January 20, 2004
seeking self-insured actors
The pitch is so obvs: Blair Witch meets Jaws. Apparently no one saw the potential for ridiculously large boxoffice, though, so Chris Kentis had to make his movie Open Water all by himself and then bring it to Sundance.
How, one might ask, does a low-budget filmmaker unable to afford even a rudimentary mechanical shark a la Jaws, make a movie about two people trapped in shark-infested waters? Easy - find two desperate actors, chum the water, and toss 'em in. Seriously.
Sundance '04: Now Terror's at Sea Newsweek (msnbc)
Related news: the Blair Witch kids are all abject failures, failures who made a few million and five years after the fact still merit several thousand words in both the Times and Newsweek.
A Slump, or the Curse of the Blair Witch? | NY Times
Curse of the Blair Witch | Newsweek (msnbc)
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