Sequel, Sequels, By the Sequel Shore

EXCLUSIVE: Fishbowl L.A. has learned that Lions Gate Films is greenlighting “Saw 3” just twenty four hours after its $30.5 million opening weekend.

Why, we haven’t seen numbers like this since… since… Well, since last month, when “The Exorcism of Emily Rose” opened at $30 million.

Well, no matter. Perversely, Variety’s Gabriel Snyder
points out that the movie pulled in — somewhat inexplicably — equal numbers of men and women. Nothing, it turns out, says “date movie” like a key embedded deep within your right eye.

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