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Academy Award ® nominee , acclaimed actor and , and Academy Award ® Winner come together in STXfilms and ’s , an inspirational comedy based on the true-life friendship and lifelong bond forged between a wealthy man with quadriplegia and the ex-con he hires as his live- in care giver. Directed by (The Illusionist, Limitless), with a screenplay by Jon Hartmere, THE UPSIDE chronicles the unexpected friendship between Phillip Lacasse (Cranston), a Park Avenue billionaire left paralyzed after a paragliding accident, and ex-con Dell Scott (Kevin Hart), in need of a fresh start. Newly paroled and in desperate need of a job, Dell is frustrated by the menial opportunities available to an ex-con. After finding himself at the wrong job interview Dell uses his irreverent charisma to charm Phillip, who, despite protests from his chief-of-staff Yvonne (Nicole Kidman), offers him the home aid position. Despite a rocky start, the two quickly realize how much they can learn from each other’s experiences. From worlds apart, Phillip and Dell form an unlikely bond, bridging their differences and gaining invaluable wisdom in the process, giving each man a renewed sense of passion for all of life’s possibilities.

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FILMMAKER’S VISION THE UPSIDE is inspired by the 2011 box office hit French film Les Intouchables. Producers Jason Blumenthal, Todd Black and from were thrilled at the prospect of recreating the French classic, having seen it a few years back and absolutely loving the story. Says Black, “Our decision to remake Les Intouchables stemmed from a desire to dive deeper into the lives of the incredible real people the original film is based on. We wanted to know more about their stories and believed we could give audiences a fresh interpretation that honored the brilliance of the French version.” Though Director Neil Burger had immense admiration for the original, he was clear in communicating to Blumenthal, Black and Tisch that he felt an English language adaptation could bring the story to an entirely new level for American audiences. While Burger was specific in what he envisioned for the film, it was his ability to collaborate with the producers as well as with writer Jon Hartmere that eventually brought the script to fruition. “Neil is a producer’s dream,”

2 says Black. “He has a very firm vision of what he wants, but he also encourages feedback and fosters a collaborative and open working environment that we believe made the film even more powerful.” “The movie is about people bridging the divisions between us, which to me is an incredibly important theme,” explains director Neil Burger. “I wanted the movie to feel real and to be as honest as possible. That goes with the depiction of Phillip and his disability. To be as honest as we could about that experience and ultimately be as respectful as we could about that. And the same with Kevin’s character’s experience. His background being from the South Bronx and what he’s going through in his life. The movie is about respect and it’s about compassion. And I think that had to be part of the filmmaking as well. To be as honest and respectful as possible.”

CASTING THE FILM The filmmaking team were long-time admirers of both Bryan Cranston and Kevin Hart, and hoped the film would be a welcome challenge for the actors, albeit in different ways, and looked forward to seeing their respective interpretations of the beloved characters from the original

3 film. For Hart, this role was a departure and offered the actor an opportunity to introduce audiences to his dramatic talents, while still infusing his signature wit and humor into his performance. “People are going to be blown away, because Kevin has incredible dramatic chops that nobody’s seen before,” says director Neil Burger. “When people hear Kevin Hart, they immediately think it’s going to be broad and funny,” Blumenthal says. “We will see funny Kevin for sure, but also a more serious, dramatic Kevin. We wanted to make sure we signaled to the audience that this was not your typical Kevin Hart movie. Though Kevin brings humor to the film, his role goes beyond comedic relief while his character struggles to turn his life around.” “It was a challenge that I welcomed with open arms,” says Hart. Adding, “I’ve yet to do something like this. I’ve yet to step into this space. I’m about opening up doors. And this is a door that I’ve been hesitant to open because I wanted to make sure that the project was right when I actually did it. The Upside is the perfect project for me to step in that direction of a drama-esque performance but still stay true to my comedy roots.” Cranston describes his co-star’s work on the film saying, “This is a drama with comedic undertones because you find some humor in tragic situations. We needed that to buoy the story and propel it along. But Kevin is a very smart guy and he knew exactly what the tone of this was and what he needed to do. It’s perfect for him, in his career, to be able to step into a role that’s not necessarily in his wheelhouse. Kevin is profoundly talented. It goes into his bones on some deep meta level and it’s just there. He delivers when he needs to.” From the onset of the film, audiences can identify with Dell as he encounters this new situation and discover with him what it is like to be a person with quadriplegia. While Dell initially takes on the role of Phillip’s care giver, as the film progresses it becomes clear that both Dell and Phillip rely equally on each other. They have different struggles, but it’s their ability to learn from one another that ultimately builds their incredibly unique relationship. “I realize that’s really the crux of the story: facing the challenges,” says Cranston. “Whether you’re an African American male just getting out of prison, or a 60 something person with quadriplegia who can’t move anything below his neck for the rest of his life, neither see much of a future for themselves. There are dilemmas. Life is not easy.” “What neither Phillip nor Dell expected is that they both came into each other’s lives at the perfect moment, and changed each other’s lives when they most needed it,” says Blumenthal.

4 “Casting Bryan Cranston was just a no brainer,” says Burger. “He’s really one of the great actors of our generation. He worked so hard on the role to do it right, and to do it respectfully, as somebody who was in a wheelchair. He’s an actor that has such incredible empathy, yet also, such a wonderful and light sense of humor. It was the perfect combination for that character.” Though Cranston has played a wide variety of characters, the physical requirements involved in playing a person with quadriplegia presented a new challenge for the actor. “Before the movie, I didn’t realize how often actors depend on their entire bodies to sell a performance and a scene,” says Blumenthal. “This role required Bryan to approach his character in an entirely new way, and discover how to deliver an emotional, funny and at times heartbreaking performance without using most of the tools he’s used to having at his disposal.” One of the most important elements of making this film to Burger was the level of authenticity portrayed in the characters and across all aspects of the production. Before filming began, Cranston and Burger visited former football player Eric LeGrand. LeGrand, who was paralyzed in 2010 while playing football at Rutgers University, spoke with both men at length about his experiences and observed him during physical therapy. For Cranston, maintaining accuracy and rigorous attention to detail on set required a great deal of both research and discipline. Cranston’s dialogue with Phillippe Pozzo Di Borgo, on whom the story is based, was essential to his preparation for the role. These conversations had a major impact on Cranston as he focused on the emotional trials Di Borgo went through. Cranston recounts, “Were there periods of time he wanted to give up? Yes. Were there depths of depression? Yes. Were there thoughts of suicide? Yes. Were there peaks where he thought, oh no, I do have some options. Yes. It’s all of the above,” Cranston says. “It was up to him to be able to embrace everything about the challenges ahead, both good and bad.” The physical challenges of playing a character who is completely still ended up being solved mentally for Cranston. “At first, I thought I’d really have to focus on being absolutely still,” he said. “I started practicing holding my body in a rigid manner, but that can’t be sustained. You’re too tense. It really had to just be the opposite of that. I had to go into a Zen-like state in order to just breathe and let it go. Just go with the fallow and have the whole-body collapse in the chair to where the only thing I can move is my neck. And that worked.” In addition to his conversations with Di Borgo, Cranston spent time with many other people with quadriplegia, learning about not

5 only their daily routines but also how their lives have changed – their relationships, emotions, perceptions of self.

“I think it meant a lot to Bryan, because I did get to see him a couple of times after he came back and you could just tell how it affected him. He wanted to deliver a performance that not only we would be proud of, but those he visited would also be proud of,” Blumenthal says. To further ensure authenticity, Bryan and Kevin worked closely with multiple consultants from both the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey and the Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in . The consultants, who consisted of both people with quadriplegia as well as life auxiliaries, were on set every day to make certain everything was executed in a way that felt true and genuine to the characters, offering guidance on everything from the correct terminology, to the proper way to transfer a person with quadriplegia. Though there is a serious dramatic tone to the film, Hart and Cranston bring balance to it. Upon realizing how powerful the dynamic is between the two lead characters, the challenge for filmmakers was choosing the proper cast to surround them with. “The supporting actors have to be able to keep up with the stamina, the comedy, and the drama of what is going on,” Blumenthal says. The next character to be cast was that of Yvonne, Phillip’s loyal personal assistant. The producers wanted to develop the character more in the second iteration, and the romantic element between Yvonne and Phillip (a departure from the original version), meant it would be important to cast an actress who wouldn’t overplay the role, allowing for some mystery. Nicole Kidman won them over. “Once we zeroed in on Nicole Kidman, we knew we had something truly special,” Black said. “Her body of work alone has shown that she has chosen roles that challenge her and take her in different directions.” “Nicole Kidman is just a pure delight,” Cranston says. “There are a lot of times when you stop shooting and you restart a scene, and actors will go off into their dressing rooms. But Nicole is always on set. She’s a brilliant actor.” “I was blown away by the people that Bryan and Nicole were off set,” admits Hart. “On set, I knew I was getting a high level of professional. I knew that I was getting the best of the best. But I had no idea what they would be like off set, off camera. The personalities were

6 amazing. Nicole was a sweetheart. We joked, we played in between takes. Bryan was amazing as well. The rapport that I had with both of them throughout the duration of the film was unbelievable. Bryan and I did become close. Bryan is just a great guy.” Another challenging role to cast was that of Maggie, Phillip’s physical therapist. “We were having trouble figuring out how to balance Kevin, Bryan, and Nicole with someone that could also enter a room and bring something really special,” said Black. “Maggie was a really important character, because she had to have a sensitivity and a lightness. And then we found Goldshifteh Farahani.” Though Farahani describes her character as practical, the compassion she displays on screen balances Yvonne’s professional approach and Dell’s propensity to use comedy during the challenging moments caring for Phillip. “She was the fourth significant cast member to help us round out, and now we’re really able to see this ensemble come to life with the people that surround Phillip’s character and tend to his every need.” Filling out the rest of the stellar cast are who plays Latrice, Dell’s ex- girlfriend and the mother of his child, Suzanne Savoy as Charlotte, Phillip’s long-time chef, , a pen pal Phillip finally gets the courage to meet for a date, Tate Donovan, the wealthy and somewhat obnoxious budding art collector living in Phillip’s building, and Genevieve Angelson, as Phillip’s deceased wife, Jenny.

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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION Neil Burger’s mandate for authenticity extended well beyond the film’s characters. He, along with the cast and crew, were determined to apply that same precise attention to detail to the set and costume design as well. For example, another central focus of the film is the Park Avenue penthouse that serves as both Phillip’s residence, and the vehicle through which he showcases his precious art collection. Knowing that Phillip’s penthouse was so vital to the film meant that production designer Mark Friedberg and decorator Beth Rubino would have to abide by strict parameters. For Friedberg, the process began with extensive research and preparation prior to his first meeting with Burger. In that first meeting, Friedberg came prepared with several architectural references and ideas. He had two directions in particular he felt the apartment could go, and pitched both to Burger. The first was in line with the script, a penthouse at the famously elite 740 Park Avenue. The second pitch was for an extravagant Tribeca building. In the end, the two decided on an apartment that would be in 740 Park, but decorated against the traditional styles of the building and instead with contemporary art and furniture.

8 “Neil Burger liked the idea that Phillip straddles a line between a particular elitism, someone who would live on Park Avenue, but also has a bit of irreverence for that world,” Friedberg said. Though they considered utilizing an existing apartment, in the end it made the most sense to build the set in a warehouse. Phillip’s Park Avenue penthouse was built on a sound stage. The team built 6,650 feet of interior space, though it connotes a space over double the size, and they did so in roughly three months. “The space is one of our chances to learn who Phillip is. The architecture was a large part of it, but for me, it was mostly a backdrop for the art,” Friedberg says. “We have spent a lot of time building Phillip’s collection as that is the real way he expresses himself - the kind of person he is and the way he sees the world.” Though Friedberg says a set like this would typically involve paint that accentuated the molding and several differently colored walls, he and the set decorator, Beth Rubio, decided that part of Phillip’s irreverence would be showcased in his decision to paint the molding a flat, movie white and have a black shiny floor. “It would be a stark contrast and graphic look for the building, very unlike the way it was meant to be experienced when it was first built,” says Friedberg. “It gave it a sense of modernity even though it’s an old place.” Though most of the penthouse has this modern feel with most of the color coming from Phillip’s artwork, the library remains true to the old world feel of the era the building was built in. “I always thought of the library as a place where we got to see the inside of Phillip’s brain a little more. A place where the things that fascinate him are more apparent to us, aside from just fine art,” Friedberg says. “The accessories or collections in the library are very much about movement,” says Rubio. “That was a subliminal choice we made, that the objects around him show velocity. He no longer has that choice, but he is confronted with it daily. We were, in a small way, showing the daily challenge of his current circumstance against his previous life.” The library displays more collectibles than paintings – precious books, Da Vinci drawings and scientific depictions, but the rest of the penthouse showcases the artwork that Phillip is so enamored with.

9 It was important to Friedberg to put together a collection that didn’t just reflect price tag or popularity, but true personality and personal history. “We wanted Phillip to have a personal say in the kinds of work he hangs. Some had to be A-list top shelf like the Twomblys, Motherwells, Turners, and Kandinskys,” Friedberg says. “He has paintings that are worth tens of millions of dollars, but he has them because he loves them. He may even have had them before they got to that value.” In addition, his collection is comprised of art by people Phillip either knows or has met. In designing his collection, Friedberg and Rubino had fun mixing it up between museum level art, art by , themselves, or their children, and art made by local artists. The main gallery in the entrance space where the party takes place features a host of renown female artists including Marilyn Minter, Frankenthaler, Kiki Smith, Mary Cassatt, Lee Krasner and Patricia Meyerowitz. “It’s not mentioned in the script anywhere. It’s not necessarily a story point, but it’s a design point of the collection, and we also thought that was something that Phillip would find interesting,” said Friedberg. In addition to the paintings and sculptures the light fixtures served as additional works of art within the penthouse. “Because we had enormous height, which you typically don’t have on a movie set, the emphasis for the lighting was somewhat unusual. It was an opportunity for us to use fixtures by manufacturers who deserve to be seen on film,” said Rubino. In keeping with Burger’s adherence to a realistic concept, Rubino and Friedberg utilized many uncommon approaches to build and decorate the set. The library was built out of real oak, the fireplaces, both stone and marble, were real functioning fireplaces, even medical advisors were consulted in order to build a master bedroom that would reflect the amount of years it had been since Phillip’s accident. Some of the City locations included the famous Grey’s Papaya at Broadway & 72nd Street, Grand Army Plaza at 59th Street and Fifth Avenue; Central Park; and the Webster Projects in the South Bronx.

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ABOUT THE CAST

KEVIN HART (Dell) has made a name for himself as one of the foremost , entertainers, authors and businessmen in the industry today. After an electrifying performance at amateur night in a Philadelphia comedy club, Kevin quit his shoe salesman job and began performing full time at venues such as The Comedy Club, Caroline’s, Stand-Up NY, The Laugh Factory, and The Comedy Store in . However, it was his first appearance at the Comedy Festival that led Kevin into roles in feature films. Hart recently starred in Night School for Universal, a film in which he co-wrote, produces and stars in - all under the Hartbeat Production banner. The comedy follows a group of misfits

11 who are forced to attend adult classes in the longshot chance they’ll pass the GED exam. Grossing $28 Million, Night School has had the highest opening in comedy of 2018. Hart is currently back on the road doing standup with his newest hour of material titled the “.” This tour will take Hart all around the world in 2018. 2017 was a banner year for Hart, his memoir I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons debuted at Number One on Bestseller list and remained on the list for ten consecutive weeks. The book also topped records on the Audible platform, selling over 100,000 copies in the first five weeks. Earlier in the year Hart voiced a title character in Captain Underpants: The First . To close 2017, Kevin appeared in the Sony reboot of the classic film alongside and . Jumanji has been Kevin’s highest grossing box office release to date, the movie has made over $900 Million Worldwide. Hart’s newest business venture is his digital platform the LOL - Laugh Out Loud, the comedy brand and multi-platform network founded by Hart in partnership global content leader . The streaming video service will launch on August 3rd featuring a slate of original scripted and unscripted comedy series, stand-up specials, licensed programming, and live broadcasts. Laugh Out Loud combines Hart’s unparalleled social media savvy that earned him 100+ million followers with his vision for the future of comedy - social, mobile, multicultural, and seriously funny. Hart handpicked the boldest comedic voices to create, produce and star in content exclusive to the service. These include digital superstar comedy talents GloZell, King Bach, Emmanuel Hudson, DC Young , Draya Michelle, David So, Timothy DeLaGhetto and Anjelah Johnson (MADtv, viral sensation Bon Qui Qui) - among others - who have amassed tens of millions of fans across social media. The Laugh Out Loud service will also feature up and coming comedians curated by Hart through LOL showcases at events, including a partnership with the world’s top comedy festival “Just for Laughs.” Hart’s recent movie projects include the animated film ( Entertainment) and the biggest grossing live action comedy ( and ), Universal’s , which grossed over $100 million worldwide, , and Warner Brothers’ . The consummate worker, Hart is also a force in television, executive producing the show, “Real Husbands of ,” which is currently in Season 5. In addition, Comedy Central will launch 2 standup

12 comedy series’ “Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City” and “Untitled Kevin Hart Stand-Up Series.” In addition, Hart embarked on the multi-city domestic and international WHAT NOW comedy tour. Domestically, he sold out 8 tristate area arenas, including , Barclays, and Jones Beach, selling over 100,000 tickets in the NY market. He was also the first comedian to sell out an NFL stadium, selling over 50,000 tickets in one show. Internationally, he sold out over a dozen arenas in the European market, selling over 150,000 tickets, and sold out arenas across Australia, selling 100,000 tickets. Hart’s hit comedy tour grossed over $100 million worldwide. To round out 2016, Hart wrapped production on ’ continuation of the classic Jumanji, alongside Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black, and Universal Pictures released the feature version of his comedy tour WHAT NOW in October. In 2012, Hart was tapped to host the 2012 MTV VMA’s, garnering much industry praise for his appearance, before his next comedy tour, Let Me Explain took him to 90 American cities along with Europe and Africa - resulting in him the second American in history to sell out ’s O2 Arena. Kevin spent the fall of 2012 filming two movies back to back: Screen Gems’ remake of the film, About Last Night, and Universal’s buddy Cop movie Ride Along, opposite . Kevin continued his incredible run with a starring role in Screen Gems’ , a comedy based on 's bestselling book, which grossed $95 Million worldwide, and had a supporting role in the Universal / Nick Stoller comedy, Five Year Engagement, produced by . In September 2011 Hart released Laugh At My Pain the feature film version of his comedy tour (under the same name). The movie grossed over $7 million and was 2011’s most successful film of those released in less than 300 theaters. The LAMP tour was so successful it catapulted Hart to 2011’s number one comedian on Ticketmaster, and in February 2011, he sold out the Nokia Theater for two nights in a row, breaking the record previously set by . This lead to the LAMP DVD hitting double platinum in February 2012, after being on sale for only a month. Other film credits include with Robert DeNiro and , Death at a Funeral, Fool’s Gold and The 40 Year-Old Virgin. In 2009, Hart’s one-hour Comedy Central special I’m A Grown Little Man became one of the highest rated specials for the network, and in 2010, Hart’s DVD Seriously...Funny was one of

13 the fastest selling DVDs, going triple Platinum, aided by the Comedy Central special of the same name, which was the highest rated comedy special of 2010. Hart’s other television credits include, hosting BET’s classic stand-up comedy series “Comic View: One Mic Stand,” ABC’s “The Big House,” which he also executive produced and wrote, and recurring roles on “Love, Inc,” “Barbershop,” and “.” Hart currently resides in Los Angeles.

BRYAN CRANSTON (Phillip) is an Academy Award® nominee, and Emmy®, Golden Globe, SAG, Tony® and Olivier Award winner. Cranston most recently appeared as a guest star on HBO’s “,” and was nominated for an Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series.” Additionally, Cranston voiced the character of “Chief” in ’s stop-motion animated film Isle of Dogs, which premiered at the 2018 Film Festival and was released by Fox Searchlight on March 23, 2018. The film features an ensemble voice cast including Edward

14 Norton, , Jeff Goldblum, Bob Balaban, Scarlett Johannsson and Frances McDormand, among many others. Cranston just wrapped production on Disney’s, The One and Only Ivan, starring opposite , , , and Danny DeVito. Cranston recently made his West End debut starring in Network at the National Theatre. Based on the iconic film by Paddy Chayedsky, which won four ® in 1976, director brings the story of Network to the stage with Cranston in the principal role of “Howard Beale.” Cranston recently won a Critics Circle Award for “Best Actor” and won an Olivier Award for “Best Actor” for his performance. The play also received an Olivier Award for “Best New Play.” Cranston made his Broadway debut in 2014 as President “Lyndon B. Johnson” in by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright . He won the 2014 Tony® Award for his performance, as well as a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Theater World Award for “Outstanding Actor in a Play.” Cranston went on to produce the film adaption of the play through his production company, Moonshot Entertainment, along with ’s Amblin Television and Tale Told Productions. It premiered on HBO in May 2016 and was nominated for eight Emmy® Awards including “Outstanding Television Movie” and an individual nomination for Cranston for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie.” “All The Way” was nominated for four Critics’ Choice Awards, including “Best Television Movie,” and an individual nomination for Cranston for “Best Actor in a Television Movie.” Additionally, Cranston was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for “Best Actor in a Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television” and won the SAG Award for “Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Limited Series.” In addition to “All The Way,” Moonshot Entertainment has developed three television series for Amazon including “” (season three is currently in production), “The Dangerous Book for Boys,” and “Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams.” Moonshot also developed the animated series “SuperMansion” for , which received two Emmy® Award nominations, and season three premiered in May 2018. In 2015, Cranston starred as the title character in Jay Roach’s Trumbo. His performance garnered him nominations for an Academy Award®, Golden Globe Award, SAG Award, BAFTA Award, and Critics’ Choice Award in 2016 for “Best Actor.”

15 Cranston’s other feature film credits include: ’s Last Flag Flying, Robin Swicord’s Wakefield, Dean Israelite’s Power Rangers, ’s Why Him?, ’s The Infiltrator, Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla, 's Argo, Len Wiseman’s remake of Total Recall, Nicholas Winding Refn’s , ’s Contagion, Brad Furman’s The Lincoln Lawyer, Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris’ , Steven Spielberg’s , and ’ Larry Crown and That Thing You Do!, among others. Bryan has also lent his voice to DreamWorks Animation films 3 and 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. On television, Cranston’s portrayal of “Walter White” on AMC’s “” garnered him four Emmy® Awards, four SAG Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He holds the honor of being the first actor in a cable series and the second lead actor in the history of the Emmy® Awards to receive three consecutive wins. As a producer on “Breaking Bad,” Cranston won two Emmy® Awards and a Producers Guild of America (PGA) Award for “Outstanding Drama Series.” Behind the camera, Cranston was nominated for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for “Breaking Bad” (in 2014) and “” (in 2013 and 2014). Cranston also wrote, directed, and acted in the original romantic drama Last Chance as a birthday gift for his wife and star of the film, Robin Dearden. Cranston’s career began with a role on the television movie “Love Without End,” which led to him being signed as an original cast member of ABC's “Loving.” He went on to appear as Hal on FOX's “,” which ran for seven seasons and for which Cranston was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and three Emmy® Awards. Aside from his acting career, Cranston is a New York Times bestselling author of A Life In Parts. In his riveting memoir, Cranston traces his zigzag journey, with great humor and much humility, from his chaotic childhood to mega stardom by vividly revisiting the many parts he’s played on and off camera. Cranston shares his thoughts about innate talent, its benefits, challenges, and proper maintenance, but ultimately A Life in Parts is about the necessity and transformative power of hard work. Cranston is also a spokesperson and longtime supporter of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). NCMEC is the leading nonprofit organization in the U.S.

16 working with law enforcement, families and professionals on issues related to missing and sexually exploited children.

Academy Award® winning actress NICOLE KIDMAN (Yvonne) first came to the attention of American audiences with her critically acclaimed performance in Phillip Noyce’s riveting 1989 Australian psychological thriller Dead Calm. Kidman has since become an internationally-recognized, award-winning actress known for her range and versatility. In 2002, Kidman was honored with her first Oscar® nomination for her performance in ’s innovative musical, Moulin Rouge! For that role, and her performance in writer/director Alejandro Amenabar’s psychological thriller The Others, she received dual 2002 Golden Globe nominations, winning for “Best Actress in a Musical.” In 2003, Kidman won an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award and a Berlin Silver Bear for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in Stephen Daldry’s The Hours.

17 In 2010, Kidman starred opposite Aaron Eckhart in Rabbit Hole, for which she received Academy Award®, Golden Globe, and Independent Spirit Award nominations for “Best Actress.” The film was developed by Kidman’s production company, Blossom Films. In October 2012, Kidman starred in Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy with Matthew McConaughey, Zac Efron and John Cusack. Her performance earned her an AACTA, Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe nominations. In 2014, Kidman was seen in Grace of Monaco, which earned her a SAG nomination. In 2015, she was seen in The Secret in Their Eyes, The Family Fang with , which she also produced, and Genius alongside . In 2016, Kidman was seen in Lion with Dev Patel, for which she received Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe, SAG, BAFTA and Oscar nominations. She was most recently seen in Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and John Cameron Mitchell’s How to Talk to Girls at Parties. Her upcoming projects include Destroyer, Boy Erased, AQUAMAN and The Goldfinch, a movie adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. In television, Kidman starred in HBO’s “Hemingway and Gellhorn” alongside in 2012. Her portrayal as Martha Gellhorn earned her Emmy®, SAG and Golden Globe nominations. Kidman returned to the small screen in 2017 with the limited series “Big Little Lies” alongside for HBO (Kidman’s Blossom Films and Witherspoon’s Pacific Standard produced the project), for which she received an Emmy® Award, Golden Globe, Critics Choice Award and SAG Award. “Big Little Lies” also received an Emmy® Award, Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award for “Outstanding Limited Series.” She also had an arch on the second season of “: China Girl.” Kidman is currently in production on the second season of “Big Little Lies,” where she will again serve as actress and executive producer. In 2018, Kidman and her production company, Blossom Films, signed a first-look deal with . Under the agreement, she will develop theatrical and series content, the first of which being a new drama series, “The Expatriates,” based off the novel by Janice Y.K Lee. In theater, Kidman made a highly-lauded London stage debut in the fall of 1998, starring with in The Blue Room, David Hare’s modern adaptation of Schnitzler’s La Ronde. For her performance Kidman won London’s Evening Standard Award and was nominated in the “Best Actress” category for a Award. In 2015, Kidman was seen on the West End stage in Anna Ziegler’s Photograph 51, for which she received a London’s Evening Standard Award.

18 In January of 2006, Kidman was awarded Australia’s highest honor, the Companion in the Order of Australia. She was also named, and continues to serve, as Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UN Women, whose goals are to foster women’s empowerment and gender equality, to raise awareness of the infringement on women’s human rights around the world and to end violence against women. Along with her husband, Keith Urban, she has helped raise millions over the years for the Women’s Cancer Program which is a world- renowned center for research into the causes, treatment, prevention, and eventual cure of women’s cancer. In 2017, the Cannes Film Festival honored Kidman with a special award for her body of work and longstanding history with the festival. She is one of only eight people to ever receive this honor in the 70-year history of the festival.

As an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award winner, JULIANNA MARGULIES (Lily) has achieved success in television, theatre, and film. In June 2018, Margulies returned to television in the AMC series “Dietland.” Based on the book written by Sarai Walker and created for television by Marti Noxon, Margulies stars

19 opposite Joy Nash. Margulies plays Kitty Montgomery, a wildly ambitious magazine editor in the beauty industry. Most recently, Margulies starred and produced the CBS hit show “” as , a role that has won her two Emmy, as well as a Golden Globe and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. Other TV credits include her multi-episode guest role in HBO's “,” “The Grid,” a mini-series from TNT and the BBC, for which she received a Golden Globe nomination, and TNT's original mini-series “The Mists of Avalon,” opposite Anjelica Huston and Joan Allen. Margulies also starred as one of the original members of the groundbreaking show “ER,” for which she received both an Emmy Award and two SAG Awards as nurse . In 2012 Margulies was seen on the big screen in Fisher Stevens’ Stand Up Guys alongside and . Margulies also starred in City Island, opposite Andy Garcia. The film won the Audience Award at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. Margulies other film credits include the dark comedy The Darwin Awards, directed by Finn Taylor, opposite and Joe Fiennes; David R. Ellis' Snakes on a Plane opposite, Samuel L. Jackson; Jay Alaimo's Slingshot, opposite David Arquette and Balthazar Getty; Steve Beck's Ghost Ship, opposite ; 's Evelyn, opposite ; What's Cooking, an ensemble drama directed by Gurinder Chadha, Richard Linklater's The Newton Boys, Boaz Yakin's A Price Above Rubies, Jack Green's Traveller, Bruce Beresford's Paradise Road, and George Hickenlooper's The Man From Elysian Fields, opposite Andy Garcia and Mick Jagger. On stage, Margulies made her Broadway debut in 2006 starring in , opposite Michael Hayden, Larry Bryggman, Ali MacGraw, and Jeremy Sisto. Margulies completed a successful run in 's Ten Unknowns at , opposite , for which she won the Lucille Lortel Award. Other theater credits include: The Vagina Monologues, both Off- Broadway and in the Los Angeles , and Intrigue with Faye at the NY Stage and Film Festival. She has personally been involved in Project ALS since its inception, Erin’s Law and the rebuilding efforts of the Rockaways, alongside the St. Bernard Project, after Super Storm Sandy. She is also a long-standing board member of the based theater company MCC, a company dedicated to giving the American playwright a voice and a platform.

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GOLSHIFTEH FAHARANI (Maggie) is an Iranian actress, daughter of theater director Behzad Faharani. She started performing on stage very early at the age of six. She studied classical music, but at 14-years old she took a different turn. She was cast as the lead actress in the movie The Pear Tree by Dariush Mehrjui for which she won the award for “Best Actress” at the 16th Fajr International Film Festival. Since then, she has been in more than fifteen movies. More recently, she’s been seen in many rewarded movies like Bahman Ghobadi’s Half Moon (2006), which won the Golden Shell at the 2006 San Sebastian Film Festival. She’s also been in Rasool Mollagholi Poor's Mim mesle madar (2006), which after a huge success in Iran was chosen to represent Iran for the “Best Foreign Film” at the Academy Awards® in 2008. In 2008, she acted in ’s film Body of Lies with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russel Crowe. Thanks to this part, she became the first Iranian actress to be in a major Hollywood production. Her last film in Iran, About Elly was directed by Asghar Farhadi in 2009, and won a Silver Bear in Berlin and “The Best Narrative Feature” at Tribeca. In 2010, she took part in her first film in France, I’ll Kill You If You Die by Hiner Saleem.

21 In 2011, she was with Mathieu Amalric in Chicken with Plums by Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi. She starred in Rachid Bouchareb’s Just Like A Woman with Sienna Miller. They were both awarded “Best Actress” at the Festival de la fiction TV de la Rochelle in 2012. Atiq Rahimi chose her to be the lead of his best-selling novel adaptation Syngue Sabour for which she received nominations at various film festivals. Hiner Saleem also offered her the leading part in My Sweet Pepperland. In 2014, she explored different types of projects with different directors. She worked with the young French Mia Hansen-Løve in Eden, with the Lebanese director Jihane Chouaib in Go Home, with Ridley Scott in Exodus and in Rosewater. In 2016, she appeared in The Misfortunes of Sophie by Christophe Honoré and Paterson by Jim Jarmusch (competing in the main competition section of Cannes Film Festival). On stage she played one of the greatest classic female roles of literature in Anna Karenina directed by Gaëtan Vassart for the Théâtre de la Tempête. In 2017, she was seen in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg. Farahani was in a series of movies between 2017 and 208 including The Song of Scorpion by Anup Singh, Santa and Co by the famous French director Alain Chabat, and les filles du soleil by Eva Huson. This movie was selected in the main competition section of the Cannes Film Festival. She recently finished shooting Manele Labidi’s Un divan à Tunis, and Pierre Trividic and Patrick Mario Bernard’s l’angle mort.

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AJA NAOMI KING (Latrice) is a gifted actress whose body of work has evolved with impressive performances and versatile roles across film and television. On television, King stars as ambitious student ‘Michaela Pratt’ in the hit ABC series, “How to Get Away with Murder.” Set in Philadelphia at a prestigious law school, King portrays one of the five ambitious law students who is chosen to work for the brilliant criminal defense professor ‘’ played by . The show follows the students and ‘Annalise' as they become forever connected to each other after a murder is committed on campus. The show is currently in its fifth season. For her performance in the series, King received a "Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series" nomination at the 2015 NAACP Image Awards. Upcoming on the big screen, King will also star as the lead in the upcoming film A Girl from Mogadishu from Pembridge Pictures. The film follows Somali activist Ifrah Ahmed (King), who was born into a refugee camp in Somalia and sent to Ireland as a teenager. Recounting her traumatic childhood experiences of female genital mutilation-cutting when applying for refugee status, she vows to devote her life to the eradication of .

23 Most recently in film, King received critical acclaim for her role in the Fox Searchlight groundbreaking feature, The Birth of a Nation. In the biographical drama, King plays the wife of ‘Nat Turner,’ the famed African-American who in 1831 led a slave rebellion for freedom in Southampton County, Virginia. King was nominated for a 2017 NAACP award in the category of “Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture” for her performance, and the film won the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2016 . King's additional feature film credits include Christopher Shinn's Four, in which she starred alongside a notable cast whose performances garnered them a Los Angeles Film Festival Award for “Best Performance.” She made her film debut in Whit Stillman's dramedy Damsels In Distress featuring , and also appeared in 36 Saints and opposite and . Other television credits include series regular roles in Amazon's “The Onion News Empire” and the CW series “Emily Owens M.D.” Prominent guest appearances include a season-long arc on the ABC drama “Black Box,” “Bojack Horseman” for , as well as “The Blacklist,” “Blue Bloods,” “Deadbeat,” and “Person of Interest.” On stage King has portrayed ‘Camae’ in Katori Hall’s play The Mountaintop for L.A. Theatre Works and their live audio theater program. Trip Cullman directed King in Edgewise at the Walkerspace Theatre in New York. In 2017, King was honored by ESSENCE at their 10th annual “Black Women in Hollywood” event. She was awarded their Lincoln Shining Star award. King was recently named the newest spokeswoman for L’Oréal in November 2017 with Camila Cabello and . She joins an esteemed group of representatives for Loreal including Julianne Moore and Eva Longoria. She is promoting L’Oréal Paris True Match Lumi Glow, a collection of products for radiant skin. King is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and currently resides in Los Angeles, .

24 ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

NEIL BURGER (Director) is an American film director, writer and producer. He is currently in pre-production on the film adaptation Shoot Like a Girl based on the memoir by Purple Heart Veteran Mary Jennings Hegar. Burger’s feature directing credits include the 2014 hit , starring and , which has grossed over $300 million worldwide; Limitless, starring and ; and the critically acclaimed The Illusionist starring and . He made his directorial feature debut with Interview With The Assassin, which he also wrote, winning the “Best Feature Film” category at both the Woodstock Film Festival and Avignon Film Festival, and receiving nominations for three Independent Spirit Awards. Burger also wrote and directed The Lucky Ones, starring Rachel McAdams and . On television, Burger directed and executive produced the first two episodes of “Billions,” the Showtime series starring Paul Giamatti and . He also executive produced CBS’ television adaptation of “Limitless,” based on his film of the same name. A graduate of with a degree in fine arts, Burger resides in New York City with his family.

JON HARTMERE (Screenwriter) has written scripts for Paramount, Fox, Disney, , Amazon Studios, and Productions, and was a recurring "Field Agent" on MTV's Punk'd.

JASON BLUMENTHAL(Producer) is partnered with Todd Black and Steve Tisch in Escape Artists, the successful production company behind such blockbusters as , and The Magnificent Seven. Other films that Blumenthal has produced under the Escape Artists’ banner include Southpaw, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Unfinished Business, starring Vince Vaughn, Sex Tape with , Hope Springs, starring and , The Back-up Plan with , ’s The Taking of Pelham 123, Seven Pounds, starring , and Knowing and both starring .

25 Blumenthal’s most recent success , released this past summer. In 1990, after graduation from Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications, Blumenthal joined Wizan/Black Films, where he met Producer Todd Black. There, he was involved with the development and production of Iron Eagle II, Split Decisions, , Short Time, Class Act, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, Dunston Checks In, A Family Thing, and Bio Dome. They also executive produced Becoming Colette and Fire In The Sky. Blumenthal became Senior Vice President of feature production at Mandalay Entertainment at the company’s inception in 1995. He managed such films as The Fan, Donnie Brasco, Seven Years in Tibet, Les Miserables, Wild Things, Gloria, and The Deep End of the Ocean. One of Mandalay’s biggest box office successes was I Know What You Did Last Summer, which was #1 at the box office for three weeks and grossed more than $130 million worldwide. It spawned the sequel, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer. In April 1998, Blumenthal and his partner, Todd Black, formed Black & Blu Entertainment, entering into a first look production deal at Sony Pictures Entertainment. In 2001, Black & Blu merged with the Steve Tisch Company to become Escape Artists while still maintaining their first look deal at Sony Pictures. Currently shooting, are two television series: “Our Lady, Ltd.” starring Sir to air on , as well as partnering with M. Night Shyamalan on “Servant,” for Apple’s upcoming streaming service.

TODD BLACK (Producer) is one of Hollywood’s most respected producers having worked with many of the top talent in the industry, both in front and behind the camera. With Director , The Equalizer 2 marks their fourth collaboration. The other three include The Equalizer, Southpaw and The Magnificent Seven. Among Black’s numerous credits as a producer are The Pursuit of Happyness, which earned Will Smith an Academy Award® nomination as “Best Actor,” The Taking of Pelham 123, directed by Tony Scott, Hope Springs, starring Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones, and Sex Tape, starring Cameron Diaz. Other noteworthy producing credits for Black include Knowing and The Weather Man, both starring Nicolas Cage, and Seven Pounds, starring Will Smith. Black’s long-time collaboration with began when he brought Antwone Fisher, the screenplay he developed for ten years, to the Academy Award® winner. Washington

26 decided not only would he star in the film, but he would also direct the touching drama, cementing their partnership as producer and director. When Washington stepped behind the camera to direct The Great Debaters, Black was again his producer. That movie went on to earn a Golden Globe nomination for “Best Drama.” In addition, both Antwone Fisher and The Great Debaters earned the Producer Guild’s “Stanley Kramer Award.” His most recent films with Denzel Washington include the critically acclaimed Roman J. , Esq, which garnered Washington a “Best Actor” Golden Globe nomination for his performance in the title role, and Fences, Washington’s third time directing. Fences went on to win Screen Actor Guild Awards for both Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, as well as nabbing a “Best Actress” win for Viola Davis at the Academy Awards®, as well as a nomination for “Best Picture” for Black. Action-blockbuster, Equalizer 2, marks their most recent collaboration. Black entered the business as a casting associate after attending USC’s School of Theater. Shortly after getting out of school, he produced a “Disney Sunday Night Movie” that aired on television. Black next went on to produce Fire In The Sky for and Wrestling Ernest Hemingway for Warner Bros. In 1995, Black became President of Motion Picture Production at Mandalay Entertainment where he managed Donnie Brasco, Seven Years In Tibet, I Know What You Did Last Summer, and Wild Things, to name a few. A few years later, he teamed with producer Jason Blumenthal to create Black & Blu Productions. In 2001, Black and Blumenthal joined Steve Tisch, producer of Risky Business and Forest Gump, among others, to form Escape Artists which has a first-look production deal with Sony Pictures. Their first film, which Black personally oversaw throughout the filmmaking process, was A Knight’s Tale, starring . Escape Artists has gone on to make movies that have grossed more than $1,000,000,000 at the worldwide box office. These films include mega hits The Pursuit Of Happyness, The Equalizer, and The Magnificent Seven. Black just recently wrapped production on Troupe Zero with Amazon Studios, starring Viola Davis, , McKenna Grace and Jim Gaffigan. Currently shooting, are two television series: “Our Lady, Ltd.” starring Sir Ben Kingsley to air on Epix, as well as partnering with M. Night Shyamalan on “Servant”, for Apple’s upcoming streaming service.

27 STEVE TISCH (Producer) is an Academy Award® winning producer, partner at Escape Artists Productions, Chairman, Executive Vice President and Co-Owner of the New York Football Giants, and a committed philanthropist. He is the only person with both an Oscar® and a Super Bowl ring, winning “Best Picture” for Forrest Gump in 1994, and receiving two Super Bowl rings as Chairman of the Giants for Super Bowls XLII and XLVI. For more than four decades, Steve has successfully produced compelling stories in film and television, from the critically acclaimed television movie, “The Burning Bed” starring Farrah Fawcett, to Risky Business, the sleeper hit that helped launch ’s career. Other film credits include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, American History X, Snatch, The Pursuit of Happiness, Seven Pounds, The Taking of Pelham 123, The Back-Up Plan, Hope Springs, The Equalizer, Southpaw and The Equalizer 2. On the television side, Escape Artists is in production on their first two straight-to-series shows. “Servant,” in collaboration with M. Night Shyamalan, which will be one of Apple’s wide-releases for their upcoming streaming service – as well as “Our Lady, ltd.,” starring Ben Kingsley with EPIX/MGM. Steve has been involved with the New York Giants since his father, Preston Robert Tisch, purchased 50 percent of the franchise in 1991. In 2005, Steve was named Executive Vice President, and with the passing of his father, he assumed the additional title of Chairman. Steve worked closely with John Mara, President and CEO of the Giants, on the planning and construction of MetLife Stadium, which was completed in the spring of 2010 and ranked as the number one grossing stadium in the world in 2012. Steve also helped win the successful bid to bring Super Bowl XLVIII to MetLife Stadium in February 2014. Tisch and Mara were named “Best NFL Owners” by Forbes in 2011. Tisch is also active in philanthropy, generously contributing his time and resources to a variety of organizations in arts, health and education. Recognizing the value of storytelling and its ability to increase dialogue and understanding, Steve made a transformative gift to Tel Aviv University, elevating its Department of Film and Television into a full school, now named The Steve Tisch School of Film and Television. The school has won top prizes at film festivals around the world and is Israel’s leading institution of film and television studies. It is ranked by among the top 15 international film schools for three years in a row. Tisch was awarded an honorary doctorate degree from Tel Aviv University in 2016.

28 Tisch made a leadership gift to the David Geffen School of Medicine for the UCLA Steve Tisch BrainSPORT Program, the single largest donation from an individual to a medical center for a concussion-related initiative. The gift creates the first U.S. fellowship to train pediatric neurologists who specialize in sports concussions, and establishes the world’s most sophisticated research, prevention, diagnosis and treatment program for concussions and brain injuries with a particular emphasis on young athletes. Steve is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is a founding Trustee of The Geffen Theatre in Los Angeles, is on the Board of Advisors of the Tisch School of the Arts at , and The Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke University and previously served on the board of the Sundance Institute. Tisch resides in both Los Angeles and New York City.

STUART DRYBURGH (Cinematographer) is a British born, New York based cinematographer. His credits include The Painted Veil, Aeon Flux, Bridget Jones’ Diary, Analyze This, The Portrait of a Lady, Once Were Warriors, and An Angel at My Table. Dryburgh was born in the UK in 1952 and migrated with his family to New Zealand in 1961, where he spent most of his childhood and young adult life. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture from University in 1977. He started out working on early NZ films such as Middle Age Spread and Good-Bye Pork Pie and Smash Palace. He was employed as a gaffer from 1979 – 1985, working on many NZ and international feature films and commercials. From 1985 on he has worked only as a cinematographer, at first shooting short films, music videos, and tv commercials. In 1989, he shot the 3-part TV miniseries “An Angel at My Table” for director . This led to another Dryburgh/ Campion collaboration, The Piano. For this film, he was nominated for an Academy Award® for “Best Cinematography” in 1994. His next project, ultimately his last in New Zealand for many years, was Once Were Warriors with New Zealand director Lee Tamahori. In 1994 Dryburgh shot his first US feature film, The Peres Family, for director , and moved permanently to the US in 1996. Dryburgh’s recent credits include The Great Wall, Alice Through The Looking Glass, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, among many others.

29 MARK FRIEDBERG (Production Designer) sees the worlds he creates through a prism of his work as a Fine Artist and his background as an American History major. He married his passions for both film, painting and social impact by cutting his teeth as a production designer on a series of influential low-budget movies that came about during the indie film movement of the early ‘90s. Friedberg’s work on small but noteworthy endeavors such as Alexandre Rockwell’s In the Soup (Audience Award at Sundance) and Maggie Greenwald’s The Ballad of Little Joe earned great attention, leading to Friedberg’s collaboration with a variety of filmmakers, ranging from industry stalwarts Mel Brooks (The Producers, 2005), and Garry Marshall (Runaway Bride, New Year’s Eve), to independent mavericks like Mira Nair (The Perez Family, Kama Sutra: ), (Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil), Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven), Jim Jarmusch (Paterson, Coffee and Cigarettes, Broken Flowers), Wes Anderson (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Darjeeling Limited), Julie Taymor (Across the Universe), and Charlie Kaufman (Synedoche, New York). Friedberg’s most recent films include ’ If Beale Street Could Talk and Todd Phillip’s’ Joker Movie. Other films designed by Friedberg include Julie Taymor’s imagining of Shakespeare’s , shot on location in Hawaii and on stage in Brooklyn; ’s The Beaver, co- starring Foster and ; and the romantic comedy Morning Glory, starring , Diane Keaton and Rachel McAdams, and directed by Roger Michell. Friedberg won the Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Art Direction” for his work on the critically acclaimed HBO mini-series “Mildred Pierce,” starring Kate Winslet and directed by Todd Haynes. Friedberg's feature film credits include Ava Duvernay’s Selma starring and ’s epic Noah, starring , , and . He also designed The Amazing Spiderman II for Sony which was to date the largest film ever shot in New York.

KASIA WALICKA MAIMONE (Costume Designer) received an Excellence in Period Film nomination from the Costume Designers Guild for her work on Bennett Miller’s acclaimed

30 Capote in 2006. In 2013, she was again nominated for her designs for Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom. Walicka Maimone reteamed with Miller on Foxcatcher, starring Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and , as well as on the award-winning Moneyball. Recent credits include Ready Player One by Steven Spielberg and The Quiet Place by John Krasinski. Her additional credits include Deepwater Horizon, Bridge of Spies, Black Mass, A Most Violent Year, directed by J.C. Chandor, and St. Vincent, directed by Theodore Melfi, Infinitely Polar Bear, The Adjustment Bureau; The Switch, with Jason Bateman and ; Little ; Jesus’ Son; The Opportunists; HBO’s “Hysterical Blindness” and “.” She also designed the costumes for Ang Lee’s BMW short, “Chosen;” Mira Nair’s segment from “September 11;” and “Amelia,” a look at the life of legendary American Amelia Earhart. Her opera projects include Philip Glass’ Les Enfants Terribles and The Sound of a Voice. Walicka Maimone has also participated in elaborate experimental theater pieces by Robert Woodruff (Oedipus Rex) and Richard Foreman (Maria del Bosco and King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe). She has also collaborated with choreographers Susan Marshall, Twyla Tharp, Donald Byrd and David Dorfman.

NAOMI GERAGHTY (Editor) has had a varied career in film and television. She is known for her work as an editor on Hotel Rwanda and In America. The Upside is her fourth film with Neil Burger, having cut The Illusionist, The Lucky Ones and Limitless. She has also been an editor on TV shows such as David Simon’s “Treme,” “Bloodline” for Netflix and Showtime’s “Billions” where she is about to make her debut as a director.

Since the early 2000s, ROB SIMONSEN (Music By) has worked on an expansive list of film soundtracks, among them Love, Simon (2018), Nerve (2016), Foxcatcher (2014), The Way, Way Back (2013), The Spectacular Now (2013) and Jason Reitman’s forthcoming The Front Runner (2018). There’ve been collaborations, too, notably with Mychael Danna – including 500 Days Of Summer (2009) and contributions to Life Of Pi (2012) and Moneyball (2011), as well as earlier outings under the name Frozen Light, encouraged by Keith Kenniff (Helios, Goldmund) on turn of the century website electronicscene.com. But Simonsen’s been biding his time since an

31 early age, quietly nursing the artistic flights of fancy in which he’d step out from behind the screen. When the stars finally aligned, he knew, these would seem rather less fanciful. In 2013, Simonsen founded The Echo Society, a Los Angeles-based non-profit artist collective, with a number of acquaintances and friends, including – in its early days – Ryan Lott (Son Lux). The collective seeks to create connections within the Los Angeles arts community, while bringing both orchestral and electronic music to new audiences. “It was born out of a desire to get together with like-minded people, to inspire each other and create something that excites us.” They began setting up an annual show, at first working separately on their compositions, and later collaborating, all the time encouraging one another artistically. Up next for Rob is his long-awaited solo debut with a record entitled Reveries, which is indicative of the record’s chimerical nature. The album is an elegant, affecting collection which puts the piano – though not just any piano – in the spotlight, furnishing it with blissful embellishments, both electronic and analogue. “It’s quite the return to my roots,” Simonsen says, “sitting and improvising, having it be emotive and cathartic. I didn’t sketch anything in advance, nor come at it from an intellectual perspective. It started by chasing a feeling while recording.” The album will be released by Sony Music Masterworks in early 2019.

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BASED ON A TRUE STORY

PHILIP AND DELL REMAIN FRIENDS TO THIS DAY

In Memory of Aretha Franklin

Directed by NEIL BURGER

Screenplay by JON HARTMERE

Based on the Motion Picture “INTOUCHABLES” by ÉRIC TOLEDANO AND OLIVIER NAKACHE

Produced by TODD BLACK, p.g.a. JASON BLUMENTHAL, p.g.a. STEVE TISCH, p.g.a.

Executive Producers ADAM FOGELSON

Executive Producers ANDY MITCHELL MILOS BRAJOVIC CHRIS PAPAVASILIOU

Executive Producers G. MAC BROWN DAVID BLOOMFIELD

Director of Photography STUART DRYBURGH, asc Production Designer MARK FRIEDBERG

Editor NAOMI GERAGHTY

Music by ROB SIMONSEN

33 Music Supervisor RANDALL POSTER

Costume Designer KASIA WALICKA MAIMONE

Casting by KERRY BARDEN and PAUL SCHNEE

KEVIN HART BRYAN CRANSTON

GOLSHIFTEH FARAHANI

AJA NAOMI KING

TATE DONOVAN

JAHI DI’ALLO WINSTON

GENEVIEVE ANGELSON

SUZANNE SAVOY

with JULIANNA MARGULIES

and NICOLE KIDMAN

A Film by NEIL BURGER

Unit Production Manager G. MAC BROWN

First Assistant Director TIMOTHY BIRD

Second Assistant Director BRAD ROBINSON

CAST

DELL SCOTT KEVIN HART PHILLIP LACASSE BRYAN CRANSTON YVONNE PENDLETON NICOLE KIDMAN LATRICE AJA NAOMI KING ANTHONY JAHI DI’ALLO WINSTON JENNY GENEVIEVE ANGELSON MAGGIE GOLSHIFTEH FARAHANI

34 CARTER TATE DONAVON LILY JULIANNA MARGULIES

(in order of appearance)

CHARLOTTE SUZANNE SAVOY JACK MICHAEL QUINLAN POLICE SERGEANT JAMES GEORGIADES POLICE OFFICER RACHEL CHRISTOPHER ARRESTING OFFICER DIEGO AGUIRRE ROOKIE MATTEO FERNANDO MATEO, JR. PAROLE OFFICER KIMBERLY FAIRBANKS FAST FOOD MANAGER TATIANA ST. PHARD DATEA PROCESSING SUPERVISOR RACHEL HANDLER DOORMAN RICKY GARCIA GUY IN ELEVATOR J.J. PHILLIPS YOUNG MAN ON COUCH ZACHARY JAMES CORRIGAN “THIS ABILITY” APPLICANT JAYSON WARD WILLIAMS PROFESSIONAL APPLICANT KITTSON O’NEILL NEW AGE APPLICANT BRIAN GALLAGHER APPLICANT WITH THE BOOK PHILLIP CHORBA APPLICANT #6 JULIE POTTER INTERRUPTED APPLICANT TOM SCHMITT SCHOOL GUARD TYRONE MITCHELL HENDERSON TEACHER CHRITINE CHANG EAMON JASON BOWEN ART DEALER PIA MECHLER GRAYS PAPAYA SERVER RIGOBERTO GARCIA ANGELA KOWALSKI KAREN CHRISTIE WARD THE BIRDMAN / PAPAGENO JOHN DAVID MILES QUEEN OF THE NIGHT INDRA THOMAS SCHOOL FRIEND MIKAI ANTHONY PARTY GUEST JANE MOORE CAREGIVER WITH LUNCH MADELEINE WOOLNER LYRIC SOPRANO AT PARTY AMBUR BRAID MEZZO SOPRANO AT PARTY ERICA BROOKHYSER BARITONE AT PARTY JOHN MOORE TENOR AT PARTY YI LI

Wheelchair Shop Worker MICHAEL KONDRYA

Paragliding Pilot for Phillip NICK GREECE

Paragliding Pilot for Dell ROB SPORRER

Choreographer KELLY DEVINE

Stunt Coordinator GEORGE AGUILAR

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Stunts BOBBY BECKLES SAMUEL JAYE PAUL MARK FICHERA JILL BROWN JEFF GIBSON BLAISE CORRIGAN

Production Supervisor LINDSAY FELDMAN Second Assistant Director MATT MASON Second Second Assistant Director BLAIR HOWLEY JOE LANDRY Assistant to Mr. Burger JAQUELYN REYES Production Coordinator Morgan Newell Assistant Production Coordinators LIBBY FELTCH TRISH McMINIMENT

A First Assistant Photographer STANLEY FERNANDEZ A Second Assistant Photographer CHRIS ENG B Camera / Steadicam Operator BEN SEMANOFF B First Assistant Photographer MICHAEL LEONARD B Second Assistant camera LEON SANGINITI, JR. Digital Imaging Technician CHANDLER TUCKER Digital Loader JIM McCANN Still Photographer DAVID LEE Camera PA SEAN GALCZYK

Video Assist CHRIS MURPHY Video Utility WILLIAM VARGO Script Supervisor DIANNE DREYER

Supervising Art Director KIM JENNINGS Art Directors TOM FROHLING RYAN HECK Assistant Art Directors TOBIN OST ERICA HOHF Set Decorator BETH RUBINO Assistant Set Decorator ALYSSA WINTER Set Designer JEFF McDONALD Storyboard Artist BRICK MASON Modeler ERIC BEAUZAY Concept Artist HUGH SICOTTE

Art Department Coordinator DAVE KELLOM Art Department Assistant KATRINA WHALEN Researcher SAM BADER Buyer ROBERT HOLTZMAN Lead Person SCOTT ROSENSTOCK

36 Foreperson DAN GALLAGHER Shop Person / Foreperson STEVE SYSKO On Set Dressers GRETA ALEXANDER MERDYCE MCCLARAN Set Dressers DAN GILROY DAMIEN HARRER SAMANTHA HIGGINS ERIKA KATZ DENNIS MADIGAN JANICE MANSER TOM WEST Set Decoration Coordinator MAGGIE ADAMS Assistant to Production Designer PAIGE PATERSON Art Department PA’s BILL WILLETS MATT HOWELL-CLARKE Set Decoration Intern JOHN D NATHANSON

Associate Costume Designer LEIGH BELL Wardrobe Supervisor KORTNEY LAWLOR SHURTE Background Costume Supervisor TONYA HUSKEY Costumer for Mr. Hart KASEY YOUNG Set Costumers KELLY BROWN FRANCISCO STOLL RITA SQUITIERE Seamstress KARA MORASCO Costume Coordinator TERESA BEACH Costume PA’s DAVID P. ANDERS SHANNON COLPITTS KELLY ROSE GAVENUS AJA GILLES ALEXA O’NEILL TIARRA UNAMBA

Sound Mixer DREW KUNIN Boom Operator MICHAEL PRIMMER Sound Utility MIKE FORD Protools Playback Mixer DAVID TIROLO

Make-up Department Heads BERNADETTE MAZUR DON KOZMA Key Make-up Artist DIANE HELLER Make-up Artist for Ms. Kidman TINA ROESLER KERWIN

Hair Department Head FRANK BARBOSA Key Hairstylist DIANE DIXON PATRICIA GRANDE Hairstylist for Mr. Hart JOHN CLAUSELL Hairstylist for Ms. Kidman FRANCIS MATHIAS

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Property Master DUKE SCOPPA Assistant Property Master SUSANNAH McCARTHY Assistant Props JESSIE PELLEGRINO Additional Assistant Props JIMMY KELLEHER Props PA KIRK FORCHETTI Picture Car Coordinator MIKE BAKER

Gaffer BILL ALMEIDA Best Boy Electric PETER RUSSELL Genny Operator BILL FIEDLER Lamp Operators STEPHANIE BELL PETER CALDWELL MOLLY CHESHIRE STEVE IMMENDORF ATHOS NASH MIKE PAPADOPOULOS CHRISTINA SEE MICHAEL SILVER Board/Basecamp Genny Operators ERIC KUTNER ROB MORGANSTEIN MARK VAN ROSSEN Rigging Gaffer - Locations CLAY LIVERSIDGE Rigging Gaffer - Stage JOHN BILLECI Best Boy Rigging Electric - Locations SAM FRIEDMAN TOM VON RAUSCHHAUPT Best Boy Rigging Electric - Stage RICH ASBURY Rigging Electrics PAUL DALEY CHUCK FLECKENSTEIN ERIC GLYNN TIM HEALY RICHARD JONES DAVE STEINBERG Rigging Electric - Stage MALACHI MITCHELL JENNIFER SCHOENEWALD JOHN TORTORICCI Key Grip GEORGE PATSOS Best Boy Shooting Grip ALEX CALIFANO “A” Dolly Grip LOUIS SABAT “B” Dolly Grip MARK CANTANIA Shooting Grips SHERIDAN BRAXTON KEVIN CARLISLE MARK GRASSO KENNETH MCCALLUM WILLIAM PATSOS

Key Rigging Grip - Locations MICHAEL YURICH Best Boy Rigging Grip - Stage GUS MAGALIOS

38 Best Boy Rigging Grip - Locations DAN REISER Rigging Grip - Stage RYAN CALLAHOUN FRANK GRASSO Rigging Grip - Locations MICHAEL WICHERT PAT WICHERT

Location Manager SAM HUTCHINS Additional Location Manager KRISTIN DOMBROSKI Assistant Location Managers BEN STERN CHRIS GORMLEY Location Scout KAREN SALVA Location Coordinator ALLEN SWIRZ Location Assistants JUSTIN CAMACHO KATARINA DEDICOVA JOHN GALLOWAY Unit PA’s PATRICK HELFRICH FRED CLIVER Parking Coordinator LEO DRIVER Assistant Parking Coordinator RICHARD ECCLESTON

Casting Associate (NY) JOEY MONTENARELLO Casting Associate (LA) ROYA SEMNANIAN Casting Assistant (NY) RACHEL GOLDMAN Casting Assistant (LA) CRISTINA BENAVENTE Casting - Philadelphia DIANE HEERY, CSA JASON LOFTUS, CSA Casting Associate (PHL) COLLEEN KAY New York Background Casting by HEERY LOFTUS CASTING, INC. Central Casting Manager BRAD KENNY Background Casting (NY) LINDSAY DRUCKER Background Casting Assistant (NY) BRANDON GONCALVES Philadelphia Background Casting by HEERY LOFTUS CASTING, INC.

Lead Set Production Assistant CAMERON BOONE Set Production Assistants LISA BURRASCANO SAM CLARK CHELSEA DOBRUCKI VU KONG LAUREN McGARRY ALISON PULLEY JACK VAUGHAN Office Production Assistants ARIELLE LEWEN RYAN MILLS ANNA PRUETT KURT REINMUND JACK VAUGHAN

Post Production Supervisor STUART MACPHEE

39 First Assistant Editor BETH MORAN Second Assistant Editor KATY MILLER Post Production Assistant/Album Art Graphics ALANNA MORTON Music Editors KATHERINE MILLER JOHN DAVIS Music Coordinator MEGHAN CURRIER

Production Accountant JOHN PARKER First Assistant Accountant JIM SCHIRO Payroll Accountants NICK BOMMER MATT SALAZAR Second Assistant Accountants CHRISTINE DYE JUDY STRAZZERA Second Second Assistant Accountant IAN GLATTS Accounting Clerk KEITH JACOBS Payroll Clerk JANELLE COLEMAN Travel Coordinator NATALIE DAMICO Production Secretaries DON STEWART SARAH NAUER

Post Production Accountants TREVANNA POST KELSEY SCHUYLER MEGAN CHEFALAS Unit Publicist AMY LEIGH JOHNSON Product Placement By STONE MANAGEMENT, INC. Production Placement Coordinators CAT STONE ADAM STONE MEGAN SOLIAH Local Assistant to Mr. Blumenthal RYAN UNGER Assistant to Mr. Black & Mr. Blumenthal NATE ATWOOD Assistant to Mr. Tisch LACY BOUGHN Assistants to Mr. Hart WAYNE BROWN HARRY RATCHFORD Assistants to Mr. Cranston ALI GILLIAM DIANE GALARDI Assistants to Ms. Kidman KRISTEN PLUMMER DAISY SEYMOUR ERIN O’GRADY Production Clearances DAWN CULLEN JONAS

Stunt Drivers ANN CARTON JOE COGHLAN BLAISE CORRIGAN PETER EPSTEIN BECCA GT JIM HAYES OWEN HOLLAND HANNAH KELLY

40 JOSH LAKATOS TRACEY RUGGIERO TOM SIERCHIO AARON VEXLER CAROLINE VEXLER LUKE VEXLER ADAM WOOD

Caterer GALA CATERING PA FRED GABRIELLI & DONNA CUSHING Head Chefs SETH ELLIS LUIS MONTENEGRO Catering Assistants TONY FALER RYAN LOWERY CHRISTINE MATTHEWS MARCELO MASSOUN GERALDO MONZON

Lead Craft Service JEANENE FIEDLER Craft Service Assistants CINDY KEEN CLAUDIA LITWACK NY Craft Service by THE MARSHARK CRAFT CO., INC. PETER MARSHARK DAVID PERRY Lead Craft Service MARTIN RAMIREZ Chef IGNACIO ROMERO Assistant JUAN MANON

Transportation Captain JIMMY WHALEN Transportation Co-Captain JOHN MORRONE Teamsters RICHARD BACHMAN BILL MCCLEERY ROBERT SMITH ANTONIO CAPETILLO MIKE MCNEIL TIM SOLTYS LUIS CINTRON MIKE MITCHELL TIMOTH STAAB JOHN DOOLEY TOM MOONEY MIKE SZARZYNKSKI GARY FABIANO JANEL MUHAMMAD EDDIE TAYLOR MIKE KELLY BOBBY RUCKER MIKE WILLIAMS CAROL KUHN TOM SCHWEIKER ED MALSEED MARK SIMMS RICH MARINO MIKE SIMMS

Special Effect Supervisor PATRICK WHITE Special Effects Coordinator KURT WUNDER Special Effects Foreperson JEFF TANNER Special Effects Technicians TIM LYNCH DUNCAN MACDONALD DANE WILSON KEVIN ZACK Charge Scenic NELL STIFEL

41 Scenic Foreperson KRZYSTOF BRATUN Camera Scenics RYAN NACE NANCY STROUD Lead Plasterer MIKE MCMAHON Scenics JENNIFER COLE MICHELLE CONNOLLY JONANNA DINELLA ANNIE DONOVAN CHRIS MILLER PETER TUPITZA Scenic Industrials WAYNE GALLAGHER JACOB YANOVIAK

Construction Coordinator PAUL MAIELLO Lead Carpenter DAVE MCMAHON Lead Construction Grip DUNCAN SPENCER House Electric TOM DEVINE Construction Buyer KELSEY HARRO Construction PA ZYAIRA AFRICA X Shop Craft Forepersons JASON BURNHAM MATT TURNER

Shop Craft STUART BARTLETT ROLAND REED GREGORY CHARNOCK MIGUEL SANTIAGO KEITH CLEARY CARMEN SANTORO ZACH EGGLESTON BENJAMIN SANTORO ANNE-MARIE GINCLEY MATTHEW SHILEY EDWARD JOHNSON WILLIAM THOMPSON ANDRE KERR CHRIS UNRATH PAUL LODES BRETT WILLIAMS JOHN MANHARDT DANE WILSON DERRICK MCNEW DAVE WING PETE MOHAN WILLIAM YOUNG

Construction Grips MARK GRASSO DAVE SILVESTRI MATT HANLON DEAN STANKIEWITZ DONALD KNIGHT JAY STUART BUDDY LAWN MIKE TARTAGLIO JACK MCMAHON BOB VAN HEEK PAUL MOBRAY

Construction / Set Medic KATHLEEN KELLY Set Medics MARYFRANCES BERKLEBACH DENISE DEPALMA

Paragliding Ariel Unit PRODUCED BY NICK GREECE

Aerial Stunt Coordinator / Pilot NICK GREECE

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Pilot ROB SPORRER

Aerial DP / A Camera Operator MICHAEL PAUL JONES

A Camera Pilot MITCH RILEY

First Assistant A Camera RYAN RAYNER

Second Assistant A Camera JEREMY CANNON

B Camera Pilot HONZA REJMANEK

Aerial B Camera Operator DAVE SEOANE

First Assistant B Camera SIMON ENGLAND

Loader DUSTIN VANCE

Key Grip DON REYNOLDS

Best Boy Grip JOHN REYNOLDS

Gaffer LEVI ANDERSON

Aerial Sound Effects FRED HELM

Wardrobe Supervisor JANNA NOTICK

Set Costumer CLAUDIA EVERETT

Make-Up Department Head DON KOZMA

Location Manager ANNE LUNDGREN

Location Assistant LUIS RODRIGUEZ

Location PA’s CARLOS CAMPUZANO

Paragliding Association Liaisons PAUL MURDOCH KEVIN LEE

Additional Pilots RICK RAY SAM CROCKER CHRISTIAN ROSSBERG

Drone Pilot/Production Assistant CODY TUTTLE

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Production Assistants JACK GIBSON TJ LEROY HAILEY MURDOCH SY MURDOCH SHAWN NORTHROP JAKOB SHOCKEY

Additional Production Assistants EZRA AYALA LYNN BRYSON CONNOR HANSON YUVAL ZONNENSCHEIN

Craft Service CATHERINE KELLY

Visual Effects by MR. X VFX Supervisor ERIC J. ROBERTSON VFX Executive Producer DANNI HENDERSON Compositing Supervisor ROBERT BRUCE CG Supervisor BRENDAN FITZGERALD VFX Production Manager SARA WOOMER Visual Effects Coordinator JUSTIN ROGERS-CDEBACA Operations Manager GUY BARRESI Compositing Sequence Lead CHRIS JACKSON Lighting Lead DA SUEL KIM Compositors JEFF BUTLER YUTING CHEN ALEX DREIBLATT BASAK GECKINLI JUNYOUNG HAN JIHYE KIM RANDY KRUEGER ALEX OK JOO LEE ALEX TOMASZEWSKI Digital Matte Painter JINA LEE CG Modeller RYAN CHONG Matchmove Supervisor BRYAN EVANS Layout RYAN CHONG

SCORE RECORDED AT ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS SCORE MIXED AT LES STUDIOS SAINT GERMAIN

Score Orchestrated and Conducted by MARK GRAHAM Music Preparation JOANN KANE MUSIC SERVICE Score Recorded and Mixed by STAN NEFF Digital Recordists PAUL PRITCHARD CONNOR HUGHES Orchestra Contractors ISOBEL GRIFFITHS

44 SUSIE GILLIS Additional Music DUNCAN BLICKENSTAFF Score Technical Assistant TAYLOR LIPARI-HASSETT Assistant to Composer FRANCESCO LE METRE Scoring Consultant ELESTE CHADA

Re-Recording Mixers MICHAEL BARRY PAUL URMSON Supervising Sound Editor PAUL URMSON Dialogue Editor JAC RUBENSTEIN ADR Editor LIDIA TAMPLENIZZA Sound Effects Editors WYATT SPRAGUE LARRY ZIPF Foley Editor DAVE FLYNCH First Assistant Sound Editor RICK CHEFALAS Stage Recordist LEE SALEVAN Foley Artist JAY PECK Foley Mixer MATTHEW HAASCH

ADR Recorded at HARBOR SOUND ADR Recordist BOBBY JOHANSON ADR Engineer MIKE RIVERA

ADR Casting FABIANA ARRASTIA SUSAN BOYAJIAN

Loop Group RAIJA BAROUDI DENNIS CARNEGIE ELIJAH COOK TONY DANIELS JULIAN DEAN PHYLLIS JOHNSON ROYCE JOHNSON SEAN KENIN APRIL MATTHIS CHRISTIE MOREAU CHRYSTEE PHARRIS JASSE VILINSKY

Main/End Titles by JEFF KRIVICKY

Digital Intermediate and Dailies by Harbor Picture Company

Senior Colorist JOE GAWLER DI Producer MELISSA KELLY Conform Artists CHRISTIAN FARFÁN CHAD SCHERMERHORN Supervising DI Producer KEVIN VALE

45 DI Assistants FREDERICK AGYEMANG ANDREW MINOGUE Dailies Colorist ERIK CHOQUETTE Dailies Producer MATT HAWKINS Support Engineers COREY STEWART GAUTAM SINHA JEROME RAIM ALEX PATTISON Account Executive MOLLE DEBARTOLO

Script Clearance Research CASSANDRA BARBOUR

Legal Services WENDY HELLER STEPHEN MONAS

Insurance DEWITT STERN Payroll Service ENTERTAINMENT PARTNERS

Production Financing Provided by FIRST REPUBLIC BANK

Opera Sequence Created by CONTRACTUALLY Performance Screens Content Designer DREW FINDLEY Performance Screens Animator MAT HALE Performance Screens Content Supervisor STEVE LEONHARDT

For Lantern Entertainment

Executive in Charge of Physical Production RON LYNCH

Executive in Charge of Post Production SHEA SINCLAIR

Executive in Charge of Business and Legal Affairs VIRGINIA LONGMUIR

For STXfilms

Executive in charge of Production SAMUEL J. BROWN

President of Physical Production ROSS FANGER

Executive in Charge of Post Production TIM WEYERS

Head of Business and Legal Affairs PHILIP GOORE

“Don Giovanni, K. 527: Scena Ultima: “Qual strepito e questor…” (Langerna, Maturina, Donna Elvira, Donna Ximena, Duca Ottavio, Pasquariello)” Written by Giuseppe Gazzaniga Performed by Tafelmusik; Bruno Weil, conductor Courtesy of Sony Classical

46 By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

“Casta Diva” Written by Vincenzo Bellini Performed by Renée Fleming, London Voices, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras Courtesy of Decca Music Group Ltd. Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

“Puccini: Nessun dorma! (Turandot /Act 3)” Written by Giacomo Puccini, Guiseppe Adami, Renato Simoni Performed by Luciano Pavarotti, Orchestra del Teatro Arena di Verona, Armando Gatto Published by Universal Music – MGB SONGS on behalf of Casa Ricordi S.R.L. / Universal Music – Careers Courtesy of Decca Music Group Ltd. Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

“Nessun Dorma” Written by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni Performed by Mantovani Published by Universal Music – MGB Songs on behalf of Casa Ricordi S.R.L. / Universal Music – Careers Courtesy of Cleopatra Records By arrangement with The Orchard

“Mass in B Minor, BWV 232: Domine Deus (Soprano I, Tenor)” Written by Johan Sebastian Bach Markus Brutscher, Veronika Winter, Stephan Schreckenberger, Kai Wessel, Hans-Georg Wimmer, Rheinische Kantorei, Das Kleine Konzert, Herman Max & Johanna Koslowsky Courtesy of Naxos in America, Inc.

“Doxy” Written by Sonny Rollins Performed by Miles Davis Published by Prestige Music Courtesy of Concord Music Group, Inc.

“Rigoletto – ‘La Donna é Mobile” Written by Giuseppe Verdi Performed by Alexander Rahbari, Yordy Ramiro & Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Courtesy of Naxos

“The Barber of Seville: Act 1 – Cavatina: Largo al factotum della cittá (Figaro)” Written by Gioachino Rossin Performed by Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Roberto Servile & Will Humbug Courtesy of Naxos in America, Inc.

“Tightrope” Written by Nathaniel Irvin III, Charles Joseph II, Janelle Monáe Robinson, Antwan Patton Performed by Janelle Monáe

47 Published by Tang Nivri Publishing, Ink Is An Instrument Publishing, Jane IIe Publishing, BMG Gllue on behalf of itself and Polar Bear Toenails Music, Inc. By arrangement with BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

“Think” Written by Ted White, Aretha Franklin Performed by Kevin Hart Published by Fourteenth Hour Music Inc.

“The Sermon” Written by Hampton Hawes Performed by Hampton Hawes Published by Contemporary Music Courtesy of Concord Music Group, Inc.

“Stand Tall” Written by Michael R. Theodore Performed by Mike Theodore Orchestra Published by Michael Theodore Music Courtesy of Light in the Attic Records & Distribution, LLC

“So Hard to Find (Kenny Dope Remix)” Written by Tony Castellanos Performed by Pazazz Published by Afrika Kuruvilla Kurian Courtesy of Now-Again Records

“Habanera (From Carmen)” Written by George Bizet Performed by 101 Strings Orchestra Courtesy of Countdown Media

“Carmen, Act 1: “L’Amour Est Un Oiseau Rebelle” (Carmen, Chorus) (Habanera)” Written by George Bizet Performed by Maria Callas Courtesy of Warner Classics Ltd By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

“Papageno” Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performed by George Tichy, Budapest Failoni Orchestra, Michael Halasz Courtesy of Naxos in America, Inc.

“Die Zauberflöte, K. 620, Act 2: “Der Hölle Rache” (Königin Der Nacht)” Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performed by Jérémie Rhorer, Diana Damrau, Le Cercle De L’Harmonie

48 Courtesy of Warner Classics UK ltd By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

“Rock Steady (Alternate Mix – Young, Gifted and Black Outtake)” Written by Aretha Franklin Performed by Aretha Franklin Published by Springtime Music Inc Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

“Border Song (Holy )” Written by Elton John, Bernie Taupin Performed by Aretha Franklin Published by Universal-Songs of Polygram International, Inc. on behalf of Universal/ Music ltd Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

“Sempre Libera (La Traviata)” Written by Giuseppe Verdi Performed by Cast

“Violin Concerto No. 2 in e Major, Bach BWV 1042: 1. Allegro” Written by Johann Sebastian Bach Performed by Onix Chamber Orchestra & Attila Falvay Courtesy of Naxos in America, Inc.

“Piano Quartet Op. 25 Rondo Alta Zingarese: Presto” Written by Johannes Brahms Performed by Anton Barakhovsky, Alexander Zemstov, Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt & Eldar Nebolsin Courtesy of Naxos in America, Inc.

“Lively Up Yourself” Written by Bob Marley Performed by Bob Marley & The Wailers Published by Blue Mountain Music Ltd. Administered by Kobalt Songs Music Publishing Courtesy of Island Records Ltd. Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

“Der Holle Rache” Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Performed by the Cast

“Lrago al Factotum Della Citta (Figaro)” Written by Gioachino Rossini Performed by the Cast

“Perm”

49 Written by Bruno Mars, Homer Steinweiss, James Fauntleroy, Chris Brown, Philip Lawrence, Trevor Lawrence Jr. Performed by Bruno Mars Published by EMI Blackwood Music Inc. on behalf of itself and Songs of So Fab Music, Universal Music Works on behalf of ZZR Music LLC / Almo Music Corp. on behalf of itself, Fauntleroy Music, and Underdog West Songs, Warner Geo met Ric Music / Westside Independent Music on behalf of itself and Late 80’s Music and Thou Art the Hunger, BMG Onyx Songs on behalf of itself and Mars Force Music; BMG Platinum Songs on behalf of itself and Music of Big Deal and Extraordinaire Music By arrangement with BMG Rights Management (US) LLC Courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corp. By arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing

“Nocturnes, Opus 9, No. 1” Written by Frédéric Chopin Performed by Vladimir Feltsman Courtesy of Naxos in America, Inc.

“Rigoletto – La Donna é Mobile” Written by Giuseppe Verdi Performed by John M. Davis Courtesy of John M. Davis

“L’Origine Nascosta” Written by Ludovico Einaudi Performed by Ludovico Einaudi Published by Chester Music Courtesy of Ponderosa Music Records

“Nessun Dorma” Written by Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Adami, Renato Simoni Performed by Aretha Franklin Published by Universal Music – MGB SONGS on behalf of Casa Ricordi S.R.L. / Universal Music – Careers Courtesy of RCA Records By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

“Penthouse Serenade (When We’re Alone)” Written by Val Burton, Will Jason Performed by Nat King Cole Published by Range Road Music, Inc. on behalf of itself, Jerry Leiber Music and Silver Seahorse Music LLC and Bienstock Publishing Company on behalf of Redwood Music Ltd., Sony/ATV Harmony Courtesy of Capitol Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises

ART CREDITS

UNTITLED BY PAUL BONET

50 PAUL BONET  2017 ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK / ADAGP, PARIS

HIGHWAY #1 BY EDWARD BURTYNSKY HIGHWAY #1  EDWARD BURTYNSKY

BUCK BY RICK BARTOW BUCK COURTESY OF THE ESTATE OF RICK BARTOW AND FROELICK GALLERY

SPRING BREAK BY HELEN FRANKENTHALER SPRING BREAK  2017 HELEN FRANKENTHALER FOUNDATION, INC. / ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK

WHITE IMPATIENS BY ALEX KATZ WHITE IMPATIENS BY ALEX KATZ  ALEX KATZ/LICENSED BY VAGA, NEW YORK, NY

FOR GOTHIC LANDSCAPE BY LEE KRASNER GOTHIC LANDSCAPE  2017 THE POLLOCK-KRASNER FOUNDATION / ARTISTS RIGHTS SOCIETY (ARS), NEW YORK

TAXI BY SAUL LEITER TAXI 1957  SAUL LEITER FOUNDATION

WALL PAINTING WITH STRIPES BY ROBERT MOTHERWELL WALL PAINTING WITH STRIPES BY ROBERT MOTHERWELL  DEDALUS FOUNDATION, INC./LICENSED BY VAGA, NEW YORK, NY

REPLICA STANDARD STATION, AMARILLO, TEXAS BY ED RUSCHA REPLICA STANDARD STATION, AMARILLO, TEXAS, 163  ED RUSCHA

COME AWAY FROM HER BY KIKI SMITH COME AWAY FROM HER  2016 KIKI SMITH/UNIVERSAL LIMITED ART EDITIONS AND PACE GALLERY

FERRAGOSTO IV BY CY TWOMBLY FERRAGOSTO IV (1961) COURTESY OF THE CY TWOMBLY FOUNDATION,  CY TWOMBLY FOUNDATION

ANENOME BY ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE ANENOME, 1989  ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE FOUNDATION, COURTESY ART + COMMERCE

NEW YORK CITY, 1975 BY JOEL MEYEROWITZ NEW YORK CITY, 1975  JOEL MEYEROWITZ PHOTOGRAPHY

IN-N-OUT BY MARILYN MINTER IN-N-OUT, 2014  MARILYN MINTER

BEDROOM MOBILE BY MARCO MAHLER

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THANKS TO

RICHARD ANTHONY LARRY GIPE JAMES BEARDEN KEN GRIMES THE ESTAE OF STEVEN PISCUSKAS JILL BELL ARTURO HO HANNAH PRICE THE ESTATE OF FRANK TOM JAMUSCH EDWIN SALMON CARMELITANO MARC CONNOR STEVE KARR BASTIENNE SCHMIDT MARIO DAL FABBRO CHRISTOPHER & SARAH GERARLD SLOTA KNOWLES STEVEN DAILEY THE ESTAE OF HUGO KOCKE THE ESTATE OF ALFRED STIEGLITZ JERRY DELI JOSHUA KOFFMAN BILL STROBEL JEFF DENTZ BASMAT LEVIN WILLIAM TARR WILLIAM DOEBELE CYNTHIA MARSH LORRAINE THOMPSON MORGAN DUMMIT JOSEPHINE & SAM MESSER BILL TRAYLOR WHARTON ESHERIC LINDA ZELENKO

SPECIAL THANKS TO

DIANA KELLOGG GAIL SOLOMON ERIC LEGRAND MAGGIE McNIECE BEN AUGER LUREN SNOWDON ZACK WEINSTEIN MARCOS BONTEMPO & RICCO MARESCA GALLERY KESSLER INSTITUTE UNTITLED  ENRIQUE CASTRO-CID FOUNDATION FILMED AT KIMMEL CENTER FOR THE MICHAEL EASTMAN & MOORE COLLEGE OF ART PERFORMING ARTS & DESIGN NEW YORK CITY MAYOR’S OFFICE OF FILM, PEDRO FRIEDEBURG & PEGASO GALLERY DESIGN THEATRE & BROADCASTING CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HOWARD HUMBERT & KARLIE CORPORATION CITY OF PHILADELPHIA POLICE DEPARTMENT NADINE KARNOW & MODERNE GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA THE ESTATE OF JEAN DOWNY & VIVIAN THE KING CLUB  BIRNEY IMES ROSE GALLERY KIMMELMAN – BERKSHIRE ANTIQUES CSC SCOTT KIP & SNYDERMAN GALLERY CINELEASE THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART GREATER PHILADELPHIA FILM OFFICE – SHARON UNTITLED (BLUE, YELLO, BLACK “WALL”) 2014  PINKERSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DAN MILLER & CREATIVE GROWTH ART CENTER HADDADS RED PETALS  TAL SHPANTZER PHOTOGRAPHY HARBOR PICTURE COMPANY MUTUAL HARDWARE WAKE TURBULANCE  MIKE KELLEY PRG WHITE FOREST  MIL LUBROTH ESTATE

52 RESIDENCE INN CENTER CITY DOUBLE FAN CONSTRUCTION, 1968  THE ESTAGE OF PATRICIA MEYEROWITZ THE ABRAMSON CENTER ROOST APARTMENTS SNYDERMAN GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA STAYBRIDGE SUITE BRANDYWINE JEAN THOR  BRIDGETTE MAYER GALLERY, PHILADELPHIA, PA SUN CENTER STUDIOS UNTITLED  ESTATE OF ANNIE TRUXELL VER FROELICK GALLERY RICCO/MARESCA GALLERY

The use of Ferrari marks and cars is authorized by Ferrari S.P.A.

American Humane monitored the animal action. No animals were harmed. (AHD 07185)

This production participated in the New York State Governor’s Office of Motion Picture & Television Development’s Post Production Credit Program.

THIS PROJECT WAS MADE POSSIBLE WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF .

MPAA #51337

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THE CHARACTERS, ENTITIES AND INCIDENTS PORTRAYED HEREIN AND THE NAMES USED HEREIN ARE FICTITIOUS AND ANY SIMILARITY TO THE NAME, CHARACTER OR HISTORY OF ANY PERSON OR ENTITY IS ENTIRELY COINCIDENTAL AND UNINTENTIONAL

Ownership of this motion picture is protected by the copyright and other applicable laws of the and other countries. Any unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition of this motion picture could result in criminal prosecution as well as civil liability.

 2018 LE Upside SPV LLC

STXfilms and LANTERN ENTERTAINMENT Present An ESCAPE ARTISTS Production A Film by NEIL BURGER “THE UPSIDE” KEVIN HART BRYAN CRANSTON GOLSHIFTEH FARAHANI AJA NAOMI KING and NICOLE KIDMAN Casting by KERRY BARDEN and PAUL SCHNEE Music Supervisor RANDALL POSTER Music by ROB SIMONSEN Costume Designer KASIA WALICKA MAIMONE Editor NAOMI GERAGHTY Production Designer MARK FRIEDBERG Director of Photography STUART DRYBURGH, asc Executive Producers G. MAC BROWN\ DAVID BLOOMFIELD ANDY MITCHELL MILOS BRAJOVIC CHRIS PAPAVASILIOU ROBERT SIMONDS ADAM FOGELSON Produced by TODD BLACK, p.g.a JASON BLUMENTHAL, p.g.a. STEVE TISCH, p.g.a. Based on the Motion Picture “INTOUCHABLES” by ÉRIC TOLEDANO AND OLIVIER NAKACHE Screenplay by JON HARTMERE Directed by NEIL BURGER

MOTION PICTURE ARTWORK © 2018 STX FINANCING, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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