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'Paranormal Activity 3'With an thought $54 million domestic open, Paramount's third installment inside the "Paranormal Activity" franchise increased being the most effective-ever October debut, together with the finest opening for just about any horror film, placing some much-needed existence into exactly what is a blah domestic B.O. lately."Paranormal 3" wasn't prone to land much more than $40 million in your area, showing the micro-allotted series is loaded with lots of scares left within it.Overseas, the horror prequel nabbed a forecasted $26 million from 42 areas, introduced with the U.K., which brought $5.8 million since beginning the film on Friday. Australia showed up second for "Paranormal," with $3.2 million, then Russia and France, grossing thought debut takes of $2.9 million and $2.8 million, correspondingly."Everybody was completely skeptical from the franchise," Componen vice chairman Make the most of Moore told Variety. "But this film is evidence of people inside our creative team, keeping it fresh."Unlike "Paranormal 3," the weekend's other wide releases -- Summit's "The Three Musketeers," from Constantin Films, and Universal's "Johnny British Reborn" -- both first demonstrated below anticipation. "Musketeers" bowed to have an thought $8.8 million "Johnny British" totalled $3.8 million through Sunday.Neither in the photos are very only a couple of Stateside perfs: The "Johnny British" follow-up, grossing yet another $13.5 million, passed the $100 million mark in overseas grosses, while "Musketeers" has cumed just north of $64 million worldwide, using this weekend's reported take at $13.millions of.Despite the fact that "Paranormal 3's" opening outstripped its predecessor's by greater than $ten million inside the U.S., this years overall domestic frame still was lower roughly 3%-5% within the comparable 2010 weekend, when "Paranormal 2" first demonstrated alongside a crop of high-flying holdovers like "Jackass 3dInch and "Red-colored-colored." ("Paranormal 2" and "Jackass 3dInch held the last industry records to find the best horror and October debuts, correspondingly.)But overall totals were up a notable 41% versus. last weekend.Fox Searchlight's "Martha Marcy May Marlene" first demonstrated getting an outstanding $34,385 per-screen average from four locations in NY and L.A.Meanwhile, The brand new the new sony Pictures Classics saw a great second-week development of Pedro Almodovar's "The Skin Home Is,Inch which averaged $12,436 from 21 engagements, up from six last weekend. Pic has cumed $569,335 in your area, a lot better than SPC's "Take Shelter," which in four days makes $522,798.Also succeeding in limited release, Kerbside Attractions' Wall Street-designed thriller "Margin Call" acquired an thought weekend take of $582,400 at 56 locations, thanks mainly to publicity all over the Occupy Wall Street movement. "Margin Call," which acquired a per-screen average of $10,400, broke the house record at NY's Elinor Bunin Film Center where it made $32,750 after 72 hrs. Contact Andrew Stewart at andrew.stewart@variety.com