The “Paranormal Activity” craze has peaked.<\/p>\n
Despite easily positioning the film to win the weekend, Friday’s opening total for “Paranormal Activity 4” was down considerably from the third offering in the series.<\/p>\n
“Activity 4” grossed $15 million Friday en route to a likely weekend finish in the $30 millions, down from the $26.3 million Friday bow and $52.6 million weekend bow for last year’s movie.<\/p>\n
Behind “Paranormal” was “Argo,” which showed very impressive legs in grossing $5.1 million on Friday. That makes for a drop of only 14% from its opening day number last week.<\/p>\n
“Taken 2” clocked in at third ($4.3 million), besting the very disappointing $4.0 million for “Alex Cross.”<\/p>\n
That Friday total suggests “Cross”‘s opening weekend will come in below that of “Along Came a Spider,” the last film featuring the James Patterson character ($16.7 million). Given the inclusion of Tyler Perry, a decline<\/i> from the previous standard should not have been expected.<\/p>\n
“Hotel Transylvania” landed in fifth with $3.6 million Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\n