News: What the Fear

'Area 51' Location Revealed

by Joseph McCabe, Mon., Nov. 30, 2009 12:47 PM PST
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Oren Peli (pictured to the right of actors Micah Sloat and Katie Featherston) can breathe easy -- his Area 51 just found a home, and it looks like a familiar one for the rising-star director. Paramount Pictures, the same studio that distributed Peli's runaway breakout hit Paranormal Activity (and with whom FEARnet partnered to host the Paranormal premieres in San Francisco and Seattle) will distribute the filmmaker's sophomore effort in the U.S., having outbidded four other interested parties.

According to Variety.com, the film -- which completed principal photography three weeks ago -- "employs the 'found footage' narrative structure that Peli used in 'Paranormal Activity' to tell the story of three teens whose curiosity leads them to the notorious Area 51 portion of Nellis Air Force Base in the Nevada desert."

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