OPENING: Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (Paramount, wide) $18.3 est. 3-day opening for recast franchise NOTEWORTHY: Frozen (DIS) crosses $600M worldwide UPDATED MONDAY, 1:30 PM: Final numbers for all weekend estimates are less than expected as arctic temps across the nation kept moviegoers home Sunday night. As…

The only new box office offering this weekend, horror film Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones opened decently on Thursday night for $1.2M in 1,600 theaters. Paramount estimates show the picture on track to a midteen-millions 3-day weekend, though bad weather in the Northeast is impacting box office. The hilarious…

Paramount is going down the spinoff road with Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, due out January 3. The trailer that dropped today gives the first look at the pic, which the distributor had mostly been mum about other than saying it will target the franchise’s sizable Latino fanbase using mostly Latino actors (the…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has tapped Christopher Landon to direct  Scouts Vs. Zombies as his followup to Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones, which the studio releases January 3. Landon wrote and directed that sequel after writing Paranormal Activity 3 and PA 4, and co-writing Paranormal 2. He will then take on Sc…

Paramount is setting details for its next two Paranormal Activity franchise outings. The newly titled Latino-focused spin-off is now called Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones and will debut January 3, 2014. The film helmed by series scribe Christopher Landon had originally been slated for an October 25, 2013 release…