Besides, Paramount has already set the confusingly titled Paranormal Activity 5 for release on Oct. On the bright side, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones was expressly made as a spin-off film to court Latino moviegoers, a growing and vital demographic for Hollywood, and with only a reported $5 million budget, and another $16.2 million from overseas markets, the movie is already circling profitability. That franchise didn't begin to die off until the sixth film in 2009 - the same month, in fact, that Paranormal Activity rose to take its place as the biggest thing in the horror genre. The Marked Ones' opening weekend box office sales are also significantly lower than the equivalent fifth film in the Saw franchise ($30.1 million its opening weekend in October 2008). 6, 2012, with $33.7 million its debut weekend). 4, 2013, with $21.7 million its debut weekend) and The Devil Inside (released Jan. Granted, frigid weather and holdover competition from the Christmas holiday often keep studios from opening any movie on the first weekend of the year, but Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones also debuted lower than the last two horror films that opened in the same period - Texas Chainsaw 3D (released Jan. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, the fifth film in the found-footage horror flick series, opened this weekend with an estimated $18.2 million, a number lower than the original Paranormal Activity's first weekend in wide release in 2009. The sad, slow box office decline is an inevitable part of the life of a long-lived horror franchise.
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