Here’s a fun game: Look at headlines about the opening weekend of the 2016 film Blair Witch and see how many times you see the word “flop”.
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Equally fantastic are the Oscar-caliber supporting turns from Aaron Eckhart (Thank You for Smoking, Erin Brockovich) as First Officer Jeffrey Skiles, Laura Linney (The Savages, Kinsey) as Sully’s long-suffering wife, Lorraine and Breaking Bad’s Anna Gunn as the least villainous of the three fictional NTSB investigators grilling Sully and Stiles about their actions.
HOLLYWOOD-There were plenty of new releases at the box-office this weekend with flicks like “Snowden”, “Blair Witch” and the long-anticipated sequel “Bridget Jones’s Baby”, too bad they were no competition for last weekend’s box-office champ “Sully”.
Simon – who previously worked with Adam on “You’re Next” and “The Guest” – followed up his tweets by insisting he was “hugely proud” of the movie they had made. But Blair Witch doesn’t feel as shocking as it should. It was a nuclear reactor in a thimble.
Domestically, Bridget Jones’s Baby at least did (juuuuuuust) enough to beat off Oliver Stone’s Snowden. Renowned documentary maker Joe Berlinger took on the job of the second movie, and he’s been looking back at just what went wrong with the film.
But it didn’t need to.
Much like the set up of the original movie, Blair Witch’s premise is essentially the same.
One of the saving graces that can be found when watching Blair Witch comes in the highly underplayed concept of a woodland area in which time and space does not operate normally, being a fairly unique concept that while present in the original film, isn’t something we see all too often surprisingly. It was a neat trick that led to some early buzz. The film likewise scored a 36 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 46 percent score on Metacritic.
The fall season is upon us at the box office marking a dramatic turn in what we can expect to see. In second position, Blair Witch made a nice entry by collecting $ 9.6 million in revenue for a budget of $ 5 million. While the first two films in the series opened with $10 million and $8.6 million respectively, this threequel could only muster up $8.2 million. It won in the category of Worst Remake or Sequel. There’s no risk, and there is the potential to have another huge hit on your hands. “Blair Witch” graphic novel, maybe? And it’s already earning multiples of its budget after the first weekend.
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A big part of The Blair Witch Project’s appeal was how much was left unexplained.
