EXCLUSIVE: I’ve confirmed that Paramount is continuing its Paranormal Activity franchise for a 5th installment that will advance the story produced 
by Jason Blum and Oren Pell timed to Halloween 2013. But what’s far more interesting news is that my insiders say the studio is plotting an as-yet-untitled spinoff tentatively set for Spring 2013 and aimed at PA‘s very sizeable Latino audience. I’ve learned that PA2 and PA3 and PA4 screenwriter Christopher Landon, who spec-scripted 2007’s big hit Disturbia and is the son of Hollywood legend Michael Landon, is helming. (Paramount Film Group President Adam Goodman shepherded Disturbia while he was president of production at DreamWorks. Pic was directed by D.J. Caruso.) The spinoff will include the demon from the PA franchise and star mostly Latino actors and film partly in Spanish. “This will be an off-shoot aimed at the groups who have been the biggest supporters of the property — Latinos and folks in Latin America — Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina,” a Paramount insider tells me. The studio placed a teaser clip at the end of PA4 for the spinoff which will begin shooting shortly. As for Paranormal Activity 5, the studio considers PA4‘s $30M opening-weekend gross an “an amazing result at this $5M budget level” even if though its North American take is well below PA2‘s and PA3‘s. Overall, the three previous Paranormal Activity installments have earned over $576 million worldwide on a combined budget of a little over $8M.
Greenlight For ‘Paranormal Activity 5’ Plus Latino Spinoff To Be Directed By ‘PA2-3-4’ Scripter Christopher Landon
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All about Jason Blum.
Please note: DISTURBIA was co-scripted by the very talented Carl Ellsworth.
Paramount is finally realizing that Paranormal Activity is about dead especially with that soft weekend total(which will plummet next year for PA5) so they want a spin off to try and save there cash cow.
they need to actually take the scipt scene a little back to where people first felt at home with this movie,and where would that be?katie;and meccas house!,and the familys that keep coming in on this movie scene that we dont know,and at least fight katie back a little,!thank you very much.
Also note that Landon has also written every Paranormal film since the 2nd.
In terms of producers, Blum is the biggest moneymaker for a studio in hollywood.
Paramount has morphed into the Monogram studio for the new millenium.
Please double note: DISTURBIA was a ripoff of a Simpsons spoof of Rear Window made serious. As though someone saw that episode of the simpsons and thought to themselves ‘omg, this is scenario could be so horrifying if played straight’, not realizing what they were watching was a parody of a classic that they had neglected from seeing.
That is not an exaggeration.
Just like “The Hangover” more than resembles the Simpsons
episode set in Vegas, right down to the tiger & Mike Tyson.
The momentum is slowing way down for this type of film – the hand-held “found” video style popularized years ago by BLAIR WITCH and its sequel. It is merely an excuse for an inexpensive production tarted up as a “movie”.
PARANORMAL, APPOLO 18, and many other followers are the result of Excel-driven suits looking for the least expensive way to justify producing shit.
Sinister was far better than PA4. It must have been strange for Mr. Blum to see his movies go against each other.
lol this is like an after-the-fact pander-casting…Hollywood still doesn’t get it, people go to see movies that are entertaining, not movies cast entirely with people who look and talk exactly like themselves, and most likely the Hispanic audience will be unimpressed with a lame spin-off of a creatively dying series just because someone’s last name in the cast is GARCIA
Fascinating. I didn’t realize “pander-casting” was so prevalent a concern. Please enlighten us, Mr. Boob, with other examples of a studio doing a disservice to audiences by ignoring the assumption that the default position for “sympathetic human character” = “white.”
I hope that if the spin-off does happen, that it at least has some influence from Latino directors/writers. Few people can do horror the way Spanish speaking directors can. Some of the best horror films of the past decade have been scripted and filmed in Spanish.
paranormal activity 5 is going to be the best movie ever flabergasted
Interesting negative comments. Let me know when any of the haters here create 579 million dollars. I would rather watch twenty more installments of Paranormal Activity than all the reality shows of television. I don’t have a prediction regarding the spin off, but Paranormal 5 will be hugely successful.
Keep on hating.
Really? …Hating?
…Hating?
This is becoming a terrible franchise and money =/= quality. Those reality shows you hate? They make money, much to the lament of both of us.
But to say that it’s a great movie because it makes a lot of money is faulty logic.
Speaking of faulty logic…. I never said any movie was great because it made a lot of money. In fact, I never said any of part of the franchise was great. Don’t put words in my mouth.
I did allude to the fact that no matter HOW DILUTED the franchise becomes, it will remain superior to reality scripts/shows.
What I was speaking to is this OBSESSION to tear something down when the larger % of the “haters” create ~nothing~. And you know as well as I that many of them have not watched the film in question but are merely dog piling. I’m SICK of “snarkiness” equating to “hip.”
As far as the hating statement… I stand by it. That’s what I call it. Negative comments are hardly a revelation and stem from the lowest rung of sadism.
Of course, hate is relative and subjective. I proudly hate reality television. But I certainly don’t go to reality blogs and inform them how inferior I believe the shows to be.
Entertainment as a whole is analyzed too much in America – talking heads quipping about believability, effects, blah blah blah.
(I’ll tell you when the 4th Wall was “penetrated,” you quacking ducks, when you purchased your ticket or viewed the trailer! You’re viewing a SCREEN.)
Artistically, P4 did what it set out to do. I can’t find fault with what was created in their parameters.
I will confess however, that I became annoyed at hand-held shaky camera technique long before Blair Witch : Those inane Dockers commercials drove me crazy.
MY personal vice is the PHANTASM franchise. I simply love it. So when someone says “P1” or “P4”, my mind goes there before anywhere else.
This sounds ridiculously stupid. PA4 left off on a bad note, so I don’t want to see PA5 tread the same ground again. They should have advanced the story much more if they wanted audiences to remain engaged.
The spinoff? LOL