Halloween Box Office: Does Saw Beat Paranormal?
Monday, November 1st, 2010Last year Paramount’s preplanned expansion release of Paranormal Activity with it’s biggest expansion last year crushed Saw VI at the box office. Now a year later, with it’s apparent last chapter and in 3D; how did Saw VII stack up over the weekend? Well, according to BoxOfficeMojo, the results are in.
Saw 3D nailed opening weekend, taking the top spot. However the franchise is showing it’s age as it’s only made .5million. Though it was over Saw VI‘s .1 million; it’s still lower than the +million average II-V enjoyed. Still, with a budget of million (being the largest budgeted film in the series) Saw 3D will turn out a decent profit for Lionsgate.
Paranormal Activity 2 dropped to second place with .5million, bringing it’s domestic total up to .6million and worldwide total to .9million; turning quite a healthy profit past it’s million budget. I wouldn’t be surprised if we’re reporting on further installments and even a 3D installment to the series.
And in a three theater release, the film Monsters grossed ,000. Hopefully we’ll be seeing an expanded release within the next few weeks. The next genre release is The Brother’s Strause’s low-budget alien invasion flick Skyline due out November 12.
