Franchise
Paranormal Activity
4 films•2009–2012•Paramount Pictures
58%average critics48%average audience$87.7Mdomestic average
Films
4
2009–2012
Domestic
$350.7M
lifetime
Worldwide
$721.0M
lifetime
Avg opening
$35.9M
3-day
Avg legs
2.76x
opening → total
Return
55.4x
on $13.0M of budget
The Paranormal Activity series runs to 4 films from Paranormal Activity (2009) to Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), together grossing $350.7M domestic and $721.0M worldwide. The biggest hit is Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) at $207.0M worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $52.6M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paranormal Activity 4 | 2012 | $29.0M | $53.9M | 1.86x | $143.0M | C | 23% | — |
| Paranormal Activity 3 | 2011 | $52.6M | $104.0M | 1.98x | $207.0M | C+ | 67% | #26 |
| Paranormal Activity 2 | 2010 | $40.7M | $84.8M | 2.08x | $178.0M | B | 58% | #40 |
| Paranormal Activity | 2009 | $21.1M | $108.0M | 5.11x | $193.0M | — | 82% | #30 |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.0 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
55.4x
$721.0M worldwide on $13.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $350.7MInternational $370.3M
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven12866.7x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#12Biggest 5th weekendsParanormal Activity$21.1M#14Biggest horror openingsParanormal Activity 3$52.6M
Top 2 of 3 placings across 3 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Studios
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.