``The Blair Witch Mountain Project'' Premieres on GalaxyOnline.com!Entertainment Editors WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Oct. 10, 2000 Internet Spoof Reunites Cast From the Classic Disney Movies "Escape to Witch Mountain" and "Return From Witch Mountain Return from Witch Mountain released in (1978) is the sequel to Escape to Witch Mountain (1975). It was written by Malcolm Marmorstein and is based on the characters of Alexander Key. " In September 2000, while shooting a documentary somewhere in the heart of Hollywood about her favorite childhood movie, Blair Billingsly disappeared. Two hours later, the footage was found. One month after that, it was streaming over the Internet -- exclusively on GalaxyOnline.com! GalaxyOnline.com (www.galaxyonline.com), the world's leading science fiction entertainment supersite, today announced the debut on Friday, Oct. 20, 2000, of "The Blair Witch Mountain Project," a short film produced and directed by Iake Eissinmann, the star of the popular 1970s Disney films "Escape to Witch Mountain" and "Return From Witch Mountain." In addition to Eissinmann, who as a child portrayed por·tray tr.v. por·trayed, por·tray·ing, por·trays 1. To depict or represent pictorially; make a picture of. 2. To depict or describe in words. 3. To represent dramatically, as on the stage. Tony in both motion pictures, "The Blair Witch Mountain Project" features appearances by other actors from the two features, including Kim Richards Kim Richards (born September 19, 1964 in Mineola, New York) is an American actress. Her career began as a child in the early 1970s.[1]. From 1970-1971, Richards starred as Prudence Everett in the television series Nanny and the Professor. (Tia), Dermott Downs (Truck), Brad Savage (Muscles), Christian Juttner (Dazzler) and Dick Bakalyan (Eddie). "The Blair Witch Mountain Project" is the first time most of these individuals have appeared together on-screen on·screen or on-screen adj. & adv. 1. As shown on a movie, television, or display screen. 2. Within public view; in public. since 1978, when "Return From Witch Mountain" was released. "`The Blair Witch Mountain Project' is essentially a spoof of the `Blair Witch' spoofs," noted Eissinmann, who wrote the story with his wife Alex. "But it's also a really great way to revisit re·vis·it tr.v. re·vis·it·ed, re·vis·it·ing, re·vis·its To visit again. n. A second or repeated visit. re some of the people involved and their characters in a context that's fun!" The production, which -- appropriately enough -- is 13 minutes in length, will be available free-of-charge at GalaxyOnline.com. In the short, filmmaker Blair Billingsly (played by actress Hope Levy) seeks out members of the "Witch Mountain" casts and visits various locations where the movies were shot (such as the Rose Bowl) in a quest to uncover why, more than 20 years after their initial release, the pictures remain so popular. As she encounters many of the actors, she becomes increasingly obsessed ob·sess v. ob·sessed, ob·sess·ing, ob·sess·es v.tr. To preoccupy the mind of excessively. v.intr. with finding Tony and Tia, the two young "alien" children who starred in the features. "Being able to project yourself onto these two kids who could make things happen just by thinking about them is probably one of the great fantasy situations that a child could set up," explained Eissinmann. "There's a real magical aspect to it. So thinking back on that time and all the things that happened, and now getting back together with these people, has been wonderfully nostalgic nos·tal·gi·a n. 1. A bittersweet longing for things, persons, or situations of the past. 2. The condition of being homesick; homesickness. and great fun." GalaxyOnline.com is a division of Galaxy Online Inc., a Westlake Village-based company at the forefront of the Internet revolution. Utilizing broadband technology broadband technology Telecommunications devices, lines, or technologies that allow communication over a wide band of frequencies, and especially over a range of frequencies divided into multiple independent channels for the simultaneous transmission of different signals. , Galaxy Online combines the best attributes of an online entertainment network and a "traditional" Internet supersite. GalaxyOnline.com provides consumers with entertainment, education, exploration, information, products and services on a one-to-one, on-demand basis. Galaxy TV offers consumers online entertainment and education programming including "Warped," the first science-fiction sketch comedy “Sketch Show” redirects here. For for the British TV programme, see The Sketch Show. Sketch comedy consists of a series of short comedy scenes, or 'sketches', commonly between one and ten minutes long. series created exclusively for the Internet; and "Fahrenheit 452: The Art Police," an original program described as "Men in Black meet Cops" starring Tim Russ ("Star Trek  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. : Voyager"). For further information on "The Blair Witch Mountain Project," or to request interviews with Eissinmann or images from the production, contact Jennifer Randall at 805/557-0840. |
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