About the very low-budget American horror movie titled Paranormal Activity it is on its way to becoming a real lode for Paramount. They bought this film for a few tens of thousands of dollars and it has already raised a whopping 62,4 million dollars in the USA, achieving in its fifth week in theaters the No. 1 of the American box office based on expanding copies every week seeing that viewers filled all theaters in the previous weeks.
Second place is for SAW 6, whose premiere has been postponed in Spain after being categorized with an "X", grossing 14,5 million dollars, the lowest figure for the first weekend of a film in this saga. But it will still bring a lot of profit to your distributor because it only cost $ 11 million to make.
The third place of the most viewed movies in the USA is occupied by the previous Nº1, Where the monsters live it achieves 14,4 million in its second week in theaters, already adding an amount of 54 million dollars. It will be difficult to reach the 80 million dollars that this film cost and, now, it remains to be seen if it pays off seeing its behavior in the rest of the world.
The big fiasco of the weekend has been for the animated production Astro Boy which only raises $ 6,9 million. A ridiculous figure for a movie that has cost 60 million dollars.
Another premiere, Cirque Du Freak, It has also been another fiasco, managing to enter the 8th position with 6,3 million euros of collection. Very little for a production of 40 million dollars.
Instead, action thriller Law abiding citizen with Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, who drops from 2nd to 4th place, it is being confirmed as the surprise of the Top Ten, and with 12,7 million it already accumulates 40 million dollars and it cost 50 so that only with the US market it will give Benefits.
Next week there is only one big USA premiere, the documentary This is it! so all the Top Ten movies will be able to continue making cash,