Last November, it was announced that Paramount Pictures would be releasing a new entry in the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise on March 19, 2021. Then the pandemic hit before the film could go into production. So Paramount has announced that the release of the new film has been pushed back almost exactly one year. The latest PARANORMAL ACTIVITY is now set to reach theatres on March 4, 2022.
Nothing is known about the plot of the new film, but producer Jason Blum told the podcast The Evolution of Horror,
We have Chris Landon, who wrote almost all of them, he directed one of them, he's really kind of the showrunner of the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY series, and he's coming up with PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 7. Which is not the title of the movie, but it is the seventh PARANORMAL ACTIVITY."
We initially took that to mean Landon was writing the screenplay, but Landon clarified on his Twitter account,
I am helping my friends and co-collaborators at Paramount set a new course for the franchise. I AM NOT writing the script nor am I directing the new movie. I am eager and excited to hand the reigns over to a fresh filmmaker who will undoubtedly reinvigorate this franchise that the amazing Oren Peli created so many years ago.
By the time the new film is released, it will have been six and half years since PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION (watch it HERE), the sequel that had been marketed as being the end of the series.