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 Blair Witch Sequel Has Poor Box Office Turnout
By SKillBot on October 30, 2000 11:00 AM
Maybe all those people who threw up in the theatre the first time got scared off. Or maybe they realized how stupid the first one really was, and didn't want to gamble on the sequel. I must admit that as much as I despised the first one, the sequel actually looks interesting.
"I guess you can fool movie-goers once, but they won't go for it a second time," said box-office analyst Robert Bucksbaum of Reel Source Inc."
"Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" cost about $15 million to make, while the original cost about $60,000 to shoot plus $300,000 for theatre quality post production. Artisan still expects to turn a good profit on the sequel by the time its domestic gross, overseas rights, television sales and video revenue are added up.
"We're definitely disappointed," said Rob Friedman, vice chairman of Paramount motion-pictures group. "We felt it was the sort of offbeat, dark comedy that audiences would embrace, and they didn't."
A third movie, a prequel relating how the "Blair Witch" legend started, is planned for release next year.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 30, 2000 11:24 AM
Oh god, they're going to make a THIRD? I mean, sure, the first was an interesting concept.. but anything after that just gets old and REALLY stupid. Emphasize stupid here...
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on October 30, 2000 12:00 PM
I loved the first one, and I might see the second one. Still, I liked not seeing the monster. I think that is what made Blair Witch Special. Then I heard execs at the movie studio brag that in this one we will see the Witch.
They just didn't get it.
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Posted by Jack (jack@dtheatre.com) on October 30, 2000 1:07 PM
The original actually had an element of creativity to it.. About 70% of the people I know that saw the preview or the SciFi (whoring) Special believed that it could have been a true story.. It had a new style of shooting/acting and was well plotted out, and the best case of hype I have ever seen. That was interesting.. Hell we all went and saw it for that. But now I think with seeing the witch (which might satisfy some people
s curiosity) and the no longer sea sickening style first person film it's not quite interesting as a the unique movie it once was.
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Posted by sKillBot (travis@pulley.org) on October 30, 2000 3:45 PM
I enjoyed certain aspects of the film. The shaky cam was pretty cool, and I have to agree with you on how interesting it was to never actually see the monster. However, the movie as a whole didn't really appeal to me because it seemed like a solid hour of just watching a bunch of dumbasses be stupid on each other. The video game should be just like the movie, except you get to slap someone for being a dumbass until they can figure out how to get out of the woods and not get eaten by the blair witch.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 1, 2000 8:40 AM
people need to give it a chance. I've seen many movies where the sequel was better then the first. and second of all you cant judge this one by the first one, because they had no budgeting for the first one. they have money now.
I work in the entertainment field myself, and I know that money=quality.quality=realism.realism=hit. got it?
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Posted by sKillBot (travis@pulley.org) on November 1, 2000 10:14 PM
Why should budget have anything to do with how one judge's a movie? Case in point: Godzilla (the one with matthew broderick). Next case in point: The Evil Dead puts The Blair Witch Project in the crap bin if you want to compare movies of the same budget. Not that I'm judging either of the movies to each other (I haven't even seen the sequel), but they are related, and I would have booed the blair witch movie even if I saw it at an artsy movie house.
I, myself, work in an industry. Money == quality.quality == satisfaction.shit != shineola.
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 4, 2000 7:59 AM
If a trio of student film-makers gets lost in the woods and eaten by a witch, does it make an noise?
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Posted by A random shemp (No Email) on November 4, 2000 5:13 PM
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
"Ugh - tastes like crap."
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