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| 11th of June 99 |
The following TBWP info came from A&e's fanatic site.
CURSE OF THE BLAIR WITCH
Here are the scheduled airtimes in July for the Sci-Fi Channel's Exclusive
Special
Monday, July 12 at 10:00 PM, 1:00 AM
Sunday, July 18 at 8:00 PM, 1:00 AM
Thursday, July 22 at 11:00 PM, 3:00 AM
Saturday, July 31 at 1:00 PM
I wish we had the SciFi channel in Australia. |
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| 8th of June 1999 |
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| 5th of June 99 |
It's "The Blair Witch Project"
Bonanza today..The NEWS comes via a message from e. at A&e's Blair Witch Project Fanatics Site.The Soundtrack
will be released.. That's right. It will be called "Josh's Blair Witch
Mix." and contains the 12 songs that were on a tape found in Josh Leonards
car that was marked as above. The CD will contain all the driving songs
that were on the tape that Josh made expecially for the road trip to Burkitsville.
Here is a listing of the songs.
1. Lydia Lunch ... "Gloomy Sunday"
2. Public Image Ltd. ... "The Order of Death"
3. Skinny Puppy ... "Draining Faces"
4. Bauhaus ... "Kingdom's Coming"
5. The Creatures ... "Don't Go To Sleep Without Me"
6. Laibach ... "God Is God"
7. Afghan Whigs ... "Beware"
8. Front Line Assembly ... "Laughing Pain"
9. Type O Negative ... "Haunted"
10. Meat Beat Manifesto ... "She's Unreal"
11. Tones on Tail ... "Movement Of Fear"
12. Antonio Cora ... "The Cellar"
The song by Antonio Cora is from the score. Now the fact that these songs
were maybe not in release at the time that Josh and Co. left the car to
film their project.. Adds to the mystery of the Blair Witch.. Maybe the
Blair Witch did up a mix tape and put it there for her own personal driving
tunes.:) The Front and back will look as follows (Without the see through
GIF look) and be released by Chapter III Records. MORE INFO HERE.
Also on The Blair Witch Project. THE NEW TRAILER (IT CHILLED ME TO THE
BONE REVIEW NEXT WEEK) and THIRD OFFICIAL SITE. Okay everyone is familiar
with the original trailer.. Hopefully if all went well you would have seen
it stream at the opening of the page or Real Producer totally sucks ass.
Well the new one is available at http://www.artisanent.com/blairwitch/noftrailers.html.
It is a 2.6 meg download. And Currently busier than a bumble bee. The new
site is available at http://www.artisanent.com/blairwitch/ and handles the more
corporate side of things also has a listening of the theatres that the film
will open in... Oh TBWP stuff don't stop there!!!. Some artwork from the
Comic based on the film has hit the above site. The comic is to be scripted
by Jen Van Meter and the art will be by Bernie Mireault. The Comic is being
released on the 14th of July by OniPress. Here are some of the sketches that can be found at
HERE.
They look to be of the lifestyle of Rustin Parr.
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| 4th of June 1999 |
| The 20th anniversary edition of FANGO will also have an article on
"The Blair Witch Project" contained
within it. Keep an eye out for it.. It will hit shelves on Monday. |
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| 2nd of June 1999 |
| The most disturbing news to appear today has come from "The Hollywood Reporter"
about films that have been pirated and placed on the Internet for download.
Not only Star Wars, or The Matrix, but also "The
Blair Witch Project". These are highly illegal and those who
post them can be fined the maximum penalty and or jailed. The MPAA and FBI
are cracking down on this. Remember if you publish these films without permission
on the Internet, Jack Valenti and the FBI could be knocking on your door.
If you hear of a site where the download of these files cna be found email
[email protected] or the relevant authorities.
This information came to me from T_iguana
and e. at A&e's
TBWP fan site. |
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| 31st of May 1999 |
| According to footage on the E! channel in the USA Ed Sanchez co-dorector/writer/etc
of "The Blair Witch Project" can
dance. There were several clips relating to TBWP in the Canne special. I'd
like to also congratulate A&e's fan site for getting traffic upwards
of 13,000 to their fanatic site after the promotions run on MTV about TBWP
fan site. Again I'll plug their marvellous site for giving the great news
today that ED can dance. A&e's TBWP fanatic site. |
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| 30th of May 1999 |
| More good news for "The Blair Witch Project"
it had a bunch of promotion on MTV, not only in Australia but overseas in
the US. The article on MTV news was about TBWP fan sites and A&e got a huge mention congratulations e. your
site deserves every hit it gets. So I'm going to plug it again HERE. |
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| 28th of May 1999 |
A couple of snap shots taken by Roger Ebert of the prodigal directing
team of "The Blair Witch Project"
(Daniel (Dan) Myrick and Eduardo (ed) Sánchez) have appeared on the
NET.. Thanks to e. and his Fanatic page. The pictures were taken at Canne by Ebert
during and before the panel discussion.
(left-right) Spike Lee, John Sayles, Eric Mendelsohn, Daniel (Dan) Myrick
and Eduardo (ed) Sánchez.
Eduardo (ed) Sánchez and Daniel (Dan) Myrick |
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| 25th of May 99 |
"THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT" was
the only English language film to win an Award at the Canne
film festival. It won the "Prix de la
Juenesse", translated by e. it = "The Youth Prize"
(An Audience Award). This Wonderful news was submitted to the site by e.
e. also points out a essay by Roger Ebert that has appeared online
at- http://www.suntimes.com/output/eb-feature/clr24a.html
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I strongly encourage supporters of the film to check out e.'s, site
which is aptly titled "A&e's THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT Fanatic's Guide"..
I'd also like to throw out a HUGE congratulations to HAXAN you guys deserve
espeacially with the controversy of the films promotion in Canne. I was
lucky enough to get an interview with Ed Sanchez before he went over to
Canne, it appeared on the page a while back but here
refresh your memory. I'm not sure if the tactics outlined in the first
question helped any:). TBWP opens in theatres in the US on July 16. For
those who don't get HAXAN news via Email goto www.haxan.com
and look at news brief #32. Read how it is like to be on a directors panel
at Canne with Spike Lee, Ron Howard and John Sayles.. A Panel hosted by
Roger Ebert.. WOW.. great article that one. |
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| 20th of May 99 |
| "The Blair Witch Project" may have sounded like a mouthfull
3 months ago.. But this week it has been said on MTV (as the trailer will
be in front of SW-PM) in the USA, it was seen on "E" entertainement
news in Australia. And this week it got its Canne ivitational screening.
e has been busily updating his news page on TBWP this week and I
encourage all those interested in the project to check out his site.. http://tbwp.freeservers.com. e.
has an amzing ability to track down anything on the film and put it down
on hypertext. An excellent example of a fans dedication for instance this
past week it has shown us threw links that Mr Showbiz has info on poor timing
of the "MISSING" fliers around Canne.. Along with the good news
of the George Ebert Rev up of the film.. I encourage lovers of the witch
to check this site out. It also includes the rare "Split Screen"
mov's. of the Haxan boys on the TV show of the same name. As Indiewire has
said it. "The Blair Witch Project" is the most horrifying horror
movie in 20 years and it'll give indie film, and the movie summer as a whole,
a good name." |
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| 19th of May 99 |
| TAKE A DEEP BREATH and SHOUT to David Cronnenberg.. "The Blair Witch Project" to a win a D'or. It
is getting it's official CANNE invitational screening over the next 24 hours.. |
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| 17th of May 1999 |
HORROR FANS PLEASE STOP THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
BLACK MARKET..
Many fans over months past have been faced with a dilemma.. Should I
take a copy of those circulating on video.. The simple answer is "NO!!!!!!!!!!"..
Mike at Haxan expressed concern over the growing trend on the HAXAN discussion
board about "The Blair Witch Project" piracy. The truth according
to Mike is that the videos that are circulating are the videos that sent
out early in the piece to distributors. Although they were finished at the
time a plethora of changes have been made since.. Including a NEW sound
mix.. So paying for such a copy would be stupid as you would be getting
the kind of quality that is talked about in piracy warnings at the start
of videocassettes. Also taking these copies will ruin your first REAL "TBWP"
experience.. It is my suggestion that you hold on to your cash for the real
thing.. Even if you get a free copy.. Like the one that was sent to me..
Sure I sent the pirate my address so as to get a copy.. But I had one of
those "Death Visions" as it was coming in slowly by boat from
the USA to Australia.. The Tape is now in shards after I took an Axe to
it before even sniffing the cassette.. I didn't even watch it.. I took an
Axe to instead even though I was in tears.. But I knew it was the RIGHT
thing to do.. Now "TBWP" better get Australian distribution or
I'll be really angry.. But if not.. I guess I'll have to do it myself. So
a RECAP on "Why not to obtain/ purchase or watch a pirated copy."
1. Because it will not be the intended finished "PROJECT".
2. Because you are ripping off HAXAN and revolutionary HORROR filmmaking
by doing so.
3. Because I chopped up mine with an AXE.. And I stil have that Axe around
the place somewhere :) (hehehe)
4. It is a crime and you could face huge fines or a prison sentence.
Seriously the remifications are more than that.. Use your brain you know
when it's okay to pirate a hard to get tape and when not to.. I assure after
it's release "The Blair Witch Project" will not be hard to get..
It will end up sharing shelves with "Evil Dead" and "Mary
Poppins" in shops right around the world.
HAXAN
SITE|OFFICIAL SITE |
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| 5th of May 1999 |
| Dan Myrick co-director of "The Blair Witch Project"
has told the LA times about why CGI FX weren't used.. "What kind of
Blair Witch could we have created on a computer that would have satisfied
the audience?".. He than went on to explain, "Everyone has their
own boogeyman. We said, ‘Let's let the audience leave the theater with
that in their mind.’".. My thought exactly.. It is your own fears
that scare you.. That is why the original "The Haunting" was so
scary.. Well good on HAXAN for getting this movie out there. |
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| 18th of April 1999 |
| "The Blair Witch Project" is likely
to be made into a book by penguin publishing. This is according to HAXAN
news#27. The book is set for a wide release in August of this year. Not
known is if it will contain Heathers Journal the highly coverted reward
of the HAXAN site is this piece of print. By far the best read of a diary
since Laura Palmers. Goodluck finding it. The Journal 'IS' within the HAXAN
page behind a hidden link. So hidden that the cursor don't change to the
hand or whatever when you hover over it. Happy hunting at www.haxan.com/homeframe.htm (Hopefully the book will
make it to Australia MR. Sanchez).Also rumor of a comic formed companion
to the film. Oh, how the corporate wheels turn.. "When is the soundtrack
coming?" One may ask.. |
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| 17th of April 1999 |
| It is official "The Blair Witch Project"
and HAXAN have been invited to Canne (The film festival not a holiday).
As a follower of the progress of this film I'd like to offer by personal
congratulations to HAXAN films. There is a competition at the HAXAN page
(as per HAXAN news #27) at the moment. It closes on the 21st of this month.
You have to go to the discussion board and write in 30 words or less why
you should get to go to the LA sneak preview on the 27th of their film.
Their are 3 double passes to be won. One entry per person, type your EMAIL
address in the FROM section. The Haxan films site is www.haxan.com, this site has heavy traffic at the moment.
Click on Blair Witch Project, than at the bottom of the screen click on
"DISC". |
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| 8th of April 1999 |
OFFICIAL BLAIR WITCH SITE is open..
You'll understand this picture once you've been to the site.. Also might
want to check out the HAXAN Blair witch Site.. much more info and a link
to .mov's and the official trailer.. This film has me spooked and I haven't
seen it yet.. HAXAN
SITE |
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| 18th of March 1999 |
"The Blair Witch Project"..
These four words are the four that will take horror into the new millenium..
It seems that I have become addicted to this film without it even being
released.. Exposure to the web page.. The .mov's and timeline is enough
to hook you.. To read Heather's Journal (hidden link in the page) will certainly
result in lack of sleep... To see the film.. Well hopefully it will not
be a let down.. Because at this rate to see the film the fear will be something
you take with you everywhere.. It will be a fear in the back of every student
docko makers head.. It will be the CULT classic that defines 1999.. It will
be listed in the Hottest 100 films of the millenium..
Expose Yourself.. The
Blair Witch Project.
You'll understand this picture once you've been to the site. |
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| 4th of March 1999 |
| News this week.. I emailed the makers of "The
Blair Witch Project" to find out an Aussie release date they
emailed me back with this reply. "Thanks for your interest in The
Blair Witch Project! Summit Entertainment is in the process of selling world
rights (I believe they will show the film at the market in Cannes), so hopefully
an Australian distributor will see the value in releasing it there. The
film is set to be released by Artisan Entertainment this summer in the States."
CONGRATULATIONS for making it to Canne.. You will be judged this year under
the watchfull eye of Cronenberg who has a seat on the Jury.. by the way
Cronenberg's eXistenZ offiicial site is now online.. Go to the 1999 section
to find out more. |
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