The fans of the found footage mini-genre have been eagerly waiting for this chapter to finally hit the theaters, and now that it’s officially available, it’s safe to say that the team did a great job with it.
Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.Aka The Blair Witch, this is the 3rd movie in the iconic horror trilogy. Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. For all the talk of Hollywood being populated with jerks and sharks, these guys were actually being considerate and were genuinely concerned that this would not be any more disruptive to my life than was inevitable.” In their press materials, their protagonist goes in search of his ‘sister’ but they don’t use my name. They made sure my last name wasn’t used anywhere. “They asked what they could do to show me how much they appreciated my work in the original. “The company that originally bought ‘The Blair Witch Project’ was purchased by Lionsgate and they’re the ones behind this new sequel,” she wrote.
Though this time around she was surprised by the accommodating ways that Lionsgate handled her participation in the franchise and fully supports the new film. READ MORE: ‘The Woods’ Trailer: Adam Wingard Takes Us Camping in New Found-Footage Horror Flick It’s all anyone wanted to talk to me about. My name and face are forever going to be someone else’s intellectual property. “Nothing I do will ever surpass what I did at 24. “On learning of the sequel, I did what any sensible woman would do and drank very nice bourbon in a very nice bathtub while bawling my eyes out,” she explained. While trying to make a new name for herself, she then found out about “Blair Witch.” “While this work became record-breakingly profitable, what we were was dead,” she added, and then the truth that they were alive was eventually revealed.Īfter that experience she felt stagnate and a few year later she moved out of Los Angeles to a small town in the Sierra Nevada foothills where everyone knew who she was. While making the movie for Donahue was “a joy,” she was upset that she didn’t get credit where credit was due. READ MORE: ‘Blair Witch’ Producer Reveals Why Creating Remakes Is Easier Than New Properties To make it up for it, they sent her a fruit basket. The marketing department didn’t find this so funny and told her she couldn’t say things like that.
“I sat there, under my enormous face, waiting for the car to cool down, thinking: ‘Surely this will work out?'” After doing an interview with her hometown paper, the Philadelphia Inquirer, she shared the story, and jokingly said, “I’m like the poorest new famous person in America!” “On a brutally hot July day, the 1984 Toyota Celica I bought with my temping pay when I moved to LA overheated (again), only this time it happened under a billboard with my face on it,” she recalled. READ MORE: Weekend Box Office Preview: ‘Sully’ Holds, But ‘Blair Witch’ Might Take Offīeing “dead and alive at the same time has its advantages,” she continued, as she watched her life unfurl without her.