'Save Bandit!' 'Your mother is an Other?' 'Why the face?' The best TV lines of 2009. Add yours!

'Paranormal Activity' scares up $34 million overseas in first two weeks

"Paranormal Activity" has racked up solid early ticket sales overseas, as the surprise of the year at the domestic box office has proved a big hit in the United Kingdom, France and Australia, but bombed in Germany. Total international grosses so far are $34 million.

Unlike in the U.S. and Canada, where Paramount Pictures relied on word-of-mouth from early midnight screenings and Internet advertising, foreign distributors relied on more traditional marketing campaigns because many moviegoers had already heard about the movie following spectacular domestic performance earlier this fall.

"[Foreign] distributors had less time to prepare the audience and there was already high levels of awareness, so they pushed it out like a mainstream genre film," said Stuart Ford, chief executive of IM Global, which served as foreign sales agent for picture.

The independently produced horror flick, which was made for just $15,000 and grossed $107.4 million for Paramount domestically, has been No. 1 at the U.K. box office for two weekends straight, selling a total of $11.8 million worth of tickets. In France it opened at No. 2 this past weekend, collecting $5.3 million, and in Australia it debuted at No. 1, grossing $2.5 million.

In Germany, however, it has grossed just $2 million over two weeks, a low mark for what is traditionally one of the biggest overseas movie markets. Ford attributed that to the "hit and miss" nature of the supernatural horror genre in the country and an unsuccessful attempt by its German distributor to mimic the American viral campaign.

"Paranormal Activity" has also performed solidly so far in Spain and Brazil. Ford said he is expecting particularly strong results in Latin America, where the movie starts rolling out this Friday with its Mexican bow, and in Japan, where it debuts next year.

Movie producers typically receive about 40% of a movie's international gross. A percentage of foreign theater revenue for "Paranormal" will be kept by IM Global, with the rest going to the movie's producers, including director Oren Peli. Ford noted that his company and the movie's producers -- not exactly a surprise given their lucky stroke -- received extremely high advances for the film after its amazing run in the U.S.

--Ben Fritz

Photo: Katie Featherston and Micah Sloat in "Paranormal Activity." Credit: Paramount Pictures.

'Save Bandit!' 'Your mother is an Other?' 'Why the face?' The best TV lines of 2009. Add yours!

On Twitter this afternoon, I read that ABC has commissioned a show called "Conveyor Belt of Love."

I thought it had to be a joke. It is not. ABC has really ordered a reality show that will have women picking men off a conveyor belt. All I could think was, this sounds like the kind of stunt ex-NBC executive Ben Silverman used to pull. Or it sounds like something on Fox.

To take my mind off the rampant hideousness of that TV show, which will no doubt bring about the End Times, I suggested on Twitter that people start contributing the Best TV Lines of 2009. Well, I'm ecstatic to say that the idea took off like wildfire. Go here to see people contributing on Twitter, and Alan Sepinwall and James Poniewozik are also collecting quotes on their sites.

I had to collect some of my favorites here too. Below is a selection -- a mere selection, mind you -- of my favorite quotes from 2009. I contributed a few, but many were contributed by hundreds of awesome people on Twitter. Share your own favorite 2009 TV quote (serious or funny) below!

"Battlestar Galactica"

(This is my personal favorite line of the year) "I laid out the cabin today. It's going to have an easterly view. You should see the light that we get here. When the sun comes from behind those mountains, it's almost heavenly. It reminds me of you."

"Sit down, Cylon!"

"I'm coming for all of you!"

"I just want to hang on to this feeling for as long as I can."

"You know, I know about farming."

"She will not fail us if we do not fail her."

 "Let's go around the horn."

"Parks and Recreation"

Leslie: "Guys love it when you can show them you're better than they are at something they love.

Ron Swanson: "I like pretty dark haired women and breakfast food.”

Andy: "Thank you, everybody, we are Scarecrow Boat -- ah no, screw it! We are Mouse Rat!"

Ron:  "It's like doing peyote and sneezing slowly for six hours."

Ron: "Look, Tammy and I don't work. We are oil and water. Or oil and TNT and C4 and a detonator and a butane torch."

"Community"

"I thought you were like Bill Murray in any of his films, but you're more like Michael Douglas in any of his films."

"Lost"

"Your mother is an Other?"

"It's a compass, John." "What does it do?" "It points north."

 "Wait a second. We're not going to Guam, are we?"

"Why is there a dead Pakistani on my couch?"

Locke: "Do you mind if I ask you a question?" Ben: "I'm a pisces."

"One of these days, sooner or later, I'm going to find a loophole."

"Flight of the Conchords"

"How’s the environment doing? Can we clean it up a bit?” Brian the NZ Prime Minister

"I love weaving. I'm weaving at the moment, making a pair of trousers."

"Burn Notice"
 
Michael Westen: “Revenge is a waste of time." Fiona: “So is watching TV & eating candy, but you do it because it feels good."

"Sons of Anarchy"

Gemma: "God wants me to be a fierce mother."

Clay: “I don’t ever want to see you in this club again without your cut on.”

"30 Rock"

"Wave at a friend....Like a human!"

"A book hasn't caused this much trouble since Where's Waldo went to that barber pole factory."

""Drama is like gay man Gatorade. It replenishes their electrolytes."

"Supernatural"

Ellen: "Dean, kick it in the ass. Don't miss."

"Uriel's the funniest angel in the garrison. Ask anyone."

"He's not on any flatbreads."

"Dean, this is serious. The voice on the phone says I'm almost out of minutes."

"Friday Night Lights"

"Billy, would you pass me that violin, please? You're hoggin' it!"

"Nurse Jackie"

Judith Ivey's character: "I'm dying, & every time I see you, I am reminded what a slow & agonizing process it is."

"True Blood"

"It's like, if a tree falls in the woods, it's still a tree ain't it?"

"Sometimes you need to destroy something to save it. That's in the Bible. Or the Constitution."

 "What's she want you for?" "I think to cut out my heart while a bunch of naked people watch."

"A human with me at the end...and human tears? 2,000 years and I can still be surprised. In this I see God."

"Jesus and I agree to see other people, but that don't mean we don't talk from time to time."

"Chuck"

See, guys can hug!" "Only if they don't have their man parts"

Casey: "Bartowski, you're like the poster child for friendly fire"

Ted Roark: "Oh, a little shotgun wedding. Just think, that terrible pun is the last thing you'll hear."

Morgan: "Know that if you hit me, it only teaches me to hit."

Jeff: "Mind if I get right?"

"I need you to be awesome. Can you... be awesome?"

Casey: "Operation Moron is over?"

Jeff: "80 percent of my encounters with women have been without their knowledge."

"Guys, I know kung-fu"

"You can't kill me with that radiator. It is far too confined in this car for you to get the appropriate torque."

Awesome's dad: ""Why are you letting Sam Kinison & an Indian lesbian ruin your wedding?"

"How I Met Your Mother"

"Make Adjustments, Go Get It Energized"

"Attention, Canada. I'm Barney, from America, and I'm here to fix your backward country. Number one, get real money."

"We wait three days to call a woman because that's how long Jesus wants us to wait.... True story."

"Dollhouse"

"The human mind is like Van Halen. If you just pull out one piece and keep replacing it, it just degenerates."

"Imagine John Cassavetes in 'The Fury' as a hot chick." "Which you know I often have!"

"Given that you're a raping scumbag one tick shy of a murderer. I can't recall, do you take sugar?"  

"I think her bad guys are badder than my bad guys."

"Mad Men"

"He might lose his foot." "Just when he got it in the door."

"I'm Peggy Olson & I want to smoke some marijuana."

"Churchill rousing or Hitler rousing?"

"You are fired for lack of character!" "Very good, Happy Christmas!"

"No. I will spend the rest of my life trying to hire you."

"Peggy, can you get me some coffee?" "No."

"Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, how may i help you?"

"Big Bang Theory"

"You have a lifetime of bad decisions to make, may I interrupt this one?"

"The hero always peeks."

Wil Wheaton: "Did that guy just say 'Revenge is a dish best served cold' in Klingon?"

"Glee"

Kurt: "My body is like a rum chocolate souffle. If I don't warm it up right, it doesn't rise." 

Emma to Kurt: "I'm a girl who knows her solvents, and your breath smells like rubbing alcohol."

Kurt: "He's cheating off a girl who thinks the square root of four is rainbows."

Sue Sylvester: "I've never wanted kids... don't have the time, don't have the uterus."

More Sue: "If I were out to get you, you'd be pickling in a mason jar by now."

Ramps "are what I call lazy-makers."

"The Office"

"Who started the rumor that there is another person inside of me, working me with controls?"

Oscar: "How long do you take to pee?" Kevin: "The peeing is fast, Oscar. It's getting my tie back on."

Jim: "The boat was plan C. The church was plan B. Plan A was marrying her a long, long time ago. Pretty much the day I met her."

"Save Bandit!"

"Barack is President! You are black, Stanley!"

"Boom. Roasted."

"She's a bumpkin. Pass."

"Mose hates to geld the horses by himself."

"Those two treat the whole office as a 1970s key party."

"Fringe"

"Feel his anus! It's soaking wet!"

"Oh! I just pissed myself. Just a squirt."

"Modern Family"

"WTF = why the face?" 

"I'm like Costco. I'm big, I'm not fancy, I dare you not to like me."

"I'm the *ss-kicking clown that will twist you like a balloon animal!"

"Party Down"

"I have a prestigious blog, sir!"

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