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Released
2010 · FILM

Paranormal Activity 2

A teenage girl must uncover the demonic pact behind a series of terrifying hauntings in her newly secured home before the unseen evil claims her fractured family forever.

“In 2009 you demanded it. Nothing can prepare you for what's next.”

Directed by
Tod Williams
Written by
Michael R Perry, Christopher Landon
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
91 min
HorrorMystery

Synopsis

As Daniel and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins to terrorize them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Gregory PlotkinShot by Michael SimmondsDesigned by Jennifer Spence

Box Office

2010 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 59× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$177.5M

Budget$3.0M
Worldwide gross$177.5M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $84.8M — 48% of worldwide · International: $92.8M (52%)

Opening weekend: $40.7M — 48% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $49.2M — 58% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 3,216 theaters

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  • Paranormal Activity 2de

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