'Paranormal' screams to surface of B.O.

'Paranormal Activity 3'With an believed $54 million domestic open, Paramount's third installment within the "Paranormal Activity" franchise grew to become the very best-ever October debut, along with the greatest opening for any horror film, inserting some much-needed existence into what is a blah domestic B.O. recently."Paranormal 3" wasn't likely to land much greater than $40 million locally, showing the micro-allocated series has lots of scares left inside it.Abroad, the horror prequel nabbed a forecasted $26 million from 42 areas, brought through the U.K., which led $5.8 million since starting the film on Friday. Australia arrived second for "Paranormal," with $3.two million, then Russia and France, grossing believed debut takes of $2.9 million and $2.8 million, correspondingly."Everyone was completely skeptical of the franchise," Componen vice chairman Take advantage of Moore told Variety. "But this film is proof of people within our creative team, keeping it fresh."Unlike "Paranormal 3," the weekend's other wide releases -- Summit's "The 3 Musketeers," from Constantin Films, and Universal's "Johnny British Reborn" -- both first showed below anticipation. "Musketeers" bowed for an believed $8.8 million "Johnny British" totalled $3.8 million through Sunday.Neither from the photos are extremely just a few Stateside perfs: The "Johnny British" follow up, grossing one more $13.5 million, passed the $100 million mark in overseas grosses, while "Musketeers" has cumed just north of $64 million worldwide, with this particular weekend's reported take at $13.a million.Even though "Paranormal 3's" opening outstripped its predecessor's by a lot more than $ten million within the U.S., the 2010 overall domestic frame still was lower roughly 3%-5% in the comparable 2010 weekend, when "Paranormal 2" first showed alongside a crop of high-flying holdovers like "Jackass three dimensional" and "Red-colored." ("Paranormal 2" and "Jackass three dimensional" held the prior industry records for top horror and October debuts, correspondingly.)But overall totals were up a notable 41% versus. last weekend.Fox Searchlight's "Martha Marcy May Marlene" first showed having a stellar $34,385 per-screen average from four locations in NY and L.A.Meanwhile, The new sony Pictures Classics saw a good second-week growth of Pedro Almodovar's "Your Skin My Home Is,Inch which averaged $12,436 from 21 engagements, up from six last weekend. Pic has cumed $569,335 locally, much better than SPC's "Take Shelter," which in four days has made $522,798.Also succeeding in limited release, Kerbside Attractions' Wall Street-designed thriller "Margin Call" gained an believed weekend take of $582,400 at 56 locations, thanks mainly to publicity all around the Occupy Wall Street movement. "Margin Call," which obtained a per-screen average of $10,400, broke the home record at NY's Elinor Bunin Film Center where it made $32,750 after 72 hours. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com