New Interview with OG Blair Witch Stars

[ellie_andrews]

https://instagram.com/p/C8IDG6RM5Fw

** a bit of an expansion on this earlier post.** Stars of one of the most influential horror movies of all time are asking for "meaningful consultation" on any future Blair Witch projects after Lionsgate announced a reboot in April. They are "requesting retroactive and future residual payments for the movie '

Comments

[ginainabottle]

They were told that what they were going to film would be about "10 minutes of the movie" but it ended up being the entire movie.

WTF??? It's so insulting the way less known actors are often paid dust and basically forced to take the quicker deal so they don't miss opportunities.

This reminds me of the kid who did the singing voice for Young Simba, they offered him 2m (I believe) for the role without restrictions and his mom was like nope Disney, don't want a big payment, let's do a smaller one and keep the royalties. And there you have TLK being one of Disney's biggest hits that stood the test of time. Absolute boss move, mama.

[floatinglately]

i’d never heard that about the lion king kid, that rules! rare parent of a child in showbiz win

[waffletaco]

He explains it here. Yeah, its probably the way he's been largely living off of all these years.

[anyaroses]

I know this is off topic, but I hate how so many Disney movies (especially in the 90s) had a celeb do the talking voices and had someone with a great voice for the singing.

[a_files06]

Que TLC "This is how you sell 100 million records and have nothing to show for it"

[ivn]

Fuck Artisan. Fuck the CEOs. These three deserve more

Blair Witch is iconic and the marketing behind it at that time was genius

[afeelingunacted]

I feel like the depressing truth is there is a lot of money in art and it never goes to the right people.

[2_on]

that sucks so much. they deserve so much more money since they basically made the film themselves. their contract said they would get 1% of the profits tho and it grossed $250 million worldwide so they should've gotten $250k each. what happened with that?

[bostongirl2003]

studios get creative about costs and can basically present it as if the film never turned a profit.

the only way artists get paid is if they get a percent of the gross, cause they can't fudge those numbers

[anyaroses]

That's called "Hollywood Accounting."