Red carpet premiere of ‘Season of the Witch’

NEW YORK: Tending to red carpet duties for his soon-to-be-released movie, Nicolas Cage was on-hand for Relativity Media's premiere of "Season of the Witch" in New York City on Tuesday night.

Held at AMC Lincoln Square Theater, the Oscar winning actor was joined at the event by fellow cast members including Robert Sheehan, Stephen Campbell Moore, Claire Foy and Ron Perlman.

Due out in theaters on Friday, the Dominic Sena directed work finds "14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague."

Denying that he took the role only to pay off reported multi-million dollar debt, Cage recently told USA Today, "(Season) I needed to do more than (for) necessity reasons, but because I genuinely connected with the ... material. But there's always that other element too, you know, as a result of what has happened that has been made very public."