RE: [scifinoir2] Couples Retreat Scores Big at Box Office
Amen to that, Mr Worf. And another issue that's always gnawed on me -- when I was growing up, being raised solo by my other, I remember vividly when she began to prep me for the day when I was going to get my first haircut. She told me, repeatedly, that I was supposed to ask for what I wanted done to my head before or as I sat down and, if what ended up being done wasn't what I asked for, I was supposed to get up and walk away without paying. Yet I can't count the number of times when she or any of my sisters have gone to the shop and come home, complaining that they didn't like what the stylist had done to them. If they're paying $40 and up for the service, shouldn't they speak up that much louder? Martin (waiting for the fire to begin peppering the ground about him) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:24:37 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Couples Retreat Scores Big at Box Office I think Good Hair may actually start the bigger dialog on a topic that is about 20 years overdue. Why are black women doing this to themselves when it is draining so much money from their bank accounts every month? What are the psychological implications of doing it? On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I can never predict what the movie going public will like. Ever trailer I saw for Couple's Retreat made we want to stay far away from what looked like a predictable, slapstick heavy movie. I mean, scenes of a foreign hunk attracting the ladies but irritating the men...a scene with a crazed yoga instructor contorting so that his butt ends up on a man's face--oh, funny ha-ha. I also can't take either Vince Vaughn or Faizon Love in more than small doses, each getting on my nerves pretty quickly after too long. Go figure... I did see Good Hair today, which was enjoyable. Funny moments, but not rolling on the floor funny. My one criticism is that Chris Rock was a bit too outside the subject matter. He showed a lot of the Who, What, When, Where, and How of black women straightening their hair and getting weaves, but he slighted the Why. At one point Rock told a white scientist that black women wanted to look white. At the end of the movie, it's obvious he doesn't feel that way, but he didn't really let black women speak to that point. He interviewed them about how much money they spend on salons, how often they get their hair done, how young they were when they first got a perm, the Bronner Brothers show here in Atlanta, etc. But there was precious little discussion with Black women to explain how perms make it easier to maintain their hair. Very little frank discussion with them about whether they're trying to look white. No real mention of asking them why don't you try an afro? The interviewing of celebrities (Nia Long, Salt and Peppa, etc.) didn't really add much to the conversation. It was entertaining, but it could have been a bit deeper. Were I a Black woman, I'd come away feeling Rock didn't really let the full story play out on screen. I'm actually looking forward to the documentary about LeBron James' and his friends' march to the national high school basketball championship. *** http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i30e7feb16ddb02072c2eafb4d6b13179 'Couples' tops boxoffice 'Paranormal' finishes with $7.1 mil in first full weekend By Carl DiOrio Oct 11, 2009, 11:54 AM ET Related Couples Retreat tops boxoffice Friday Video: Box Office Tally Film Review -- Couples Retreat Finally, some good news for Universal. The recently struggling studio topped the weekend boxoffice, as its ensemble comedy Couples Retreat roused older date-night couples in big numbers to ring up an estimated $35.3 million in opening domestic coin. The winning performance came during a relatively quiet fall session, with the rest of the top spots filled by holdover pics. But with Universal Pictures replacing its top two execs last week following a summer-long boxoffice drought, the feat was no less welcome, whatever the competition. Sony's Woody Harrelson starrer Zombieland fell a modest 39% from its chart-topping tally of last weekend to $15 million in second place. That gave the modestly budgeted action comedy a 10-day cume of $47.8 million. The second, and potentially final, weekend for Disney's double-feature release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D saw the pairing dip just 39% from a week earlier to register $7.7 million in fourth place and a $22.7 million cume. Disney has said it would pull the titles from theaters on Friday, but execs
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Sent too soon, sorry. Forgot to add that I really *like* the character, so much so that I decided that he would not only survive this story, but that he might get a prequel. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:40:38 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Couples Retreat Scores Big at Box Office I can never predict what the movie going public will like. Ever trailer I saw for Couple's Retreat made we want to stay far away from what looked like a predictable, slapstick heavy movie. I mean, scenes of a foreign hunk attracting the ladies but irritating the men...a scene with a crazed yoga instructor contorting so that his butt ends up on a man's face--oh, funny ha-ha. I also can't take either Vince Vaughn or Faizon Love in more than small doses, each getting on my nerves pretty quickly after too long. Go figure... I did see Good Hair today, which was enjoyable. Funny moments, but not rolling on the floor funny. My one criticism is that Chris Rock was a bit too outside the subject matter. He showed a lot of the Who, What, When, Where, and How of black women straightening their hair and getting weaves, but he slighted the Why. At one point Rock told a white scientist that black women wanted to look white. At the end of the movie, it's obvious he doesn't feel that way, but he didn't really let black women speak to that point. He interviewed them about how much money they spend on salons, how often they get their hair done, how young they were when they first got a perm, the Bronner Brothers show here in Atlanta, etc. But there was precious little discussion with Black women to explain how perms make it easier to maintain their hair. Very little frank discussion with them about whether they're trying to look white. No real mention of asking them why don't you try an afro? The interviewing of celebrities (Nia Long, Salt and Peppa, etc.) didn't really add much to the conversation. It was entertaining, but it could have been a bit deeper. Were I a Black woman, I'd come away feeling Rock didn't really let the full story play out on screen. I'm actually looking forward to the documentary about LeBron James' and his friends' march to the national high school basketball championship. *** http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i30e7feb16ddb02072c2eafb4d6b13179 'Couples' tops boxoffice 'Paranormal' finishes with $7.1 mil in first full weekend By Carl DiOrio Oct 11, 2009, 11:54 AM ET Related Couples Retreat tops boxoffice Friday Video: Box Office Tally Film Review -- Couples Retreat Finally, some good news for Universal. The recently struggling studio topped the weekend boxoffice, as its ensemble comedy Couples Retreat roused older date-night couples in big numbers to ring up an estimated $35.3 million in opening domestic coin. The winning performance came during a relatively quiet fall session, with the rest of the top spots filled by holdover pics. But with Universal Pictures replacing its top two execs last week following a summer-long boxoffice drought, the feat was no less welcome, whatever the competition. Sony's Woody Harrelson starrer Zombieland fell a modest 39% from its chart-topping tally of last weekend to $15 million in second place. That gave the modestly budgeted action comedy a 10-day cume of $47.8 million. The second, and potentially final, weekend for Disney's double-feature release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D saw the pairing dip just 39% from a week earlier to register $7.7 million in fourth place and a $22.7 million cume. Disney has said it would pull the titles from theaters on Friday, but execs will reassess the matter Monday based on the solid marketplace hold for the films. Paramount's micro-budgeted sci-fi thriller Paranormal Activity grossed $7.1 million from 159 locations after expanding from its previous midnight-only playdates. The fifth-place showing amounted to an eye-popping $44,440 per site, with Paranormal's cume reaching $8.3 million. The heady performance should help widen publicity for the inexpensive Slamdance acquisition, as the studio attempts to sustain Paranormal's momentum into coming sessions. Warner Bros.' comedy The Invention of Lying, starring Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner, slid 52% to $3.4 million in seventh place with a 10-day cume of $12.3 million cume. And Fox Searchlight-produced Ellen Page-starrer Whip It dropped 40% in its sophomore session to $2.8 million in eighth place for $8.8 million cume. The weekend's top 10 films registered a collective $92.6 million, or 15% more than top performers in a comparable frame last year, according
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Again, Keith, I agree with you in totis. However, seeing Vaughn in the trailer for Couples Retreat made me realize that he is the living embodiment of a character in one of my stories. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: keithbjohn...@comcast.net Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:40:38 + Subject: [scifinoir2] Couples Retreat Scores Big at Box Office I can never predict what the movie going public will like. Ever trailer I saw for Couple's Retreat made we want to stay far away from what looked like a predictable, slapstick heavy movie. I mean, scenes of a foreign hunk attracting the ladies but irritating the men...a scene with a crazed yoga instructor contorting so that his butt ends up on a man's face--oh, funny ha-ha. I also can't take either Vince Vaughn or Faizon Love in more than small doses, each getting on my nerves pretty quickly after too long. Go figure... I did see Good Hair today, which was enjoyable. Funny moments, but not rolling on the floor funny. My one criticism is that Chris Rock was a bit too outside the subject matter. He showed a lot of the Who, What, When, Where, and How of black women straightening their hair and getting weaves, but he slighted the Why. At one point Rock told a white scientist that black women wanted to look white. At the end of the movie, it's obvious he doesn't feel that way, but he didn't really let black women speak to that point. He interviewed them about how much money they spend on salons, how often they get their hair done, how young they were when they first got a perm, the Bronner Brothers show here in Atlanta, etc. But there was precious little discussion with Black women to explain how perms make it easier to maintain their hair. Very little frank discussion with them about whether they're trying to look white. No real mention of asking them why don't you try an afro? The interviewing of celebrities (Nia Long, Salt and Peppa, etc.) didn't really add much to the conversation. It was entertaining, but it could have been a bit deeper. Were I a Black woman, I'd come away feeling Rock didn't really let the full story play out on screen. I'm actually looking forward to the documentary about LeBron James' and his friends' march to the national high school basketball championship. *** http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i30e7feb16ddb02072c2eafb4d6b13179 'Couples' tops boxoffice 'Paranormal' finishes with $7.1 mil in first full weekend By Carl DiOrio Oct 11, 2009, 11:54 AM ET Related Couples Retreat tops boxoffice Friday Video: Box Office Tally Film Review -- Couples Retreat Finally, some good news for Universal. The recently struggling studio topped the weekend boxoffice, as its ensemble comedy Couples Retreat roused older date-night couples in big numbers to ring up an estimated $35.3 million in opening domestic coin. The winning performance came during a relatively quiet fall session, with the rest of the top spots filled by holdover pics. But with Universal Pictures replacing its top two execs last week following a summer-long boxoffice drought, the feat was no less welcome, whatever the competition. Sony's Woody Harrelson starrer Zombieland fell a modest 39% from its chart-topping tally of last weekend to $15 million in second place. That gave the modestly budgeted action comedy a 10-day cume of $47.8 million. The second, and potentially final, weekend for Disney's double-feature release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D saw the pairing dip just 39% from a week earlier to register $7.7 million in fourth place and a $22.7 million cume. Disney has said it would pull the titles from theaters on Friday, but execs will reassess the matter Monday based on the solid marketplace hold for the films. Paramount's micro-budgeted sci-fi thriller Paranormal Activity grossed $7.1 million from 159 locations after expanding from its previous midnight-only playdates. The fifth-place showing amounted to an eye-popping $44,440 per site, with Paranormal's cume reaching $8.3 million. The heady performance should help widen publicity for the inexpensive Slamdance acquisition, as the studio attempts to sustain Paranormal's momentum into coming sessions. Warner Bros.' comedy The Invention of Lying, starring Ricky Gervais and Jennifer Garner, slid 52% to $3.4 million in seventh place with a 10-day cume of $12.3 million cume. And Fox Searchlight-produced Ellen Page-starrer Whip It dropped 40% in its sophomore session to $2.8 million in eighth place for $8.8 million cume. The weekend's top 10 films registered a collective $92.6 million, or 15% more than top performers in a comparable frame last
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Hehehe that is a long tradition of women of color and I couldn't agree more. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Amen to that, Mr Worf. And another issue that's always gnawed on me -- when I was growing up, being raised solo by my other, I remember vividly when she began to prep me for the day when I was going to get my first haircut. She told me, repeatedly, that I was supposed to ask for what I wanted done to my head before or as I sat down and, if what ended up being done wasn't what I asked for, I was supposed to get up and walk away without paying. Yet I can't count the number of times when she or any of my sisters have gone to the shop and come home, complaining that they didn't like what the stylist had done to them. If they're paying $40 and up for the service, shouldn't they speak up that much louder? Martin (waiting for the fire to begin peppering the ground about him) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:24:37 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Couples Retreat Scores Big at Box Office I think Good Hair may actually start the bigger dialog on a topic that is about 20 years overdue. Why are black women doing this to themselves when it is draining so much money from their bank accounts every month? What are the psychological implications of doing it? On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I can never predict what the movie going public will like. Ever trailer I saw for Couple's Retreat made we want to stay far away from what looked like a predictable, slapstick heavy movie. I mean, scenes of a foreign hunk attracting the ladies but irritating the men...a scene with a crazed yoga instructor contorting so that his butt ends up on a man's face--oh, funny ha-ha. I also can't take either Vince Vaughn or Faizon Love in more than small doses, each getting on my nerves pretty quickly after too long. Go figure... I did see Good Hair today, which was enjoyable. Funny moments, but not rolling on the floor funny. My one criticism is that Chris Rock was a bit too outside the subject matter. He showed a lot of the Who, What, When, Where, and How of black women straightening their hair and getting weaves, but he slighted the Why. At one point Rock told a white scientist that black women wanted to look white. At the end of the movie, it's obvious he doesn't feel that way, but he didn't really let black women speak to that point. He interviewed them about how much money they spend on salons, how often they get their hair done, how young they were when they first got a perm, the Bronner Brothers show here in Atlanta, etc. But there was precious little discussion with Black women to explain how perms make it easier to maintain their hair. Very little frank discussion with them about whether they're trying to look white. No real mention of asking them why don't you try an afro? The interviewing of celebrities (Nia Long, Salt and Peppa, etc.) didn't really add much to the conversation. It was entertaining, but it could have been a bit deeper. Were I a Black woman, I'd come away feeling Rock didn't really let the full story play out on screen. I'm actually looking forward to the documentary about LeBron James' and his friends' march to the national high school basketball championship. *** http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i30e7feb16ddb02072c2eafb4d6b13179 'Couples' tops boxoffice 'Paranormal' finishes with $7.1 mil in first full weekend By Carl DiOrio Oct 11, 2009, 11:54 AM ET [image: hr/photos/stylus/105219-couples_retreat_341x182.jpg] Related Couples Retreat tops boxoffice Fridayhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i30e7feb16ddb020785ba51ead0205db4 Video: Box Office Tallyhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ieb794c2afa5545413cc281e96fc1ffd1 Film Review -- Couples Retreathttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/couples-retreat-film-review-1004020287.story Finally, some good news for Universal. The recently struggling studio topped the weekend boxoffice, as its ensemble comedy Couples Retreathttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/couples-retreat-film-review-1004020287.storyroused older date-night couples in big numbers to ring up an estimated $35.3 million in opening domestic coin. The winning performance came during a relatively quiet fall session, with the rest of the top spots filled by holdover pics. But with Universal Pictures replacing its top two execs last week following a summer-long boxoffice drought, the feat was no less
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Now let's see if the women *here* agree with you. I hope they don't throw high heels. Those things *hurt*. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:50:59 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Couples Retreat Scores Big at Box Office Hehehe that is a long tradition of women of color and I couldn't agree more. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Amen to that, Mr Worf. And another issue that's always gnawed on me -- when I was growing up, being raised solo by my other, I remember vividly when she began to prep me for the day when I was going to get my first haircut. She told me, repeatedly, that I was supposed to ask for what I wanted done to my head before or as I sat down and, if what ended up being done wasn't what I asked for, I was supposed to get up and walk away without paying. Yet I can't count the number of times when she or any of my sisters have gone to the shop and come home, complaining that they didn't like what the stylist had done to them. If they're paying $40 and up for the service, shouldn't they speak up that much louder? Martin (waiting for the fire to begin peppering the ground about him) If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:24:37 -0700 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Couples Retreat Scores Big at Box Office I think Good Hair may actually start the bigger dialog on a topic that is about 20 years overdue. Why are black women doing this to themselves when it is draining so much money from their bank accounts every month? What are the psychological implications of doing it? On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.net wrote: I can never predict what the movie going public will like. Ever trailer I saw for Couple's Retreat made we want to stay far away from what looked like a predictable, slapstick heavy movie. I mean, scenes of a foreign hunk attracting the ladies but irritating the men...a scene with a crazed yoga instructor contorting so that his butt ends up on a man's face--oh, funny ha-ha. I also can't take either Vince Vaughn or Faizon Love in more than small doses, each getting on my nerves pretty quickly after too long. Go figure... I did see Good Hair today, which was enjoyable. Funny moments, but not rolling on the floor funny. My one criticism is that Chris Rock was a bit too outside the subject matter. He showed a lot of the Who, What, When, Where, and How of black women straightening their hair and getting weaves, but he slighted the Why. At one point Rock told a white scientist that black women wanted to look white. At the end of the movie, it's obvious he doesn't feel that way, but he didn't really let black women speak to that point. He interviewed them about how much money they spend on salons, how often they get their hair done, how young they were when they first got a perm, the Bronner Brothers show here in Atlanta, etc. But there was precious little discussion with Black women to explain how perms make it easier to maintain their hair. Very little frank discussion with them about whether they're trying to look white. No real mention of asking them why don't you try an afro? The interviewing of celebrities (Nia Long, Salt and Peppa, etc.) didn't really add much to the conversation. It was entertaining, but it could have been a bit deeper. Were I a Black woman, I'd come away feeling Rock didn't really let the full story play out on screen. I'm actually looking forward to the documentary about LeBron James' and his friends' march to the national high school basketball championship. *** http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i30e7feb16ddb02072c2eafb4d6b13179 'Couples' tops boxoffice 'Paranormal' finishes with $7.1 mil in first full weekend By Carl DiOrio Oct 11, 2009, 11:54 AM ET Related Couples Retreat tops boxoffice Friday Video: Box Office Tally Film Review -- Couples Retreat Finally, some good news for Universal. The recently struggling studio topped the weekend boxoffice, as its ensemble comedy Couples Retreat roused older date-night couples in big numbers to ring up an estimated $35.3 million in opening domestic coin. The winning performance came during a relatively quiet fall session, with the rest of the top spots filled by holdover pics
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I think Good Hair may actually start the bigger dialog on a topic that is about 20 years overdue. Why are black women doing this to themselves when it is draining so much money from their bank accounts every month? What are the psychological implications of doing it? On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Keith Johnson keithbjohn...@comcast.netwrote: I can never predict what the movie going public will like. Ever trailer I saw for Couple's Retreat made we want to stay far away from what looked like a predictable, slapstick heavy movie. I mean, scenes of a foreign hunk attracting the ladies but irritating the men...a scene with a crazed yoga instructor contorting so that his butt ends up on a man's face--oh, funny ha-ha. I also can't take either Vince Vaughn or Faizon Love in more than small doses, each getting on my nerves pretty quickly after too long. Go figure... I did see Good Hair today, which was enjoyable. Funny moments, but not rolling on the floor funny. My one criticism is that Chris Rock was a bit too outside the subject matter. He showed a lot of the Who, What, When, Where, and How of black women straightening their hair and getting weaves, but he slighted the Why. At one point Rock told a white scientist that black women wanted to look white. At the end of the movie, it's obvious he doesn't feel that way, but he didn't really let black women speak to that point. He interviewed them about how much money they spend on salons, how often they get their hair done, how young they were when they first got a perm, the Bronner Brothers show here in Atlanta, etc. But there was precious little discussion with Black women to explain how perms make it easier to maintain their hair. Very little frank discussion with them about whether they're trying to look white. No real mention of asking them why don't you try an afro? The interviewing of celebrities (Nia Long, Salt and Peppa, etc.) didn't really add much to the conversation. It was entertaining, but it could have been a bit deeper. Were I a Black woman, I'd come away feeling Rock didn't really let the full story play out on screen. I'm actually looking forward to the documentary about LeBron James' and his friends' march to the national high school basketball championship. *** http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i30e7feb16ddb02072c2eafb4d6b13179 'Couples' tops boxoffice 'Paranormal' finishes with $7.1 mil in first full weekend By Carl DiOrio Oct 11, 2009, 11:54 AM ET [image: hr/photos/stylus/105219-couples_retreat_341x182.jpg] Related Couples Retreat tops boxoffice Fridayhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i30e7feb16ddb020785ba51ead0205db4 Video: Box Office Tallyhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3ieb794c2afa5545413cc281e96fc1ffd1 Film Review -- Couples Retreathttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/couples-retreat-film-review-1004020287.story Finally, some good news for Universal. The recently struggling studio topped the weekend boxoffice, as its ensemble comedy Couples Retreathttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/couples-retreat-film-review-1004020287.storyroused older date-night couples in big numbers to ring up an estimated $35.3 million in opening domestic coin. The winning performance came during a relatively quiet fall session, with the rest of the top spots filled by holdover pics. But with Universal Pictures replacing its top two execs last week following a summer-long boxoffice drought, the feat was no less welcome, whatever the competition. Sony's Woody Harrelson starrer Zombielandhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/zombieland-film-review-1004016254.storyfell a modest 39% from its chart-topping tally of last weekend to $15 million in second place. That gave the modestly budgeted action comedy a 10-day cume of $47.8 million. The second, and potentially final, weekend for Disney's double-feature release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D saw the pairing dip just 39% from a week earlier to register $7.7 million in fourth place and a $22.7 million cume. Disney has said it would pull the titles from theaters on Friday, but execs will reassess the matter Monday based on the solid marketplace hold for the films. Paramount's micro-budgeted sci-fi thriller Paranormal Activityhttp://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/paranormal-activity-film-review-1004015885.storygrossed $7.1 million from 159 locations after expanding from its previous midnight-only playdates. The fifth-place showing amounted to an eye-popping $44,440 per site, with Paranormal's cume reaching $8.3 million. The heady performance should help widen publicity for the inexpensive Slamdance acquisition, as the studio attempts to sustain Paranormal's momentum into coming sessions. Warner Bros.' comedy The Invention of
