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Titanic
I'm flying! Jack!
The film was originally to be released on July 2, 1997, but post-production delays pushed back the film's release to December 19, 1997. After this news broke, the news media believed that Titanic would fail and take Fox and Paramount with it. Upon release however, the film turned out to be an enormous critical and commercial success, winning eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It became the highest-grossing film of all time, with a worldwide total of $1.8 billion (it is the sixth-highest grossing in North America once adjusted for inflation.)
The film received steady attendance after opening in North America on Friday, December 19, 1997. By the end that same weekend, theaters were beginning to sell out. The film debuted with $8,658,814 on its opening day and $28,638,131 over the opening weekend from 2,674 theaters, averaging to about $10,710 per venue, and ranking #1 at the box office, ahead of the 18th James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies. By New Year's Day, Titanic had made over $120 million, had increased in popularity and theaters continued selling out. Its biggest single day took place on Valentine's Day 1998, making over $13 million on that day, more than six weeks after it debuted in North America. After it was released, it stayed at #1 for 15 consecutive weeks in the U.S. box office, which was a record. By March 1998, it was the first film to earn more than $1 billion worldwide.[31] The movie stayed in theaters in North America for almost ten months before finally closing on Thursday October 1, 1998 with a final domestic gross of $600,788,188, and making double that amount overseas with an international gross of $1,248,025,607. The film accumulated a grand total of $1,848,813,795 worldwide, and to this day Titanic retains the record as the most successful box office film in history, unadjusted for inflation.
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The Blair Witch Project
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The Blair Witch Project is a American horror film released in 1999. The narrative is presented as a documentary pieced together from amateur footage. The film was produced by the Haxan Films production company.
The film tells the story of three young student filmmakers (Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael C. Williams) who hike into the Black Hills of Burkittsville, Maryland to film a documentary about a local legend known as the Blair Witch. The three students never came back. The viewer is told that neither the students nor their bodies were found, although their video and sound equipment (along with most of the footage they shot) were discovered a year later.
A sequel to The Blair Witch Project was released on October 27, 2000 entitled Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. A second sequel was planned for the following year, but did not materialize.
The Blair Witch Project grossed $248,639,099 worldwide, against a $22,000 budget. The film was featured in the Guinness Book of Records as having the highest profit-to-cost ratio of a motion picture ever, making back US$11,301.78 for every $1 spent.[citation needed]
The Rotten Tomatoes website provides links to 123 reviews for the film, with 85 percent of these reviews being favorable.[13] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times gave the film four stars, calling it "an extraordinarily effective horror film".[14] It was listed on Filmcritic.com as the 50th best movie ending of all time.[15] Critics in particular praised Donahue's apology to the camera near the end of the movie, saying it would cause "nightmares for years to come", and which Ebert compared to Robert Scott's final journal entries as he froze to death in the Antarctic.[14][16] Donahue has stated that there was a considerable backlash against the film, which she claims led to her having threatening encounters and difficulty obtaining employment.
The Blair Witch Project is thought to be the first widely released film marketed primarily on the internet.[18] A sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, was released in the autumn of 2000, but was poorly received by most critics.[19] A third installment was announced that same year did not materialize.[20]
The Blair Witch Project was given a Global Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay.
Conversely, the film was also nominated for the 1999 Razzie Award for Worst Picture.
This year marks the 10th anniversary since this movie came out, this movie scared the CRAP out of me! I almost **** in my pants, when I saw this for the 1st time. I actually slept with the light on, I didn't want to go outside at night, no camping, no hiking in the woods & the ending was one of the most creepiest endings I ever seen in any movie, when that guy was standing & his face was facing the wall & then the camera dropped.