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Artisan Entertainment’s Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 delves deeper into the legend of the infamous Blair Witch and the unspeakable evil wrought in the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 takes place in present-day Burkittsville, after the events chronicled in The Blair Witch Project . Four young people have signed up for a tour of the Black Hills, the latest Blair Witch -inspired moneymaker dreamed up by Jeff Patterson, a black sheep townie with a murky past. They set up camp near the foundation of the house that belonged to Rustin Parr, the old hermit who was hanged for the murders of seven children, a crime that bore the mark of the Blair Witch. In the morning, the campers awake with no memory of having gone to sleep and five hours stolen from their lives. They return to Jeff’s residence, an abandoned 19th Century warehouse at the edge of Burkittsville, to try to piece together what happened. But the strange occurrences haven’t ended with that night, as legend and reality become frighteningly entwined. Bizarre symbols appear on their bodies, children’s plaintive crying is heard, phantasmagoric visions confound their eyes, and fleeting apparitions suggest the villainy of the distant past. In the woods, a grisly discovery at Coffin Rock recalls a deadly chapter in the history of the Blair Witch. No longer sure what is real and what is imagined, the five young people start to unravel psychologically, eyeing one another with suspicion and edging ever closer to mass hysteria. Too late, they realize that when they left the woods, they didn’t leave alone …
As an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work often explores the ambiguity of the human condition, director Joe Berlinger ( Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and its sequel, Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 ) brings a unique understanding of the blurry line between truth and fiction that is a key element of the Blair Witch series.
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 is the second film of Artisan Entertainment’s projected Blair Witch trilogy. The final film will be a prequel that completes the legend of the Blair Witch. The first film in the series, The Blair Witch Project , is the highest grossing independent film in history.
Richard Gere heads up an extraordinary ensemble cast, including Academy Award® winner Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Academy Award® nominee Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Tara Reid, Kate Hudson, Liv Tyler, Robert Hays, Matt Malloy, Andy Richter, Lee Grant and Janine Turner in Robert Altman`s comedy/romance Dr. T and the Women. The film finds the maverick director revisiting a favorite topic: relations between men and women. Dallas gynecologist Dr. Sullivan Travis (Gere) is a man juggling many, many women in both his professional and personal lives. The doctor of choice for the city`s society elite, Dr. T is perennially overbooked and behind schedule, despite the efforts of his devoted chief nurse, Carolyn (Long). Now Dr. T`s home life is boiling over, too: his beloved wife Kate (Fawcett) has regressed into a childlike state just as plans for the upcoming wedding of cheerleader daughter Dee Dee (Kate Hudson) are shifting into high gear. Adding to the chaos, Dr. T`s Champagne-loving sister-in-law Peggy (Laura Dern) has moved in with her three little girls, while Kennedy conspiracy-buff daughter Connie (Tara Reid) is sounding the alarm about Dee Dee`s chosen maid of honor, the mysterious Marilyn (Liv Tyler). Overwhelmed, Dr. T begins spending more time at his country club`s golf course, adding a new woman to his life - the easygoing new golf pro, Bree (Hunt). Life is about to change for Dr. T, hitting him with the gale force of a Dallas Fall storm.
Writer/director Darren Aronofsky follows up his successful and acclaimed feature debut, Pi, with Requiem for a Dream, based on the 1978 novel by literary legend Hubert Selby, Jr. (whose credits include Last Exit to Brooklyn).
The modern-day fable is set on the rusted mean streets of Coney Island, Brooklyn. The dual storyline parallels four people who set out in pursuit of a better life. On the one hand, there`s Sara, portrayed by Oscar® winner Ellen Burstyn, a lonely widowed mother who is galvanized by the prospect of appearing on television. Then there`s her son Harry (Jared Leto), his beautiful girl Marion (Jennifer Connelly) and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans), who want to go into business for themselves. Soon their beautiful dreams begin to fall apart as they take on horrifying dimensions, yet Sara, Harry, Marion and Tyrone refuse to abandon hope. Even when everything falls apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams in a nightmarish gut-wrenching freefall.