Early this year the film The Devil Inside became a strange sensation. Released in the dead of January and powered by an unexpectedly successful marketing campaign, the film took in a $53m domestic haul even as it left many audiences unsatisfied at the end. The film became only the sixth to earn an 'F' CinemaScore;…
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What do Bridesmaids and The Devil Inside have in common? Not a lot, except that both performed even better than expected at the box office, and execs are now eager to get going on terrible-sounding sequels. After the jump: Melissa McCarthy refuses to do Bridesmaids 2 without Kristen Wiig Mark Wahlberg reports that The Fighter…
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After the success of Paranormal Activity, Paramount created a small division called Insurge. The purpose of that company offshoot was to make or buy several 'micro-budget' films each year -- essentially movies made for about a million dollars that could (hopefully) replicate some of the success of Paranormal Activity. The first Insurge effort is this:…
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