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Paranormal Activity’s Angel Distributor
For those of you who are interested in what it takes for a small movie like Paranormal Activity to see big distribution, this week's episode of KCRW's The Business has a very dramatic interview with the champion of that movie, producer Jason Blum.
Blum, a former distribution exec at Miramax who had always felt like he missed the boat when he passed on The Blair Witch Project, saw the diamond in the rough and would not take no for an answer. Interviewer Kim Masters does a great job of getting Blum to go through all the twists and turns this movie took to get on screen -- after it was "finished."
Boy, is a filmmaker's work never done!
MORE: Thompson on Hollywood: Paranormal Activity Gets Release
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October 19th, 2009 - 05:42
I just saw this movie i have to say it gave me goose bumps…was it real footage or was iy reenacted for film?
November 20th, 2009 - 14:58
i am muslim and those things are found in reall life but you dont see them and also they are found in quran but how come those doctors coudnt get a soloution???
October 28th, 2011 - 09:42
I love all the paranormal activities movies…please make more…awesome