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"Paranormal" sequel gets ready with "Saw" director
	
	
		
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Something's moving in the "Paranormal Activity 2" house.
 
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Paramount has hired TV writer Michael R. Perry ("Millennium") and "Saw VI" director Kevin Greutert to create the sequel to 2009's biggest surprise hit, "Paranormal Activity," which scared up $151 million in worldwide grosses in the fall on a shoestring $15,000 budget and a shrewd, opt-in Web marketing campaign.
Significantly, Paramount will unleash it in theaters on the pre-Halloween weekend of October 22, which sets it against that date's reigning champion in previous years, the next installment in Lionsgate's "Saw" series (this year would be "VII").
In a symbolic twist, Greutert made his directorial debut on the sixth "Saw" film, which grossed just $31 million worldwide last year, with observers thinking that the franchise may be bleeding dry. He had edited the first five films.
Unsurprisingly, the filmmakers are keeping the story line -- as well as the film's actual title -- hidden in the attic.
"Paranormal Activity's" closest analog is "The Blair Witch Project," another no-budget creeper that eventually grossed an astounding $240 million worldwide in 1999. That film, as well, engaged a verite conceit and a minimal, unknown cast to spooky effect.
Production company Artisan Entertainment tried to capture lightning a second time by quickly producing a sequel with a bigger, if still low, budget. But "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2," released the following Halloween, grossed a mere $26 million.
			
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