Variety is reporting what shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who watched Paramount Pictures market Oren Peli's $15,000 supernatural thriller Paranormal Activity to a box office total of $106 million last month, that the studio has indeed picked up the rights to distribute the filmmaker's $5 million follow-up Area 51 at least in the United States.

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