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Following last weekend’s boffo debut for _Jackass 3D_ — $50.4 million in three days for a shock-and-crockumentary that cost just $20 million to make — the studio unleashed _Paranormal Activity 2_, a prequel to last fall’s out-of-nowhere haunted-house pseudo documentary. The new edition earned $41.5 million at North American theaters, according to early industry estimates, to finish No. 1 this pre-Halloween weekend and become the all-time top-opening horror film. Though _PA2_ had a $3 million budget, which is _Avatar_\-size compared with the original’s $11,000, it’s still nice for filmmakers to see that, in just three days, their work has grossed about 14 times its production cost. These two bargain-basement sensations have earned Paramount nearly $130 million in 10 days, with more to come. The take for _Jackass 3D_ fell 57% in its second frame, to $21.6 million, but that figure would still have been enough to land the film at the head of the box-office chart in five of the past 10 weekends. With $87.1 million in the till, the Johnny Knoxville masocomedy is already the top-grossing movie released this fall, ahead of _The Town_ ($84.7 million) and _The Social Network_ ($72.9 million), and should become the first of the season’s films to reach $100 million by next weekend. (Last autumn’s _Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs_ passed that mark on Oct. 15.) [(See TIME’s review of _Paranormal Activity 2_.)](https://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2027132,00.html) Last weekend’s runner-up, the senior-citizen spy caper _Red_, finished third, at $15 million, dropping only 31% in its second time around. The movie appeals to older viewers, who are slower than their grandkids in showing up at theaters but can be counted on to patronize their favorite stars — here Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman and John Malkovich as ex-CIA operatives taking on one last mission. Except this surely won’t be the last. By tomorrow, _Red_ will have outgrossed all Willis starring-role projects of the past decade, except for _Live Free or Die Hard_ and _Sin City_. Can you smell a franchise? The weekend’s other new wide release, the otherworldly drama _Hereafter_, earned a so-so $12 million in expanding from its six-theater showcase to more than 2,000 screens. Starring Matt Damon as a reluctant psychic who’s mysteriously connected to two other people with afterlife experiences, _Hereafter_ was directed by Clint Eastwood and continues his middling record in helming films he doesn’t appear in. Over the past eight years, Eastwood has taken the leading role in two movies: the Oscar-winning _Million Dollar Baby_, from 2004, earned $100.5 million in North America, and the 2008 _Gran Torino_ zoomed to $148 million. Moviegoers still want to see Clint Eastwood; they just don’t want to see _un film de_ Clint Eastwood. [(See pictures of the legend of Clint Eastwood.)](https://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1992738,00.html) Of the six films Eastwood has directed but not starred in, only _Mystic River_ was a hit ($90.1 million). The Japanese-language _Letters from Iwo Jima_ earned a Best Picture Oscar nomination but grossed a disappointing $13.8 million in North America, while three other Eastwood-directed projects — _Flags of Our Fathers, Changeling_ and _Invictus_ — topped out between $30 million and $40 million. That’s the likely finishing mark for _Hereafter_, which would be fine for a low-cost indie but not for a film with a $50 million budget. Oddly, Eastwood’s three hits in this stretch were the cheapest to produce: _Mystic River_ at $25 million, _Million Dollar Baby_ at $30 million and _Gran Torino_ at $33 million. The flops cost between $50 million and $90 million, though even those usually made back their investment because they performed well abroad. At 80, the old cowboy continues to pile up the auteur esteem but not the cash. He ought to think about another starring role — maybe in _Paranormal Activity 3_, scaring the ghosts away with one angry growl. Or how about _Jackass 4_? Clint could introduce those crazy guys to a whole new world of pain. Here are the Sunday estimates of this weekend’s top-grossing pictures in North American theaters, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1\. _Paranormal Activity 2_, $41.5 million, first weekend 2\. _Jackass 3D_, $21.6 million; $87.1 million, second week 3\. _Red_, $15 million; $43.5 million, second week 4\. _Hereafter_, $12 million; $12.3 million, second week 5\. _The Social Network_, $7.3 million; $72.9 million, fourth week 6\. _Secretariat_, $6.9 million; $37.4 million, third week 7\. _Life as We Know It_, $6.15 million; $37.6 million, third week 8\. _Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole_, $3.2 million; $50.2 million, fifth week 9\. _The Town_, $2.7 million; $84.7 million, sixth week 10\. _Easy A_, $1.75 million; $54.8 million, sixth week [See TIME’s Pictures of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/picturesoftheweek) [See the Cartoons of the Week.](https://www.time.com/time/cartoonsoftheweek) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6916724/paranormal-activity-2-trounces-hereafter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6916724/paranormal-activity-2-trounces-hereafter/"},"headline":"Paranormal Activity 2 Trounces Hereafter","datePublished":"2010-10-24T04:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-22T18:32:38.894Z","description":"The folks at Paramount Pictures must think they've discovered the secret elixir for box-office success: make cheap, R-rated sequels and release them in October. 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