Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Tuesday, July 30th.

Today on Forbes, Why the Blair Witch Project

made a killing for the studio, but not its stars. When he learned this year that the Blair Witch Project was getting a reboot,

Joshua Leonard, one of the original actors in the groundbreaking 1999

indie horror film that celebrates its 25th anniversary this week

was laid up in bed battling COVID for the first time.

He heard about the project, which horror director and producer Jason Blum is reviving for Lionsgate,

at the same time as everyone else, when the news hit the press, which has been the case for every Blair

Witch sequel. Leonard was also, to put it mildly, fed up.

The 49-year-old vented his frustration the way most people do these days,

on social media, with a long Instagram post that concluded,

quote,

it's 25 years of disrespect from the folks who've pocketed the lion's share,

pun intended, of the profits from our work,

and that feels both cky and classless.

Through a spokesperson, Lionsgate declined to comment for the story,

and has yet to publicly address the cast's requests or complaints.

Given the monumental success of the franchise,

an alternate title for the Blair Witch Project

might be the little horror film that could.

Based on the fictional tale of college kids who went missing

while shooting a documentary about a witch hiding in the woods of Birketsville, Maryland,

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