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Category Archives: Anatomy

Anatomy of a Vegan Kebab – Video

Posted: Published on July 6th, 2014

Anatomy of a Vegan Kebab No vegan barbecue is complete without veggie kebabs! You can load up bamboo skewers with your favorite veggies, marinated tofu, and vegan meats, and grill it to perfection. What are you waiting... By: Vegan.com … Continue reading →

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Anatomy of a blockbuster: The Blair Witch Project

Posted: Published on July 6th, 2014

When The Blair Witch Project debuted to genuine screams and shudders in the midnight program at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, it fit precisely no ones idea of a blockbuster movie. On the contrary, this decidedly lo-fi production about three student documentarians who get lost in a forest chasing a paranormal legend was the epitome of an independent Sundance movie, which is almost a genre unto itself. Blair Witch was shot in just eight days on a reported budget of about $30,000, less than what a big Tom Cruise movie would spend on coffee. First-time feature filmmakers Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez used unknown actors who were required to carry cameras and film themselves, shooting mainly on black-and-white 16 mm celluloid supplemented with some colour videotape. And yet so effectively did Blair Witch spook Sundance and later the planet, ringing up nearly $250 million in worldwide ticket sales, the film became a blockbuster by stealth. To put this into perspective, the Mike Myers spy parody Austin Powers:The Spy Who Shagged Me, released the same summer with massive promotion, earned $312 million globally. But that was on a production budget of $33 million, or about 1,100 times what it cost to … Continue reading →