Peli agrees that THE GHOST DIMENSION is the last PARANORMAL ACTIVITY story he plans to be involved with. But then again, he reminds us it’s not really up to him whether or not we see the name again. ‘Maybe, many years down the road, they’ll say they want a re-make or more of them. I have no idea,’ he says.

Blockbuster cinema has morphed into a soulless, clanging gallery of CGI, thin characters and endless marketing tie-ins that just make cynics of us all. When studios invest more in animation software than stories and writers, try to spread the cost by enlisting armies of licensing partners and product placement, no wonder the results are getting blander.

The Steven Spielberg we know has been responsible for project after project that’s revolutionised not just the way we look at movies but the way movies are made. For the studio system, he reinvented Hollywood. Jaws was the Hollywood movie industry’s September 11 — it changed everything.