Paranormal Activity 4
Box Office Weekend: Wreck-It Ralph Punches Up Box Office
After last weekend’s lull, the box office returned to the sort of numbers typical for the year, thanks in part to a solid debut for Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph. The animated film brought in audiences in a way that the likes of Cloud Atlas (which landed at sixth this week and an estimated $5.3 million) and Silent Hill: Revelation (which came in tenth with an estimated $3.3 million) failed to do a week ...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: No Films are New Films; Newcomers Can’t Topple the Favorites
With three major new releases, it is a little surprising that only one ended up in the top three, and barely at that. Cloud Atlas, with an estimated $9.4 million, was the highest grossing of the new releases, but the ambitious multi-era epic only placed third overall, behind the current favorites Argo (an estimated $12.4 million) and Hotel Transylvania (an estimated $9.5 million). While grosses ar...[Read More]
Box Office Weekend: Paranormal Activity 4 On Top, But Only Finds Ghosts of Its Former Success
For a movie costing only $5 million, a weekend estimate of $30.2 million would normally be a phenomenal thing…and to be fair, it still is…but for Paranormal Activity 4, that is a drop from the record-setting October release of the previous film, which did $52.3 million during the same weekend last year. Despite the lackluster reviews and diminished returns, the fourth film in the franchise stood a...[Read More]