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Obsession leads Monday’s box office with $4.2M in its fourth week, narrowly ahead of Scary Movie’s $4.1M and bringing domestic total to about $156.1M and global to over $229M; Blair Witch Project’s worldwide $248.6M remains the benchmark for festival acquisitions, a figure Obsession is nearing as Focus Features’ top-grossing title worldwide.
Lionsgate is rebooting The Blair Witch Project with Dylan Clark directing, while original stars Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams join as executive producers alongside returning franchise creatives. The project, announced at CinemaCon 2024, is being produced by James Wan’s Atomic Monster and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse with Roy Lee and other producers; plot details are being kept under wraps as the franchise aims to reach a new generation. Leonard and Williams say they were blindsided by the initial reveal but are now onboard as EPs.
Lionsgate and Blumhouse are launching sales at the Cannes Market for a Blair Witch Project reboot directed by Dylan Clark, with a budget around $10 million and production aimed for fall; plot details are being kept under wraps, while Chris Devlin’s screenplay is rewritten by Clark. The project brings back involvement from original creatives and stars as executive producers (including Joshua Leonard, Michael C. Williams, Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick, and Gregg Hale), with James Wan and Roy Lee producing, and Lionsgate set to handle domestic/UK rights.
Lionsgate is rebooting The Blair Witch Project with Dylan Clark directing; original stars Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams will be executive producers, joining the film’s veteran creators Eduardo Sánchez, Daniel Myrick and Gregg Hale. The reboot is part of a CinemaCon‑announced multi‑film deal, with James Wan and Jason Blum (alongside Roy Lee) producing for Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, and a broader production team also in place. The move follows 25 years of neglect for the original creatives, highlighted by Leonard’s public frustration, while the original film’s modest $35,000 budget yielded about $248 million at the box office.
The original team behind the 1999 film "The Blair Witch Project" expresses frustration over not being involved in the planned reboot of the horror franchise by Lionsgate and Blumhouse. Production designer Ben Rock and co-producer Mike Monello voiced their disappointment on social media, with actor Joshua Leonard also expressing frustration. The team, which created the low-budget sensation, hopes to be involved in the new project and believes their understanding of the franchise would be valuable.
Lionsgate and Blumhouse are teaming up for a new Blair Witch Project movie as part of a multifilm deal to reimagine horror classics. The original 1999 film was highly profitable, and the new installment will be produced by Roy Lee, who also worked on the 2016 follow-up. The partnership was announced by Lionsgate film chair Adam Fogelson and Jason Blum, with Fogelson expressing excitement about reintroducing the horror classic to a new generation and Blum acknowledging the influence of Blair Witch on his own hit, Paranormal Activity.