![]() Steven Schneider executive produces.Īndrew Jacobs, Jorge Diaz, Richard Cabral and Crystal Santos join the cast, which includes series alums Katie Featherston and Molly Ephraim. This Blumhouse/Solana Films/Room 101 production, which like the others cost $5 million to make, has a new cast and is designed to resonate with Hispanic audiences, which have been a large part of the earlier films’ success. The R-rated “The Marked Ones” is a spin-off from producers Jason Blum and Oren Peli’s ultra-low-budget and hugely lucrative “Paranormal Activity” series, the fifth installment of which Paramount has scheduled for October. ![]() “Wolf” placed third on New Year’s Day and has taken in $41.5 million since Christmas, while setting off a heated discussion online and among the talking heads over the moral implications of its explicit portrayals of 1980s excess.Īlso read: Producers Guild Nominations: ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ ‘Blue Jasmine’ Make the Cut The black comedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio opened to $34.5 million over the five-day Christmas weekend, in line with expectations, but received a weak “C” CinemaScore from moviegoers. Whether that reflects poor word of mouth and diminished long-term prospects or division over its very edgy content should come into sharper focus over the next few days. This weekend will also be a test for Paramount’s “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Martin Scorsese’s R-rated take on the sex-and-drugs-fueled stock market boom of the late 1980s. “Texas Chainsaw 3D” won 2013’s first weekend with $21 million, and Paramount’s “The Devil Inside” - which also targeted Hispanic audiences - was tops with $33.7 million in 2012.Īlso read: How Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Turned Into a $500 Million Box-Office Avalanche (Video) The post-holiday horror film formula has worked before. The studio is less bullish, suggesting Warner Bros.’ blockbuster Tolkien tale and Disney’s family hit “Frozen” could make it close, and all three could wind up in the high-teen millions. Horror fans and moviegoers who have had their fill of awards hopefuls and holiday films will lift it over the $20 million mark for distributor Paramount, say the analysts. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).“Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones” has the inside track at the box office this weekend, and the Hispanic-angled screamfest has a good shot at ending the three-week reign of “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.” It could’ve perhaps been a bit more terrifying if Andrew Jacobs, the actor playing Jesse the main character, was more haunting, but he’s okay performance is just not powerful enough to get under anybody’s skin. Basically, there’s nothing really refreshingly new here. Not much kitchen activity this time, thankfully. If you’ve seen all the instalments and plenty of other horror flicks, you’d know the drill – it starts off with a bit of character development with lame humour, characters visit places in the premise despite it being unwelcoming and obviously dangerous, possessed character starts to experience gradual changes in appearance and behaviour, friends go investigate on how to save him and then an exorcism scene before it all ends with a climatic hide-and-seek/chasing game between the possessed ones and the cameraman. Cheap, cheap tricks but still effective nonetheless. Like the previous two sequels of the franchise (and many other similar films of the genre), it relies heavily on slow walking in the dark, sudden loud sounds and hand-held camera shifts to sudden appearance of whatever to terrify the audience. So yeah, with all that being said, I thought Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones was rubbish. So you can’t really blame them for making one garbage of a sequel after another ’cause nobody wouldn’t wanna make easy money, not unless you’re one of those who would only agree with sequels if the script was better than the previous instalments’, and you had new inspiring ways to entertain all audience and not just the hardcore fans. Production budget of every Paranormal Activity instalment was around $2 million but each one of them could end up bringing in over a hundred million in revenue. Redundant and cheaply done, and yet loads of people are willing to pay for it. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones may be enough to satisfy the cult fans of the franchise, but to neutrals, it’s just another found footage horror flick with little surprises
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