A NEW BLAIR WITCH MOVIE?!
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS:In the wake ofThe Hunger Gamesceasing andDivergentin limbo, Lionsgate may just have another franchise on its hands, or so it seems from Comic-Con:Attendees learned, to considerable surprise, that the distribs Sept. 16 horror filmThe Woodsis actually a straight-up sequel to 1999sThe Blair Witch Project. Even The Woods title was a fake-out: The movie will be called Blair Witch.
Last night Lionsgate invited fans and select press to a so-calledWoods screening, and mostwalked into the theater thinking it was just your next run-of-the-mill horror film screening at Comic-Con, likeNew Line/Warner Bros.Lights Outand Screen GemsDont Breathe.
But attendees learned during the screening that The Woodsis really a sequel in the Blair Witch horror property canon.During the screening, the distrib literally changed outThe Woodsone sheets and bannersinthe lobby forBlair Witch ones.
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MoreThe film was shot in secret last summer, and picks up where the last two Blair Witchfilms left off: In the Burkittsville, Maryland woods where three filmmakers disappeared 20 years ago.
In the new one,four millennials venture into the Black Hills forest to filmthe weekend for a documentary class. One of them, James, has spent his life searching for his older sister who disappeared with her film crew 20 years ago in these woods trying to uncover the Blair Witch legend.
While the 1999 overnight found-footage title directed by Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick was initially fueled by moviegoers belief that the film was documenting an actual phantasm incident and grossed $140.5M at the domestic B.O. and $248.6M worldwide, the ball was dropped on the 2000 sequelBook of Shadows: Blair Witch 2.Sanchez and Myrick werent involved with the sequel and it free-fell at the B.O. with $26.4M stateside, $47.7M worldwide.Blair Witchis directed by Adam Wingard. Reception coming out of last nights screening was truly upbeat with many feeling that the pic returns the series back to its original roots.Heres the trailer:
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