Watch The Original Improvised Auditions For 'Paranormal Activity'
Director Oren Peli has posted the original Paranormal Activity auditions on YouTube, offering insight into the film's improvised story.
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'Area 51' Trailer: Oren Peli's Sci-Fi Thriller Escapes The Vault
The new thriller from Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli is finally getting a limited release; see the Area 51 trailer here.
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Exclusive: 'Paranormal Activity' Creators Have Planned An Ultimate Ending For The Series
When Oren Peli released the first Paranormal Activity in 2007, no one would've guessed seven years later, we'd still be talking about it. But here we are in 2014, and the fifth film in the franchise, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, is now in theaters. Though the main storyline for this film is separate from…
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Jason Blum Offers Update On Oren Peli's 'Area 51': "It Exists!"
Over the weekend, the CIA finally acknowledged the existence of Area 51, the mysterious government facility rumored to be the site of UFO activity. At the same time, producer was eager to reaffirm the existence of Area 51, the Oren Peli-directed found-footage horror film based on same. Area 51 was first announced in 2009 and entered principal…
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Sequel Bits: 'Paranormal Activity 5', 'Machete Kills', 'Indiana Jones 5', 'The Expendables 3', 'Mama 2', 'Insidious Chapter 2', 'Knocked Up' Spinoff
So far, the scariest thing about Paranormal Activity 5 may be how little anyone involved with it claims to know about it. We are talking about a movie that's due out in just under nine months. After the jump: Katie Featherston and Oren Peli talk Paranormal Activity 5 No, Linday Lohan will not be reprising…
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TV Bits: Rick McCallum Says 'Star Wars' Show Is "'Empire Strikes Back' On Steroids," Plus: 'American Horror Story', 'The Walking Dead', 'The Killing', And More
Is it Halloween already? Today's TV Bits is dark and spooky, as it deals with vampires, zombies, murderers, and other scary creatures. (Insert your own joke about some of Star Wars' CGI characters being their own brand of horrifying here.) After the jump: Rick McCallum talks about the Star Wars TV show (again) ABC releases a…
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Production Begins On Post-Apocalyptic Thriller Written And Produced By 'Paranormal Activity' Creator Oren Peli
In 2009, Paramount released Oren Peli's tiny little movie Paranormal Activity, to great success. That film has already spawned two hugely successful sequels, and even as Paranormal was being released Peli was already working on another film called Area 51. There's not yet any sign of Area 51, two years later, but Peli is reportedly…
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Producer Says 'Area 51' Is Still Being Tweaked; Release Date To Be Determined
Even before the massive success of Paranormal Activity, we knew that producer Jason Blum and director Oren Peli were going to make a movie called Area 51. The project was officially announced in October 2009, and now, a year and a half later, there is still no movie to be seen. In April of this…
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TV Trailer: 'The River,' From 'Paranormal Activity' Creator Oren Peli
Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli is behind a new ABC show called The River, which follows the search for a missing nature TV host. Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan) directed the pilot from a script by Michael R. Perry and Michael Green, and a trailer has shown up online. The faux-documentary/'found footage' aesthetic that Oren Peli has…
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Lionsgate To Distribute 'The Bay,' A Found Footage, Biological Horror Film By Barry Levinson
Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson has just found a distributor for his first horror film, a found footage tale of what happens when a deadly disease moves from the sea onto the land, called The Bay. Lionsgate has acquired the rights to the film, which was produced by the team behind Paranormal Activity and Insidious: Jason…
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Screenwriting Bits: 'Basic Instinct' Scribe Joe Eszterhas Returns With 'Lust;' Chris Denham To Rewrite 'Area 51'?
Is Paramount doing some late in the game work to Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli's new film Area 51? Bloody Disgusting reports that Chris Denham has been hired to rewrite some of the film, the wrinkle being that Area 51 wrapped months ago. Reshoots will follow for the 'found footage' film that follows " three…
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'Insidious' Trailer - A New Horror Thrill Ride From The Makers Of 'Saw' And 'Paranormal Activity'
Director James Wan has been on a downward slope since Saw. His ultra low-budget horror debut may not have been a huge hit with critics, but as you have surely deduced from the six sequels it's spawned, the film performed like gangbusters with audiences. His two follow-up efforts, meanwhile, did not. Death Sentence performed miserably…
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'Paranormal Activity 3' Set For October 21, 2011
Briefly: The turnout for Paranormal Activity 2 was good enough that a third film is already in the planning stages. Oren Peli, who directed the original film in the series and produced the second, has told Dread Central that Paramount is setting October 21, 2011 as the release date for Paranormal Activity 3. We don't…
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'Paranormal Activity' Director Oren Peli To Direct Edgar Allen Poe's 'Eliza Graves'
When Oren Peli shot the first Paranormal Activity in his own house over the course of a week, he never could have imagined how it would totally and utterly change his life. The film came out and was a runaway hit, he immediately signed on to produce a sequel and then directed his second movie…
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Movie Trailer: 'Paranormal Activity 2'
In June we saw the first teaser for Paranormal Activity 2, which opens on October 22. But that mostly traded on the cache of the first film, which did shockingly well for Paramount. (Thanks in part to a very smart marketing campaign.) Now there's a full trailer for the sequel, which introduces the new family…
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Details Emerge On Barry Levinson's Eco-Horror Film 'The Bay,' Formerly Called 'Isopod'
A couple weeks back, there was some really early word that Barry Levinson would be making a film with sci-fi overtones. Called Isopod, the movie was reportedly a thriller that would shoot in the Carolinas. Now there's a lot more detail, starting off with a title change: Isopod is now called The Bay. Screen Daily…
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Paranormal Activity 2 To Be Directed By Kip Williams
Briefly: Well, it's not quite Brian De Palma, but it's also not Akiva Goldsman. And did we really think that Paramount was going to a big-name director for this quickie sequel to Paranormal Activity? So: Tod 'Kip' Williams (The Door in the Floor) will direct Paranormal Activity 2. The hire was announced on the film's…
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Paranormal Activity Creators Producing Insidious, A New Film From The Saw Creators
Original Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell are going to film a new low-budget horror picture this summer called Insidious, with Wan directing from a script by Whannell. Making the project a bit more interesting, Oren Peli, Jason Blum and Steven Schneider, the guys behind Paranormal Activity, are producing. Variety says that the Paranormal…
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Paramount To Distribute Paranormal Activity Follow-Up Area 51
Paramount Pictures has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Area 51, reteaming with filmmaker Oren Peli for his follow-up to the low budget haunted house "found footage" indie Paranormal Activity. Peli shot the film, another found-video thriller, last month in Utah with three virtually unknown actors - Reid Warner, Darrin Bragg and Ben Rovner. The film was shot for…
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Plot Details For Paranormal Activity Director Oren Peli's Area 51
With Paranormal Activity turning out to be a massive success, all eyes are on director Oren Peli's upcoming project, Area 51. Obviously, the film will likely deal with the titular American military base which has been home to all sorts of conspiracies, in particular aliens. Up until now, we've heard murmurs that the film was…
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Paranormal Activity Director Oren Peli's Area 51 Gets A Completely Unknown Cast
While covering the American Film Market, Bloody Disgusting discovered the names of the three main cast members for director Oren Peli's Area 51, the filmmaker's follow-up to the indie supernatural thriller viral sensation Paranormal Activity. Peli is not going Hollywood yet, and keeping it low-key, with three virtually unknown actors - Reid Warner, Darrin Bragg and Ben Rovner.…
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Paranormal Activity Director Goes To Area 51
Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli's next film is no secret -- he's been talking about it since Slamdance. We even mentioned it breifly in a previous posting. But now that Paranormal has become a viral box office sensation, the project has been officially announced in the trades. What is it? Peli is going to Area…
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Paranormal Activity: Spielberg's Haunted Screener, Remake Madness, And Area 51
The Los Angeles Times has published a great article on Paranormal Activity, which features a bunch of interesting tidbits: Steven Spielberg had taken a Paranormal Activity DVD screener to his Pacific Palisades estate, and not long after he watched it, "the door to his empty bedroom inexplicably locked from the inside." The famous director was…
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Paranormal Activity Finally Gets A Release Date
The ultra-low-budget horror film Paranormal Activity has been building praise for the past few years---after successful showings at the Screamfast and Slamdance film festivals, and most recently at Telluride. Anne Thompson is now reporting that the film is set for a September 25 release by Paramount. Given that the film was shot for $11,000 over…
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Sanchez And Myrick Discuss Possibilities For Blair Witch Project 3
It's a couple of weeks over ten years now since The Blair Witch Project proved to be a strange freak of box office nature. Back at it's release on July 30th 1999 the film was given a crazy leg-up by its accidentally wonderful online marketing and a public desperate to buy into something spiritual-mystical, however…
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Dreamworks Buys Paranormal Activity, Plans Remake
One film that's already being touted as the next Cloverfield even more so than Cloverfield 2 is the recent Slamdance Film Festival sensation Paranormal Activity: Evidence of a Haunting. The indie, handicam-style haunted house flick, shot in a week's time by video game designer and upstart director Oren Peli in his own house, has been…
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