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After five weeks in theaters, director Oren Peli's buzzworthy thriller, which only cost about $15,000 to make, managed to scare up a first-place finish at the box office this weekend with $22 million by Sunday night's end for a cumulative total of $62.5 million. "Paranormal Activity" has shown so much promise that Paramount is already mulling over the idea of a sequel, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the more immediate future, the studio is looking at the upcoming Halloween weekend as an opportunity for "Paranormal" to cross the $100 million threshold, making the ghoul-infused horror movie Paramount's most profitable film in recent history.The sixth installment in the series premiered this weekend at $14.8 million, a significantly worse opening than the "Saw V" debut weekend, which took in $30 million. Given the low production costs involved in producing the series, it's unlikely that the low numbers for "Saw VI" will crimp production of future films, but it's surely a sign that Jigsaw's master plan needs some fine-tuning going forward.But accompanying this weekend's phenomenal box-office success was the poor showing of "Saw VI," the latest outing for Lionsgate's typically lucrative horror franchise.Hilary Swank's "Amelia," the biopic focusing on historical pilot Amelia Earhart's enigmatic life and disappearance, failed to crack the box-office top 10 mainly due to its limited theatrical run and poor reception among critics.