The motion picture “The Blair Witch Project,” which cost about $30,000 to produce, generated over $240 million in domestic and foreign box office receipts. Not surprisingly, it spawned a sequel, “Blair Witch II: Book of Shadows.” Three actors who played the central characters in the original production (“Blair Witch I”) brought suit against the distributor of the sequel alleging that their names and likenesses had been used without their approval in “Blair Witch II” and promotional activities relating to it. A federal district court has denied defendants’ motion for summary judgement.[1]�
“Blair Witch I” purports to be the recovered footage of three student filmmakers who had traveled to the Maryland woods to investigate a local legend about the “Blair Witch” and disappeared. The legend is a fictional “Mythology” that begins in 1785 and includes multiple accounts of witchcraft, murder and other mysterious events in the township of Blair, Md.
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