The Blair Witch Project is a once-in-a-lifetime film. It’s the type of low-budget horror movie, like Evil Dead and Night Of The Living Dead, that not only inspires a generation of creative, passionate, and hardworking filmmakers but also a generation of Hollywood executives attempting to turn them into cinematic universes. Since Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’s The Blair Witch Project became one of the most profitable films of all time in 1999, attempts at continuing the Blair Witch saga...
A new version of "The Blair Witch Project" is in development as part of a new partnership between Blumhouse and Lionsgate
Time to once again ask the question, are you not scared enough? Lionsgate and Blumhouse are officially developing and producing a new Blair Witch Project movie 25 years after the original horror
Great news for fans of rock piles and snot-nosed scares, because Lionsgate and Blumhouse have teamed up to take us back into the Black Hills of Burkittsville for a reimagining of 1999 horror-classic The Blair Witch Project. The project was announced today at CinemaCon by Adam Fogelson, chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, and Jason […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Lionsgate and Blumhouse...
During Lionsgate’s CinemaCon presentation today, it was announced that producer Jason Blum and Blumhouse are going to be rebooting the Blair Witch horror...
The Blair Witch Project has never been a cut-and-dry Hollywood project. This scrappy $35,000 mockumentary wasn’t meant to be a blockbuster, but it went on to become one of the most profitable independent films ever made. Now, due to the creative marketing and filmmaking savvy of co-directors Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez and their team, Hollywood is legally obligated to attempt a Blair Witch sequel every decade. Historically, this has not been a good idea, but hope springs eternal in...
Lionsgate and Blumhouse have partnered to produce a remake of “The Blair Witch Project,” which first released 25 years ago.
As sculptor Agon Qosa put some of the finishing touches to a statue of Tony Blair, he thought about what the former British prime minister had done for Kosovo a quarter of a century ago. Mr Qosa and other ethnic Albanians in Kosovo idolise the former British prime minister for his leadership role during a Nato bombing campaign in 1999 that halted Serb forces’ advances and ultimately helped the small Balkan nation win independence. Twenty-five years on, he is completing a life-size clay statue of...
Margot Robbie has her sights on another toy. The "Barbie" producer and star is making a Monopoly movie, with Hasbro and Lionsgate behind it.
Margot Robbie has her sights on another toy. The “Barbie” producer and star is making a Monopoly movie, with Hasbro and Lionsgate behind it, the companies announced Wednesday at the CinemaCon conference in Las Vegas.
It was a bit witchy of them.
Blumhouse is one of the busiest Hollywood studios at the moment, and it all comes down to its approach to keeping budgets under control and always being open to surprising collaborations. This has allowed the studio to reimagine a number of iconic horror properties, and The Blair Witch series might be next in line.On April 10, it was announced that Blumhouse and Lionsgate would team up to make a new Blair Witch movie, the first since 2016's follow-up directed by Godzilla x Kong's Adam Wingard....