Obviously it’s a risk since you don’t want consumers thinking that they shouldn’t even bother with a movie that flops on opening weekend or presumably will be on VOD relatively soon anyway, but that’s why there has been such resistance to this idea over the last decade. But considering the sheer number of god-awful debut weekends and blink-and-you-miss-them theatrical runs we’ve had just in 2015 for would-be mainstream releases ( Victor Frankenstein, Zac Efron's We Are Your Friends, George Lucas's Strange Magic, etc.), there may yet be a place for this kind of “Straight Outta Theaters” VOD program for films that clearly were never going to be big hits anyway. ![]() I will see both films on the service just as a test case/tax write-off, and I’ll let you know if anything goes horribly wrong in that Silver Shamrock kinda way. We’ll see if either of these two films does well or relatively okay on Video on Demand over the next month. So while you can argue that the theater boycott hurt the domestic box office, it held on to more of its audience comparatively than the last film did. In America, Ghost Dimensions made 56% of what The Marked Ones earned back in 2014 ($32m), which in turn made 60% of what Paranormal Activity earned back in 2012 ($60m). In the end, it made $18m domestic but a whopping $59m overseas, giving the $10m film a $77m worldwide gross. AMC has a revenue split deal with Paramount regarding the VOD profits, so they didn’t blackball either film. The sixth film in the 6-year old horror franchise opened with $8 million on 1,656 theaters, and it was actually the top movie of the (atrocious) weekend in the AMC theaters where it played. Paranormal Activity 6 is a more complicated situation. I would argue the whole point was to have the “gloss” or “prestige” of a national theatrical release purely to boost its VOD numbers, but that’s speculation on my part. On its face, it was a forgettable entry that presumably only went to theaters in the first place as a test case for the VOD program. It earned $10.4 million overseas for a $14.1m worldwide cume. The film did a little better overseas, where to my knowledge it was not blacklisted by the major theater chains as it was in America. It was out of theaters in three weeks with a whopping $3.7m domestic cume. The $15 million R-rated horror comedy debuted with $1.8m on 1,500 screens and then sank like a stone. The film was arguably intended to play primarily over Halloween weekend and then drop dead, which it did. It didn’t look enticing, the reviews were at first non-existent and then terrible, and it opened amid a flood of high-profile product and even a lot of high-profile horror product like Crimson Peak and Goosebumps. To be fair, A Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse was never going to be a big hit. ![]() 5 from me.That’s the big question of course. All in all, if you don't have anything better to do - go ahead. But if you use hand camera to make a movie look more realistic, please let people do realistic things too. That is what bothers me in all of these films. Dad - well, at least he is kinda sexy so he passes as well as that blond girl ( which, by the way, I did not get why she is even in the house?! - a babysitter?!) So, Toby is evil, he is in the house for 6 days and the family goes around filming. I was surprised when the 1st one was voted somewhere as the scariest horror of all time!!!? Say what?! This one starts promising, but that is all that is interesting. I mean, they are not bad entirely, but not something special either. so, I was hoping with each one of these that one might be good, but. I watched them all not because I really liked them or enjoyed much but because I like horror films and those are rare nowdays - I mean the good ones. I watched all the paranormal activity movies and even a parody. Well, if it did, then it is not anything special. I think I read somewhere on the movie poster that this one is different and that it shows the story from the other side.
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