Thrilled by the growing fan demand and sold-out shows for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY across the country, Paramount is dedicated to YOU in bringing the film to its growing audience.

We are committed to releasing the film nationwide in every city, big or small, as soon as 1 MILLION demands are reached. In addition, one lucky fan will be selected from the list of many demanding the film to receive a VIP screening of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY in their home town with the film’s director/writer/producer Oren Peli.

The 12 new markets where the film will open this weekend due to your demands so far at www.eventful.com/ParanormalActivity are: Boston, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Cleveland, El Paso, Hampton Roads metro area, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Portland, Salt Lake City, and Toronto.

College students represented an overwhelmingly large percentage of the film’s online demands. In response, Paranormal Activity will open at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a special thank you to the college audience... More >> ..

Forbes Magazine named Harrison Ford the highest earning Hollywood actor of the last twelve months after the actor accumulated just under $65,000,000 in profits from his starring role in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In order to lure him back to work, Paramount made a deal with the actor that he could split the profits (after the studio covered its production costs) with Spielberg and creator George Lucas.

 

The sixty-six year old actor rose to super stardom as Han Solo in George Lucas's Star Wars and went on to further Hollywood success with box office hits, Witness, The Fugitive, and Air Force One. Ford's twenty-first century output has been less than thrilling in forgotten pictures such as Hollywood Homicide (2003) and Firewall (2006). We won't mention other flops like Six Days Seven Nights.

 

Even after the huge success of Ford's return to Indiana Jones, his reign as the whip-savvy hero appears to be at an end... More >> ..

When Transformers 2 morphed Michael Bay's overproduced tale of type-A machinery into dollar signs, Paramount Pictures set an all-time record for a Wednesday opening, raking in over $62 million dollars throughout the whole day.  

Yawn.   

Luckily for fans of the wizarding world, Harry Potter's colossal opening is well on its way to transform Bay's box office thumbs up into a wand-length middle finger.

J.K. Rowling has left that idle train on which she crafted Harry's tale, far from the welfare checks and cheap pages of her handwritten manuscript, or however the fable goes. Reality has turned her fantastical world into a money vacuum, with the series' sixth installment, The Half-Blood Prince, shaping up to be her most successful film thus far.  

With over $400 million spent on production, marketing, and distribution, The Half Blood Prince started further in the hole than any other Potter production, though the midnight screenings alone more than paid protagonist Daniel Radcliff's paycheck... More >> ..

After raking in more than $68 million during its opening weekend, Up once again led at the box office by pulling in $44 million, tying with The Hangover (also at $44 million) for the top spot.

 

Confession: I have not yet seen Up, but I have heard only wonderful things about it. And apparently when I do go see it, I'm supposed to make sure I see it at an IMAX theatre wearing a pair of those dorky 3-D glasses. But millions of people can't be wrong. The beauty of the computer-animated films made by Pixar and Disney lies not in their technical achievements, but in their witty writing-and apparently the sexual and comedic undertones in Up are awesome enough that the film placates kids into sitting still for its entirety while making adults realize that it isn't just a kid's movie.

 

I did see The Hangover last weekend. Despite all the hype, I thought it was pretty terrible; I didn't laugh out loud more than seven times, despite the absurdly positive reviews it received from so many people... More >> ..