Season of the Witch (2011 film)
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Season of the Witch is a 2011 American supernatural action-adventure film starring Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman, and directed by Dominic Sena.[3] Cage and Perlman star as Teutonic Knights who return from the Crusades to find their homeland devastated by the Black Death. Two church elders accuse a young woman (Claire Foy) of being a witch responsible for the plague. They command the two knights to transport her to a distant monastery so the monks can lift her curse.[4] The film reunited Sena and Cage, who had previously worked together on Gone in 60 Seconds.
Season of the Witch | |
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Directed by | Dominic Sena |
Written by | Bragi F. Schut |
Produced by | Alex Gartner Charles Roven |
Starring | Nicolas Cage Ron Perlman Stephen Campbell Moore Claire Foy Stephen Graham Ulrich Thomsen Robert Sheehan Christopher Lee |
Cinematography | Amir Mokri |
Edited by | Mark Helfrich Dan Zimmerman |
Music by | Atli Örvarsson |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Relativity Media Rogue |
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Running time | 95 minutes [1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $40 million[2] |
Box office | $91.6 million[1] |
Development on the film began in 2000 when the spec script by screenwriter Bragi F. Schut was purchased by MGM. The project moved from MGM to Columbia Pictures to Relativity Media, where the film was finally produced by Charles Roven and Alex Gartner. Filming took place primarily in Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. Season of the Witch was released on January 7th 2011, in the United States, Canada, and several other territories.