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‘Paranormal Activity’ Continues Its Upward Trend!
While you guys sit here on BD bitching and moaning about remakes and big budget horror films, I really had my doubts that you’d actually turn out for Oren Peli’s micro-budget haunt flick Paranormal Activity. You kick and scream for quality original films and Paramount Pictures is handing you one on a silver patter – and all you have to do is show your support. Well, you guys have really done it and have propelled the film to new heights. In its second weekend, PA is estimated to take in nearly $500k by Sunday in only 30 theaters (and only playing after midnight)! The big news is that it will continue to expand next weekend based on where you guys DEMAND IT. If you haven’t yet, click the link and make your demand heard, see the film, then click on back here to BD with your review. Hopefully this baby will take off (and I mean really take off) and become a new horror phenomenon.
Brendan Fraser is back for the upcoming fourth installment in The Mummy franchise from directors Radio Silence, and Michael Johnston (Obsession) is now in talks to join him.
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know tonight that Michael Johnston is in “early talks” to join The Mummy 4, which will release in theaters on October 15, 2027 via Universal.
Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, and John Hannah will reprise their iconic roles as Rick O’Connell, Evelyn O’Connell, and Jonathan Carnahan in the upcoming movie.
Radio Silence duo Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (Ready or Not, Scream 5-6) are directing from a script by David Coggeshall (Orphan: First Kill).
Plot details are being kept under wraps at this time, but the brand new sequel is expected to disregard the events of the third movie, in which Rachel Weisz did not appear.
“It’s just really beautiful and scary and sweeping, and it’s awesome,” Gillet teases. Bettinelli-Olpin adds that the film “has all of the heart and the character that you could hope for.”
A remake of the classic Universal monster movie that took an action-adventure approach, The Mummy was released in 1999 and grossed $417 million worldwide. It was followed by The Mummy Returns in 2001 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008.