#BUDGET FOR THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT 2016 MOVIE#
I cast Mike Williams in a movie called The Objective I did the other year. I’m hoping to do a project with him in Florida soon. Do you ever cross paths with anyone else involved with the film? There’s been a lot of activity around the 20th anniversary of the movie. How do you live up to that? It’s like going up to the plate and hitting a homerun where the ball goes all the way to China.” It’s always going to be compared to a movie that is one of the most successful to have ever been made. It’s just frustrating sometimes, because when you have another project or come up with another idea for a film, it’s hard for that project or idea to be judged on its own merits. “Resentment is probably too strong a word. Nobody was quite sure what it was that they were watching.īlair Witch really was a phenomenon. The movie was a phenomenon, intersecting with the birth of the internet and blurring the lines between reality and drama the movies three leads were listed as ‘Missing, presumed deceased’ on their IMDB pages for the first year of the film’s release. Cinema had seen nothing like it before.įilmed on a budget estimated to be around $20,000, The Blair Witch Project recouped around $250,000,000. The story was that they were making a documentary about a local Maryland legend – the Blair Witch – and as such the movie was shot in a reportage style, with the three actors playing the leads improvising much of the dialogue, filming the majority of the action themselves and responding mostly to off screen prompts for direction. Twenty-years-ago, two film students from the University of Central Florida made a meta movie about three teenagers going into the woods of Seneca Creek State Park, getting lost and enduring terrible, terrible things.
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