'The Blair Witch Project' Artisan Entertainment/courtesy Everett Collection EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate and Blumhouse will be launching sales at the Cannes market on their reboot of horror franchise sensation The Blair Witch Project. We can confirm online reports from earlier this year that up-and-coming horror director Dylan Clark has been set to helm the new "imagining". Lionsgate has had this iteration in the works for a few years and it now has solid impetus. We understand filming is being lined up for fall and hear budget is in the $10M range. Plot details remain under wraps.