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![]() ![]() Kyle Buchanan is covering the films, personalities and events along the way. The Projectionist Chronicles the Awards Season The Oscars aren’t until March, but the campaigns have begun. Here are edited excerpts from that conversation. ![]() ![]() Peli explained what he thought of the found-footage genre now, why he directed only the first film and what he had learned from fans of the franchise. Peli, 45, has had a producer credit on all of the films. Other directors helmed the movies and new writers were hired, but Mr. After Paramount released it in 2009, “Paranormal Activity” earned more than $100 million at the box office and led to ”Paranormal” 2, 3 and 4 and “Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones” that would bring the series domestic total to $380 million. The film played the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles in 2007 and eventually caught the attention of Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks. The film forced audiences to search the screen in silence for evidence of paranormal activity, first with subtlety, then with increasing intensity. Its scariest moments came courtesy of a stationary video camera set up in the corner of a bedroom. The first movie was shot in 2006 in the home of its writer and director, Oren Peli. The “Paranormal Activity” series started as a ghost story made on a shoestring budget. Paramount has said the six-film series, which uses a found-footage format to track a ghostly presence in a variety of suburban homes, will end with the 3-D “Ghost Dimension,” opening Friday. After six years of doors slamming ominously, sheets moving eerily and bodies levitating mysteriously, the “Paranormal Activity” franchise is reaching a conclusion. ![]()
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