Dreamworks Acquires Ghostly ACTIVITY

By: Jarrod Sarafin, News Editor
Date: Thursday, January 31, 2008
Source: Variety

In the latest genre-related purchase from the Sundance Festival, Dreamworks has acquired the domestic and remake rights for Oren Peli's PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, a "haunted house" flick he shot over a one week time period with his high-def camera and two unknown actors. The original Sundance feature will likely be distributed straight to DVD and the international rights has gone to IM Global, both distribution deals raking in nearly seven figures for director Peli.

Activity Concept: A young couple suspects that their house is haunted by a malevolent entity. They set up video surveillance to capture evidence of what happens at night as they sleep. Their surveillance and home videos have been edited into the 99 minute feature film "Paranormal Activity".

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Comments/Responses

Whiskeymovie • Jan 31, 2008, 04:33am •

So is this like Blair Witch, Cloverfield style or is this actual footage? Sonds kind of cool, but then again the Trailer for WHite Noise looked really good,,,,White Noise 2 was much better.

godsonfilm • Jan 31, 2008, 05:05am •

Chances are this will not have shakey cam effects because they will have the cam on a tripod "at night as they sleep".

madmanic999 • Jan 31, 2008, 06:03am •

Good news for all the b#$%#s that can't even ride a tilt-a-whirl, or read a book in the car on the way to Grandma's house.

rgtchtiger • Jan 31, 2008, 09:15am •

So Dreamworks plans to not only release the original film on DVD but also remake it as an American film? Well have your cake and eat it too there, pal. Sounds like a snoozer of a film to me.

experiMENTAL • Jan 31, 2008, 09:31am •

The couple are shocked and terrified as they watch the footage they captured to find a naked, hungry Michael Moore standing over them as they sleep, drooling and scratching his hairy ass.

mckracken • Jan 31, 2008, 10:26am •

Michael Moore drooling and scratching standing next to a ghostly apparition of ...
HARRY KNOWLES!!!!!!!!!!

rudewordsmith • Jan 31, 2008, 02:23pm •

I saw the trailer for this a while back. Maybe on Chud.com... At any rate, I think they go handheld with the camera as well, so... well, as Madmanic999 put it, any "b#$%#s that can't even ride a tilt-a-whirl..." need not apply.

experiMENTAL • Feb 02, 2008, 12:40am •

So true mckracken, so true. Now THAT is horror.

Is Harry Knowles gonna be in the next Austin Powers movie as Fat Bastard?
"Ma neck looks like a vagina!"

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