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...hosting a Halloween-themed launch party for the blog on Friday at 4-5:30 p.m. in Ticknor Lounge. The raffle includes a date with Andrea...
There was blood at the wickets this pre-Halloween, as the corpses of every one of the weekend's new movies littered the lobbies of North American theaters. The Saw torture-porn franchise took the biggest hit, with its sixth installment getting chainsawed by the Paranormal Activity phenomenon. Another horror entry, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, was D.O.A. Astro Boy, the third autumn movie based on a kids, pop-culture touchstone, didn't fly; and neither did the aviation bio-pic Amelia, which took off at low altitude and instantly crashed. As for the weekend's goriest psychodrama...
...haunted-house movie was expected to be in a tight race with Saw VI, four of whose elder siblings had easily won the pre-Halloween weekends on which they,d been released. But some steamrollers can't be stopped. Paranormal, playing on only 64% as many screens as Saw VI, made 67% more money. The $14.8 million estimated weekend total had to be a disappointment to Lionsgate, the series, sponsor. "If we end up with at least $20 million," David Spitz, the company's executive VP and general manager, told the industry blog The Wrap, "we'll be talking about...
...turnaround was pretty amazing on this film, wasn't it? When I was first asked to direct this, [Sony] said they wanted it for Michael's birthday [Aug. 29], and I said, "No, thank you. That's not going to happen." If you were talking Halloween, which was Michael's favorite holiday, I might be able to connect with that. We started at the end of July, and I turned the movie over to them in early October. We worked seven days a week every single week. We were able to accomplish a lot in a labor-of-love project...
Read "How Madison Exorcised Halloween...