Paramount Considering PARANORMAL ACTIVITY Part 2
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- By Venkman
Paranormal Activity climbed its way up to #1 on the box office chart this weekend with $22 million bucks, shooting down Saw IV to number 2 with 14.8 million. Looks like the Saw Franchise is loosing its edge. Paranormal Activity has become quite the box office success.
It’s incredible how well the movie is doing. It’s been out growing in box office numbers the last 5 weeks now. It just shows that with the right story, scare tactics and marketing, a movie that could have easily flopped is now a huge box-office success.
Now according to the LA Times, Paramount Pictures might make a sequel, which would be the worst idea ever! Paramount President Brad Grey said the following,
We have the rights on a worldwide basis to do ‘Paranormal 2′ and we’re looking to see if that makes some sense.
Well, let me tell you something, it doesn’t make any sense at all. A sequel would only hurt what the first film has accomplished, and make a mockery of it. It will end up being a box office bomb like the Blair Witch sequel was. That was a piece of crap, and reason enough to not want to go out and waste money on a sequel that won’t have the same effect as the first film.
I hope to hell they don’t end up making a Paranormal Activity 2. They just need to leave it alone, they are getting greedy and it will bite them in the ass in the end(as history has shown). I have no interest in it already, even though I absolutely loved the first film. What do you all think about a sequel?
If it's based on another case and has nothing to do with the couple in the film i could see it working.
Yeah same movie basically haha. No way! I dont want to pay to see the same movie. they should have just left alone.
Derek, its not based on an actual case buddy, this was all fictional.
Agreed…Blair Witch 2: Curse of the Blair Witch should be the MAJOR lesson learned, and it should be the debacle that Paramount looks at before a single penstroke on a Paranormal 2 script even occurs.
Give Oren Peli the cash to make more/new works, but Katie and Micah's story needs to remain absolutely over.
If they make another one for under 500K – spend another 3M on marketing, and think they will break 10M at the box office, then it's a no brainer – it's a nice little chunk of change.
Doesn't mean they should do it though.
But they will…
I wan't what they are smoking with a bag of cookies. Please!
Sure Blair Witch 2 was a bomb, but from what I hear Rec 2 was a huge success story, mostly because it stuck to the fundamentals that made the original such a success.
While it would be probably impossible to match Paranormal 1 since the "shock" factor is now mostly gone for the sequel, I think there's potential for a good story looking deeper into the demon lore and such, although I'm still much more interested in the original Area 51 movie Oren Peli is working on now.
I would see it maybe if it had the person they lookeed up on the internet or(spoilers)……………………….
I would hope the DVD has some great deleted scenes maybe an alternative ending but hell i still think the movie is really good
i don't see a point considering how awful the first one is. 80 minutes of nothing and 10 minutes of something i could call suspense but then i'd be a liar.
I fully expect the DVD to have an alternate ending since, having seen it, I know one was filmed. I actually like the non-theatrical ending more, even though it was less of a scare. It closes the story in a more realistic fashion and doesn't leave an opening for a sequel (at least not in regards to the Katie/Micah story)
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Absolutely loved the theatrical ending (although I can understand why people might hate the face-rushing-to-the camera part, but the death-by-police ending is simply too drawn-out, more sad than suspenseful, and felt anticlimactic and underwhelming), where Katie becomes a sort of boogeyman at the end and her whereabouts are unknown thereafter, which I supposed could be explored in a sequel but it would have to stick to the same low-budget formula as the first film, although I have to agree with what Sean stated above: the "shock" factor has indeed been used up, and simply using the same scare tactics or making a higher-budget sequel (à la Blair Witch 2, heaven forbid) just isn't going to work. Only something weird and unorthodox would work for a sequel.
And the suicide-by-knife ending, hopefully, which apparently was *the* original ending and shown to a very limited audience.
It should cover the story of the former girl that got haunted by the same demon. Definitely should make it more intense and creepier, not to mention the ending should be way better.