Few actors get to star in a
monster commercial smash that is also a zeitgeist
hit, but that was Joshua Leonard's experience with The Blair Witch Project, which turned a meager $ 60,000 production
budget into almost $ 250 million in worldwide theatrical receipts, and owned the summer of 1999 (and beyond, in the form of countless spoofs, homages and far less inspired rip - offs) like no other indie movie of its time.