Horror filmmaker and producer Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions are paying for a movie he says was influential in his profession: 1999. The Blair Witch Undertaking.
Blumhouse and Lionsgate will collaborate on a brand new witch movie “as the primary movie in a multi-picture pact with Blumhouse that reimagines horror classics from Lionsgate's library,” reads an announcement from Adam Fogelsonthe top of leonsgate film group.
Written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez, the thriller centered on a small documentary crew who disappeared within the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland, whereas monitoring down rumors of a supernatural presence. In response to the movie, their pictures tools was the one hint discovered of them, and because of a inventive guerrilla advertising and marketing marketing campaign, early audiences believed the story to be true.
The micro-budget “discovered footage” horror movie grossed $248 million worldwide.
Within the announcement, Blum stated: “I'm very grateful to Adam and the crew at Lionsgate for permitting us to play of their sandbox. I'm a giant fan of The Blair Witch Undertakingthat introduced the thought of discovered footage horror to the mainstream and have become a real cultural phenomenon.”
He added: “I don't assume there would have been a Paranormal exercise if there had not been first Blair Witch“So this looks like a really particular alternative and I'm excited to see the place it takes us.”
Blumhouse has collaborated with Common Footage to carry a sequence of horror hits to theaters, together with Paranormal exercise, The purge, Insidious, Sinister, Halloween, 5 Nights at Freddy's and M3GANin addition to the Oscar winners Exit and BlackkKlansman.
To this point, Blumhouse movies have grossed practically $6 billion on the world field workplace.
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