Variety: Blair Witch cast speaks out on "reprehensible behavior" by filmmakers & studio

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Paul MacLean
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Variety: Blair Witch cast speaks out on "reprehensible behavior" by filmmakers & studio

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Twenty-five years on, the cast of The Blair Witch Project open-up about their heinous exploitation by the filmmakers and distributors, and how they were barely compensated financially, despite the enormous success of the film...

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/blai ... 236033647/
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Re: Variety: Blair Witch cast speaks out on "reprehensible behavior" by filmmakers & studio

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What a shameful exploitation of three actors who earned the studio hundreds of millions, yet got compensated with pennies. :x

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Re: Variety: Blair Witch cast speaks out on "reprehensible behavior" by filmmakers & studio

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That whole 'phenomena' was so overblown, that film especially. Certainly didn't launch any careers for the cast or the directors either!

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