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Summit Entertainment PresentsIn association with Emmett/Furla FilmsA Mark CantonEmmett/Furla FilmsEnvision EntertainmentBois/Schiller ProductionDirected by Mikael H?fstr?mScreenplay by Miles Chapman and Arnell JeskoStory by Miles ChapmanProduced by Mark Canton, Randall Emmett, Remington Chase, Robbie Brenner and Kevin King-TempletonExecutive Producers George Furla, Mark Stewart, Zack Schiller, Alexander Boies, Nicolas Stern, Jeff Rice and Brandt AndersenStarring Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Caviezel, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Sam Neill, Vinnie Jones, Faran Tahir, with Vincent D’Onofrio and Amy RyanRun Time: 116 minutesRated R for violence and language throughoutIn Theaters October 18, 2013National PublicityClarissa Colmenero / Summit NY212.386.6874ccolmenero@Mike Rau / Summit LA310.255.3232mrau@ Regional PublicitySabryna Phillips / Summit310.309.8420sphillips@Online PublicityRyan Fons / Fons PR323.445.4763ryan@ESCAPE PLANThe world’s foremost expert in prison security is trapped in a brutal black-ops fortress housing the world’s most dangerous criminals in Escape Plan, a high-octane action-thriller driven by the explosive star power of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.Ray Breslin (Stallone) is the world’s leading authority on prisons—building them, securing them and, most importantly, breaking out of them. Handsomely paid to engineer real-life jailbreaks in high-security correctional facilities, Ray been incarcerated in every super-max facility run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons—with a 100 percent escape rate. When Ray and his associates at B & C Security, Abigail (Amy Ryan), Hush (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) and Lester (Vincent D’Onofrio) are offered double their normal rate to evaluate The Tomb, an off-the-grid, privately-run maximum-security prison constructed using Breslin’s own stringent protocols, Breslin can’t resist the challenge. To replicate an actual imprisonment, the location of the prison is to remain undisclosed and Breslin will be unable to communicate with his team in any way.Once inside, Breslin discovers that The Tomb is a pitiless high-tech warehouse for some of the world’s deadliest lawbreakers. A seemingly endless maze of glass cells kept under constant video surveillance and surrounded by heavily armed, masked guards, The Tomb seems to offer no possibility of escape. Worse, the sadistic warden, Willard Hobbes (Jim Caviezel), makes it his personal mission to break the wills of uncooperative inmates—like Breslin—by any means possible.When Breslin attempts to use the prearranged evacuation code to free himself, Hobbes claims not to know what he’s talking about. Realizing he’s been set up by an unknown enemy, Breslin has no choice but to turn to the prison’s mysterious strongman, Emil Rottmayer (Schwarzenegger), to help him survive the violence and treachery of The Tomb long enough to unlock its secrets. Escape Plan stars Sylvester Stallone (The Expendables, Rocky), Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Last Stand, The Terminator), Jim Caviezel (“Person of Interest,” The Passion of the Christ), Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson (The Frozen Ground, Fire with Fire), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park, The Hunt for Red October), Vinnie Jones (Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Faran Tahir (“Warehouse 13,” Star Trek), with Vincent D’Onofrio (“Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” Full Metal Jacket) and Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, “The Office”).Escape Plan is directed by acclaimed Swedish director Mikael H?fstr?m (The Rite, Evil) from a screenplay by Miles Chapman and Arnell Jesko and story by Miles Chapman. Producers are Mark Canton (300: Rise of an Empire, 300 and Immortals), Randall Emmett (End of Watch, 2 Guns), Remington Chase (End of Watch, Alex Cross), Robbie Brenner (The Fighter, 21 & Over) and Kevin King-Templeton (The Expendables, Rocky Balboa). Executive producers are George Furla (The Frozen Ground, Rambo), Mark Stewart, Zack Schiller (Grandma’s Boy, Anger Management), Alexander Boies, Nicolas Stern (The Frozen Ground, Empire State), Jeff Rice (Empire State, A Single Shot) and Brandt Andersen (2 Guns, The Letter). Co-producers are Stepan Martirosyan, Kelly Dennis and Brandon Grimes.ABOUT THE PRODUCTIONThe golden age of Hollywood action films was dominated by a pair of hallmark stars, broad-shouldered, square-jawed loners who faced down their adversaries with unflinching determination. For more than 20 years, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger vied for supremacy in a quintessentially American movie genre, but never stood side by side in an adventure that pitted the two giants against a worthy foe.Never, that is, until Escape Plan, in which fittingly, the enemy is no mere human, but a chillingly prophetic vision of the ultimate prison—The Tomb, a bottomless black hole into which some of the most dangerous men alive disappear, never to be seen again. Penned by first-time screenwriter Miles Chapman and Arnell Jesko, Escape Plan follows security expert Ray Breslin on a journey through a brutal world that hints at the future, but remains firmly rooted in today. Hired to ferret out the flaws in The Tomb’s monolithic security system, Breslin becomes trapped in a maximum-security facility designed based on his own recommendations, but without regard to law or human rights. Unable to find a way out on his own, Breslin is forced to team up with fellow detainee Emil Rottmayer for help with his daring escape plan. Stallone recognized in the script’s innovative concept and nuanced narrative a unique opportunity to reinvigorate the action genre. “Today’s audience is intelligent and demanding,” he explains. “You have to give them something unusual, like pairing Arnold and me. This is a film that I don’t think people are going to expect from us. We were on a parallel career course during what I would call the golden age of hardcore action films, but this is something new. It is not just guns and flames and bombs. Our characters really have to use their brains to get out. There’s a tremendous amount of action in it, but it is very much a thinking man’s adventure, and it plays into the mature part of our careers.” For producer Mark Canton, who has produced a host of raging actioners including 300 and Immortals, the pairing of the two screen legends was a long time coming. “I have always wanted to see Sly and Arnold onscreen together,” Canton says. “It has been surprisingly difficult to find a project that would bring out the best in both of them. They are both great in The Expendables, but Arnold has a very specific and small role. Here they have a real partnership that pits them head to head and mano a mano. “Sly and Arnold are masters of what they do,” Canton adds. “Sly loves to write and he’s an acclaimed director, so he had a very strong point of view about his character. Arnold knows what he needs to know and he knew how to play off of Sly. What interested both of them was that they are not playing paper cutouts. At this point in their careers, they don’t have anything to prove. They want satisfying roles and a good environment to work in and this project had all those opportunities for them.”Producer Randall Emmett adds, “Sylvester is a consummate filmmaker and he was instrumental in shaping the film from script and thru production, giving us invaluable input.Screenwriter Chapman conducted extensive research for the project, spending months studying prison architecture with an expert from UCLA and devouring books on the subject. “It was important that everything be plausible,” the writer says. “The Tomb is the ultimate prison. It’s Guantanamo Bay 3.0, only it’s run by a for-profit company, which allows its clients—governments, multi-national corporations, influential individuals—to deny any knowledge of its existence. If you’re powerful and wealthy enough, you can make people disappear forever. We are right at the boundaries of reality with a facility that could, and perhaps has been, built today. There’s nothing in the film that is technologically impossible.” “Miles and Arnell have written a really compelling script,” says Canton. “Escape Plan is an unusual combination of high-velocity intrigue and mystery. There is no lack of testosterone in this movie. It features a lot of ass kicking, a lot of action and a lot of good guys and bad guys. But it’s also a brilliantly conceived puzzle and, if we’ve done our job right, the audience will not be ahead of what’s happening on screen.”In a chilling reference to the real-life U.S. government practice of “extraordinary rendition,” the prisoners held in The Tomb have been “disappeared,” drugged and abducted, then spirited away to a remote and undisclosed location. Accused of an array of crimes that threaten world order, they are held indefinitely, without any kind of trial or sentencing. “Once you get there, you have no idea where in the world you are,” says Chapman. “You never see the sky. There are no routines, no set meal times, no scheduled shift changes. All points of reference are taken away to disorient and break the wills of the detainees. Unfortunately for Ray Breslin, The Tomb was built according to his own guidelines to be escape-proof.” Producer Randall Emmett, co-chair of Emmett/Furla Films, found the idea that the world’s foremost expert on prison security is trapped in a prison designed to his own specifications to be extremely compelling, but it was the script’s multiple twist and turns that really got his attention. “When we learn that he has been set up by persons unknown, it becomes even more intriguing,” Emmett says. “There were so many other elements that I never saw coming, like the location of the prison. That reveal totally blew me away.” For Kevin King-Templeton, a longtime associate of Stallone and producer of The Expendables franchise as well as Escape Plan, the script’s unusual story and sharp, economical dialogue was a powerful draw. “It was unlike anything I’d ever read,” he says. “The twists will shock the audience. Nothing is what it appears to be.” If The Tomb were to exist in real life, the lack of adherence to any human rights conventions would ensure that it was a top-secret, covert operation, King-Templeton says. “The idea of extraordinary rendition, imprisoning people without a trial and denying them any kind of human rights in the wake of war on terror, that’s part of what separates this from other prison-escape movies.” The producers realized that combining eye-popping action, brilliantly imagined futuristic visuals and character-driven drama in a single film would require a deft hand at the helm. They knew they had found everything they needed when they met with Swedish director Mikael H?fstr?m. The director’s résumé reaches across the Atlantic, with films that range from Hollywood productions like The Rite, a horror-thriller starring Oscar?-winner Anthony Hopkins, to the Oscar?-nominated Swedish drama, Evil. Escape Plan, with its epic scope and slowly unraveling mysteries, is his most ambitious project to date. “Mikael understood the material and the characters,” says Emmett. “He also understood that we wanted to make a big action movie that will entertain people, as well as a quality-driven film. He was the best person to blend those elements together seamlessly.” H?fstr?m’s ability to problem solve—much in the same way Ray Breslin does in the film—helped make him the ideal director for the project, according to Chapman. “He breaks situations down in an almost mathematical way. At the same time, the heartbeat of the movie is very visceral. This is a great adventure at its core. Mikael understood that and recognized the scope of the story. And he captured both sides of the movie with an awesome sense of humor.” H?fstr?m says he was attracted by the screenplay’s fresh take on a proven genre. “The twists are great. We all like to be surprised by a situation or a character. And, of course, to have the opportunity to do it with Sylvester Stallone was something that I couldn’t resist. Then when Arnold became attached, it was almost too overwhelming to think I would be working with two such iconic action stars.”The project offers more than just twists and action, however, says the director. “It’s a rich movie with layered, interesting characters, as well as a great adventure. Sly’s character carries with him a dark past that is revealed during the film and Arnold’s character has a lot of secrets in his back pocket. Watching these two characters get to know each other and reveal their history is what really drives the film. That for me was the main reason to dig into it.”Seeing his script come to life in this way has been a once-in-a-lifetime experience for Chapman, who says the film’s No. 1 goal is to entertain. “The movies I love tell a great story with real characters, humor and larger-than-life action, so you care about what happens. I hope what we’ve provided is intelligent and thrilling entertainment.” Escape Plan is designed as a nonstop thrill ride, according to Emmett. “And when you get off our ride, you are going to be fully satisfied. It is packed with adrenaline, but there is also a lot of intense emotion in addition to the action. You are going to see two of the most iconic action stars in history on screen together for two hours and that will be something really special. Casting Arnold & Sylvester in the same movie was a dream pairing.? These two iconic action figures have excited and thrilled movie audiences worldwide and having them on the same film playing off each other would definitely satisfy their legions of fans.” Producer Mark Canton notes that after four decades making movies, his mission remains the same. “I always aim to give audiences a movie they can only experience properly in a movie theater,” he says. “And I feel very excited about this picture. It doesn’t matter if you’re an 18-year-old college kid or a 50-year-old professional man or woman. The sheer originality of the project, along with the level of acting talent and the unique style that our director brings to it offers something for everyone.” CASTING ESCAPE PLANRay Breslin, the protagonist of Escape Plan, is a professional escape artist. With no tools other than his formidable intellect, he identifies the weaknesses of a prison in order to prevent breakouts like the one that changed his life forever. A unique combination of fierce intelligence and old-fashioned tough-guy resilience, Breslin has conquered every obstacle put in his path—until he confronts the challenge of a lifetime: escaping from the ultra-high-security prison known as The Tomb. Breslin has an uncanny ability to take the bits and pieces he observes in his environment and use them to construct a mental schematic of the physical and personal elements around him. “He has an unusually analytical mind,” says writer Miles Chapman. “He’s able to identify weak points in the prison structure as well as vulnerable points in the human structure of the prison—the guards, the warden, the doctor—and exploit those flaws. He’s been able to break out of every prison he’s been in, but when he enters The Tomb, what seemed to be a routine job turns into his worst nightmare.” For Chapman, no actor could have embodied the complexities of Ray Breslin better than Sylvester Stallone. “Breslin has to be believable as a prison inmate, but also as the smartest guy in the room,” says Chapman. “Sly is perfect for both those things, as well as for capturing the essence of an alpha male who’s haunted by the past.” The character’s cunning and resourcefulness made him irresistible to the actor. Ray takes observations that might seem inconsequential to the average man and uses them to fashion ingenious and unstoppable escape plans. “He might count how many footsteps a guard has to take to get from one place to another, or how often he looks at his watch,” says Stallone. “But The Tomb is unlike any prison he’s ever seen before. It seems absolutely escape-proof. And even if Ray gets out, the location ensures that he will have nowhere to go.”Stallone found the character and the story compelling, believable and utterly unpredictable. “I have read so many scripts that I can pretty much see by page 30 how the story is going to turn out,” he says. “Reading this script, I never knew was going to happen. By the time I got to the middle, I was flabbergasted. I didn’t see that coming.” The star’s work ethic and unflagging enthusiasm for the project was inspiring to everyone on set, according to King-Templeton. “Sly is the consummate professional,” he says. “It was a 50-day shoot and I think he worked 47 of them. He’s first to the set, he’s never late. He reads his script, he knows his lines and he knows everyone else’s lines. This is his passion, so he has input on the dialogue and wants to collaborate very closely with the director.” As an acclaimed director himself, Stallone found much to admire in Mikael H?fstr?m’s approach to filming, specifically citing his discipline and creativity, as well as the attention he pays to each actor. “With Mikael, very little is left to chance,” says Stallone. “He’s very exacting. He had specific intentions for each character. Some directors are more interested in the choreography of the shot, but I believe if you don’t direct the actors, the film risks becoming a hollow shell. He doesn’t allow that to happen.” When Breslin figures out that he’s been set up, his only hope of escape lies in fellow detainee Emil Rottmayer, a mysterious figure who wields enormous power within the prison population. The alliance between the pair is fraught with mistrust, but each recognizes that the other is his last best hope for freedom. “Ray can’t trust anyone in The Tomb,” says Stallone. “He was duped into coming there and is tremendously suspicious of everyone around him. All of a sudden, Rottmayer wants to befriend him. Ray has to make a choice: blow him off and make a substantial enemy or try and play him before he plays Ray. It becomes a chess game.” The actor who plays Rottmayer had to be a match for Stallone, both physically as well as in terms of sheer star power. “When Sly came on, it energized everybody,” says Chapman. “But then the question was who would play Rottmayer, who is really a co-lead. It seemed like a tall order until Stallone made a bold suggestion for the part—Arnold Schwarzenegger.”The timing was perfect for Schwarzenegger. His six years as governor of California had recently ended and he was ready to segue back into acting. “He was very enthusiastic about this project,” H?fstr?m says. “We talked and he was on board right away. Working with these two extremely professional guys has been a real treat for me as a director. They were always prepared, always on time and they created a great atmosphere on the set.”Before he arrived at The Tomb, Rottmayer worked for a mysterious cyber terrorist named Victor Mannheim. The elusive Mannheim is a technological Robin Hood capable of engineering a financial collapse that could lead to a worldwide wide monetary crisis. As his former head of security, Rottmayer is believed to know Mannheim’s whereabouts. Revealing this information is the price of his freedom, but thus far, he has refused. Schwarzenegger plays the character with the deadpan humor and native shrewdness that belie his beefcake beginnings. “Rottmayer is a mysterious character,” says Chapman. “He reveals himself bit by bit. Arnold brings the iconography of Schwarzenegger with him, so you think you know him, but then you realize that maybe you don’t. His natural charisma and stature are important to the character.” Stallone had already had a hand in engineering Schwarzenegger’s return to the screen, arranging for him to shoot a small part in the first Expendables movie while he was still governor. “We shot four hours on a Saturday only, since it was my day off,” says Schwarzenegger. “Then I did four days on the second Expendables after I left office. We knew we had a certain chemistry, so we were actively looking for something where we could appear in the whole movie together.” After almost 30 years as fierce competitors who forged careers in the same genre and pursued many of the same roles, Stallone and Schwarzenegger had also become great friends. “Our competiveness brought out the best of our abilities,” says Stallone. “We just kept pushing the envelope. Like the competition between Ali and Frazier, it made us work that much harder.” “Sly and I were very competitive in the early days,” agrees Schwarzenegger. “It was always about who had the most cuts, the best muscle separation, the least amount of body fat, as well as who had the biggest guns and the biggest on-screen body count. This kind of competition was continuous. But we always appreciated each other’s talent.” The competition has given way to mutual respect. “Sly is a terrific director, an unbelievable writer and a very good actor,” says Schwarzenegger. “He had an endless number of ideas about how each scene could be better and Mikael was open-minded enough to listen. He is a very strong director with a very clear vision of what the scene should be and a perfectionist who rehearsed and tweaked and reshaped things until they worked.”Canton says the chance to finally work with the two superstars was well worth the wait. “Sly and Arnold know what’s expected of them,” he says. “They train for it. Most people half their age couldn’t do what they do and that’s the greatness of these two guys. It’s phenomenal to see two icons in the same scene. There’s a weight to it that you don’t often see.”Breslin and Rottmayer’s mutual adversary is The Tomb’s sadistic warden, Willard Hobbes, played by Jim Caviezel. Hobbes rules the prison with an iron fist and a taste for torture. According to Stallone, Chapman has painted a devastating portrait of a man trapped by his own creation. “He seems to be a man who punishes himself as much as he does the prisoners. What man in his right mind would be in The Tomb of his own free will?” Hobbes is one of the screenwriter’s favorite characters. “He’s younger than Breslin and therefore he represents a new generation,” says Chapman. “He’s used Breslin’s life’s work to build the next big thing in prison security and now he feels he’s smarter than Breslin. Jim brought all sorts of fun stuff to the character. As a screenwriter, I write it and hope it’s a good blueprint for everybody. To see it brought to life by actors like Jim is really gratifying.” Caviezel was excited to take on the role of the warden for a number of reasons. “The first thing I look at is the overall screenplay and how everything works together,” says the actor. “I thought this was an unusually good combination of elements. I was impressed by the director, and you can’t find two bigger motion-picture heroes than Stallone and Schwarzenegger. When I looked at Hobbes, I thought I could do something interesting that wouldn’t just make him a typical villain.”Caviezel enjoyed the gamesmanship that the role required of him and tried to find the sympathetic side of an undeniably evil character. “Hobbes needs to prevent these people from entering into society,” he points out. “They are the worst of the worst, for the most part. He battles them psychologically as well as physically, especially Breslin. And he will win, he has no doubt about it. “The detainees are almost like his children, in a twisted way,” the actor continues. “He wants them to be perfect. But if you break his rules, he will pull the life right out of you—very slowly. And you won’t get to die when you want to. He will choose that moment.”Caviezel was thrilled to be working with his illustrious cast mates, recalling that when he first came to Los Angeles from Alberta, he worked out to “Eye of the Tiger.” He even has a secret history with both of them. “When I first started out, I worked as a waiter,” he says. “At George H. W. Bush’s birthday party in 1991, I served Sly a glass of champagne. I also worked an event with Arnold and I remember him asking me for something and I said, ‘I’ll be back.’ And he said, ‘Wait a minute, that’s my line.’” When he’s planning a prison break, Breslin’s lifeline on the outside are his associates at B & C Security, including Abigail Ross, played by Amy Ryan. “Abigail is Breslin’s best friend,” says Chapman. “She runs the company for him when he’s away, but she’s also somebody who’s always there for him. Amy is a subtle, strong actress who brings a groundedness and a great sense of reality to the character. It’s a beautiful thing to watch.” Abigail is a jack-of-all-trades, according to Emmett, able to handle explosives, drive a getaway car or balance a spreadsheet, as needed. “She’s Breslin’s right hand. Amy Ryan is the gift of gifts in that part. She is an Oscar?-nominated actress, a great stage actress and she shines in an action-based movie, as well. Actors of her caliber are rare.” Ryan was looking for a change of pace after playing a string of suburban mothers and thought that Abigail represented a sharp turn away from those characters. “She’s a whip-smart businesswoman who gets to blow up a car,” she says. “That is pretty far from the ladies I had been playing. I would call her a no-nonsense, sarcastic, fearless character, which I certainly enjoyed.” More than anyone else at B & C, Abigail is skeptical of the offer to investigate The Tomb. The set-up violates every rule and protocol that they follow. “It just feels wrong to her, but Breslin wants to do it,” says Ryan. “How do you say no to Sylvester Stallone? To be in an action film with these guys is a bit surreal, but luckily, I got to sit in air-conditioned comfort, while they did all the big stunts.” Hush, B & C Security’s street-smart computer wizard, is played by GRAMMY?-winning recording artist Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. A former hacker, Hush met Breslin in prison and the security expert helped get Hush on the straight and narrow after he finished his sentence. “I loved the idea of Curtis playing a role that isn’t the most obvious choice for him,” says Chapman. “Hush is the tech prodigy who keeps all the company’s computer systems up and running, as well as being able to do a little unauthorized research when he has to. And because he’s an ex-con as well, he has an understanding of what Breslin is up against that the others don’t have.” Once again, it was Stallone who instigated a bit of unusual, but inspired, casting. “Initially, Curtis was being considered for the role of one of the prisoners in The Tomb,” says Emmett, who is a partner with the rapper in the production company Cheetah Vision. “But Sly wanted him to play something completely unexpected. As Curtis branches out more and more as an actor, he is always pushing himself to take on roles people aren’t used to seeing in him, so he was thrilled to take the part.” “This character is very different from anything I’ve done in the past,” agrees Jackson. “Just like Breslin recognized the value of Hush’s skills, Sly and the director saw something in me that wasn’t obvious, so I hope that when fans see the movie, they will be able to focus on the character and the acting, and not the fact that it’s 50 Cent on screen.”Even a GRAMMY? winner could be wowed by the considerable star power on Escape Plan’s set. “I’m a big fan of both Sly and Arnold, so I had a little bit of a groupie moment,” admits Jackson. “But I recovered. Sly has always been able to create really memorable moments in films and it was great to witness that in person he improvises little things all the time that personalize the scene and make it feel real.” The actors playing supporting roles in Escape Plan are just as illustrious as the stars, with Vincent D’Onofrio stepping in as Lester Clark. As played by D’Onofrio, Clark is an affable germophobe responsible for the company’s bottom line. “Lester Clark is somebody you respect and you believe Breslin would trust,” says Chapman. “Vincent is such a great actor. He brought lots of different colors to the character and found some unexpected humor in it, as well.”As Kevin King-Templeton points out, it is an extraordinarily deep cast for an action film, including Sam Neill as Dr. Kyrie, the prison’s conscience-ridden doctor, Vinnie Jones as Drake, the most vicious of Hobbes’ jackbooted henchmen, and Faran Tahir, a detainee with more surprises up his sleeve. “We have some of America’s finest actors in this cast,” King-Templeton says. “Having them on board sets this movie apart. They bring a level of talent that would be astonishing in any movie.” INSIDE THE TOMBWhen Ray Breslin awakens in The Tomb for the first time, he faces an awe-inspiring and terrifying view. Trapped in a tiny glass cell, Ray is surrounded by a maze of identical clear boxes extending as far as he can see, each containing a single man. He and the other inmates are surrounded by an army of black clad, masked thugs in a vast warehouse without windows or clocks. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who visited quite a few prisons during his stint as governor of California, describes his stay in The Tomb like this: “You are under observation 24 hours a day. You’re watched when you eat, when you go to the bathroom, when you brush your teeth, when you lie in bed. There’s absolutely no privacy, because the prison cell is entirely made of glass. You’re always on display, which means nothing can be hidden. That’s what makes it almost impossible to break out.” A stunning visualization of a hellish new kind of incarceration, the interior of The Tomb had its genesis in the mind of Mikael H?fstr?m. “If The Tomb existed, I felt it would be unlike anything we’ve ever seen,” the director says. “So the sky was really the limit when we were thinking how to design this environment. It’s not a science-fiction film, but the set takes us right to the verge of a new era.” Determined to refine his vision for the prison as soon as possible, H?fstr?m began working with a team of storyboard artists before pre-production even started. “He has been an incredible creative partner,” says Emmett. “He could see The Tomb in his head and he wanted everyone else to see it as well. When we got the pictures, they were spectacular. This prison is on the cusp of the future. It’s the most advanced high-tech prison in the world. And the set he conceived was massive, bigger than anything I had ever worked on before.” Finding the space needed to realize the elaborate interior H?fstr?m envisioned for The Tomb took some ingenuity as well. Location manager Elston Howard, whose credits include Jonah Hex, Green Lantern and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, found a unique solution to the filmmakers’ conundrum in an unexpected place: the Vertical Assembly Base (or VAB) at the Michoud NASA Facility in New Orleans. “We built the interior of The Tomb in the VAB,” Howard said. “It’s where the external fuel tanks for the Space Shuttle were built. Since the Space Program is in a temporary holding pattern while they design a new rocket, we were able to move production in there. The VAB is 263 feet high and encompasses about 170,000 square feet. The scale of it begs to be used for film production.” None of the filmmakers had ever visited a NASA facility before—or seen a soundstage of such unprecedented size. “You could put five space shuttles in the place we were shooting,” Emmett says. “I thought we were going to be in a traditional stage, with traditional sets. When I showed up, all I could think to say was, ‘who’s paying for this?’” Being able to shoot at the NASA facility in New Orleans elevated the look of the film beyond even H?fstr?m’s wildest expectations. “It is an amazing place,” the director says. “We did our best to take full advantage of the scale with 80-foot crane shots that really show off the vastness of the space.”The director contrasted the seemingly limitless glass cellblocks and mess halls with a smaller, claustrophobic and especially punishing version of solitary confinement known as the hot box. Confined to a tiny airless room, prisoners are subjected to blinding light and extreme temperatures until they are reduced to sobbing wrecks.” The hot box takes solitary to a new level,” says King-Templeton. “There’s no specific amount of time you’re in there. You could die there. There’s no government agency saying OK, he’s had enough. If they want to keep you there, they’ll keep you there. It’s terrifying.”Stallone’s vision to reinvigorate the genre that made him a legend spawned a scene that is sure to be a fan favorite. The explosive showdown between Breslin and Rottmayer wasn’t even in the original script, but when casting finalized, it became all but inevitable. Stallone and Schwarzenegger face off in the first hand-to-hand fight sequence between the two masters of the action genre. “The fight scene is pretty monumental,” says Emmett. “To see these two icons go at it is like nothing you have seen before.”Stallone says that having Rottmayer and Breslin go head to head was a no-brainer. “For Arnold and me to be in a movie like this together and not get a chance to go at it would be a tremendous disappointment for the audience. I’ve already gone up against everyone from Mr. T. to Dolph Lundgren to Apollo Creed to Hulk Hogan. I thought the fight with Jean-Claude Van Damme in The Expendables was going to be the last one, but then there was Arnold. The fans will be expecting fireworks and they will get them.” Adds Schwarzenegger: “We all agreed that that it would be cheating the audience to have us both in a movie and not have some kind of a confrontation. It’s a major fight scene in the movie, and it gets wild with the fists and the bodies and the throwing each other around and all of that. The fans will be very pleased.” Stunt coordinator Noon Orsatti oversaw this clash of the Titans. “Knowing that I was going to be working on a fight between Sly and Arnold was really exciting,” he recalls. “Our fight choreographer Jonathan Eusebio and I were champing at the bit. We wanted it to be extremely aggressive, so it went through a lot of evolution. When we showed up on the set, the director had his own thoughts, Sly had his own take on it and Arnold had his as well. It became quite collaborative. They incorporated quite a bit of levity into it that we hadn’t thought of.” A third-generation stunt coordinator, Orsatti thought he had seen everything, “But when you see these two icons, one with a stranglehold on the other, it’s something else,” he says. “It’s a great fight and the audience is going to be fully satisfied by it. Arnold and Sly brought everything they have in them to the table. I don’t get excited about walking on the set with too many people. But this was special.”Reducing his charges to ciphers is part of the way Warden Hobbes maintains order in his domain and costume designer Lizz Wolf created the prisoners’ uniforms with that in mind. “This is a prison that we’ve never seen before and hopefully never will see,” she says. “I did some research on so-called ‘black sites,’ the kinds of places you hear whispered about. The inhabitants are referred to as ‘ghost detainees.’ I wanted to take all the color and the texture away to dehumanize these people and reduce them to nothing.” In stark contrast, the ominous black uniforms worn by The Tomb’s guards add to the fear these brutal jailers incite in their charges. Glossy black masks render them featureless, reflecting the prisoners’ own faces back at them. “I really wanted to give them an expressionless face that was completely terrifying,” says Wolf. “They say that the soul is in the eyes, but with these masks, you can’t see anything underneath. When Ray Breslin tries to look in to the eyes of a guard, all he can see is himself. And ultimately, he has to find what he needs inside himself, because there is no one else.”Those kinds of creative insights are part of what makes Escape Plan such an exhilarating adventure for Stallone. “This film is totally original,” he says. “That’s why I wanted to be involved. It’s extremely hard to come across something that covers new ground, but this does. Perhaps there will be a preconceived notion out there that it’s going to be wall-to-wall muscles and machine guns, but what the audience is actually going to experience will be a complete surprise.”ABOUT THE CASTSYLVESTER STALLONE (Ray Breslin) has established worldwide recognition as an actor, writer and director since he played the title role in his own screenplay of Rocky, which won the Academy Award? in 1976 for Best Picture.Since that seminal motion picture, Rocky grew to a franchise of five sequels and in 2006 Stallone concluded the series with Rocky Balboa, a critical and audience success which resolutely confirmed both Stallone and Rocky as iconic cultural symbols. In addition, to commemorate a character which has become as real as any living person to film-going audiences around the world, a statue of Rocky Balboa was placed at the foot of the now-famous steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum at a dedication ceremony presided over by the Mayor. In more recent times, Stallone wrote, directed and starred in Rambo, which continued the saga of Vietnam vet John Rambo twenty five years after the debut of Rambo: First Blood. For the latest installment, Stallone took the company on location to the inner jungles of Burma basing the compelling story in a country where crimes against humanity, civil war and genocide have existed for over 60 years – and no one is doing anything about it. Stallone then released his a most ambitious project , the action thriller The Expendables, which he wrote, directed and starred in, and for which he hired an all-star cast including Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Jet Li, Eric Roberts, Dolph Lungren and Steve Austin – as well as Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, which opened to Number One at the Box Office – making him the only actor to open a Number One Film across Five Decades. Sly took the company on location to the interior of Brazil and the city streets New Orleans, filming over just a few short months.ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (Emil Rottmayer) is known all over the globe for his many accomplishments as a world-champion bodybuilder, Hollywood action hero, successful businessman, environmentalist, philanthropist, bestselling author and California’s 38th governor. Most recently, he appeared in the actioner The Last Stand alongside Forest Whitaker and Johnny Knoxville. Up next for Schwarzenegger are David Ayer’s crime drama Sabotage, co-starring Sam Worthington and Terrence Howard; Henry Hobson’s horror-romance Maggie, alongside Abigail Breslin; and The Expendables 3, with Sylvester Stallone and numerous other stars. Schwarzenegger was born in Thal, Austria, in 1947 and by the age of 20 was dominating the sport of competitive bodybuilding. Becoming the youngest person ever to win the Mr. Universe title, he generated a new international audience for bodybuilding and became a sports icon. With his sights set on Hollywood, Schwarzenegger emmigrated to the U.S. in 1968 and went on to win five Mr. Universe titles and seven Mr. Olympia titles before retiring to dedicate himself to acting. Later, he would earn a degree from the University of Wisconsin and proudly became a U.S. citizen.Schwarzenegger, who worked under the pseudonym Arnold Strong in his first feature, Hercules in New York, quickly made a name for himself in Hollywood. In 1977 the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognized him with a Golden Globe? Award for New Male Star of the Year for his role in Stay Hungry, opposite Sally Field. His big break came in 1982 when John Milius’ sword-and-sorcery epic, Conan the Barbarian, struck gold at the box office. In 1984 Schwarzenegger catapulted himself into cinema history as the title character in James Cameron’s sci-fi thriller The Terminator. He is the only actor to appear in both categories of the American Film Institute’s “Hundred Years of Heroes and Villains” for roles he played in the Terminator series. Other film credits include Commando, Predator, Twins, Total Recall, True Lies, Eraser, Collateral Damage, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Sylvester Stallone’s homage to action films, The Expendables (as well as The Expendables 2). To date his films have grossed more than $3 billion worldwide.In 2003 Schwarzenegger became the 38th governor of California in a historic recall election. Among his many achievements, Schwarzenegger signed into law the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 and established the Million Solar Roofs Plan, making California a leader in protecting the environment and rebuilding infrastructure. As governor Schwarzenegger also implemented the hugely successful California Film & TV Television Tax Credit Program, designed to stimulate production in the state. In recognition of these efforts, Schwarzenegger has been honored for his leadership and vision many times including the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s National Leadership Award and the American Council on Renewable Energy’s “Renewable Energy Leader of the Decade.”What gives Schwarzenegger the most satisfaction is giving something back to his state and to his country through public service. Donating his time, energy and personal finances to serving others, Schwarzenegger acts as chairman of the After School All-Stars, a nationwide after-school program, and serves as coach and international torchbearer for the Special Olympics. Previously, he served as chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under George H. W. Bush and chaired the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports under Governor Pete Wilson. JIM CAVIEZEL (Hobbes) is a versatile and intense actor. It could be said that Caviezel’s role as Jesus in the box-office phenomenon The Passion of the Christ was the ultimate challenge, making simultaneous physical and emotional demands upon a performer. Giving a critically acclaimed performance, Caviezel committed wholeheartedly to this difficult role.Currently, the actor plays Jon Reese, an ex-CIA special operations agent, on the popular CBS series “Person of Interest,” alongside Taraji P. Henson and Michael Emerson. In the forthcoming sports drama When the Game Stands Tall, Caviezel plays the lead role opposite Michael Chiklis and Laura Dern.Caviezel was recently seen in the true-life historical drama Savannah, co-starring Hal Holbrook, Sam Shepard and Chiwetel Ejiofor. He also appeared with James Frain and Elisabeth R?hm in the road-trip thriller Transit. Caviezel earned his breakthrough acting role as brooding pacifist Private Witt in Terrence Malick’s war film The Thin Red Line, alongside Sean Penn, Nick Nolte and Adrien Brody. Over the next few years, he appeared in such films as Ang Lee’s Civil War Western Ride with the Devil and Gregory Hoblit’s ingenious time-travel thriller Frequency, in which he played a troubled son connecting across two decades of time with his long-dead father (played by Dennis Quaid). Caviezel’s next turn was opposite Jennifer Lopez in Angel Eyes, playing a mysterious amnesiac with a secret connection to Lopez’s character. He continued to demonstrate his range by playing the wrongly convicted Edmond Dantes in the film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ classic The Count of Monte Cristo and a war hero wrestling with a murder charge in Carl Franklin’s courtroom drama High Crimes, opposite Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd.In 2004 Caviezel appeared with Robin Williams and Mira Sorvino in Omar Naim’s Final Cut and starred alongside Claire Forlani and Jeremy Northam in Rowdy Harrington’s Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius. He then starred in the heartwarming biopic Madison, about hydroplane boat racer Jim McCormick, and worked with Denzel Washington in the time-travel thriller Déjà Vu (2006). Directed by Tony Scott, Déjà Vu was the first film to be shot in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. Caviezel also starred in the sci-fi adventure Outlander, the thriller Long Weekend and the intense The Stoning of Soraya M. On the small screen, Caviezel starred in AMC’s “The Prisoner” opposite Ian McKellan, playing the title role in this reimagined version of the sci-fi series classic. The actor was named one of People Magazine’s 50 Sexiest Men Alive in 2004. An avid, lifelong sports fan, Caviezel considered pursuing a career in the NBA before he suffered a foot injury.Caviezel currently lives in Southern California with his wife and their two children. CURTIS “50 CENT” JACKSON (Hush) has transformed his musical-chart dominance to success in corporate America as a multi-tiered business mogul to be reckoned with. Jackson continues to expand his film repertoire. Most recently, he was seen in the action-thriller Freelancers, with Robert De Niro and Forest Whitaker; actioner Fire with Fire, opposite Bruce Willis and Rosario Dawson; and The Frozen Ground, alongside Nicolas Cage and John Cusack. Previously, Jackson appeared in the Golden Globe? nominated war drama Home of the Brave. Forthcoming film projects include Matt Johnson’s The Pursuit, The Dance (which Jackson is also slated to produce), Live Bet and an as-yet-untitled project co-starring Sharon Stone and Val Kilmer. Jackson will also serve as executive producer of “Power” the new drama series on the Starz network. Recognized as one of the most talented and prolific musical artists of his time, Jackson has managed to leverage his star power into record-breaking brand extensions encompassing a broad spectrum of businesses. These enterprises include music ownership, artist management, film production, boxing promotions, headphones, video games, publishing and energy shots. With annual sales quickly approaching $300 million from a variety of business interests and numerous new endeavors on the horizon, Jackson has cemented his position in the entertainment industry as both a business and entertainment powerhouse.In 2005 Jackson made his feature film debut with Get Rich or Die Tryin’, a loosely biographical picture that chronicled his life growing up in poverty and surrounded by negative influences on the streets of Queens, New York, as he rose to stardom as a rap star. Jackson exploded on the music scene in 2003 and has been rewriting hip hop history ever since. “Get Rich or Die Tryin’,” his debut album, made history when it sold 872,000 copies to break the record for first-week sales of any major-label debut in the entire SoundScan era. It was a No. 1 Billboard album for six weeks and was certified platinum nine times by the Recording Industry Association of America. To date, Jackson has sold more than 22 million albums worldwide and received numerous awards as well as 13 GRAMMY? nominations. His third album, “Curtis,” was released in September 2007 and dominated the album charts by selling over one million copies worldwide. Jackson garnered GRAMMY? nominations for Best Rap Song and Best Rap Solo Performance. Currently, Jackson is working on his highly anticipated sixth studio album, “Street King Immortal.”Success has allowed Jackson to follow through with his dream of giving back to the community that has supported him over the years. He established the G-Unity Foundation to support the academic enrichment of students in low-income or underserved communities. Since its inception, the foundation has created the G-Unity Scholarship Fund at Queensborough Community College in New York and issued thousands of dollars in grant money to various nonprofit organizations. Jackson continues to expand his foundation through various philanthropic initiatives that will benefit his hometown of Queens and beyond.In 2011, Jackson launched SK Energy, a new energy shot to combat world hunger – each bottle sold provides a meal for those in need via a partnership with the UN World Food Programme.A recipient of an Order of the British Empire for Services to Acting, and a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, SAM NEILL (Dr. Kyrie) is internationally recognised for his contribution to film and television. Sam debuted onto the screen in Roger Donaldson’s Sleeping Dogs, and his breakthrough film role in My Brilliant Career opposite Judy Davis.He is perhaps best known for his roles in the award winning films The Piano, as detached husband Alisdair Stewart, and Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, as palaeontologist Alan Grant.?? Written and directed by visionary filmmaker, Jane Campion, Sam stars in The Piano alongside Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel and Anna Paquin.? The film won awards internationally, including 3 Oscars?, 3 BAFTAS and 11 Australian Film Institute (AFI) awards.? For his performance Sam was nominated for the 1993 Best Supporting Actor AFI Award.? ?Other film credits include The Hunter opposite Willem Dafoe for which he was nominated for Best Actor at the AACTA Awards, Daybreakers, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of G’ahoole, Little Fish opposite Cate Blanchett, Skin, Dean Spanley, Wimbledon opposite Kirsten Dunst, Yes for Orlando director Sally Potter, Perfect Strangers opposite Susan Sarandon, Dirty Deeds alongside Bryan Brown and Toni Collette, Czech production The Zookeeper, Bicentennial Man opposite Robin Williams, and The Horse Whisperer alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, Robert Redford and Scarlett Johansson.For his work in television Sam has earned three Golden Globe? nominations.? In 1998 he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the title role in the NBC miniseries Merlin.? He also received a Golden Globe nomination in 1992 for his performance opposite Judy Davis in One Against the Wind, and for his performance as British spy Sidney Reilly in Reilly: The Ace of Spies.? The British Academy of Film and Television honored Sam’s work in the miniseries by naming him the Best Actor on British Television. For his performance in the Australian drama Jessica, Sam received an AFI Award for Best Actor. Other television appearances include acclaimed television series “RAKE,” Granada’s epic miniseries Doctor Zhivago, To The Ends of Earth, Showtime’s “The Tudors” with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, “CRUSOE,” and “Alcatraz.”?Most recently he completed filming Old School for Matchbox Pictures opposite Bryan Brown.Sam has also worked behind the camera, his directing credits include the Channel Seven Australian telefeature The Brush Off, starring David Wenham.? He will next appear alongside Cillian Murphy in UK Series “Peaky Blinders” which will hit screens this year. VINNIE JONES (Drake) started his career as a professional soccer player playing for some of the UK’s most prominent teams including Wimbledon, Leeds, Chelsea, Sheffield, QPR and eventually was the Captain of the Welsh team. He became iconic across the UK and Europe, not only from his exquisite skills in soccer, but also as a performer on the pitch: Jones always had the crowd on their feet supporting him the whole way through his games, as he reacted very well with the audience, and this made the games highly exciting for the spectator both at the venue, but also on TV.It was in 1998 that Vinnie was approached by up and coming director Guy Ritchie for role in his cockney caper movie, Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels. Vinnie accepted the challenge and from this point, the former footballer had a new calling: movie star. ?Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels skyrocketed to the top in Europe and the USA, and Vinnie’s new career ascended in the same direction. He went on to star in hits such as Snatch, Gone In Sixty Seconds and Swordfish.From this point onward, Vinnie started to gain recognition from the industry, earning a barrage of accolades and awards, with Hollywood realizing it had a true talent in a 6’ 1”. broken-nosed package. To this date Vinnie has appeared in over 40 movies, working with some of the film industry’s top producers and directors including Mathew Vaughan, Jerry Bruckheimer, Brett Ratner, and Gary Lucchesi. He was seen in the massive summer blockbuster, X-Men 3: The Last Stand as Cain Marko, better known as the Juggernaut, forever placing him in an iconic league of actors alongside Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry and Patrick Stewart. Prior to that, he played the scowling soccer coach illustrating both his likeability and comedic side in DreamWorks’ She’s The Man. Other films include The Midnight Meat Train, and then the Quentin Tarantino-produced feature film Hellride. Vinnie revisited his comedic side on the feature film Year One, where he starred alongside Jack Black for Sony Pictures and Judd Apatow. His big job in 2012 was Mikael H?fstr?m’s directed thriller Escape Plan opposite Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Amy Ryan, Jim Caviezel, and Vincent D’Onofrio, which will be released in the fall of 2013. He most recently did two guest stars on the CBS show, Elementary. He will also star in his own documentary series for National Geographic Channel called “Vinnie Jones: Russia’s Toughest.” This show will air in September 2013 in over 170 countries during prime time.Vinnie still plays soccer heading up a team called Hollywood All-Stars based in Los Angeles where he and his family now live. This team boasts an all-star team comprised of athletes, movie stars and other celebrities; it is a force to be reckoned with and has a huge following. Their contribution to charity is huge and this goes hand in hand with Vinnie’s personality as a devoted, hardworking, multi-talented and caring man. He is the worldwide ambassador for Warrior Sports. FARAN TAHIR (Javed) Faran Tahir recently starred in Elysium as ‘Minister Patel,’ the recently elected leader of the pristine man-made space station Elysium, populated by 8,000 super-high-net-worth citizens who fled the overpopulated and ruined planet Earth rife with crime & poverty, and along with Defense Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) will do whatever it takes to keep the “illegals” away from disrupting their perfect oasis, which is threatened when ‘Max’ (Matt Damon) attempts to bring equality to the world. No stranger to Hollywood mega-blockbusters, the award winning, Harvard trained actor’s career includes significant roles in Iron Man, Star Trek and “Dallas,” and he can also be seen in countless guest starring roles, including “Lost,” “NYPD Blue,” “Cold Case,” “Blue Bloods,” and “The West Wing,” to name a few. Tony Stark’s primary antagonist in Iron Man, Faran starred opposite Robert Downey, Jr., as ‘Raza,’ the leader of the Ten Rings terrorist group who orchestrated the attack on Tony Stark following the unveiling of his new defense missile in Afghanistan, which led to the necessity for the electromagnet grafted into Stark’s chest to keep the shrapnel shell shards that wounded from from reaching his heart and killing him.Faran’s versatile acting talent also landed him roles in J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek, where he played the first Federation Captain of middle-eastern ethnicity in the history of the franchise—truly a groundbreaking role. His additional film credits range from roles in films such as Jennifer Aniston’s comedy Picture Perfect, to dramatic roles in films such as Charlie Wilson’s War with Tom Hanks and A Price above Rubies with Renée Zellweger. Faran comes from a theatre family well-known in Pakistan and India where both his parents are actors/directors/writers in Pakistan. He completed his B.A. from University of California, Berkeley and his graduate degree from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard.VINCENT D’ONOFRIO (Lester Clark) is an extraordinarily gifted actor with talents extending into the realms of writing and producing. D’Onofrio has appeared in over 50 feature films, most recently Mall, which the actor starred in, produced and co-wrote (adapting the Eric Bogosian novel of the same name). The film marks the directing debut of Linkin Park’s Joe Hahn and co-stars Peter Stormare, Gina Gershon and James Frecheville. Next up for the busy actor is David Dobkin’s The Judge, starring Robert Downey Jr., Vera Farmiga and Billy Bob Thornton.Previously, D’Onofrio starred alongside Julia Ormond in the horror film Chained, directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch. He also appeared in Fire with Fire opposite Bruce Willis, Josh Duhamel and Rosario Dawson. D’Onofrio executive-produced Steal This Movie and portrayed 1960s counterculture icon Abbie Hoffman, opposite Janeane Garofalo. He played the villain vs. Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn in Tarsem Singh’s sci-fi chiller The Cell. D’Onofrio worked with Vaughn again in the hit dramedy The Break Up.Other film credits include The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, opposite Jodie Foster and Channing Tatum; The Salton Sea, alongside Val Kilmer; Impostor, with Gary Sinise; Chelsea Walls, directed by Ethan Hawke; Happy Accidents, co-starring Marisa Tomei; Robert Altman’s The Player, opposite Tim Robbins; Joel Schumacher’s Dying Young, with Julia Roberts; Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, opposite Johnny Depp; Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days, with Angela Bassett; Harold Ramis’ Stuart Saves His Family, with Al Franken; Barry Sonnenfeld’s Men in Black, opposite Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones; The Thirteenth Floor, alongside Craig Bierko; The Whole Wide World, which he produced and starred in opposite Renee Zellweger; Oliver Stone’s JFK, alongside Kevin Costner; Brooklyn’s Finest, with Richard Gere and Don Cheadle; and Staten Island, opposite Ethan Hawke.Born in Brooklyn, D’Onofrio began studying acting at the American Stanislavski Theatre with Sharon Chatten of the Actors Studio. He first gained attention with his haunting portrayal of an unstable Vietnam War recruit in Stanley Kubrick’s gritty Full Metal Jacket (1987). His other early film appearances include Mystic Pizza and Adventures in Babysitting. D’Onofrio directed, produced and starred in the short film Five Minutes, Mr. Welles. He also worked on the Academy Award-winning short The New Tenants.In television, D’Onofrio is best known for starring on “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” as Detective Robert Goren in Season Eight. The role was so well received that he was brought back again for the show’s 10th season.D’Onofrio received an Emmy? nomination in 1998 for his riveting guest appearance in the “Homicide: Life on the Street” episode “The Subway.”Away from the set, D’Onofrio enjoys spending time in New York with his family.AMY RYAN (Abigail Ross) recently completed Birdman for director Alejandro González I?árritu and Fox Searchlight. She stars along with Michael Keaton, Ed Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis. She will have three other films premiere in 2013: writer/director Drake Doremus’ Breathe In produced by Indian Paintbrush and Jonathan Schwartz, in which she stars with Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones;?Devil’s Knot?directed by Atom Egoyan, co-starring with Colin Firth. She was last seen in Clear History directed by Greg Mottola for HBO in which she co-starred with Larry David and Jon Hamm. ?For her acclaimed performance in 2007’s?Gone Baby Gone, she was recognized with Academy Award?, Golden Globe? and SAG Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress.? Additionally, she won numerous Best Supporting Actress awards including those from the National Board of Review, the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the New York Film Critics Circle and the L.A. Film Critics.?Her other film credits include?Win Win,?Green Zone,?Jack Goes Boating,?Changeling,?Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,?Capote,?Dan in Real Life,?War of the Worlds,?Keane,?You Can Count On Me?and?The Missing Person.?Ms. Ryan returned to the stage this year, starring in Lisa D’Amour’s critically acclaimed play?Detroit, directed by Anne Kauffman at Playwrights Horizons. Ryan made her Broadway debut in Wendy Wasserstein’s?The Sisters Rosensweig. For her work in the 2000 production of?Uncle Vanya, she was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.? In 2005, she appeared as Stella in?A Streetcar Named Desire, earning her second Tony nomination.? She also starred in Neil LaBute’s?The Distance From Here?in London’s West End.??Amy’s television work includes her memorable portrayals as Holly Flax on “The Office,” Adele on “In Treatment” and Office Beatrice ‘Beadie’ Russell on “The Wire.”GRAHAM BECKEL (Brims) has made a rich career playing rough and tough character roles since he turned to acting in the 1970’s. In that vain, Beckel most recently portrayed ‘Ellis Wyatt’ in Paul Johansson’s feature Atlas Shrugged: Part I, opposite Taylor Schilling, which received its release in April 2011.Several feature highlights include Peacock, directed by Michael Lander and opposite Susan Sarandon, Cillian Murphy and Ellen Page; The Astronaut Farmer, directed by Michael Polish; the Michael Bay helmed Pearl Harbor; and perhaps most notably his roles as ‘L.D. Newsome’ in director Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain and as Detective Sgt. Dick Stensland opposite Russell Crowe, Kevin Spacey and Guy Pearce in Curtis Hanson’s award winning L.A. Confidential. Other film appearances include Vegas Baby; Hardball; Point of Origin; True Crime; Bulworth; Leaving Las Vegas; and The Paper Chase.Beckel’s recent television credits include guest starring turns on “Longmire,”“Scandal,” “CSI: New York;” “Castle;” “The Cleaner;” “CSI: Miami;” “Heroes;” “Raines;” “Grey’s Anatomy;” and “Wanted.” BECKEL has also starred in over fifteen television movies, which include “In From the Night;” “Helter Skelter;” “The Pennsylvania Miner’s Story;” “The Other Mother;” “My Brother’s Keeper;” “Murder ofInnocence” and “Amerika.”MATT GERALD?is best known for his starring roles in Avatar and Faster. He recently had a great recurring role on the Showtime hit series, “Dexter” and?just wrapped the feature, Solace, as one of the leads opposite Anthony Hopkins, Colin Farrell and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.?Other recent TV credits include,??“Hawaii 5-0” for CBS,??NBC's “Grimm”, and the Shawn Ryan produced Sony/ABC pilot, “The Last Resort,” opposite Scott Speedman.??Gerald also co-starred in FROZEN GROUND with Nicolas Cage and John Cusack, and was just seen in Paramount's ?G.I. Joe: Retaliation, with Dwayne Johnson, Channing Tatum, and Bruce Willis and Red Dawn among others.CAITRIONA BALFE (Jessica Miller) is currently shooting the lead role of "Claire Beauchamp" in the Starz 1 hour series “Outlander,” based on the best-selling novels of the same name. She's shooting in Scotland and until August of 2014. She was last seen in the Intrepid thriller feature?Crush and previously?starred in J.J. Abrams’ Paramount feature SUPER 8, as well as Bryan Singer?and Jason Taylor's digital series H+.ABOUT THE FILMMAKERSMIKAEL H?FSTR?M?(Director) is an acclaimed director capable of great work in multiple genres. Most recently he directed Anthony Hopkins in the 2011 horror film The Rite, which revolved around an American seminary student (Colin O’Donoghue) who travels to Italy and enrolls in an exorcism school. H?fstr?m previously directed John Cusack, Ken Watanabe and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the period feature Shanghai; Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson in the thriller 1408; and Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston in the suspenser Derailed.H?fstr?m’s previous writing and directing credits in his native Sweden include the gripping coming of age drama Evil, which was nominated for an Academy Award??in 2004 for Best Foreign Language Film, the thriller Drowning Ghost and the drama Days Like This, which won Sweden’s Guldbagge Award for Best Screenplay. His films have been invited to festivals around the world and at home H?fstr?m has received multiple Guldbagge nominations, with Evil winning for Best Direction and Best Screenplay.H?fstr?m began his career in the late 1980s as an assistant director on Swedish television movies. He eventually began writing and directing for television before helming the action-thriller Vendetta, his first feature film.?His writing credits include the action-comedy Kopps. MILES CHAPMAN (Screenwriter) penned the script for the new TV series “Cybergeddon,” starring Missy Peregrym and Olivier Martinez. He is now writing Homelanders for Di Bonaventura Pictures and Summit Entertainment.Born in Philadelphia, Chapman is a graduate of the American Repertory Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard. Previous scripts include Protection for Twentieth Century Fox, Road House 2 for Sony Pictures, Four 50s and Slipknot for Relativity Media and “Priceless” for ABC Television. The writer lives in Los Feliz with his wife Erica and his two kids, Wyatt and Emily. MARK CANTON (Producer) has been a preeminent force in the entertainment industry helping to bring more than 300 pictures to the screen in his capacity as a senior studio executive and producer. Canton controls a large number of high profile film and television projects in various stages of development, pre-production, production and post- production.Currently being readied for a March 7th, 2014 release is 300: Rise of an Empire, the companion to the mega-hit, 300. It is written by Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad and is directed by Noam Murro for Legendary Pictures and Warner Bros. based on Frank Miller’s latest graphic novel. And SITE 146, a horror film set against the intersection of ancient Egyptology and modern Archeology which Gregory Levasseur directed for Fox International Productions.Shooting in February 2014 is Last Witch Hunter, a classic tale about an immortal witch hunter and a powerful warlock -- starring Vin Diesel, it is written by Corey Goodman with Breck Eisner set to direct for Summit Entertainment and Emmett/Furla Films.In advanced development are: -Den of Thieves, a crime thriller about a gang of outlaws who try to rob the Federal Reserve in Los Angeles and a gang of renegade cops who try to stop them. It is written and will be directed by Christian Gudegast with Gerard Butler in a starring role for Relativity Media.-Crash Bandits, an adventure film with Rob Cohen directing for Millennium. Written by Michael Stokes, it will film in China.-Tunnels, also with Relativity Media, is expected to be the next sensation to replace the “Harry Potter” franchise. Based on the first in a series of novels by Roderick Gordon and?Brian Williams, it will be directed Mikael H?fstr?mTwo other films on which Canton will be executive producer are scheduled to go into production this year. Outcast, an adventure-drama directed by Nick Powell and starring Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christiansen will shoot in China in September. And All Access, a romantic comedy written by Robert L. Flenoy will be directed by Stuart Renfrew on location in South Africa in October.In the television arena, Canton has two projects that are being readied for production: Power, which was developed along with rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and CBS Studios for the Starz Network, with Courtney Kemp-Agboh (The Good Wife) as the writer/show runner. Power has been given an eight episode first season order and will shoot in New York City this fall. Also, Vanguard written by Christian Gudegast for FX, in the tone of Sons of Anarchy, but in the world of Navy Seals. Additionally, Canton has entered into a first look arrangement with Starz for the development and production of cutting edge, high-concept original programming for the network.Amongst his notable films are 300, The Spiderwick Chronicles and Immortals. 300, based on the Frank Miller graphic novel and directed by Zack Snyder for Warner Bros Pictures, opened to record-setting box office numbers, having grossed more than $460 million worldwide and is the highest-grossing March release in the history of the motion picture business. The 300 DVD has set sales records around the world. The Spiderwick Chronicles, based on the best selling children books by Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black with Mark Waters (Mean Girls) directing, was released in February 2008 by Paramount Pictures and was the highest-grossing family film of early 2008. Immortals, an epic mythological tale set in war torn ancient Greece, was released on 11/11/11 and has since amassed a worldwide gross of almost $250 million. He had two movies released in 2010: Letters to Juliet, a romantic drama for Summit Entertainment, which was directed by the late Gary Winick on location in Verona and Tuscany, Italy, and New York City, and Dimension Films’ Piranha 3D directed by Alexandre Aja, which Canton describes as “Jaws for a new generation.” Its sequel, Piranha 3DD, was released last year, also by Dimension. After holding posts as President of Worldwide Theatrical Production at Warner Bros. where he was instrumental in creating the notable Batman, Lethal Weapon and National Lampoon’s Vacation film franchises and Chairman of the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Companies, where he greenlit numerous highly popular, widely acclaimed award-winning films including As Good As It Gets, Jerry Maguire and Men in Black, Canton returned to Warner Bros. to create his own production entity, The Canton Company. In early 2002 he joined Artists Production Group as a partner, Chairman and CEO and in December 2003, he launched Atmosphere Entertainment MM – an entrepreneurial venture that develops, produces and finances theatrical motion pictures and television programming. A native of New York, Canton is a UCLA graduate (magna cum laude) and a member of UCLA’s National Honor Society for American Studies. He delivered the 2011 commencement address at UCLA’s School of History. In addition to serving on the UCLA Board of Councilors and the Deans Advisory Board for the School of Theatre, Film, and Television, Canton was Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Film Institute and Founder and is Chairman Emeritus of AFI’s Third Decade Council. One of the entertainment industry's most prolific film producers, RANDALL EMMETT (Producer) has produced over 50 feature films since his start as Mark Wahlberg’s assistant in the 1990’s.??Combining financial acumen with an incisive creative sensibility, Emmett is partner and co-founder alongside George Furla of Emmett / Furla Films, a production company dedicated to the development, financing and production of top tier filmed entertainment for the theatrical marketplace with its own equity fund. ?Also, he is founder & partner of Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's production company, Cheetah Vision Films.???????In the last decade, Emmett’s ability to package films with well-known actors and filmmakers resulted in major box office success – netting more than a quarter of a billion dollars in the US box office alone. Additionally, he forged strong partnerships with major Hollywood studios to finance and distribute commercial films to audiences both domestically and internationally. Aside from high concept films, Emmett also produced smaller, critically acclaimed indie fare such as Narc and Wonderland. These films and others played at world acclaimed film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Berlin, Venice, Telluride, and many have been nominated for Independent Spirit Awards and Golden Globe Awards.In the past year, Emmett finished shooting Lone Survivor directed by Peter Berg, starring Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch and Emile Hirsh as well as 2 Guns, written by Steven Grant/Blake Master and directed by Baltasar Kormákur, starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington; Empire State, written by Adam Mazer and directed by Dito Montiel, starring Liam Hemsworth, Dwayne Johnson, and Emma Roberts. Additionally, he produced The Frozen Ground, written and directed by Scott Walker, starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack, Vanessa Hudgens, and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. 2 Guns & The Frozen Ground premiered Summer of 2013, and Lone Survivor will arrive in theaters January 2014.Most recently, he signed on to finance & produce Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated Silence and the Bruce Willis film Expiration. Other projects he will also finance & produce Everest with Working Title & Universal Pictures and Vin Diesel’s Last Witch Hunter with Summit & Lionsgate. ?Films that were recently released include: End of Watch, written and directed by David Ayer, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pe?a; Lay the Favorite, with two-time Oscar nominated director Stephen Frears, starring Bruce Willis, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, and Vince Vaughn; and Freelancers, starring Robert De Niro, Curtis“50 Cent” Jackson, and Forest Whitaker. Past films include Bad Lieutenant, Righteous Kill, 88 Minutes, King of California, 16 Blocks and The Contract.Born and raised in Miami, Emmett graduated from the respected performing arts high school, New World School Of The Arts. As an undergrad, he attended the prestigious The School of Visual Arts in NYC.??Presently, he speaks at various industry conferences and mentors up and coming filmmakers at UCLA’s School of Continuing Education. He lives in Los Angeles with his family. Emmett co-manages the film production shingle Cheetah Vision with partner Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.ROBBIE BRENNER (Producer) serves as President, Production at Relativity Media where she continues to shepherd Relativity’s homegrown productions while leading the production team and overseeing all production and acquisitions. Brenner was promoted from Executive Vice President, Production in September 2011.? ?As President, Production, Brenner most recently Executive Produced the gritty dramatic thriller Out of the Furnace from the critically-acclaimed director Scott Cooper releasing on December 6, 2013. She was also integral in acquiring Joseph Gordon Levitt’s directorial debut, Don Jon from Sundance slated for September 27, 2013 and Echo, a found footage family adventure from Disney releasing in Spring of 2014. Currently, Brenner is in pre-production on the reinvention of the cult classic, The Crow and in post-production on the action-packed 3 Days to Kill helmed by McG.? Brenner also oversaw production and served as an Executive Producer on the comedy, 21 and Over, the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ best-selling novel, Safe Haven, the family adventure, Mirror Mirror, and the 3D epic, Immortals. Brenner has also worked on The Fighter, Dear John, and was instrumental in acquiring Catfish. Before joining Relativity in 2009, Brenner produced Machine Gun Preacher starring Gerard Butler and directed by Golden-Globe nominated Marc Forster.? Outside of Relativity, Brenner is currently producing the AIDS drama, Dallas Buyers Club with Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner and Jared Leto with Jean-Marc Valle directing and Focus Features releasing on November 1, 2013.?Brenner got her start in the film business after attending NYU Film School and worked at Miramax Films for nine years, where she cultivated great relationships with filmmakers as a production and development executive. During her time at Miramax, she became a Senior Vice President and worked on numerous films, including Peter Chelsom’s Serendipity, starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale, as well as the romantic comedy On the Line. She later went on to work at Twentieth Century Fox as Senior Vice President, Production between 2005 and 2006. There, Brenner was involved in acquiring and developing movies for the studio. Following her time at Fox, Brenner produced the romantic-thriller Deception, starring Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, and Michelle Williams. In 2004, Brenner produced Haven, a Frank E. Flowers’ Cayman Islands crime drama featuring Orlando Bloom and Bill Paxton. Later, Brenner ran the classics division at Davis Entertainment. In 1997, Brenner worked with producer Michael Obel on Nightwatch, a Dimension Films release, starring Ewan McGregor and Patricia Arquette.She began her entertainment career working for Mickey Rourke’s Red Ruby Productions, where she assisted in the production of Bullet, directed by Julien Temple, and the bank-heist dramedy Fall Time.? KEVIN KING-TEMPLETON (Producer) has been associated with Rogue Marble Productions, the production company of writer, director and actor Sylvester Stallone, for over two decades. During his tenure he has found his forte in the action genre, producing projects with a global reach and shooting everywhere from the remote jungles of Brazil and Thailand to the most cosmopolitan of cities. In addition to his work with Stallone, King-Templeton has worked with acclaimed acting heavyweights Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harvey Keitel, Mickey Rourke, Michael Caine and Anthony Quinn. Most recently, he produced Bullet to the Head, director Walter Hill’s first?theatrical feature in a decade, which starred Stallone and Jason Momoa.The British-born King-Templeton has overseen some of the most astounding action sequences in motion picture history, including those shot on location in Bulgaria for The Expendables 2, directed by Simon West and starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Hemsworth, Jet Li and Chuck Norris.King-Templeton also produced The Expendables and Inferno: The Making of the Expendables, an independent documentary that gives audiences an unvarnished look deep inside the filmmaking process. Previously he produced Rambo, which was shot in the remote inner jungles of Burma, and Rocky Balboa, a critical and popular success. Additional credits include Avenging Angelo, Driven, Get Carter and the critically acclaimed Cop Land, for director James Mangold. For television King-Templeton developed and produced a pilot for Paramount Pictures Television and CBS entitled “Father Lefty.” He also executive-produced the highly anticipated musical production “Rocky,” based on the original 1976 Academy Award? winning motion picture. Launched by Stage Entertainment in Hamburg, Germany, the show will eventually make its way to Broadway.After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in business administration, GEORGE FURLA (Executive Producer) started his business career with Cantor Fitzgerald and Company. At Cantor Fitzgerald he served as an equity trader from 1982 to 1985. After his run with Cantor Fitzgerald, Mr. Furla worked with Jones and Associates for 3 years in a similar capacity. In 1988, Mr. Furla left Jones and Associates to run a hedge fund, which he also established, specializing in Risk Arbitrage and equity trading. Mr. Furla ran the hedge fund for ten years after which he jointly formed a film production company with his partner, Randall Emmett. At Emmett/Furla Films Mr. Furla utilizes his hedge fund approach to model out film financing scenarios. Mr. Furla and Mr. Emmett share responsibility in both concept development and arrangement of the financing of the films. Emmett/Furla Films has produced a large number of films including End of Watch, Broken City, The Frozen Ground, Rambo, 16 Blocks, Wickerman, Righteous Kill, Conan the Barbarian, 2 Guns and Empire State.Born in the UK, MARK STEWART (Executive Producer) obtained outstanding Master Degree honors in Cinema History from the prestigious Exeter University, before attending the world famous Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) drama school in London. His first producing credit was?Fire with Fire?(2012),?starring Bruce Willis, and he has subsequently produced?The Frozen Ground?(2013), with Nicolas Cage,?Empire State?(2013) with The Rock and the TV series “SAF3,”?with Dolph Lundgren. A member of the esteemed BAFTA organization, he is widely considered one of the UK's most exciting producers in the industry today.ZACK SCHILLER (Executive Producer) is a co-founder and the CEO of the Boies/Schiller Film Group, where he oversees all operations of the company, including development, production, finance, business & legal and strategic planning. ??Upon graduating from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts, Mr. Schiller began working for Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison, where he was actively engaged in the development and production of such feature films as?Anger Management,?Mr. Deeds,?Big Daddy,?8 Crazy Nights, and?Grandma’s Boy. In 2011, Mr. Schiller financed and produced the film?Son of Morning?(starring Heather Graham and Danny Glover) while serving as President of All In Films.? In 2012, Mr. Schiller partnered with renowned attorney David Boies to create the Boies/Schiller Film Group.Currently, Mr. Schiller and BSFG are financing?and producing the feature film?Jane Got A Gun?(starring Academy Award? winner Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton and Ewan McGregor), creating, along with Peter Farrelly, the television show Dak Tandy's which is set-up at NBC, and have entered a first look deal and co-financing pact with The Weinstein Company. ??NICOLAS STERN (Executive Producer) has worked his way up through the ranks in film production over the last decade. After serving as production coordinator on such films as Training Day, Starsky & Hutch and Around The Bend, he was co-producer on Obsessed, Death at a Funeral, Priest and Friends with Benefits. More recently, he executive-produced the hit “zom-com” Warm Bodies.Other credits include co-producer on Takers, associate producer and production supervisor on Quarantine and production supervisor on Prom Night, Vacancy, The Holiday and North Country. A native of Los Angeles, Stern is the son of British-born, Oscar? nominated actress?Samantha Eggar?and American producer?Tom Stern. He and his wife, screenwriter Mindy Stern, live in Studio City, California, with their two children.BRENDAN GALVIN (Director of Photography) began his career shooting music videos and commercials, most notably collaborating with directors Tarsem Singh and John Moore. Galvin’s first feature-film assignment came in 2000 when he shot Steve Barron’s dark comedy Rat. John Moore’s directorial debut, Behind Enemy Lines, starring Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson, marked Galvin’s breakthrough as director of photography.Since then, Galvin has shot such films as John Moore’s Flight of the Phoenix, Joel Schumacher’s Veronica Guerin, Jonathan Frakes’ Thunderbirds and most recently, Singh’s Immortals and Mirror, Mirror.This year he shot a film called Solace with Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell and is currently shooting Selfless which is being directed by Tarsem.?BARRY CHUSID (Production Designer) recently designed Source Code for director Duncan Jones, 2012 for Roland Emmerich and Aliens in the Attic for director John Schultz. His other work as production designer includes Robert Shaye’s The Last Mimzy, starring Rainn Wilson; Zoom, with Tim Allen, Courteney Cox and Chevy Chase; Joss Whedon’s Serenity, starring Nathan Fillion; The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal and Sela Ward; and Daredevil, with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner and Colin Farrell.Previously, Chusid art-directed Domestic Disturbance, starring John Travolta, Steve Buscemi and Vince Vaughn; Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot, starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger; Mystery Men, starring Greg Kinnear, Geoffrey Rush and Ben Stiller; Blade, with Wesley Snipes and Kris Kristofferson; Anaconda, starring Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight and Eric Stoltz; and Last Man Standing, starring Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern and Christopher Walken. Chusid also supervised the art direction on The Thirteenth Floor and contributed to such films as Se7en, Junior, Wyatt Earp and Son in Law.Chusid production designer on AMC pilot “Turn” for director Rupert Wyatt - Set in the summer of 1778, show tells the story of New York farmer, Abe Woodhull, who bands together with a group of childhood friends to form The Culper Ring, an unlikely group of spies who turn the tide in America's fight for independence.He is currently working on the feature Geostorm at Paramount - Skydance Productions, with Dean Devlin directing.ELLIOT GREENBERG (Editor) has edited such films as Chronicle, Devil, Sorority Row, Quarantine and The Poughkeepsie Tapes. Greenberg began his career as an apprentice on Wes Craven’s Cursed and was an assistant editor on Craven’s Red Eye. He spent two years assisting on various projects including Clerks II, on which he was first assistant editor at Kevin Smith’s production company, View Askew. His first feature editor credit came on Extreme Movie.ALEX HEFFES (Composer) originally rose to prominence with his scores to Kevin Macdonald's Academy Award?-winning films The Last King of Scotland, One Day In September, and BAFTA-winning Touching the Void. He has gone on to score many major pictures including Mikael H?fstr?m's The Rite (starring Anthony Hopkins), State of Play (starring Russell Crowe and Ben Affleck), Peter Webber's WWII drama Emperor (starring Tommy Lee Jones) and the forthcoming Weinstein Co feature adaptation of Nelson Mandela's life story Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom, starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris.After graduating from Oxford with a first-class degree Alex first worked as writer and arranger on projects from steel band to symphony orchestra with artists such as Elton John and members of Blur. His range and versatility has led to a hugely varied output from comedies such as Steve Coogan's The Parole Officer, to Catherine Hardwicke's fantasy thriller Red Riding Hood and two Academy Award? winning feature documentaries. He collaborated with director Tim Burton on his screen adaptation of Sweeney Todd, starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.Alex has been nominated for numerous awards. His Score for the HBO drama Tsunami: The Aftermath was nominated for a BAFTA award. In 2011 he was awarded discovery of the year by the World Soundtrack Academy and in 2012 was awarded best film score of the year at the Ivor Novello Awards in London. With over a decade of film music experience, SEASON KENT (Music Supervisor) has overseen 20+ films and several television shows, including the 2010 Academy Award? winning feature film?The Fighter?and 2011 Golden Globe? Nominated film?Machine Gun Preacher?(Best Song Nomination for “The Keeper” by Chris Cornell). ?Kent currently is supervising Dreamworks’ upcoming Need for Speed and 20th Century Fox's?The Fault in Our Stars, in addition to ABC’s hit show?Revenge??and The CW's breakout smash?Arrow.? Her most acclaimed projects of the last several years include?End of Watch,?The Spectacular Now, Limitless, Dear John, Brothers and HBO's Entourage.CHRIS WELLS (Visual Effects Supervisor) an Emmy? award winning visual effects supervisor, consultant and artist has been working in the VFX and post production field for nearly 20 years. His expertise in visual effects integration for live action films has helped him lead the VFX for several motion pictures. When Christopher is not working on movies he can be found in Los Angeles being chased around by his kids. LIZZ WOLF (Costume Designer) has worked on more than 30 films spanning a variety of periods, genres and styles. Her vast knowledge of costume history and eye for detail has allowed her to become an inventive costume and wardrobe designer. She meets the challenges of each project with forward thinking and collaboration. Wolf has been privileged to work with such prolific directors as Tony Scott, Steven Soderbergh and Brian De Palma on many international productions. She has worked with Sylvester Stallone on Rambo, The Expendables and The Expendables 2. Assistant designer credits include Dreamgirls, Traffic, Armageddon, The Black Dahlia, The Lodger, Rules of Attraction and Spy Game. She earned costumer credits on A Single Man, 3:10 to Yuma, Alexander, Dodgeball and Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl.Wolf’s background shaped her future as a designer. Her mother, an artist and interior designer, nurtured Wolf’s interest in the arts at a young age. Her father, a textile salesman, ensured a bounty of materials would be available for her early designs. This included a matching collection of chartreuse “fun-fur” outfits for Barbie, Ken and herself. It was then that Wolf’s risk-taking and character creation truly began. She studied fashion and costume design at Otis College of Art and Design and the American College in London. While in London, she became greatly inspired by the music scene, an influence that remains present in her work today.In addition to her work in film, Wolf has earned critical acclaim for the costume design of the hit 1960s musical “Baby It’s You” (Universal Music Group, Warner Bros. Theater Ventures), which made its world premiere at the Pasadena Playhouse and is headed to Broadway.?ANNE McCARTHY and KELLIE ROY (Casting) have been casting Film & Television together for over a decade. ? They've cast such notable projects as The Conjuring, The Riddick series, Waiting…, Benchwarmers, John Tucker Must Die, Wild Hogs, Tucker & Dale vs Evil, Insidious and Insidious: Chapter 2. Directed byMikael H?fstr?mScreenplay byMiles Chapman and Arnell JeskoStory byMiles ChapmanProduced byMark CantonProduced byRandall EmmettRemington ChaseProduced byRobbie Brenner andKevin King-TempletonExecutive ProducersGeorge FurlaMark StewartExecutive ProducersZack SchillerAlexander BoiesExecutive ProducersNicolas SternJeff RiceBrandt AndersenDirector of PhotographyBrendan GalvinProduction DesignerBarry ChusidEdited byElliot GreenbergCo-ProducerStepan MartirosyanCo-ProducerKelly DennisMusic byAlex HeffesMusic SupervisorSeason KentVisual Effects SupervisorChris WellsCostume DesignerLizz WolfCasting byAnne McCarthyand Kellie RoySylvester StalloneArnold SchwarzeneggerESCAPE PLANJim CaviezelCurtis “50 Cent” JacksonSam NeillVinnie JonesFaran Tahirwith Vincent D’Onofrioand Amy RyanGraham BeckelMatt GeraldCaitriona BalfeSummit EntertainmentPresentsIn association withEmmett/Furla Filmsa Mark CantonEmmett/Furla FilmsEnvision EntertainmentBois/Schiller ProductionA Film byMikael H?fstr?mUnit Production ManagerFirst Assistant DirectorSecond Assistant DirectorBuddy EnrightNick SatrianoDoug PlasseCo-ProducerBrandon GrimesAssociate ProducersJonathan AbramsJeremy BellCastBreslinRottmayerHobbesJavedAbigailDr. KyrieLester ClarkDrakeRoagHushJessica MillerCaptain Newal BeradahPilotBabcockBrimsFront Gate GuardSecond LieutenantReceptionistScreaming PrisonerSkinhead PrisonerPrisoner Beaten By BreslinVoicePrisoner Beaten By BreslinRottmayer Stand-InConsole Guard #1Console Guard #2Sylvester StalloneArnold SchwarzeneggarJim CaviezelFaran TahirAmy RyanSam NeillVincent D’OnofrioVinnie JonesMatt GeraldCurtis “50 Cent” JacksonCaitriona BalfeDavid Joseph MartinezAlec RaymeChristian StokesGraham BeckellRodney FeasterDavid LeitchLydia HullEric SalasBrian OerlyJeff ChaseMatt CookMichael PapajohnDieter RauterJaylen MooreStephen LivaudaisStunt CoordinatorFight Choreographer / Stunt ChoreographerBreslin Stunt DoubleRottmayer Stunt DoubleHobbes Stunt DoubleJaved Stunt DoubleNoon OrsattiJonathan EusebioAsen AsenovRonn SurrelsGreg RementerJared EddoKey Rigging StuntsRigging StuntsAerial Coordinator PilotPilot / Assistant Aerial CoordinatorHuey PilotAerial Ground CoordintorJared EddoJackson SpidellCliff FlemingCory FlemingJohn ScanlonBruce BensonStuntsJay AmorHank AmosM’Bita BakariTed BarbaHunter BaxleyTim BellJohn BerneckerSean Paul BraudJeff BrocktonTrace CheramieArnold chonStephen ConroyMark DeAlessandroJoshua DiogoChris FanguyGuy FernandezPaul FraserDino FrankielRobert “Rock” GalottiJeff GalpinWalter GarciaRegis HarringtonThary HarrisLuke HawxCasey HendershotDanny HernandezJorge LongoriaKortney MannsJeremy MarinasBrian OerlyAyhan OngadorRowbie OrsattiMichael OrtizCasey PierettiFreddie PooleTom ProctorFelipe SavahgeAaron SaxtonErik SchultzMike SealGreg SprolesLarnell StovallEric StratemeierLucas SwallowTodd TaylorJim TeachoutBilly TilkJonathan ValeraTony VoRyan WardJoe WilliamsMike WilsonRaion HillAdditional Voices Provided byThe Loop SquadPatty ConnollyMark IvinarAnthony BatarseJonathan NicholsMichael DesanteRandy MontgomeryMark SussmanJoey NaberOmar AdamEddie De HarpIllia VolokHamzah SamanCrewProduction SupervisorMeredith G. MeadeSupervising Art DirectorSet DecoratorDavid LazanBradford Johnson“A” Camera OperatorFirst Assistant CameraSecond Assistant CameraDigital Loader“B” Camera OperatorFirst Assistant “B” CameraSecond Assistant “B” CameraAdditional Second Assistant CameraD.I.T.Still PhotographersJody MillerMichael WeldonKirk BloomDan McKeeSteve AdcockZachary SieffertFrank ParishZackary HolmesBrian StegemanSteve DietlAlan Markfield1st Assistant EditorAssistant EditorsMatt TassoneBlair MillerJohn OttPost Production SupervisorPost Producer ConsultantsVisual Effects EditorsPost Production AssistantsJanace TashjianBeau J. GenotMichael J. UrannJoseph C. Bond IVH. Dwight Raymond IVDavid MurtoKatie WeissScript SupervisorMary Frances EglinPost Sound MixerBoom OperatorSound UtilitiesVideo AssistVideo Assist AssistantRichard SchexnayderJimmy “Coach” ArmstrongJamey OsborneMark UddoJosh LevySam BarillKey GripBest Boy GripDolly GripsGripsRigging Key GripRigging Best Boy GripRigging GripsJimi RyanRyan WardRichard HooverLuke CauthernMike SatterfieldRobert ZasKevin LusterScott LuttrellJames “Trapper” McEvoyNick NicolayAndy YoungJoe SokemanDan WysmannJarvis LansingGafferBest Boy ElectricElectriciansRigging GafferRigging Best Boy ElectricRigging ElectriciansAndy RyanJaim O’NeilSamuel KempBradley MartinJohn MorillKarina TeismannFerdinand DuplantierRussell BeardBrian DallasDaniel LeblancSteve ZiegerCrystal DallasArt DirectorAssistant Art DirectorSet DesignerArt Department CoordinatorStoryboard ArtistIllustratorGraphic DesignerArt Department Production AssistantJim GelardenJonathan CarlosJohn BergerJann EngelGeorge Lee-McDonnellSarah ContantAmy SotoRichard BennettWarren DrummondRobert KalafutWill EastinKyla McFallsLeadmanOn-Set DresserMarkus WittmannCory ParkerSet DressersMichael O’SullivanCarl ClevengerBarker WhiteDan CoulthardDanny NickThomas GilbertJohn SanchezRobert GrayMark SeilerTed HennesseyAndrew PreenCraig SerodySet Decoration BuyerDavid WarburtonProperty MasterAssistant Property MastersProperty Department AssistantsKent JohnsonAudrey JohnsonRock GalottiJillian GibsonRyan GullixsonSpecial Effects CoordinatorSpecial Effects ForepersonsSpecial Effects TechniciansMichael LantieriJay KingRoland LoewRon EpsteinBruce MinkusCostume SupervisorKey CostumersCostumersAger/DyerTailor/SeamstressLinda GardarMustapha MimisJennifer KamrathChristy Herbert CrouchToni DangerfieldMisti MoreauxMolly KamrathKizzie Autumn MartinJuliana HoffpauirJohnny SmithBranden WatsonDepartment Head Makeup ArtistKey Makeup ArtistMakeup ArtistDepartment Head HairstylistKey HairstylistHairstylistScott EddoStacy KellyKimberly AmackerNicole VenablesDonita SatherAmy WoodLook for Mr. Schwarzeneggar Created byGiuseppe FrancoCasting AssociateCasting AssistantAdditional Casting byKellie GesellMorgan RobbinsRyan GloriosoExtras Casting byExtras Casting AssistantsLiz Coulon / Coulon CastingCandi LeiAlicia ConnellLocation ManagerKey Assistant Location ManagerAssistant Location ManagerLocation CoordinatorKey Location AssistantLocation AssistantsLocation ScoutElston HowardDeven SchruffErin BurnsKatie Dolese GuajardoCedric HowardKatie AboudouEliana GinsburgJames TrotterProduction AccountantFirst Assistant AccountantSecond Assistant AccountantsPayroll AccountantAccounting ClerkPayroll ClerkPost Production AccountantTerri GreeningTracy BrowneAlexis TippinTamara HendersonAmy WinfreyMichelle HuxTimothy CogginsJerrold W. LambertProduction CoordinatorAssistant Production CoordinatorTravel CoordinatorProduction SecretaryOffice Production AssistantsJohn R.C DavisIan NavranElizabeth ChambersChristian BrownMaynard SmithCallie MartinBlake Edward FrahmSecond Second Assistant DirectorSet Production AssistantsZach KibeeAshley FarrellDerek HallDillon EddoCarmen AcostaRyan WooleyChelsea DonisonAssistant to Mr. H?fstr?mAndrew NormanAssitants to Mr. EmmettAssistants to Mr. CantonAssistant to Mr. King-TempletonAssistant to Mr. SternPhillip NooraniJay OstermanJessica WelchMark FrazierJoshua DauschNicole WilliamsKatie WeissAssistant to Mr. StalloneAssistant to Mr. SchwarzeneggerDrama Coach for Mr. SchwarzeneggerAssistant to Mr. CaviezelCeleste SalzerDaniel KetchellWalter von HueneNathon LewisExecutive in Charge of Development for Emmett/Furla FilmsTim SullivanConstruction CoordinatorGeneral ForepersonUtility ForepersonWelding ForemanChuck StringerBrent StewartCharlie TatumMark SullivanForemenConstruction BuyerMyron MeekTom WilsonJack FlynnScenic ChargeScenic ForepersonOn-Set PainterPaul StanwyckRick BrodermanTom AshburnTransportation CoordinatorTransportation CaptainsTransportation DispatcherDan BrizendineJayson EhlersTravis HuxKelli BingamDriversAlex AllenJim AndrewsKevin BanksBrett CarrolChristie ChaplinLionel CuneoCorey DudleyRandy DuplechineGerald FrancisDemond HayesAlfred HowardDavid JenningsMichael KeelerDavid LeBlancMarvin LewisChris LombardTracy MayAndi McGuffeeJames OwensTony PeekMelvin PhillipsBuddy PineBrian PittsTryone RalphFrancis RobinsonSteve RobinsonKevin SieveDexter SmithJames SpearsNorman TaylorJoseph WalkerDaniel WoodcockDavid WoodcockCatererHead ChefAssistant ChefKey Craft ServiceAssistant Craft ServiceAmerican Roadshow CateringP.J. HainesShane HughesJohn LandersMargaret LancasterSet MedicConstruction MedicRigging MedicJennifer BrownAdam RyanShira LandmanSafety Program DirectorGerman GuiterrezProduct PlacementRights & ClearancesKaren NeasiJoan Pearce Research AssociatesUnit PublicistEPK Produced byEPK Equipment and Crew byGregg BrilliantMob Scene Creative + ProductionsGumbo Productions, Inc.Second UnitSecond Unit DirectorsDavid LeitchChad StahleskiFirst Assistant DirectorSecond Assistant DirectorsJayson MerrillTommy MartinRenee MarsellaDirectors of Photography“B” Camera Operator“C” Camera Operator/SteadicamFirst Assistant CamerasSecond Assistant CamerasD.I.T.Digital LoaderCamera Production AssistantHydrascope TechniciansRF TechScorpio Head TechnicianTechocrance OperatorsPaul HughenDuane ManwillerJeff TufanoChris MaguireRichie MasinoRichard LacyRobert BairdBrandon DauzatBryan EllisonJohn GarrettRome JulianAeron McKeoughBryce MarshallTrevor TufanoNathan BorckMarc ClancyStephen FouasnonChad TaylorSteve KinigopoulosDave BullardChris DeFrancoJames MarksCraig RiceGreg “Noodles” JohnsonMike KennedyPatrick BarnesSteve KrulUnderwater Director of Photography/Camera OperatorWater Assistant CameraPeter Romano, ASCLoren ElkinsVideo AssistTom ConradVideo Assist UtilitiesThomas A. Barcelona, Jr.Derek SchwebelKey GripsBest Boy GripDolly GripsGripsGilly CharbonnetMike SatterfieldWells A. SmithNed BlouinLucas PorterfieldShawn BoydScott LuttrellNezben DeasonKiya MaggioJohn SmithDallas HollomanGafferBest Boy ElectricElectriciansJaim O’NeillSamuel Y. KempTravis BarnhartJacob BorckWes BryantChris PatureauRob WilliamsOn-Set DresserMark SeilerProperty MasterAssistant Property MasterArmorerRock GalottiAlexandra PetrovichChris GilbertsonPyrotechnicianBran ManisMakeup ArtistHairstylistJack LazzaroAmy WoodAssistant Location ManagerLocation Production AssistantsLisa LatterPatrick LaneProduction SupervisorAssistant Production CoordinatorSet Production AssistantsMontez MonroeRachael E. MeadowSam FosterChris GugisbergHayley NenadalOn-Set PainterJennifer FarleyAerial Director of PhotographyAerial CoordinatorSpacecam TechnicianDavid B. NowellCliff FlemingAndrwe Martin SuchAerial Ground CoordinatorAerial MechanicBruce BensonGreg BaianoMarine CoordinatorAssistant Marine CoordinatorSafety Boat CaptainShuttle Boat CaptainShuttle Boat MateKey Safety DiverNick SpetsiotisGeorge BrooksRichard ViezeyMichael AckermanCharles RossPaul FraserSafety DiversJohn BeckhamJared CarterCole DupepeMatthew FordMike FordE.J. HanhartChris HarveyJared KimballGabe KingSteven MichellJustin MillerAlan NovakLester B. Schellinger IIIChris VogelsCharlie HollingerHead ChefAssistant ChefKey Craft ServiceAssistant Craft ServiceSean LynnFred EcksteinLiz LandersDottie BuckTyler SamardickSet MedicThomas JordanPost ProductionScore performed byConducted byThe New Zeland Symphony OrchestraAlex HeffesSupervising OrchestratorOrchestratorsMusic Preparation byScore CoordinatorJohn Ashton ThomasDave MetzgerTommy LaurenceMark Graham / Jo Ann Kane Music ServiceHilary SkewesGuitarsElectric CelloJonathan BerryTina GuoSynth ProgrammersAdditional ArrangementsMatt RobertsonAndy PageT.J. LindgrenScore Recording EngineerScoring Technical CrewScore MixerScore Mixed atAssistant Mix EngineerAssistant to ComposerGraham KennedyDarryl StackMatt ThomsonBrian MahoneyJames T. HillTMS Studios – Santa Monica, CAPhil McGowanRoger SuenMusic EditorJoseph BonnMusic Score Produced and Published byAtlantic Screen ComposersSound Design & Editorial byWildfire PostSupervising Sound Editor/DesignerRe-Recording MixersDialogue/ADR SupervisorDialogue EditorsSound FX EditorADR MixerFoley ArtistFoley MixerMix RecordistsADR RecordistDerek VenderhorstLeslie ShatzGabriel J. SerranoMichael MagillMandell WinterKimaree LongDavid EsperanzaTravis MacKayEllen HeuerMichael RussoTimothy LimerJesse ErhedtWade BarnettHigh Definition Dailies Transfers byFotokem NOLADirector of Operations NOLAProject ManagernextLAB Dailies ColoristDavid HallChristina E. 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BurkeAtsuo FujiwaraGrant WilsonTracking SupervisorCamera TrackersJarrod AvalosCody BruntyRoberto FloresEffects TDsWei-Jen (William) ChenBrent DroogMatt PearsonWill WallacePipeline SupervisorProgrammersChris HaneyHimanshu BhatiaSeonghyun KimMartin LeguizamonDaniel OstrovRina StrauseVFX EditorsI/O ManagementJoshua SutherlandMark WrightJordan VandinaCamera DepartmentArthur ZajacProduction AssistantsJessica ChufEthel KohnColor and Prints byLab Color TimerFotokemJim WilliamsStock Footage Supplied byPlayback TechnologiesGetty ImagesT3 MediaCamera Cranes & Dollies byLighting and Grip Equipment Provided byChapman LeonardPaskal LightingInsurance Provided byBRK Insurance GroupProduction LegalBurgee & Abramoff PCRobert AbramoffSloss Eckhouse Lawco, LLPJackie EckhouseJerry DastiBoies/Schiller Films SVP CreativeAssistant to Zack SchillerBoies/Schiller Films Legal CounselKatherine S. ChangAndrew MeltingBill GranthamRufus-Isaacs, Acland & Grantham, LLP“Don’t Sleep”Written by All Theodore and Lordkim AllahPerformed by LordkimCourtesy of Deetown/Position Music“Show Me What You Got”Written by Willie ClarkePerformed by Frank Williams & The RocketeersCourtesy of The Numero GroupBy Arrangement with Bank Robber Music“Head Held High”Written by Alex HeffesPerformed by DeWolfe MusicCourtesy of DeWolfe Music“Piano Sonata No. 2”Arranged and Performed by Joseph Bonn“Drum Circle 2”Written and Performed by Alex HeffesBy arrangement with Creative Evolution MusicIn loving memoryRichard BlencoweJustin HolocekChris LightlySpecial Thanks toMartin BlencoweDama ClaireCrossmatchErgotron Inc.Vitek Industrial Video Products, Inc.Camera and Lenses by Panavision[Logo][Logo]Kodak[Logo]Fotokem[Logo]Chapman/Leonard[Logo]MPAA[Logo]IATSE[Logo]Dolby Digital[Logo]SDDS[Logo]DTS[Logo]DataSat[Logo]Louisiana Entertainment[Logo]Summit Entertainment[Logo]? 2013 Georgia Film Fund Twelve, LLCThe persons and events in this motion picture are fictitious.Any similarity to actual persons or events is unintentional.This motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries.Unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution. ................
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