{"id":721599,"date":"2026-06-23T17:45:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721599\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:45:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:45:35","slug":"blair-witch-project-new-movie-sets-fall-2027-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721599\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Blair Witch Project’ New Movie Sets Fall 2027 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe new Blair Witch Project<\/a> movie from Lionsgate<\/a> is coming to a theater near you on Sept. 24, 2027. The date was just unveiled in a cryptic video on social. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Michael studio had the release date on hold in the Rentrak calendar. The only other wide release set for that time is an untitled DreamWorks Animation film. <\/p>\n

\n\tBlumhouse and Atomic Monster are involved on the new movie, and YouTube horror space filmmaker Dylan Clark is behind the new pic. He recently signed on with Universal to adapt his horror short\u00a0Portrait of God, with Sam Raimi and Jordan Peele producing. He is also writing to direct an adaptation of his short film\u00a0Story Time, with Zak Olkewicz and LD Entertainment producing. He is repped by Lionsgate owned 3 Arts, UTA and Ginsburg Daniels Kallis.<\/p>\n

\n\tEPs include\u00a0the 1999 film\u2019s creators Eduardo S\u00e1nchez, Daniel Myrick, and Gregg Hale, alongside original film cast members\u00a0Joshua Leonard and Michael C. Williams, who join Michael Clear, Judson Scott, and Steven Schneider.\u00a0The new Blair Witch Project is directed by Clark, written by Chris Thomas Devlin\u00a0and produced by Jason Blum, James Wan, Roy Lee, Adam Hendricks, and Greg Gilreath.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first Blair Witch Project was acquired out of Sundance in January 1999 by Artisan (which Lionsgate ultimately absorbed) for around $1M, the found footage horror movie from Myrick and Sanchez becoming a near $249M WW global sensation at the late summer B.O. that year. Why\u2019d it work? People thought it was real. Part of the promotion for the film was a documentary that aired on Syfy channel about the Blair Witch legend. Genius marketing back in the day. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe sequel in 2000 Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 was directed and co-written by Joe Berlinger, but fans didn\u2019t buy it with a near $48M WW take at the box office. <\/p>\n

\n\tLionsgate rebooted the Blair Witch back in 2016, with Adam Wingard (Godzilla x King, Godzilla vs. Kong) directing off a Simon Barrett screenplay. In a clever marketing move for that film, Lionsgate originally titled the film, The Woods. At the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, a screening of The Woods was held and it was in that moment that attendees learned, the movie was a new Blair Witch feature.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Blair Witch Project movie from Lionsgate is coming to a theater near you on Sept. 24,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[304165,88,14968],"class_list":["post-721599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-blair-witch-project","tag-entertainment","tag-lionsgate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}