Paramount has hired screenwriter Michael R. Perry and director Kevin Greutert (director of Saw VI) to create the sequel to 2009’s biggest surprise hit, “Paranormal Activity,” which scared up $151 million in worldwide grosses in the fall on a shoestring $15,000 budget and a shrewd, opt-in Web marketing campaign.
Paranormal actor Micah Sloat told Movieweb that Paranormal Activity 2 plans to avoid those mistakes.
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I can't say anything specific about it, but I can definitely tell you that Paramount and the producers are very aware of what happened with Blair Witch 2, and how you can't really take something that's unique like Blair Witch or Paranormal and then follow it up with just a typical, Hollywood horror film. It just doesn't work. I think you can expect Paranormal Activity 2 to be just as unique, or at least have a quality of uniqueness, just like the original did, in its own way and I think it's really going to be a great movie.
Yes, it comes out the same day as SAW 7 Which one are you most excited for?
What they should do is triple the budget so they can make it look better than the original while still keeping the feel of a low budget movie which I believe is the key to success here. If you try making it look like a multi-million dollar horror film, it will lose its appeal.
this wont work
it has happened before... i saw the Blair Witch Project 2 and i consider that one of the worst... or the worst movie i've ever seen
honestly
I liked the movie a lot but Paranormal Activity is the type of movie that should be done once. Remember what happened to the Blair Witch sequel? Yeah, I don't either.
I liked the movie a lot but Paranormal Activity is the type of movie that should be done once. Remember what happened to the Blair Witch sequel? Yeah, I don't either.
True, but they are basically playing with house money. This will not be high budget so if it flops, they probably still make a little profit on it. Really only 2 possibilities can happen. They either make a small profit or the sequel goes just as big or even bigger than the original and everyone involved can light $100 bills on fire because they have too many.
I saw the original version of Paranormal Activity and thought it was probably scarier than the new version. Especially the part where Micah shows the possessed girl Dianne who literally ate her arms
True, but they are basically playing with house money. This will not be high budget so if it flops, they probably still make a little profit on it. Really only 2 possibilities can happen. They either make a small profit or the sequel goes just as big or even bigger than the original and everyone involved can light $100 bills on fire because they have too many.
Or the movie will bomb so hard that they need to use the money that they made from the first movie to pay their debts, but I'll take your word for it.
Or the movie will bomb so hard that they need to use the money that they made from the first movie to pay their debts, but I'll take your word for it.
"Bomb really hard" won't mean much since this will almost certainly not be a high (or even medium) budget film. They won't want to change up the whole low budget feel which in my opinion made the movie successful so it would be a mistake to spend more than 50-100k on it. If they do spend that much, it would not just take a bomb, it would take a super bomb (and I mean nuclear bomb )to lose any money at all.
"Bomb really hard" won't mean much since this will almost certainly not be a high (or even medium) budget film. They won't want to change up the whole low budget feel which in my opinion made the movie successful so it would be a mistake to spend more than 50-100k on it. If they do spend that much, it would not just take a bomb, it would take a super bomb to lose any money at all.
Well it depends on how much the studio loses but like you said, it will probably make a decent amount anyway.
They dont care if the fans are pleased or not. They just want to keep making money out of this cheap-ass film.
This. Both Saw and Paranormal Activity require too little budget and too little time to shoot and to your surprise they were still better than many. So stop complaining if you don't like it, go watch another monster of the week movie with tacky, showier graphics or 2012 or Avatar again for that matter.
Which one are you most excited for?
