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The Blair Witch Project(1999)
Released
1999 · FILM

The Blair Witch Project

Film students Heather, Mike, and Josh venture into Maryland’s cursed woods to document the legend of the Blair Witch, only to confront a malevolent presence that turns myth into deadly reality.

“Everything you've heard is true.”

Directed by
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Written by
Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
81 min
HorrorMystery

Synopsis

In October 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while working on a documentary. A year later, their footage was discovered.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Daniel MyrickShot by Neal FredericksScored by Antonio CoraDesigned by Ben Rock

Box Office

1999 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4144× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$248.6M

Budget$60K
Worldwide gross$248.6M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $140.5M — 57% of worldwide · International: $108.1M (43%)

Opening weekend: $1.5M — 1% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $3.0M — 2% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 27 theaters

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Also known as

  • Blair Witch Projectde
  • El proyecto de la Bruja de Blaires
  • Le Projet Blair Witchfr

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