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Full Limited Release for ‘Paranormal Activity’ on October 9th
Paramount Pictures’ new thriller Paranormal Activity (review) sold out all of its Thursday thru Saturday midnight screenings in 33-cities across the country this weekend, earning a per screen of $16,000 for a total estimated gross of $535,000, reports a press release via Paramount. Hundreds of thousands of fans from across the U.S. have overwhelmingly demanded PA in their area, prompting Paramount to expand the hit horror film to over 40-markets, and will begin offering the movie AT ALL HOURS(!), including the previous midnight only venues, beginning next Friday, October 9th. “The fans have spoken, and we are listening,” said Paramount Pictures Vice Chairman Rob Moore. Paranormal Activity not playing in your area? DEMAND IT! Bring it to your city by visiting the film’s official website. Don’t forget to write your own review to tell all of BD what YOU thought.
Get ready to unwrap Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, as it’s heading to streaming just in time for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.
The horror movie will make its global streaming debut exclusively on HBO Max on Friday, July 3. The film will debut on HBO linear on Saturday, July 4 at 8:00 pm ET.
The gory reimagining of a Universal Horror classic follows as ” a journalist’s young daughter disappears into the desert without a trace. Eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.”
Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Laia Costa (“The Wheel of Time”), May Calamawy (“Moon Knight”), Natalie Grace (“1923”), and Veronica Falcón (“Ozark”) lead the cast.
From Blumhouse-Atomic Monster and New Line Cinema, the film is produced by horror master James Wan, Jason Blum, and John Keville. Lee Cronin executive produces.
“This is a very different kind of Mummy movie,” Cronin promises. “It’s an insane mashup to suggest, but [the film is] almost one part Poltergeist and one part Se7en.” Though I’d argue it’s all parts Evil Dead.
Cronin previously told BD of his Mummy, “The aspiration to want to do something unique, but placed it within the sandbox of the Mummy sort of lore and mythology. But within that, how do we find something that we haven’t quite seen before?”
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is rated “R” for “Strong disturbing violent content, gore, language, and brief drug use.”
On a related note, The Mummy 4 starring Brendan Fraser is coming soon!