entire appeal in two words: nice tits.
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Oh yeah, this morning...
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Yeah, I'd do you. You're smokin' hot!
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