Paranormal Activity, the super-low-budget movie that's actually been lying
around for two years, gets a high rise in profits and it has The Blair Witch
Project to thank. And when I say "super-low-budget", I'm mean embarrassingly
low. Blair Witch was around $20,000, but Paranormal Activity managed to record
over that figure with $15,000, which results as a slap to the face (or forehead)
of Hollywood movie marketers.Another major difference is that Blair Witch
attempted to sell itself as a documentary which is actually wasn't at all and
this angered the audience quite a bit before they even saw it. Paranormal
Activity on the other hand is relying much more on the reaction of the audience
to market itself. Before understanding how this is being done, here's a little
background.The horror flick directed by Oren Peli, an up and coming San Diego
filmmaker, began garnering attention to the extent of what some are calling a
cult following about a year ago after giving the film a screening at the 2008
Slamdance Film Festival. Who else but Steven Spielberg of all people was
originally interested in directing a re-make of the film with a much larger
budget (the blockbuster director obviously hasn't gotten enough out of
paranormal movie making). He intended to put the original cut into the DVD
release as a DVD extra, but then carried the film over to Paramount/DreamWorks
where it's subsequently taken off as is.The grassroots-marketing use of the
Paranormal Activity movie's web page is what is allowing the film to be brought
to select theaters, literally by the audience requesting (or "demanding" as
the website says) it to their local theater by pressing a button, and the movie
has Josh Greenstein and Megan Colligan of Eventful to thank. Eventful provides
"a user-generated entertainment booking site of sorts, for a campaign that goes
far outside the traditional route."[1] Paramount then uses the info collected
from the website to decide where to market the movie through radio and T.V. with
the Paranormal Activity movie trailer, which barely shows much from the film and
more of the reactions from the audience at Hollywood viewings.The method is
being talked of as an "experiential sell" by Greenstein and is certainly doing
quite a job of it, especially after watching the tweet counter on twitter
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jerseys go up to 870 from 25 over a half-hour and from 5:00 to 5:30
ON A MONDAY MORNING. What's more is that, thus far, the strategy is quite a
success. Over the weekend of October 2nd, 2009 the movie was shown exclusively
at 12 theaters in the U.S. at midnight only and grossed $500,000. That's a 3,333% profit so far. It
should be interesting to see what happens now that Paramount has released it to
170 theaters at regular viewing times, though not surprising in the least as it
displays the cliche reaction of a giant corporation when dealing with an
independent work of art. It seems that this move would kill the whole concept
that Eventful has going, that's made such a huge return, wouldn't it?Regardless,
while Eventful has previously worked with the tour scheduling of comedians and
musicians, Paranormal Activity has scratched a new notch in Eventful's history,
setting a record for film after their original projection for demands was
100,000 and ended up surpassing that in a matter of days.
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