Third Series of Paranormal Activity Hits UK Box Office

It is debuting that at number one with takings of £55m. This horror story is based on Unexplained supernatural theme like "Forth Kind", which purports to present discovered footage of things going bump in the night, is also at the top of the US film charts.

By pre-empting the Hallowe'en weekend, it sneaks ahead of on several other horror releases. Due out this week are Demons Never Die, The Silence & a re-release of 1984 comedy classic Ghostbusters. But they face strong competition from Stephen Spielberg's blockbuster retelling of Tintin, US civil rights drama The Help early release.

Paranormal Activity 3 is strong debut knocked spy spoof Johnny English: Reborn down to second place in this week's chart.

It made £2 million over the weekend, putting it comfortably above the star-studded disaster movie Contagion, which was a new entry at number three. But on a screen-by-screen basis, little separated the two films.

Rowan Atkinson's secret agent took an average of £3,718 on each of the 552 screens it was showing on, while Contagion's receipts were £3,711 on 398 screens.

The only other new entry in this week's chart was literary adaptation We Need To Talk About Kevin, which took £492,297 to land in seventh place.

Meanwhile, The Smurfs is the longest-running hit on the chart, hanging on to 14th place in its 16th week of release, with total box office takings of £16.7 million.

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