Number one. Yawn sigh. 

Happy Halloween–I hope you got the good candy.

1. Saw VII 3D $24.2 million

2. Paranormal Activity 2 $17 million

3. Red $10.7 million

4. Jackass 3D $8.5 million

5. Hereafter $6.5 million

Not a very exciting week. The new “Saw” movie didn’t do horribly, but it didn’t do great. The truly scary thing is that someone may decide it is enough to warrant more movies in the franchise. Sigh. The numbers for “Paranormal Activity 2″ look a lot worse than they really are, because last week’s $40 some million also included about $6 million from midnight screenings before the official opening (that also can mean last week’s numbers weren’t as good as they looked. Spin it anyway you’d like to). Still, they made the movie for about $.50, so everyone involved still can feel pretty good about themselves. The question here is whether the franchise continues, and if it does, will the budget go up–and if that happens, will that make the movie better or worse? The logical answer would be worse, but sometimes directors get greedy and start thinking, “If only I could have a few more million to do this one really cool set piece…”

“Red” continues to hold and show there’s an audience for action pictures starring older actors, or more generally that there’s an audience for movies about older people. So “The Dark Knight Returns as a Grandfather” isn’t out of the question a few decades from now. And forget a teenybopper “Spider-Man” reboot–the next one will be Spider-Man challenges the healthcare system and nursing homes.

Next week brings us more interesting choices. The Todd Phillips comedy “Due Date” has really funny trailers–let’s see how well they work. Tyler Perry’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf” is opening wide, banking on Perry’s name, I guess, but it’s not his typical movie. So we’ll see how that works. The acclaimed “127 Hours” is getting a limited release, then will expand. The good stuff is coming out. Finally.

If i think of Roland Emmerich I think of big-budget blockbusters, and I suspect you do as well. After all, this is the man who has built his career from blowing iconic buildings up – the White House in Independence Day, and everything else in 2012.

However, maybe Emmerich is now bored of that style of film-making, despite it making him rich and studio bosses very happy. Because his new project is a movie called The Zone which has a budget of just $5 million.

While $5 million isn’t a small amount of money in real-life, in Hollywood it is a pittance, especially in the hands of a man who hasn’t made a film for less than $100 million since Stargate in 1994.

Details are a little thin on the ground but, according to The Hollywood Reporter, The Zone is a film based around an alien invasion. The main cast is a cameraman in his mid-20s and a journalist in his late-40s. Both have been cast, probably with unknowns.

Unsurprisingly given the paltry budget, The Zone will be shot in the style of Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity, being another feature in the growing ‘Found Footage’ genre. Guillaume Tunzini has written the script, but much of it is expected to be improvised once shooting begins in November.

And I, for one, say let her. If a hot young actress such as Kristen Stewart was prepared to strip off in front of the cameras for a film then who are we to stop her from doing so. She has a dream, so let her live it! Ahem. All joking aside, this is a rather strange story.

In her new movie Welcome To The Rileys, Twilight star Kristen Stewart plays a stripper. But the audience never actually gets to see her strip during the film. Which has annoyed Stewart after all the time and effort she spent researching for the role.

She told ContactMusic:

“You don’t actually see me strip which I suppose is a good thing as I was initially nervous about that. Now it’s kind of annoying because I learned how to do it but you don’t see any of it. But it’s probably for the best.”

No, no it isn’t. Showing Stewart strip would surely help the audience believe in her character. It would also help sell the movie to guys who really wouldn’t mind seeing Stewart in a state of undress. Which may be a little unpalatable but I guarantee it’s true.

And, of course, Stewart herself is miffed that all that time spent researching strippers and stripping was for nothing. Well, except the fact she was offered a job at one of the strip clubs, so if the acting work were ever to dry up (six months after the final Twilight film) she has a back-up.