Paramount Picks Up Peli's Paranormal Activity Follow-Up
By now you must have heard that Oren Peli has already shot his next project, a follow-up to the micro-budget smash hit Paranormal Activity, but it wasn't clear who would be distributing the $5 million dollar "found footage" styled Area 51. Until now.
Paramount Pictures, who distributed Paranormal Activity with resounding success, seems to be building a relationship with Peli. They've officially signed on to distribute Area 51, having made a high seven-figure bid to co-finance the film with Incentive Filmed Entertainment and the Aramid Entertainment Fund as well as any potential sequels at the recent American Film Market.
Area 51 has already been shot on a reported budget of $5 million in the same first-person camera style as Paranormal Activity, and like its predecessor, stars unknown actors. Peli will also be making a sequel to Paranormal Activity for Paramount. Seeing as how the $15,000 supernatural thriller has made well over $100 million at the box office, that seems like a no-brainer.
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November 30th, 2009 4:30 PM
It's gonna be a step up from Paranormal Activity which in my opinion was the most creative, independent, kick ass yet very low budget film. I wish Oren Peli would do something different without the held hand cam again. It's getting old to people but if he does as good of a job on Area 51 as he did on Paranormal Activity then it won't take this film so hard to be recognized. They will deffinitly advertise Area 51 by saying "FROM THE DIRECTOR OF PARANORMAL ACTIVITY" and it will get people to go see this movie. I think Oren Peli deserves an audience. He's obviously proven it in his previous film. I just hope he doesn't flop on this one because it will deffinitly change my opinion about him but if he doesn't then who knows... he just might be known as one of the best low budget directors of all time.
December 1st, 2009 5:54 PM
Another movie that is coming out that offers a clean alternative is ‘’Paranormal.’’ Below is some additional information about this new thriller!!
Paranormal, the latest supernatural thriller from Cross Shadow Productions, (the
creators of the Dove.org approved, best-selling BMG releases: Pray and Pray 2:
The Woods) will be available in stores nationwide January 26th 2010. The 2009 Mrs. America is starring in it.
See more information and trailers at:
www.ParanormalTheMovie.com
Following the success of family-friendly suspense/thriller The Exorcism of Emily
Rose (Sony Pictures), comes a riveting supernatural thriller in the vein of the hit
SyFy television series, Ghost Hunters and Frank Peretti's House (Roadside
Attractions / Lionsgate).
Paranormal follows best-selling, self-made novelist Greg Evans struggling through the worst case of writer's block in his award-winning career. In a desperate search for
inspiration, Greg quickly finds himself immersed in a world he is not prepared to face.
Turning to a group of paranormal investigators, Greg and the ghost hunting team search for proof and answers, yet are unaware they are about to have an experience of a
lifetime! None will leave the way they came. Paranormal will peel back the supernatural curtain to reveal how The TRUTH will EXPOSE the darkness!