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Two of the biggest stories to come out of last weekend’s Comic-Con involve Vancouver productions.
Lionsgate Films successfully completed some masterful misdirection by screening a sneak preview of a top-secret sequel to The Blair Witch Project to an unsuspecting San Diego audience, who were expecting to watch a new horror movie called The Woods.
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The original movie, a “found footage” horror story about three doomed documentary filmmakers investigating the legend of the Blair Witch, was made for $60,000 and went on to gross more than $250 million.
The new sequel was directed by Adam Wingard (Death Note, V/H/S ), and stars James Allen McCune (Shameless, The Walking Dead), as a college student who leads a group into the Black Hills Forest in Maryland to uncover the mysteries surrounding the disappearance of his sister who many believe is connected to the legend of the Blair Witch.
Blair Witch, the third film in the franchise, will be released in theatres on Sept. 16.
A previous sequel, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, was released in 2000 to mixed reviews and lukewarm box office results.
RIHANNA JOINS BATES MOTEL
Rihanna will be checking into the Bates Motel next season, but she probably won’t be checking out.
The pop superstar surprised Comic-Con attendees with a video announcement stating she will play Marion Crane, the iconic role played by Janet Leigh in the original Psycho, in the fifth and final season of A&E’s hit drama series that is filmed in Metro Vancouver.
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A replica of the original Bates Motel set from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film Psycho was built in Aldergrove on 272nd Street.
“Let me tell you what a bad bitch is about to do,” Rihanna said in the video. “I’m about to check into the Bates Motel very soon.”
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Bates Motel executive producers Kerry Ehrin and Carlton Cuse were on hand at the pop-culture convention with cast members Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, Max Thieriot and Nestor Carbonell on Friday to discuss the show’s upcoming fifth and final season.
Cuse said he and Ehrin heard Rihanna was a fan of the psychological series and called her casting the “perfect collision of creativity and fate.” In the film, the character famously meets her bloody demise in the shower of Room 1.
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