About six weeks ago, we checked in with the latest Blair Witch movie, which is now seeing some movement two years after it was first announced at CinemaCon back in 2024. Like this year’s Obsession — which just surpassed the original Blair Witch as the highest-grossing festival pickup of all time — The Blair Witch Project arrived at exactly the right time to shake up the then-staid horror genre when it premiered in 1999. Also like Obsession, the film’s success left a sour taste in the mouths of some of those who made it, and who later petitioned for their share of the millions it raked in at the box office.
That brings us back to Heather Donahue, the star of The Blair Witch Project and the only member of the original cast to decline an agreement that brought her co-stars Joshua Leonard and Michael Williams onto Blumhouse and Lionsgate’s “new vision” for the film as executive producers. This came after Donahue, Leonard and Williams sent an open letter to the studio asking for residuals and “meaningful consultation” on any future Blair Witch-related projects. At the time, it appeared as if Donahue was either left out of or turned down that deal.
