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Supernatural 'Grudge' Match

Movie Summary	The Ring	The Grudge	The Ring Two	The Grudge 2	Paranormal Activity	Paranormal Activity 2
Genre	Horror	Horror	Horror	Horror	Horror	Horror
Studio	DreamWorks	Sony / Columbia	DreamWorks	Sony / Columbia	Paramount	Paramount
Release Date	October 18, 2002	October 22, 2004	March 18, 2005	October 13, 2006	September 25, 2009	October 22, 2010
Domestic Gross	$129,128,133	$110,359,362	$76,231,249	$39,143,839	$107,918,810	$84,752,907
Production Budget	$48 million	$10 million	n/a	$20 million	$0.015 million	$3 million
Running Time	1 hr. 49 min.	1 hr. 36 min.	1 hr. 47 min.	1 hr. 35 min.	1 hr. 39 min.	1 hr. 31 min.
MPAA Rating	PG-13	PG-13	PG-13	PG-13	R	R
MPAA Reason	thematic elements, disturbing images, language and some drug references	mature thematic elements, disturbing images/terror/violence and some sensuality	violence/terror, disturbing images, thematic elements and some language	mature thematic material, disturbing images/terror/violence, and some sensuality	language	some language and brief violent material.

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Domestic Summary	The Ring	The Grudge	The Ring Two	The Grudge 2	Paranormal Activity	Paranormal Activity 2
Total Gross	$129,128,133	$110,359,362	$76,231,249	$39,143,839	$107,918,810	$84,752,907
Opening Weekend*	$15,015,393	$39,128,715	$35,065,237	$20,825,300	$19,617,650	$40,678,424
Theaters	1,981	3,245	3,332	3,211	760	3,216
Average	$7,579	$12,058	$10,523	$6,485	$25,813	$12,649
Opening % of Total	11.6%	35.5%	46.0%	53.2%	18.2%	48.0%
Second Weekend Drop	+23.1%	-44.2%	-61.2%	-63.3%	+7.6%	-59.4%
Widest Release	2,927	3,348	3,341	3,214	2,712	3,239
Close Date	March 20, 2003	December 30, 2004	June 16, 2005	November 12, 2006	January 21, 2010	January 20, 2011
In Release	n/a	n/a	70 days / 10 weeks	35 days / 5 weeks	119 days / 17 weeks	91 days / 13 weeks
*Note: If a movie opened in limited release and later went wide, data from the first wide weekend of release is used.

Worldwide Summary	The Ring	The Grudge	The Ring Two	The Grudge 2	Paranormal Activity	Paranormal Activity 2
Worldwide Gross	$249,348,933	$187,281,115	$161,451,538	$70,711,175	$193,355,800	$177,512,032
Foreign Gross	$120,220,800	$76,921,753	$85,220,289	$31,567,336	$85,436,990	$92,759,125
Foreign % of Worldwide	48.2%	41.1%	52.8%	44.6%	44.2%	52.3%
Domestic Gross	$129,128,133	$110,359,362	$76,231,249	$39,143,839	$107,918,810	$84,752,907
Domestic % of Worldwide	51.8%	58.9%	47.2%	55.4%	55.8%	47.7%

People Summary	The Ring	The Grudge	The Ring Two	The Grudge 2	Paranormal Activity	Paranormal Activity 2
Actor: Naomi Watts	#2	-	#3	-	-	-
Actor: Sarah Michelle Gellar	-	#2	-	#6	-	-
Composer: Christopher Young	-	#3	-	#12	-	-
Composer: Hans Zimmer	#28	-	#40	-	-	-
Producer: Jason Blum	-	-	-	-	#1	#3
Producer: Michelle Weisler	#1	-	#2	-	-	-
Producer: Sam Raimi	-	#1	-	#7	-	-
Producer: Steven Schneider	-	-	-	-	#1	#3
Writer: Ehren Kruger	#3	-	#5	-	-	-

Genres & Franchises	The Ring	The Grudge	The Ring Two	The Grudge 2	Paranormal Activity	Paranormal Activity 2
Franchise: Paranormal Activity	-	-	-	-	#1	#3
Genre: Found Footage	-	-	-	-	#2	#4
Genre: Horror - Supernatural	#5	#6	#14	#45	#7	#12
Genre: Horror Remake	#1	#2	#5	#23	-	-
Genre: Remake - Asian	#3	#4	#6	#9	-	-
Genre: Remake - Foreign Thrills	#4	#5	#8	#14	-	-
Genre: Remake - Sequel to a Remake	-	-	#10	#14	-	-
Genre: Travelogue - Japan	-	#3	-	#10	-	-
Showdown: 'Paranormal' Party	-	-	-	-	#1	#3
Showdown: Japanese Horror Remake	#1	#2	#3	-	-	-
Showdown: Supernatural 'Grudge' Match	#1	#2	#5	#6	#3	#4
Showdown: Supernatural Found Footage	-	-	-	-	#1	#3

Chart Rankings	The Ring	The Grudge	The Ring Two	The Grudge 2	Paranormal Activity	Paranormal Activity 2
Opening Weekends Under 2,000 Theaters	#47	-	-	-	#21	-
Opening Weekends Under 2,000 Theaters Adjusted	#123	-	-	-	#124	-
Opening Weekends Under 2,500 Theaters	#170	-	-	-	#84	-
All Time Domestic	#331	#446	#773	#1696	#465	#658
Opening Weeks	#961	#273	#331	#821	#682	#268
Post-Thanksgiving Weekend - Best Holds	#165	#57	-	-	-	-
Friday Share of Opening Weekends	-	-	#100	#16	-	#13
Friday to Saturday Drops on Opening Weekends	-	-	#170	#52	-	#22
Opening Weekends	#977	#224	#268	#638	#697	#202
Opening Weekends - October	#59	#8	-	#34	#38	#7
Opening Weekends - Fall	#106	#9	-	#57	#63	#8
Biggest 2nd Weekend Drops	-	-	#325	#230	-	-
Third Weekends	#109	-	-	-	#139	-
Smallest Drops, 3,000+ theaters (Super-Saturation)	-	#254	#563	#595	-	#539
Smallest Drops, 2,500+ theaters (Saturation)	-	#558	#1153	#1203	-	#1112
Smallest Drops, 2,000+ theaters (Very Wide)	-	#843	#1683	#1747	-	#1624
Smallest Drops, All Wide Releases	#69	#2115	#3507	#3603	#124	#3415
Rated R	-	-	-	-	#97	#160
Rated PG-13, Opening Weekends	-	#138	#162	-	-	-
Rated R, Opening Weekends	-	-	-	-	#177	#23
Widest Releases	-	#328	#334	#422	-	#396
Widest Opening Releases	-	#358	#309	#393	-	#386
Widest PG-13 Rated Openings	-	#190	#165	-	-	-
Widest PG-13 Rated Releases	-	#177	#179	-	-	-
Slowest to $100 million	#176	#204	-	-	#107	-
BOM Users' Grades	#397	#565	#651	-	#446	-
Opening Weeks Adjusted	#1014	#293	#363	#1006	#1040	#437
Opening Weekends Adjusted - October	#59	#4	-	#38	#60	#11
Opening Weekends Adjusted	#1025	#226	#299	#756	#1028	#335
Opening Weekends Adjusted - Fall	#102	#5	-	#63	#103	#14
Rated PG-13, Opening Weekends Adjusted	-	#134	#166	-	-	-

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