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    'Darkside Chronicles': 'Resident Evil' meets 'Cloverfield'  Jun 19, 2009
    To augment the tension in arcade shooter Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles for the Nintendo Wii, publisher Capcom is borrowing a page from films such as Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project. Based on a quick demo, the results seem to produce a more chaotic, intense experience compared to its predecessor, Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles. (USA Today -- Tech)

    Empire Film Group Taps Industry Veteran David Magedman to Manage Theatrical Releasing Division  May 12, 2009
    Magedman first rose to distribution fame with the breakout, $140-million USA box office success of ``The Blair Witch Project'' when he managed theatrical operations for Artisan Releasing. Most recently, he was Vice President and senior theatrical release executive for Warner Independent Pictures, where he managed theatrical release activities for more than twenty films, cumulatively generating more than $200-million in domestic box office revenues. (Primezone Releases)

    Top 10 Ocean Dramas  Apr 18, 2009
    At the time of its release, "Open Water" was described as "Jaws" meets "The Blair Witch Project.". Vicious pirates preying on unsuspecting ships off the coast of Africa. (Fox News)

    More ways to play  Mar 14, 2009
    "I am looking forward to the Blair Witch Project of gaming," Gareth Davis, Facebook's head of games platforms, told BBC News. "Just like movies such as Blair Witch and Sex, Lies and Videotape broke out of the independent film scene into the mainstream the same will happen with independent gaming.". (BBC News -- Technology)

    Static Over Clear Channel and Mitt Romney  Mar 28, 2008
    Bain Capital has invested in many successful companies, including the Staples office-supply chain, Home Depot, Toys R Us, Burger King, Dominos Pizza and even Artisan Entertainment, producers of the low-cost, highly-profitable independent movie The Blair Witch Project. . (Newsmax)

    How creepy do you want it? The famously eerie tale of nine dead Russian...  Feb 28, 2008
    How creepy do you want it. The famously eerie tale of nine dead Russian hikers, with all the bizarre details you can handle. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)

    Ignore This Zombie's Friend Request  Feb 17, 2008
    Unlike The Blair Witch Project or , Diary of the Dead doesn't worry too much about the verisimilitude of its found-footage conceit. Who cares how Debra got her hands on the security-camera tapes that show us some of the movie's more imaginative deaths. (Slate)

    The Greats of Roth  Feb 16, 2008
    and on February 27th and 28th, pairs The Blair Witch Project with Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox. Additionally, Roth talks about the value of revival houses (), and explains how films like those in his festival inspire him when he works on his own projects. (IGN FilmForce)

    The Spiderwick Chronicles  Feb 15, 2008
    For example, Cloverfield is Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project and Fool's Gold is How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days meets National Treasure. By that same token, The Spiderwick Chronicles is a sanitized version of Evil Dead 2 meets Gremlins -- a scrappy and sometimes scary supernatural tale that features a dangerous book and some even more dangerous critters who will stop at nothing to get it. (IGN FilmForce)

    George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead  Feb 15, 2008
    Both, following The Blair Witch Project, purport to be stitched together from amateur video footage shot by college-aged kids in the midst of an inexplicable calamity. But the differences are important. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Zombies hit YouTube era in Diary of the Dead  Feb 15, 2008
    As in The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield, which employed a similarly visceral first-person point of view and jittery, hand-held camerawork, its all a matter of perspective. 2008 The Associated Press. (MSNBC -- Movies)

    What the hell?|  Feb 14, 2008
    It's what 'The Blair Witch Project' was trying to do. The sense of disorientation is only heightened by a screenplay devoid of the usual monster movie conventions: the scientist who understands the being; the military leader who figures out its weakness; the president who offers the words of reassurance. (iAfrica.com)

    Lights, camera, action! Baltimore a top city to make a movie  Feb 14, 2008
    Previous films made in and around Baltimore include: "The Accidental Tourist," "The Blair Witch Project," "Diner" and "Hairspray.". Austin, Texas, ranked first on the list. (Baltimore Business Journal, MD)

    Win a 'Cloverfield' DVD camera!  Feb 14, 2008
    It's 'Godzilla' meets 'The Blair Witch Project. It's 'Cloverfield. (iAfrica.com)

    New film a 'Dead' ringer for early Romero  Feb 10, 2008
    " The friend first points a video camera at the man, then a gun. Romero's latest zombie film uses the handheld, subjective camera approach as "The Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield. " Calling into question the morals of whoever is filming, it makes the case that YouTube and MySpace are as frightening as walking dead. "If Hitler were alive today, he wouldn't have to stand out in that square. (Athens Banner-Herald)

    George Romero back to basics  Feb 9, 2008
    Romero's latest zombie film uses the same handheld, subjective camera approach as "The Blair Witch Project" and "Cloverfield." Calling into question the morals and motives of whoever is filming, it makes the case that YouTube and MySpace are as frightening as walking dead. "If Hitler were alive today, he wouldn't have to stand out in that square. He could just put out a blog and he'd have millions of followers," Romero told The Associated Press in an interview. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)

    Cloverfield Review  Feb 8, 2008
    The structure of the film is limited exclusively to the perspective of Hud's camera, which qualifies Cloverfield as a monster-movie descendant of The Blair Witch Project. Or, depending on how you look at it, a documentary version of last fall's The Mist. (IGN FilmForce)

    Zombie king George Romero offers up Diary  Feb 7, 2008
    Romeros latest zombie film uses the same handheld, subjective camera approach as The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield. Calling into question the morals and motives of whoever is filming, it makes the case that YouTube and MySpace are as frightening as walking dead. (MSNBC -- News)

    Filmmaker gets back into frame  Feb 1, 2008
    A long-time director with four low-budget feature films to his credit, Fahey has been working as an intellectual property lawyer since an unhappy experience with the little-seen 2001 horror pic Cubbyhouse, starring Joshua Leonard, from The Blair Witch Project, and Craig McLachlan, left him disenchanted with filmmaking. "It was a very difficult process," Fahey said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)

    ‘Cloverfield’: A monster is loose in Manhattan  Jan 31, 2008
    While this picture actually looks a lot better, it is reminiscent of the same technique used in The Blair Witch Project. Being barraged with unsteady shots will surely induce queasiness in some moviegoers, but the overall effect is a good devise for delivering an angst-infused fantasy. (Lompoc Record, CA)

    Film: J. J. Abrams' Cloverfield  Jan 28, 2008
    Foregoing traditional film making techniques, it brings back memories of the Blair Witch Project, with its camcorder quality scenes. From the get-go, it has the feel of a bad Youtube video making it on the big screen; poor camera control, phenomenally poor AV, and a dizzying array of camera angles to make for a more realistic home recording. (Suite101.com)

    Sundance win for immigrant film  Jan 28, 2008
    Little Miss Sunshine, The Blair Witch Project and Reservoir Dogs are among the films that have used Sundance as a springboard to success. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)

    Monster Movie Making People Sick  Jan 26, 2008
    Harry Smith speaks with otolaryngologist Dr. Michael Stewart about how shaky camera work in films like "The Blair Witch Project" and the newly-released "Cloverfield" can cause motion sickness ... Another movie a few years ago, "The Blair Witch Project," had a similar affect on people, Smith pointed out. (CBS News -- Early Show)

    A 'Godzilla' For Modern Times  Jan 25, 2008
    As many have noted, its sort of The Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla ... The technique is less plausible than in The Blair Witch Project but believable enough for you to want to shout, Turn off the dang camera and run ... As many have noted, its sort of The Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla. (Townhall.com)

    MEDIA-MEMORY MISTAKE  Jan 24, 2008
    At just the moment you thought The Blair Witch Project was safely forgotten, that its perpetrators were now employed as Wal-Mart greeters and all the sheep who fell for that hoax back in 1999 had vacated the premises or moved on to Inland Empire along comes Cloverfield s new video skullduggery. (Too bad Frank Darabont didn t use video technology for his more credible 9/11 thriller, The Mist. (New York Press)

    Lewis: The ACTION 5!  Jan 24, 2008
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    Beyond the motion sickness, 'Cloverfield' is monstrous fun  Jan 23, 2008
    Anyone who hated the camerawork of "The Blair Witch Project" can go ahead and sit this one out. "Cloverfield" takes the cinematic concept of horror from the characters' perspective and applies it to the monster-movie genre. (The Daily Lobo, NM)

    When Monsters Attack Pretty People  Jan 22, 2008
    It's The Blair Witch Project all over again, complete with the logic holes (at what point does recording your life become more important than running for it. and Handycam-induced nausea. (Slate)

    Small Film Becomes Monster Hit, Leads Box Office  Jan 22, 2008
    Media By Numbers reported Monday that the film may be the biggest Internet-driven movie release since "The Blair Witch Project" in 1999. With TV programming largely stuck in reality mode or reruns, Americans flocked to the movie theaters this weekend, buying an estimated $135 million in tickets, up 39 percent from last year. (NBC4.tv, CA)

    Cloverfield: AU Review  Jan 22, 2008
    But if you found the Blair Witch Project an exercise in nausea, be warned; Cloverfield ups the ante in the shaky-cam stakes. Yet the cinematography is artfully done. (IGN FilmForce)

    Cloverfield --- reviewed by Craig the Movie Geek!  Jan 22, 2008
    Turns out it's sort of a cross between Godzilla and The Blair Witch Project --- with imagery that really bring back to mind the September 11th attack footage that is ingrained in our minds. It's all shot from the POV of of the people that are right in the thick of it. (650 CKOM News Talk Radio)

    'Cloverfield' a box-office monster  Jan 21, 2008
    Yes, that's sort of like The Blair Witch Project - and like that movie, the herky-jerky camera movement can make you seasick if you're prone to that kind of thing. But with its echoes of the 9/11 attacks and non-stop intensity, Cloverfield is both plenty scary and a heck of a lot of fun. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)

    Hollywood decamps to Sundance  Jan 21, 2008
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    Jessica Lucas poised for monster breakthrough  Jan 21, 2008
    But better than a mere thrill-ride, the movie shot in an intimate, jumpy hand-held style reminiscent of The Blair Witch Project also gives Lucas a chance to display some acting chops in a film in which character development holds its own against a rampaging, scene-wrecking special-effects monster. The first 20 minutes or so of the film set the stage with a raucous send-off for Rob, who's headed off to Japan despite unresolved feelings for Beth (Odette Yustman), who shows up at the party... (Toronto Star)

    Monsters, updated  Jan 19, 2008
    The latest creature attack, a video cam and cellphone saga with the unlikely title of Cloverfield, looks at the end of civilization as seen through the lens of a disorienting hand-held camera, like Armageddon crossed with The Blair Witch Project. The brain child of producer J.J. Abrams (Lost) and director Matt Reeves (numerous Felicity episodes), Cloverfield begins in a Lower Manhattan loft, where Rob Hawkins (Michael Stahl-David) is on the receiving end of a surprise going-away party, just... (The Palm Beach Post)

    Creating monster buzz  Jan 19, 2008
    The movie's Web presence obviously calls to mind past viral-minded tizzies for films from The Blair Witch Project to A.I.: Artificial Intelligence to Snakes on a Plane. What seems different about the Cloverfield campaign, though, is that it's not simply a marketing push; it's also a work of sprawling, multimedia storytelling, with the movie just one component of the narrative. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Inside CloverfieldDoes the film surrounded by secrecy live up to its hype?  Jan 18, 2008
    What followed was a media blackout on details about the film, together with a viral marketing campaign not seen since horror film The Blair Witch Project was released in 1999 ... Considered to be the pioneer of viral marketing, The Blair Witch Project cost just under 13,000 to make but raked in more than 125m worldwide. (BBC News -- Entertainment)

    Spoiler alert: 'Cloverfield' lives up to the hype  Jan 18, 2008
    The math is preposterously easy, actually: "Cloverfield" equals "Godzilla" divided by "The Blair Witch Project." (And if you want to know nothing more before buying a ticket, stop reading right now. Told solely from the point of view of one digital video camera wielded by one young guy named Hud (T.J. Miller), the film records scenes from a seven-hour attack on Manhattan by a Giant Thing. (Boston Globe)

    Apocalypse New  Jan 18, 2008
    " And what fears are we currently bottling up? In one of the great ironies of 21st century culture to date, the U.S. has now imported the Japanese monster moviecreated in response to their fear of usas a way of dealing with our own fears, starting with the attacks of Sept. 11. The result is Cloverfield. The movie is shot in the same shaky-cam, amateur-video style as The Blair Witch Project, and like Blair Witch, it has a star-free cast. The film purports to be a record of what happens to a... (Time.com)

    Pass it on: Examples in viral marketing  Jan 18, 2008
    "The Blair Witch Project" (1996). Blairwitch. (Daily Orange, NY)

    Cloverfield: Cover your eyes, hold your stomach  Jan 18, 2008
    Cloverfield wants to be The Blair Witch Project, from the appetite-whetting teaser that debuted before Transformers to the intriguingly vague title to the documentary-style filmmaking and the super hush-hush marketing campaign. But it wants to be Blair Witch with special effects. (Seacoast New Hampshire)

    'Cloverfield' delivers monster thrills, chills  Jan 18, 2008
    Think Godzilla meets The Blair Witch Project, with a Gen Y Big Chill element thrown in. Then add homages to Alien, Independence Day and War of the Worlds. (USA Today -- Life)

    Review: 'Cloverfield' a shaky look at monster attacking New York  Jan 18, 2008
    The first thing you need to get used to in "Cloverfield" is the potentially nausea-inducing shaky camera work, which makes "The Blair Witch Project" look like the latest Ken Burns documentary. Audiences will have to make other concessions, too. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    First, we flee manhattan  Jan 18, 2008
    Much like The Blair Witch Project with its hand-held Camcorder style, this thriller from J.J. Abrams (Mission Impossible 3) and longtime creative partner Matt Reeves is in perpetual motion, both visually and structurally. Its side effects include headache, nausea, anxiety and stomach ache -- so maybe don't order a bucket of KFC beforehand -- but it's worth it, in an adrenaline-pumping, masochistic way. (National Post)

    Chicago actor scares up starring role in `Cloverfield'  Jan 18, 2008
    "The film -- destined to evoke memories of Sept. 11 -- owe debts to "The Blair Witch Project," the "Godzilla" franchise and savvy marketing. "Lost" creator-turned-producer J.J. Abrams hitched a grainy trailer to "Transformers" last year that show Lady Liberty's head rolling down a street. A cyber-campaign followed.The monster -- which is "big, terrifying and fast" -- was added digitally to fleeing-mob scenes. For the infamous trailer, the F/X team fired "a tiny little rocket on a string" down... (Munster Times, IN)

    GRIDSCHLOCK ALERT  Jan 17, 2008
    As The Blair Witch Project" meets Godzilla" meets the Banana Republic catalog, I'm not sure who suffered more: the characters or me. They: are being terrorized by a giant monster roaring through Manhattan who's destroying buildings, knocking down bridges and playing shot put with the Statue of Liberty's head. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Cloverfield: Godzilla Goes 9/11  Jan 17, 2008
    The movie is basically the 1954 Godzilla (itself a gloss on Ray Harryhausen's 1953 The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, in which a prehistoric beast is roused by atomic tests to terrorize New York City) told in the style of, and with the characters from, The Blair Witch Project (but with a lot less internal cohesion; this could be called "The Blair Witch Reject"). The State of Liberty head comes from the poster for John Carpenter's Escape from New York (though that shot is not in the film). (Time.com)

    'Cloverfield'  Jan 17, 2008
    Cloverfield owes an obvious debt to both Godzilla and The Blair Witch Project. Like the former, it's a full-on monster movie, with giant creatures terrorizing a city (in this case, New York). (AZCentral -- Entertainment)

    Monster 9/11 Diss?  Jan 17, 2008
    If you don t read anything into it, this slightly plotted edge-of-the-seat nail-biter is a good big studio take on "The Blair Witch Project." It s the perfect winter doldrums popcorn fest. The clever aspect of Reeves film is that it s all shot with a handheld camera that s supposed to be the camcorder belonging to one of the main characters. (Fox News)

    'Cloverfield's' monster concept  Jan 16, 2008
    Hastily posted on the Internet, the trailer was soon being dissected with a fever perhaps not seen since the landmark buildup to 1999's "The Blair Witch Project," as fans began concocting wild theories about what caused the destruction (a humongous monster), what happens (it goes ballistic on Manhattan) and how much would viewers ultimately get to see (plenty). But the surprise and secrecy were one component of the inventive film, which opens Friday. (Los Angeles Times)

    'Cloverfield' marketing is as mysterious as its subject  Jan 13, 2008
    Viral campaigns have also come a long way since "The Blair Witch Project," which famously used the Web to catapult the low-budget indie film into a $248 million blockbuster, in 1999. In addition to "Cloverfield," "The Dark Knight," director Christopher Nolan's "Batman Begins" sequel out this July, is also using a highly complex campaign, designed by alternate reality game (ARG) pros 42 Entertainment. (Boston Globe)

    Mystery movie makes marketing history  Jan 13, 2008
    " The first posters of the film contained an image of a headless Statue of Liberty and the release date in small print, with no details, not even the names of stars. Since then, Australian users have logged on to 3000 different website forums about the film. When the final trailer for Cloverfield was posted onto Australian YouTube late last year, the site was inundated with visitors. It has since been viewed by more than 500,000 people. The success of Cloverfield's marketing campaign has... (Sydney Morning Herald)

    Coming to a screen near you  Jan 2, 2008
    And, like the Blair Witch Project, The Beast and Snakes on a Plane, it seems to be paying off. The internet is abuzz with growing rumour, conjecture and speculation. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)

    Star Trek XI tops list of geek movies to watch in 2008  Dec 19, 2007
    "The Blair Witch Project was another movie that used this style of filmmaking and that was a movie I thoroughly enjoyed." ... "The Blair Witch Project was another movie that used this style of filmmaking and that was a movie I thoroughly enjoyed.". (SearchOracle.com)

    Strike thickens the plot at Sundance  Dec 15, 2007
    (Past breakouts include the 2004 films "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Garden State" and 1999's "The Blair Witch Project.") Mr. Gilmore says, "There wasn't anyone at last year's festival who was talking about Once' or Waitress' before the festival started." Indeed, much of the so-called buzz is generated by the folks hoping to sell their movies at Sundance, so filtering out the truly good films and the ones that will land distributors is tricky. "The Little Miss Sunshines' are rarities, and it will... (AZCentral -- Business)

    Review: Wisecracking teen gets pregnant in 'Juno'  Dec 15, 2007
    She and her best friend, Bleeker (the gifted Michael Cera of "Superbad" and TV's "Arrested Development"), planned to watch TV one night because "The Blair Witch Project" was going to be on and they hadn't seen it since it came out. But instead, they had sex. (San Francisco Chronicle)

    Batman Viral-Marketing Mysteries, Dewey Cox Tighty-Whities Have Us Stoked For New Flicks  Nov 29, 2007
    In the near-decade since "The Blair Witch Project" changed the rules of movie promotion, lines between the silver screen and the simple life have become increasingly blurred. Phony Web sites, interactive games, movie props and mysteries now appear wherever a potential moviegoer might be. (VHI.com -- Music News)

    The Daily Break  Nov 5, 2007
    - The Blair Witch Project: Movies that really suck can make a lot of money if properly marketed. - White Chicks: The Wayans Brothers are not funny. (Daily Iowan, IA)

    Full Story...  Nov 2, 2007
    Nervous kids, teens and adults entered the maze of frightening rooms, traversed through graveyards, a haunted forest resembling that in The Blair Witch Project, a room full of real body bags hanging from the ceiling and even a polka dot room with a hidden surprise. Sections of walls dropped down with a loud crash as people appeared behind. (Albert Lea Tribune, MN)

    Holloween Horror Film Guide  Oct 23, 2007
    The Blair Witch Project worked so well because it was about people hopelessly lost in the woods. Sure, the shaky, documentary feel added a layer of realistic spookiness, but this was only a little lacquer on top of a solid structure that made it really shine. (Suite101.com)

    "1-18-08," Monster-sized hype surrounds mysterious untitled movie trailer  Oct 5, 2007
    So maybe it will be something like "The Blair Witch Project" (but hopefully better) ... "While it looks like the Blair Witch Project, it will have much more of a payoff," said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture. (Daily Orange, NY)

    Top 10 scary movies  Oct 4, 2007
    "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) - I don't care how stupid you think it is, it's still scary. The second-best psychological frightfest. (The Palm Beach Post)

    'Imprint' fresh, original filmmaking  Sep 17, 2007
    That's what made the low-budget thrill-fest "The Blair Witch Project" such a hit. Happily, the locally produced movie "Imprint" went the second route, producing edge-of-your-seat suspense reminiscent of an Alfred Hitchcock film. (Rapid City Journal, SD)

    Warner orders more 'Raw Feed'  Sep 14, 2007
    Both Krantz and partner John Shiban have strong roots in TV -- Krantz is exec producer on "24," and Shiban served similar duties on "The X-Files" -- and Daniel Myrick, the third principal, co-created seat-of-the-pants indie project "The Blair Witch Project" and also has worked on TV fare. The principals are producing each other's movies, then trading off directing honors. (Variety)

    Diary of the Dead  Sep 13, 2007
    Fifth franchise entry might best be viewed as a provocative inverse of "The Blair Witch Project," with which it shares a general p.o.v. structure and some themes. At its heart a stinging indictment of child-rearing practices that produced sullen offspring, incapable of thinking for themselves or working in groups during a crisis situation, "Witch" has given way, less than a decade later, to "Diary'"s bevy of confident, savvy coeds. (Variety)

    JDC sets billion-yen fund for pics  Sep 2, 2007
    A distrib of indie pics from around the world, Klockworx has handled "The Blair Witch Project" and "Shaolin Soccer," as well as toons "Le Roi et l'oiseau," "The Triplets of Belleville" and "Shin ango onshi.". The company also distribs domestic pics, including Kenji Uchida's hit comedy "A Stranger of Mine" and Katsuhito Ishii's "The Taste of Tea.". (Variety)

    New Lost creates film frenzy  Aug 19, 2007
    The shaky, low-resolution camera style has been used before, in films such as The Blair Witch Project, but its combination with big-budget special effects is more reminiscent of breaking news captured by mobile phone cameras. The scenes of fire raining from the skies above Manhattan inevitably evoke the 11 September 2001 terror attacks, and the intimate home movie style resonates with a generation accustomed to user-generated websites such as YouTube. (Guardian Unlimited)

    *All the Boys Love Mandy Lane*  Aug 7, 2007
    The Indie as we first knew it has evolved since The Blair Witch Project (1999), oozed it s way into the major motion picture market. Wikipedia. (Suite101.com)

    Cult web show comes of age  Aug 5, 2007
    Speculation was that some Hollywood studio was behind LonelyGirl15, taking advantage of the video blogging trend to hype some new horror flick or TV show, a la The Blair Witch Project. Finally, The Creators, as they called themselves, confessed: They weren't Hollywood but LonelyGirl15 was indeed fake, and Bree was played by a then unknown actress, 19-year-old Jessica Lee Rose of New Zealand. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Technology)

    Greengrass brings auds into picture  Aug 4, 2007
    Greengrass uses many of the same documentary techniques that terrified moviegoers in "The Blair Witch Project" and made them laugh in "Borat" to create high-octane action sequences through eight cities around the world. But instead of being bored at enduring yet another car chase, viewers feel that what happens to his characters actually matters. (Variety)

    Live from the 2007 Comic-Con  Jul 28, 2007
    Fans were hoping that director J.J. Abrams would release the name of the film that has created so much stir with its trailer, a grainy coming attraction that looks like The Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla on Independence Day. No one is even sure how it become the Cloverfield project. (USA Today -- Life)

    Not rated for parents  Jul 19, 2007
    He borrows heavily from The Omen when he's not cribbing, expertly, from the most haunting, night-video images of The Blair Witch Project. The film benefits from terrific performances. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)

    BAIT BALLS OF FIRE  Jul 16, 2007
    The Hollywood Reporter describes the scene as " 'Armageddon' meets 'The Blair Witch Project'." But there also might be an amusement park twist reminiscent of "Final Destination 2.". A few weeks ago, the movie was shot in Coney Island on the blocks contained by West Eighth Street, West 17th Street, Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Read This Book: eBay Performance!  Jul 14, 2007
    (Though Cowie does mention he was a producer of The Blair Witch Project and manages to weave the story of that indy-film success into the text. . (SmallBusinessComputing)

    J.J. Abrams' curious movie trailer  Jul 10, 2007
    Reported to be shot through the eyes of a partygoer using a handheld digital camera, the film is said to retain the look and feel of The Blair Witch Project. "It's amazing to me how secretive this one is," says Ain't It Cool News staff member Drew McWeeny. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)

    Cloverfield Builds Buzz  Jul 8, 2007
    Supposedly about a group of people who experience a monster invasion of New York City, the film is shot handheld, ala "The Blair Witch Project," only with what seem to be much more advanced special effects ... Now, Paramount has handed film fans a clue-filled Rubik's Cube with its mysterious viral marketing of the now titled, "Cloverfield," much like filmmakers did with its predecessor, "The Blair Witch Project." Question is, can the film live up to its already enormous hype. (Suite101.com)

    It's Alive: 1-18-08  Jul 7, 2007
    Early indications are that the film is some sort of giant monster sci-fi movie presented in a "reality" style -- like The Blair Witch Project. And rumor has it that "The Parasite," supposedly what the crew is calling the monster in the film, is another working title for the production. (IGN)

    Mysterious movie trailer has cinema buffs Lost  Jul 7, 2007
    The trailer features all film shot using hand-held video cameras - a technique made famous in the 1999 hit The Blair Witch Project. The film is reportedly being produced by JJ Abrams, the man behind Mission: Impossible III, the upcoming Star Trek XI movie and the TV series Lost. (Sydney Morning Herald)

    A Firefly buzzing into Wisteria Lane?  Jul 4, 2007
    Stars in the comedy "License to Wed""... Jason Dohring finds a new home with CBS... Indiana and son captured... Jamie Lee Curtis returns to our screens... The Blair Witch Project meets Godzilla?... Would be keen to work with Christian Bale... "Transformers", "Fantastic Four" and "TMNT" follow-ups?... Charlie's Angel signs for Kelly's new film... Must've been drunk all through "The Number 23"?... Director of the forthcoming "The Hunting Party"... A rant about popcorn films of yesteryear... Colin... (Moviehole)

    LORDS & SATAN  Jun 24, 2007
    One film that got its start that way is "The Blair Witch Project" (1999). "The directors drove it up from Florida," Barney Oldfield, a NewFilmmakers producer, remembers. (New York Post -- Entertainment)

    Fed up, 'Sopranos' fans fill in the black  Jun 23, 2007
    Called "Sopranos Ending 1, 2, 3, and 4" on YouTube, the spoofs present the finale in the style, respectively, of "The Blair Witch Project," a surprise birthday party, the Austin Powers movies, and a retro Kool-Aid commercial. In the 12 days since "The Sopranos" ended, YouTube has been buzzing with fan-generated responses. (Boston Globe)

    Lee, king of remakes, translates East into West  Jun 23, 2007
    In its Nov. 17, 2001 edition, U.S. weekly Variety called Jelangkung Indonesia's The Blair Witch Project (1999), a U.S. horror sleeper hit with a worldwide gross of US$248. 3 million. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)

    The prosecution rests  Jun 7, 2007
    Adamcik's attorneys contend the videotape, as far as their client is concerned, was the makings of a movie in the genre of ''The Blair Witch Project,'' or a ''mockumentary. . (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)

    Jurors view videotape  Jun 5, 2007
    In defense of Adamcik, attorneys are alleging the teen was making a movie along the lines of ''The Blair Witch Project. They have asked several detectives if they heard of ''mockumentaries,'' films made to look like a documentary but in fact a fictional piece of work. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)

    Olean filmmaker forges vision from dream to screen  May 8, 2007
    Mr. Peterson said the film, shot largely with hand-held digital cameras, could take off like the The Blair Witch Project did in 1999. Shot for $30,000, that movie made $48 million its first week and went on to become one of the most profitable movies in history. (Olean Times Herald, NY)

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