Henry Joost Articles

Pamela Anderson, Jenny McCarthy, Scary Movie 3 After grossing $52.56 million over the Oct. 21-23 weekend, Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's horror thriller Paranormal Activity 3 has easily surpassed the $50.35 million earned by Jackass 3D last year, thus breaking fall (actually, September and October) box-office records in North America. Minor detail: there's such a thing as inflation. The no. 3 movie on the Box [...]

Paranormal Activity 3 Last weekend, people were complaining that the North American box office has been in the doldrums throughout the fall because of a dearth of original, quality movies. Proving those pundits right — as they always are — the third installment of a cheap horror franchise, with a mediocre 60% approval rating among Rotten Tomatoes' top critics, Paranormal Activity 3, has soared to [...]

Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Never Let Me Go (top); Nev Schulman, Catfish (middle); Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, Jack Goes Boating (bottom) Emma Stone's EASY A Nearly $500k Less Than Estimated; THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE Passed $300m on Day 81: Box Office Catfish and Never Let Me Go are two new releases performing particularly well in limited release in North America. This past [...]

The SXSW Film Festival will take place March 12-20 in Austin, Texas. 11/4/08 Director: Jeff Deutchman Weaving together footage recorded throughout the world on the day Obama was elected President, this vérité documentary explores how people choose to live through “history.” (World Premiere) A Different Path Director: Monteith McCollum In an automobile dominated society, a cast of characters uses ingenuity and wit to forge a [...]