Weekend Recap - 'Paranormal,' 'This Is It,' 'Mad Max'

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02Nov2009

Weekend Recap - 'Paranormal,' 'This Is It,' 'Mad Max'

Monday, November 2, 2009 at 5:13AM

Michael Jackson's This Is It was the number one movie of the weekend, but its box office performance was kind of like watching a heavily favored football team eke out a win over an outmatched opponent with a last minute field goal. Not a great opening weekend, and I don't know what else it could be other than Jackson overload since his death in late June.

The other big news is also box office related: Paranormal Activity is now the most profitable film ever made. That's a luxury you can enjoy when you make a movie for $15,000 and have one of the world's most powerful movie studios distribute it for you. We've got more details on both of those stories, Mad Max 4, and more, so read on.

Paranormal Activity has made an awful lot of money

Hugh Jackman passes on hosting Oscars again

Miramax president leaves the company

Charlize and Tom Hardy in for Mad Max 4

IMDB's top 250 films visualized as a subway map

This Is It wins, but...

Hustle & Flow director Craig Brewer to take over a darker Footloose remake?

And from other fine movie news resources...

Seth McFarlane's Fox special gets a new sponsor: Sherlock Holmes(Variety)

That's Sir Christopher Lee to you (Filmonic)

Abel Ferrera no longer directing Game of Death (MovieHole)

A Gattaca TV series being developed (FilmJunk)

Dolph Lundgren ponders an Expendables sequel (MovieWeb)

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