popwatch.ew.com - 10/24/2009
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Ten years ago, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez scared the bejeezus out of moviegoers everywhere with their micro-indie horror hit, The Blair Witch Project, which went on to gross a record-breaking $140.5 million. Now that there’s another rock-bottom-budgeted fright fest, Paranormal ...
getthebigpicture.net - 10/26/2009
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There have been plenty of comparisons of Paranormal
Activity to The Blair Witch Project already, but I'll...
give you one more: Blair Witch: Book of Shadows . That's what happened when suits in boardrooms thought they had a big franchise on their hands and bought the rights to the title from ...
Paramount Considering 'Paranormal Activity' Sequel
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'Blair Witch' director talks about 'Paranormal Activity'
Oh No They Didn't! —
... a man who has been incarcerated and has this unique ability to convince normal people to become mass murderers by just talking to them. So it’s a dark thriller. I wrote the script a couple of years ago. And Ed and I are both circling around some other Blair ideas. We’re thinking about collaborating again. With this whole Paranormal Activity thing, there’s a spotlight shining back on Blair. So the timing might be right. Who knows? We’ll see how it goes. Source
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... Blair Witch director Daniel Myrick comments to EW about Paranormal Activity: “It’s encouraging to see another film come out that’s in the spirit of the Blair Witch aesthetic. And the marketing approach that’s doing so well reaffirms in my mind that you don’t need to spend a ton of money to have a successful film.” … “Yeah. I liked it. There are things I definitely would have done differently, ...
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