Artisan EntertainmentHorror filmmaker and producer Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Productions are paying it forward to a film he said was influential to his career: 1999 s The Blair Witch Project. Blumhouse and Lionsgate will collaborate on a new Blair Witch movie "as the first film in a multi-picture pact with Blumhouse reimagining horror classics from the Lionsgate library," reads an announcement from Adam Fogelson, the head of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group. Written, directed and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez, the thriller centered on a small documentary crew that disappeared in the woods of Burkittsville, Maryland, while tracking rumors of a supernatural presence. According to the film, their camera equipment was the only trace of them to be found, and thanks to a creative guerrilla marketing campaign, first audiences believed the story was true. The micro-budgeted "found footage" horror film went on to gross
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