Next 'Saw' movie will be in 3-D

“As long as we make money on it we'll keep doing this,” Lionsgate vice chairman Michael Burns said at the Media and Money conference in New York, noting that such franchises tend to have a long shelf life across different platforms.

“Dirty Dancing,” he said, still sells 2,000 DVDs a day for the company, and that's after 20 years. He said “Saw VI” got “buzz-sawed” at the box office by Paramount's micro-budgeted thriller “Paranormal Activity,” which is set to hit the US$100 million mark in North America on Friday or Saturday. “Saw VI,” on the other hand has earned about US$27 million after three weeks.

The franchise, a Halloween staple since 2004, peaked at US$87 million with the first sequel and fell to US$57 million last year.

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