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Jodie Foster Sterling K. Brown also starring with and Written and Directed by Drew Pearce Produced by Adam Siegel, Marc Platt, Stephen Cornwell, Simon Cornwell Executive Produced by Jeffrey Stott, Drew Pearce, Joe Tsai, Arthur Wang Co-Executive Produced by Yogita Puri, Ian Spence

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“Getting out’s always tougher than getting in.”

It’s a Wednesday night in the year 2028, and the streets of downtown Los

Angeles are impassable.

With the most violent riot in L.A. history in its third night, the city’s privatized police force is pummeling blue war-painted protestors whose only demand is clean water. Amidst this chaos, four men clad in skull masks find themselves in the middle of a failed bank heist. After turning the situation around, Sherman Atkins (STERLING K. BROWN, “”) leads his brother Lev Atkins (BRIAN TYREE HENRY, “Atlanta”) and their two cohorts out of the bank – right into a fire fight with the cops. Injured and seeing no other option, Sherman leads them to their only hope for survival… .

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The Hotel Artemis

The 13-story art deco structure its cachet with the traveling public long ago, but thanks to funding from Malibu mobster The Wolfking (JEFF GOLDBLUM, Thor: Ragnarok), the hotel’s worn exterior cloaks a state-of-the-art hospital on the penthouse level. This is a members-only E.R. exclusive to one group – criminals. Dues are paid in advance and all house rules must be followed. A no-nonsense woman everyone calls The Nurse (Academy Award® winner ) has run the place for 22 years. Assisted by her loyal orderly Everest (DAVE BAUTISTA, Guardians of the Galaxy), The Nurse is a high-tech healer who can handle almost anything – except the outside world. But she has an ever-present distraction… the Artemis. And tonight’s especially busy. By the time Sherman and Lev arrive, The Nurse has already checked in a sultry French assassin (SOFIA BOUTELLA, ) and a narcissistic arms dealer (CHARLIE DAY, It’s Always Sunny in ). She hears that the owner, The Wolfking himself (GOLDBLUM), and his volatile son Crosby (ZACHARY QUINTO, ) are on their way to the hospital. Plus, there’s an injured cop, Morgan Daniels (JENNY SLATE, ), out back begging for the Nurse to take her in. But Morgan’s arrival not only forces The Nurse to break her own rules… she must confront everything she’s worked so hard to avoid for 22 years. All while, in her words, “the night goes to hell in a handcart full of blood and sh*t”. Writer-director DREW PEARCE, until now best-known for his work as a screenwriter (), makes his feature film directorial debut with HOTEL ARTEMIS. Supporting his vision is a group of distinguished veteran producers: MARC PLATT (), STEPHEN CORNWELL (“The Night Manager”), ADAM SIEGEL (Drive) and SIMON CORNWELL (“The Night Manager”). JEFFREY STOTT (Shot Caller) is executive producer alongside Pearce. Pearce’s behind-the-scenes team includes Director of Photography CHUNG- HOON CHUNG (The Handmaiden), Production Designer RAMSEY AVERY (10 Cloverfield Lane), Costume Designer LISA LOVAAS (Transformers: The Last Knight) and editors GARDNER GOULD (Don’t Breathe) and PAUL ZUCKER (Trainwreck).

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L.A. mystique ….

Back in the 1920’s, penthouse suites at the fictitious Hotel Artemis were named after popular vacation spots. A century later, all guests are codenamed using the names of those suites, reflecting the Artemis’s commitment to anonymity, along with its state- of-the-art emergency care. So Sherman becomes “Waikiki” when he checks in, while his brother Lev is dubbed “Honolulu”. The French femme fatale is called “Nice”, the arms dealer is “Acapulco”, and The Wolfking, who’s true name is Orian Franklin, is “Niagara”. To enter, members must identify themselves with a chip implanted in their wrists. No exceptions are granted, as the bleeding bank robber Buke () learns to his dismay. Writer-director Drew Pearce imagined the specifics of this near-future world in great detail, and its roots lie in his fascination with the city of . “'m originally from Scotland, and lived in most of my life,” said Pearce. “After our first extended stay in L. A. (on Iron Man 3), my wife and I knew we wanted to move here permanently. We took the leap, packed everything we had in a container, and got on a plane. We've been here close to seven years and have never looked back.” Coming of age in an old European city influenced Pearce’s experience of L.A. “I love that the short history of the city, compared to ’s, makes its history more accessible. In the Artemis, you can see a hundred years of life in one building, and the layering of that history is physically visible all at once – just like the city itself.” “Los Angeles has a distinct personality,” he continued. “Someone once called it a city of doorways, because unlike the East Coast or Europe, you have no idea what the inside of a place will be, based on its exterior aesthetic. The fanciest restaurant might sit behind a door in a rundown strip mall, and there’s something exciting about that to me. It’s reflected in the Artemis, which is definitely a movie of doors.” Or as producer Adam Siegel described it, “a world we look at through a keyhole.” Jodie Foster liked the feeling Pearce evokes. “I grew up here,” noted the Academy Award®-winning actress, who began her career at the age of three. “There’s a nostalgia about Los Angeles in Hotel Artemis that I share with Drew. The film has an

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emotional love for the city – as a land of opportunity, lawlessness and rich cinema history. Drew has created something so original, so disarmingly visual that you see Los Angeles with an entirely new lens. The film definitely has a aspect,” she suggests, “but it inhabits its own world. It’s genre-bending.”

Sterling K. Brown, who plays Waikiki, agrees. “It’s simultaneously noir and futuristic; funny, but with pathos. We’re in an interesting environment that reveals not all criminals are created equal.” Many agendas are in play at the Hotel Artemis, and some overlap. “The stories thread together, and also tangle,” said producer Simon Cornwell. ““Secrets are revealed and scores are settled,” added his brother and fellow producer, Stephen Cornwell. “Not everyone can get what they want.” Whatever the details of their situations, the film’s criminals have one thing in common. Says Brown: “We gotta get in, get off the grid, get away from law enforcement, and then get out.” The tightly paced story unfolds in one out-of-control night, but Pearce took his time crafting the tale. Actively seeking to direct his own work, he carefully weighed which of his ideas would be to make that happen. “This idea refused to leave me, and hit all my sweet spots,” he now reflects. “There’s crime, there’s sci-fi, and there’s the chance to do something visually stunning baked into the DNA of it. Plus, there’s the simple hope to make a movie that does justice to the city I now live in – Los Angeles.

“At the time I committed to it, I promised myself I’d write the purest version of the idea, which meant it would be an indie, rather than a studio film,” he revealed. “There’s not a day that I regretted that decision. I’m proud of the process and the people who have jumped on board with the same attitude. “I wanted it to be a melting pot of ideas and themes – always laser-focused, but with as much depth as possible, like the best crime and near-future sci-fi I grew up with.”

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The Future Is Here ….

Pearce and the producers all agreed that Hotel Artemis could only be filmed in Los Angeles. “Nothing else looks like L.A.,” said producer Marc Platt, whose work as a producer of La La Land helped create another iconic but very different portrait of the city. “Los Angeles is very much a character in this story and we want the audience to feel that in the most organic way possible.” Principal photography for Hotel Artemis began June 1, 2017 at a bank vault on South Spring Street. Aside from one day on the Universal backlot and another at the Santa Monica Pier, the entire film was shot downtown. Locations ranged from the rooftop of the historic Rosslyn Hotel on West Fifth Street, to a notorious block behind South Hill Street known informally as “Rat Alley.” Key riot scenes were shot over several summer nights on South Main Street. Interior sets, including hotel suites, hallways, elevators, the bar, game room and foyer were constructed onstage at L.A. Center Studios. Production designer Ramsey Avery cited the city’s Hotel Alexandria as an inspiration for his designs. “It was the fanciest hotel in Los Angeles when it opened in 1906,” he said. “Downtown was the place to be back then.”

But the real-life Alexandria declined more than the fictional Artemis ever did. “Our hotel was never a flophouse,” Avery explains. “Many of its beautiful details, such as murals and lighting fixtures, remain intact.” There are also some extremely modern updates – from body scanners, an elaborate security gate and an alternate roof-top power source, to 3-D printers that can replicate human organs as well as firearms, and the robotics The Nurse uses to repair her patients. “The Wolf King would have procured these things for The Nurse on the black market,” said Avery. “He can always get his hands on the best through the world- wide mafia.”

The film’s blend of old and new extends to the characters’ clothing, with a Seventies feeling infusing many of designer Lisa Lovaas’s costumes. Waikiki’s three- piece, plaid suit, for example, has a cool-as-a-cucumber Seventies vibe, a la Steve McQueen. But his vests are bulletproof – without being cumbersome. “Drew and I

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agreed that the future of ballistic undergarments would be thin layers that absorb bullets,” said Lovaas. “Our bulletproof vests are t-shirt weight.”

Pearce worked with a futurist to shape the outlines of his fictional 2028.

“Our futurist was Thomas Wagner, who is a senior figure in NASA,” said Pearce. “He and I discussed all the possible tech we could use in this film. To that end, every piece of tech in the movie, from the microwave scalpel to the polyp spray, either already exists (even if we don’t know about it) or will definitely happen in the next five years. “I think it’s true that speculative fiction is never about the future – it’s always about the time it’s written in,” Pearce observed. “That being said, we strove to find a balance. This story is ten years in the future, so a lot can change in that time, but I wanted everything to feel real, and buried deep into the life of these characters.” This philosophy also guided Pearce’s depiction of social conditions and human behavior. “Natural disaster and police brutality are problems the world and Americans specifically are forced to deal with on an increasingly regular basis,” he said. “The problems and consequences depicted in Hotel Artemis are within the realm of the possible, and that adds to the tension and reality of the drama, however heightened.”

Credible medical technique was a consideration, too. Medical advisor Britt Sanborn, a nurse for the past 10 years, had previously trained as an actress and was sensitive to the needs of both worlds. She was on set for all medical scenes and also advised in pre-production as the film’s medical hardware was produced and/or procured. “With the help of futuristic robots, The Nurse performs surgeries that would normally require a team,” said Sanborn. “I had a lot of conversations with Drew about things like wounds that look serious but would not kill, or whether or not a person could speak during surgery, and how various organs and wounds would bleed. We’re trying to keep it as realistic as possible, but can take some liberties with a story set in 2028. “Jodie Foster asked really specific questions about the pathophysicality of these injuries,” Sanborn noted. “She wanted to know what she was doing and why.” To portray The Nurse’s trusted lieutenant Everest, Dave Bautista also had to

6 7 display confidence in the surgical suite. “Dave was just as interested as Jodie in understanding what he was doing, and totally nailed it,” said Sanborn. “In one 60- second sequence, he puts an oxygen mask on a patient, starts an IV, applies a tourniquet, inserts a fake needle, tapes it down, hands Jodie the scalpel – ‘butt down’ – and suctions an open wound. All while delivering his lines. I was impressed.”

The choice of Chung-Hoon Chung as cinematographer ensured that clinical considerations would never result in sterility. “I initially envisioned a stark environment for the surgical suite,” said production designer Avery, “but Chung-Hoon’s use of color added an emotional aspect to every set. He has a very rich eye.” That rich eye extended to costumes. The deep red, crepe-back satin halter gown that Lisa Lovaas designed for Sofia Boutella’s character was obviously seductive, as well as functional in that it never hampered Boutella’s movements in her daredevil fight scenes. It also passed muster with Chung-Hoon. “We had to go with something that would catch light in the hallways, and camera- tested the fabric to get just the right color,” said Lovaas. The collaboration was exciting for Pearce. “Chung-hoon Chung is an actual genius,” said the director. “I hope I get to work with him forever.” Jeff Goldblum was also a fan. “His presence and technique were exuberant,” said the veteran actor. “He was fun to be around. I think we’re in for something good- looking!”

Back to the future…

The inspiration for the Hotel Artemis came from the past in the shape of obscure singer-songwriter Elyse Weinberg and this late sixties sound ripples through the story and the soundtrack. “The Nurse is a Laurel Canyon lady at ,” said Pearce “and that's important to the movie, because it's music from a much happier time in her life. It's a safe place for her - like the Artemis itself. So, it was important to surround her with her own music - from her trusty turntable that spins the Mamas and Papas each morning to the portable ‘tape’ deck slung around her neck that soothes her with Buffy Sainte-Marie’s ‘Helpless’, it’s her

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To shape the wider sound of Hotel Artemis, Pearce went straight to the top, commissioning acclaimed composer to create the score. Producers Marc Platt and Adam Siegel had collaborated with Martinez on the energetic, and now iconic, score for ’s LA-set Drive in 2011, so Pearce knew that the composer could deliver momentum and modernism – a dynamic foil to the lush nostalgia of the Nurse’s playlist. “I needed the score for Artemis to be both tense and emotional - hard enough to denote the future but romantic enough to invoke the past of the hotel itself” said Pearce, “Cliff was my first choice because his work manages to combine modernity with real heart. He's a maestro in his field, and the music he made for the movie was the final, beautiful piece of the puzzle.”

To close out the film, Pearce turned to close friend and collaborator Father John

Misty a.k.a. Josh Tillman who also has a cameo in the film as bank robber, P22, alongside Buke (Kenneth Choi). In 2015, Pearce directed the music video for 's “The Night Josh Tillman Came to our Apartment” a sardonic look at a night of debauchery in LA, and knew that the singer-songwriter’s uniquely wry yet lyrical sensibility would be the perfect blend of old and sharply contemporary needed to play the film out, “Josh and I talked for a long time about what the song could be – how it spoke to the ideas in the movie, how it would be unique to us. One of the themes shared by all of our characters they're all trapped, both literally and figuratively... hence the idea, and title, of the song we wound up finding.”. The resulting ‘Gilded Cage’ penned especially for the film is a knowing ballad to the city of Los Angeles, one that acknowledges its glitter as much as its grit.

Hello, how can I help?

The Nurse is a character with compelling contradictions. Strong but fearful, she heals others while self-medicating in unhealthy ways. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, she gives everything to her job.

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“She is compassionate, but no-nonsense, the best kind of nurse,” said medical advisor Sanborn. The Nurse can face anything, except the pain of her own past. As the boss of the Hotel Artemis, she lives in the Los Angeles Suite. Her given name is Jean Thomas but it’s been many years since anyone called her that. Foster enjoyed taking on the role of an older character. “It’s fun to feel free enough to play a little, gray-haired lady, feisty and kind of Barbara Stanwyck-y,” she said. “She has rules and enforces them, but she also has panic attacks and hasn’t been outside in years. She’s a prisoner of her own grief.” If she’s a prisoner, at least she has the companionship of gentle giant Everest. “I kind of feel our relationship is the love story of the movie,” Foster mused. “The Nurse took him in when he was a young gang member who got shot up. He’ll do anything for her.”

Dave Bautista, who plays Everest, has a huge following from his days as a professional wrestler and his performances in the Guardians of the Galaxy films. But he was eager to take on a dramatic role. “He’s a super-soulful guy,” said Pearce, “and brought real heart to the movie.” Pearce assembled a powerhouse cast for his debut as a feature film director and was thrilled with the impact these artists delivered as an ensemble. “Every actor added something special and amazing to the movie,” he said. He’s still amazed that Foster even entered his hotel in the first place. “The casting of Jodie Foster was incredible, as she actually discovered the script on her own and reached out to us about the role,” he said. “Don’t ask me how she got it – officially it hadn’t even left the office. Which is very in-keeping with the Artemis, to be fair.” However it came about, Foster’s participation affected everyone, actors and crew alike. “Her honesty and credibility kept everybody on their toes,” said producer Siegel. Costume designer Lovaas, whose mother was a psychiatric nurse and later a clinical psychologist at L.A.’s Men’s Central Jail, had strong feelings about the character, and the actress.

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“Simple as it was, The Nurse’s costume was my favorite in the show,” said Lovaas. “It had to be smartly practical, with pockets and functionality, because that’s how she lived. Jodie knew what The Nurse needed. She knew what felt right. “The Nurse gives everyone a fair shake, just like my mom did,” Lovaas continued. “My mom was always moving, walking from cell to cell. Like The Nurse moving from crisis to crisis at the Artemis in her basic Adidas sneakers. She covers a lot of ground, always moving, always ready to help.” But just like the other characters at the Hotel Artemis, The Nurse must ultimately help herself. As Pearce notes, “The rioting outside has our guests pinned down and running out of options, but the REAL problem is on the inside. The Nurse is trapped in her grief. Waikiki is trapped in a destructive relationship with his brother, whose own trap is addiction. Nice is trapped in an increasingly-sadistic job she hates and Acapulco is trapped in his own insecurities. And that’s a tradition of Los Angeles fiction – from Chandler and Didion, through Sunset Boulevard and The Graduate, to “Hotel California” by The Eagles. It’s a city that’s always been a gilded cage.”

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About the Cast …

JODIE FOSTER’s (The Nurse) stunning performances as a rape survivor in The Accused and as Special Agent Clarice Starling in the hit thriller The Silence of the Lambs earned her two ® for Best Actress and a reputation as one of the most critically acclaimed actresses of her generation. Foster began her career at age three, appearing as “The Coppertone Girl” in the television commercial. She then went on to become a regular on a number of television series, including “Mayberry RFD,” “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father,” “My Three Sons” and “Paper Moon.” She made her feature debut in Napoleon and Samantha when she was eight years old. But it was her role in Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1975), which brought her to the audience’s attention, and her powerful portrayal of a streetwise teenager in Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976) that won her widespread critical praise and international attention. Foster appeared in a total of four films in 1976, Bugsy Malone, Echoes of Summer, Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane and Taxi Driver, which were all presented at the Cannes Film Festival. Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone, earned her an Italian Comedy Award. In total, Foster has appeared in more than 40 films, including recent films Elysium opposite Matt Damon for director Neil Blomkamp; Carnage for which she received a Golden Globe® Award nomination; Nim’s Island with Gerard Butler; The Brave One for director Neil Jordan for which she received a Golden Globe® Award nomination; Inside

Man with and Clive Owen; the box-office hit Flightplan; Jean Pierre Jeunet’s French language film, A Very Long Engagement; David Fincher’s box-office success, Panic Room; Anna and the King for director Andy Tenant, Contact for director Robert Zemeckis; Nell opposite ; the comedy Maverick opposite Mel Gibson and and the romantic drama Sommersby opposite Richard Gere.

Other select motion picture credits include Woody Allen’s stylized black and white comedy Shadows and Fog; Siesta; Stealing Home; Five Corners; as well as earlier films Tom Sawyer; Freaky Friday; Adrian Lyne’s Foxes; Tony Richardson’s The Hotel New

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Hampshire and Claude Chabrol’s The Blood of Others, for which the multi-lingual Foster looped all of her own dialogue in French. ® For her role in The Silence of the Lambs, Foster was also awarded a Golden Globe

Award, a British Academy Award, a New York Film Critics Award and a Film Critics Award. Foster received her first Oscar® nomination and awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Los Angeles Film Critics for her role in Taxi Driver. She also became the only American actress to win two separate awards in the same year from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts – Best Supporting Actress and Best Newcomer honoring her performances in both Taxi Driver and Bugsy Malone. In 2013 she was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for Lifetime Achievement. Additionally, in 2016 she was awarded with the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film from BAFTA Los Angeles. In addition to her acting, Foster has always had a keen interest in the art of filmmaking. Foster made her motion picture directorial debut in 1991 with the highly acclaimed Little Man Tate, in which she also starred. In 1995, Foster directed her second film, Home for the Holidays, which she also produced. The film starred Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft and Robert Downey Jr. In 2011 she directed The Beaver, which starred Mel Gibson, Jennifer Lawrence and Anton Yelchin and Foster. In 2015 Foster directed the thriller Money Monster which stars , Julia Roberts and Jack O’Connell. The film was released by Tristar in May 2016. More recently, Foster made her television directorial debut. She directed episodes of three highly acclaimed series – “Orange is the New Black” and “House of Cards,” as well as an episode of “”, which aired late 2017. Foster received an Emmy® Award Nomination and a Director’s Guild Award Nomination for “Best Directing in a Comedy Series” for “Orange is the New Black” and a Director’s Guild

Award Nomination for “Best Directing in a Drama Series” for “House of Cards”.

Foster founded Egg Pictures in 1992 and the produced Nell (1994), for which Foster earned an Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress; Home for the Holidays (1995); the Showtime telefilm The Baby (1998) which received a

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Peabody Award, four Emmy® Award nominations and three Golden Globe® Award nominations; as well as USA Films’ Waking the Dead, directed by Keith Gordon starring and Jennifer Connelly. In 1996, Egg presented the award-winning French film Hate (L’Haine) in the United States. Foster and Egg Pictures also produced The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2001). Foster graduated with honors from Yale University in 1985, earning a B.A. in literature.

STERLING K. BROWN (Waikiki), is an Emmy® Award winning actor and currently stars in NBC’s Emmy® and Golden Globe® nominated drama series “This Is Us”. For his role as Randall Pearson, Brown won an Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series”, as well as a Golden Globe®, becoming the first African American actor to win his category in the award show’s 75-year history. Additionally, Brown made history by becoming the first African American actor to receive the SAG Award for “Outstanding Male Actor in a Drama”, and also received a SAG award alongside his cast for “Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series”. He has also won an NAACP Image Award and Critics Choice Award, and has been nominated for a TCA Award and a Teen Choice Award. In 2016, Brown portrayed prosecutor Christopher Darden in FX’s highly-rated award-winning television event series “The People V. O.J. Simpson: ”. He won an Emmy® Award and Critics Choice Award for the role and was nominated for a Golden Globe®, SAG Award and NAACP Image Award. Brown currently can be seen in Marvel’s record breaking film Black Panther. Later in the year, he will co-star in Fox’s The Predator (September). In 2017, Brown co- starred in Open Road’s Marshall, for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination for his role. In 2016, Brown co-starred with in Paramount’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. A lover of theater, Brown has performed in a variety of staged shows, including NY and LA productions of Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), for which he won an NAACP Theatre Award and was nominated for an Ovation Award. His

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additional stage credits include Macbeth, The Brother/Sister Plays and The Resistable

Rise Of Arturo Ui opposite Al Pacino.

For seven years, Brown portrayed Dr. Roland Burton in the critically acclaimed Lifetime series “Army Wives”. Additional television credits include “Supernatural”, “Person Of Interest,” “Masters Of Sex,” “The Mentalist,” “Castle” and “Criminal Minds.” His film credits include Our Idiot Brother, The Suspect, Righteous Kill, Trust The Man and Spaceman. Brown graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama from Stanford University, before receiving his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

DAVE BAUTISTA (Everest) starred as ‘Drax the Destroyer’ in the Marvel feature Guardians of the Galaxy appearing opposite , , Bradly Cooper and . The film follows an unlikely cast of characters including an American and a group of futuristic ex-cons going on the run with a highly coveted object and must join forces to defeat a cosmic force of epic proportions. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 premiered in May 2017 adding Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone to the cast and recently crossed 863 million dollars at the box office. The Guardians have joined the cast of the Avengers, just wrapping Marvel’s Avengers; Infinity War which opens this year and the fourth installment of the Avengers franchise which will premiere in 2019. He is currently in pre-production on the Fox action/comedy Stuber starring opposite Kumail Nanjiani. Dowse will direct the film about and unsuspecting Uber driver named Stu who gets into a harrowing night of mayhem. Principal photography starts in May in Atlanta. He is also in developing an action/comedy with STX that he will produce and star in. He recently wrapped three independent films; Final Score shot in London starring opposite Piece Bronson. The film follows about an ex-soldier who must use his military skills to save the 35,000 capacity crowd at a major sporting event which has been

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seized by a group of heavily armed criminals demanding ransom. He is also wrapped the the action film Escape Plan 2 with Sly Stallone. In 2015, Bautista was seen in the Sony feature Spectre the 24th installment of the James Bond series. Starring opposite Daniel Craig, and Lea Seydoux, Bautista played ‘Hinx’, a fast-driving, battle-hardened hit-man for the secretive terrorist cartel Spectre. He was also seen in action film Heist starring opposite Robert DeNiro and Jeffery Dean Morgan. A former professional wrestler and mixed martial artist Bautista is best known for his time in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he was a six-time world champion and an international spokesman for the organization. Bautista retired from the WWE to focus on his acting career in mid-2010. Past film credits include Blade Runner 2049, Bushwick, Luc Besson’s Warrior Gate, Universal’s Riddick and The Man with the Iron Fists. Past TV credits include “Chuck,” “Headcase,” and “Smallville.”

SOFIA BOUTELLA (Nice) is a multifaceted talent whose career exemplifies her artistic versatility as well as magnetic strength and charisma. Earlier this year, she was seen in Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy, an all-new cinematic version of the legend that has fascinated cultures around the world for centuries. Starring opposite and , she portrays Princess Ahmanent. A fearless warrior and heir to her father’s throne, Ahmanet was destined to be the first female pharaoh. Also in 2017, Boutella starred opposite and James McAvoy in ’s from Focus Features. The breakneck action-thriller follows MI6’s most lethal assassin (Theron) through a ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double-crossing hives of traitors. Boutella portrays Delphine Lasalle, a young French spy who seeks refuge in the destabilized city. Boutella was recently seen in Justin Lin’s , the third installment of Paramount’s blockbuster Star Trek franchise, co-starring opposite Zoe Saldana, , Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg and . Prior to that, she had appeared in Matthew Vaughn’s spy film, Kingsman: The Secret Service, based on Mark Millar’s

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acclaimed comic book, which follows a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius. She portrayed the villain ‘Gazelle,” opposite , Samuel L. Jackson and Michael Caine.

An internationally acclaimed dancer, Boutella starred in a series of iconic Nike ads choreographed by renowned creative director , which showcased her street dancing skills. In 2006, she went on to win the World Champion HipHop Battle with her group, The Vagabond Crew. From there, she became a breakout star in the dance world and was invited to dance on tour with . She was also cast as the main character in the video of ’s “Hollywood Tonight.” Born in and raised primarily in France, Boutella currently resides in Los

Angeles.

BRIAN TYREE HENRY (Honolulu), Emmy and Tony nominee, is a versatile actor whose career spans film, television and theater. Henry originated the role of “The General” in the critically acclaimed Broadway musical The Book of Mormon, for which he received rave reviews. He currently stars alongside Donald Glover in the Golden Globe and Peabody Award winning and Emmy nominated FX series Atlanta, now airing its second season. Henry portrays Alfred Miles, Atlanta’s hot of the moment rapper who is forced to navigate fame while remaining loyal to family, and himself. He received an MTV Movie & TV Award nomination for the role. In 2017, he guest-starred as “Ricky” on NBC’s Golden Globe and Emmy nominated drama This Is Us, for which he earned an Emmy nomination. He can currently be seen on Broadway in ’s Tony nominated play . For his role, he has received a Tony, Drama Desk and nomination. In June, Henry co-stars with Jodie Foster and Sterling K. Brown in the feature film Hotel Artemis. Henry has completed production on a diverse number of films, all of which are slated to release this fall. They include Steve McQueen’s Widows opposite Viola Davis, the indie comedy Fam-i-ly alongside Taylor Schilling and Kate McKinnon, White Boy Rick co-starring Matthew McConaughey, the Blumhouse thriller Only You with , the animated film “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” and ’ If 16 17 Beale Street Could Talk.

Henry’s additional film credits include the indie films Irreplaceable You, Puerto Ricans in Paris and Crown Heights. On television, he has appeared in numerous shows, including Drunk History, How To Get Away With Murder, , , The Knick, The Good Wife” and Law & Order. Henry’s wide-range of theater credits include The Fortress of Solitude and The Brother/Sister Plays/The Brothers Size (Helen Hayes Best Actor Nomination) at The Public Theatre, as well as Romeo and Juliet and Talk About Race at New York Stage and Film and The Public. A graduate of Atlanta’s Morehouse College, Henry received his MFA from Yale’s

School of Drama. He currently resides in New York.

CHARLIE DAY’s (Acapulco) comedic talent in both film and television has garnered him a loyal following among critics and fans all over the world. Day currently stars as the hapless Charlie Kelly on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” for which he also writes and executive produces. He created the show in collaboration with friends and co-producers Rob McElhenney and . The series was renewed for seasons 13 and 14, tying “The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet” as the longest-running live-action comedy series. Before “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”, Day had a recurring role on NBC’s “Third Watch” and also appeared on the Fox comedy “Luis.” Other television credits include “Drunk History,” “Law & Order SVU,” “American Dad,” “Reno 911,” “Mary and Rhoda,” “Madigan Men,” “Campfire Stories,” and “.” In film, Day is best known for his roles in and starring opposite and , Going The Distance with and , , Pacific Rim, The Lego Movie, Vacation

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and The Hollars and Fist Fight starring opposite . In 2018, Charlie can be seen in Pacific Rim: Uprising reprising his role of Dr. Newton Geiszler. Day began his acting career onstage and participated in the Williamstown Theater Festival for four years. He went on to play the lead role in Dead End at the Huntington Theater in Boston. Charlie was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up in Rhode Island. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Mary Elizabeth, and their son.

JENNY SLATE (Morgan) made her feature film debut in Gillian Robespierre’s critically acclaimed Obvious Child. Slate starred as ‘Donna,’ a twenty-something comedienne whose unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront the realities of independent womanhood for the first time. The film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Films. For her breakout performance in Obvious Child, Slate won a Critics’ Choice Award for “Best Actress in a Comedy” and was honored with a 2015 Virtuoso Award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. She was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for “Best Female Lead Actor” and a Gotham Award for “Breakthrough Actor.” Additionally, “ Magazine,” “Time,” “Variety,” and “W MAGAZINE” acknowledged Slate’s performance as one of the year’s best. Slate and Obvious Child were recognized by the National Board of Review and various critics’ societies and film festivals including: Chicago Film Critics Association, St. Louis Film Critics Association, Phoenix Film Critics Society, Film Critics Association, Kansas City Film Critics Circle, Women Film Critics Circle, Sundance Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival and Newport Beach Film Festival. Slate reteamed with the filmmakers behind Obvious Child, Gillian Robespierre and Elisabeth Holm, for Landline. The film premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and is an honest comedy about what happens when sisters become friends and parents become humans. released Landline on July 21. Upcoming films include Aardvark opposite and Zachary Quinto; The Polka King opposite Jack Black; and Brain on Fire opposite Chloe Grace Moretz. Slate recently starred in ’s Gifted opposite Chris Evans and Octavia Spencer, Jeff Baena’s Joshy opposite Thomas

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Middleditch, and Sophie Goodhart’s My Blind Brother opposite and Nick

Kroll.

Slate voiced the character of ‘Bellwether’ in Disney’s Academy Award®-winning film Zootopia, which has made over $1 billion worldwide. In addition, Zootopia was named the #4 biggest animated film, named one of AFI’s Top 10 Films of 2016, was nominated for a BAFTA Award, won six Annie Awards, and also won the Critics’ Choice Award and Golden Globe Award for “Best Animated Feature.” She also lent her voice to The Secret Life of Pets as ‘Gidget which has made over $875 million worldwide. She currently voices ‘Harley Quinn’ in Lego Batman with Will Arnett. On television, Slate has appeared in Showtime’s “House of Lies” opposite , ’s “Kroll Show” opposite Nick Kroll, and NBC’s “” opposite Amy Poehler. She also lends her voice to FOX’s “Bob’s Burgers” as the voice of ‘Tammy.’ Her other television credits include: “Girls,” “Married,” “ Nine-Nine,” “Bored to Death,” “,” and “Hello Ladies.” Along with Dean Fleischer-Camp, Slate is the co-creator of the internet sensation Marcel the Shell short films, which Slate also voices. The first video, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, has over 24 million views on YouTube and has been turned into a “New York Times” best-selling book, also written by Slate and Fleischer-Camp. They also wrote a second book titled Marcel the Shell: The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Been.

ZACHARY QUINTO (Crosby) was born and raised in where he began performing as a teenager. He attended Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama and received a BFA in Acting. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and began to build a career in television with guest starring roles on numerous series, including “CSI” and “Six Feet Under”. He appeared as Adam Kaufman on the third season of “24”, and in the only season of the critically acclaimed series “So NoTORIous.” In 2007 he was cast as the psychopathic super-powered serial killer on the hit NBC series “;” and in the same year was cast as in the JJ Abrams directed reboot of the Star Trek franchise. Subsequently he has reprised his role of Spock in both sequels to that film: 2013’s and 2016’s Star Trek

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Beyond. He played Chad Warwick on the first season of “” and won a Critic’s Choice Award and Emmy® Award nomination for his portrayal of Dr. Oliver Thredson on “American Horror Story: Asylum.” In 2008, Quinto began his production company and produced and starred in alongside and . His company has gone on to produce such films as , Banshee Chapter, Breakup At a Wedding, A Most Violent Year, and the upcoming film Aardvark in which Quinto also stars alongside Jenny Slate and Jon Hamm. That film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and will release in theaters in April this year. Currently, Quinto is filming the unscripted series, “In Search Of,” which will premiere this summer on the History channel. He will host and executive produce the show which, inspired by the iconic 1970s series of the same name, will examine unexplained phenomena from all over the world.

In theater, Quinto appeared as Louis Ironson in the 2010 Signature revival of ’s , for which he won a Theater World Award and a nomination. He made his Broadway debut to universal praise in the 2013 Tony Award winning production of ; and was most recently seen on stage in last year's MCC production of Noah Haidle's Smokefall. This spring, he will star in the directed revival of The Boys in the Band, alongside Jim Parsons, and Andrew Rannells. Previews will begin on April 30th at The Booth Theater. On screen, Quinto starred opposite in I Am Michael in 2015, and as journalist in Oliver Stone’s film Snowden in 2016. Most recently he can be seen opposite Julianne Nicholson and Emma Roberts in Who We Are Now, which premiered at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.

JEFF GOLDBLUM (Niagara) is a stage, film and television actor. His film credits include: Isle of Dogs, Thor: Ragnarok, Independence Day: Resurgence, , Le Week-End, Adam Resurrected, The Life Aquatic, Igby Goes Down, , Independence Day, Nashville, The Tall Guy, , The Big Chill and .

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On television, his credits include “Will & Grace” and “Portlandia.”

Goldblum appeared in the Theatre’s production of Domesticated; , on Broadway; the West End’s The Prisoner of Second Avenue; and Speed the Plow, at the Old Vic Theatre.

KENNETH CHOI (Buke) grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, dreaming of becoming an actor. Against his family's wishes, he left college to pursue that dream. He literally ran away from home, cutting all ties with his family for five years to train and study before moving to Los Angeles. Choi has worked with acclaimed writer/director David Ayer in Street Kings, Harsh Times, Suicide Squad and Bright, opposite . He joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his supporting lead role in the Marvel blockbuster : The First Avenger, playing ‘Howling Commando Jim Morita.’ He was also cast in Marvel’s Spiderman: , which was released this summer. Choi gained 25 pounds to play the tough but hilarious ‘Chester Ming’ alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill in Martin Scorsese's Academy Award®- nominated The Wolf of Wall Street. Along with his many film achievements, Choi has starred in several television shows including “Ironside” and “Allegiance,” both for NBC Universal. Most notably, Choi inhabited the role of Judge Lance Ito for FX's highly acclaimed Emmy® and Golden Globe®-winning “American Crime Story: The People v. OJ Simpson” for . In addition to Marvel’s Spiderman: Homecoming and Netflix’s Bright, Choi’s latest feature film credits inclue Office Uprising with Brenton Thwaites, Blumhouse’s Stephanie with Frank Grillo, and Gringo with and Charlize Theron. Also in 2017, he recurs on the television shows “The Last Man on Earth” for Fox and “Counterpart” for . Choi can currently be seen as a regular on the new Fox/Ryan Murphy hit series “9-1-1” with Connie Britton, Angela Bassett and .

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Behind the Scenes …

DREW PEARCE (Writer-Director), a British-born writer-director-producer, is best known for co-writing Iron Man Three for , and for his work on movies such as Pacific Rim, Godzilla and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation. Pearce also wrote and directed the celebrated Marvel One-Shot: All Hail the King, starring . To date, the movies that Pearce has contributed to as a screenwriter have grossed more than two billion dollars in worldwide box office. Before moving to Los Angeles, Pearce created the award-winning U.K. series

“No Heroics,” a sitcom about unsuccessful British superheroes and their R-rated, off-duty exploits in The Fortress, a heroes-only pub. The show was nominated for a British Comedy Award, which led Pearce to shoot a U.S. pilot in the spring of 2009 for the ABC Network. Pearce’s break into movies came in 2010 when Marvel hired him to adapt . The following year, Marvel announced that Pearce would co-write Iron Man Three with director . In addition to his later work on Pacific Rim, Godzilla and Sherlock Holmes 3, Pearce also created The Billion Brick Race: A Lego Movie for Warner Brothers, on which he partnered with . In his spare time, Pearce directs music videos for rock artists such as Father John

Misty, , and The Last Shadow Puppets.

MARC PLATT (Producer) stands among the few producers who have successfully bridged the worlds of theater, film and television, drawing dozens of Oscar®, Emmy®, Golden Globe® and Tony® Award nominations along the way. In 2017, his singularly romantic Hollywood musical, La La Land, starring and Emma Stone, and directed by Damien Chazelle, received 14 Academy Award® nominations and took home six Oscars®, in addition to seven Golden Globes® and five BAFTAs. Platt’s films also include this year’s Christmas release ; The Girl on the Train, starring Emily Blunt and based on the best-selling novel; the

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international hit musical Into the Woods, starring and Johnny Depp, and directed by ; Drive, starring Ryan Gosling, which was awarded the Best Director prize at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival; Ricki and the Flash, starring Meryl Streep and helmed by Oscar®-winning director Jonathan Demme; the smash hits and its sequel, starring Reese Witherspoon; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by ; the critically-acclaimed Rachel Getting Married directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Anne Hathaway; the 2008 summer hit Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, and ; Ryan Gosling’s writing/directing debut, Lost River, starring ; the musical Nine, directed by Rob Marshall and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, , Nicole Kidman, , Penélope Cruz, Sophia Loren, and Fergie; 2 Guns, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg; Cop Out, starring and Tracy Morgan; Winter’s Tale, starring and Russell Crowe; Charlie St. , starring ; Song One, starring Anne Hathaway; Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk directed by two-time Oscar® winner ; The Other Woman, starring Natalie Portman; Honey; Josie and the Pussycats; The Seeker; and The Perfect Man.

In theater, Platt is the producer of Broadway’s blockbuster “,” which “The

New York Times” called “the defining musical of the decade.” “Wicked” is approaching its

15th anniversary on Broadway and four companies are now playing worldwide, including Broadway, London, a North American tour and an international tour. In recent years “Wicked” has also had productions in Korea, Japan, Germany, Holland, Australia and Mexico City. Platt’s theater productions also include this season’s acclaimed “The Band’s Visit”; “War Paint” starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole; “Oh, Hello On Broadway” starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney; “If/Then” starring Idina Menzel; “Three Days of Rain,” starring Julia Roberts, and Bradley Cooper; Matthew Bourne’s ballet “Edward Scissorhands,” for which Mr. Platt won his second Drama Desk Award; and “Pal Joey,” starring Stockard Channing. In television, Mr. Platt executive produced the hit “Grease Live!” which earned

10 Emmy Award nominations and five including Outstanding Special

Class Program. Most recently he executive produced this year’s Easter Sunday event,

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“Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert” starring John Legend, Alice Cooper and Sara Bareilles (NBC), and last year’s holiday musical special, “A Christmas Story Live!” (FOX). He also won the Golden Globe® Award for Best Miniseries for “Empire Falls” (HBO) starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, , Helen Hunt and . In addition, Platt executive produced “Once Upon a Mattress,” starring and Tracey Ullman (ABC); the Emmy® Award-winning miniseries “The Path to 9/11” (ABC); and the MTV hit series “Taking the Stage.” Prior to establishing his production company, Platt served as president of production for three movie studios (Orion, TriStar and Universal). Platt is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and The

Broadway League.

STEPHEN CORNWELL (Producer) co-founded The Ink Factory with his brother Simon. With The Ink Factory, Cornwell executive produced 2016’s award-winning mini- series “The Night Manager,” based on John le Carré’s best-selling novel. In 2016, he also produced the film Our Kind of Traitor, directed by Susanna White and starring Ewan McGregor, , Stellan Skarsgård and Naomie Harris; he co-wrote and produced Netflix Original Message from the King, directed by Fabrice du Welz and starring , Luke Evans, Teresa Palmer and ; and he produced Ang Lee’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, based on the novel by Ben Fountain and starring , Steve Martin, Kristen Stewart, Garret Hedlund, Chris Tucker and Vin Diesel. Cornwell also produced Anton Corbijn’s 2014 feature film adaptation of A Most Wanted Man, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman. Cornwell is currently executive producing The Ink Factory's forthcoming production of “The Little Drummer Girl”, directed by Park Chan-wook and starring , Alexander Skarsgård, and . With The Ink Factory’s sister company, Giant Squid, Cornwell produced Abzû, the twice BAFTA® nominated narrative interactive video game from multi-award- winning creator Matt Nava.

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After working as an award-winning photojournalist, Cornwell moved to California in the late 1980’s to join the MA program at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema. His graduate film led him to direct two independent feature films and a TV movie for Showtime before he focused on his work as a screenwriter. In the following 15 years, Cornwell wrote for most of the major Hollywood studios, working with directors and producers including Ridley Scott, Guy Ritchie, Kathleen Kennedy, Joel Silver, Doug Liman, Frank Marshall, Thomas Tull and Lorenzo diBonaventura. With his writing partner Oliver Butcher, Cornwell co-wrote 2011’s Unknown, starring Liam Neeson.

ADAM SIEGEL (Producer) currently serves as President of Marc Platt Productions in Los Angeles. He most recently produced and won an Emmy® Award for “Grease Live!” The 2016 live television event of the beloved musical, directed by “’s” Tommy Kail and Alex Rudzinski, starred Aaron Tveit, Julianne Hough and Vanessa Hudgens. Siegel previously produced the 2015 feature film Lost River, Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, starring Christina Hendricks, and Matt Smith; 2 Guns, the 2013 action comedy directed by Baltasar Kormakur, starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg; and Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Gosling, , , and Christina Hendricks. Drive earned Best Film nominations at the 2012 BAFTA awards and the 2012 Independent Spirit Awards, in addition to the Best Director prize at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival. Prior to Drive, Siegel executive produced films including Wanted, directed by Timur Bekmambetov and starring Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, directed by Edgar Wright.

SIMON CORNWELL (Producer) co-founded The Ink Factory with his brother

Stephen.

At The Ink Factory, he was executive producer of the award-winning mini-series “The Night Manager” in 2016. He produced Anton Corbijn’s 2014 adaption of A Most Wanted Man, as well as Our Kind of Traitor, directed by Susanna White and starring

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Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis, Stellan Skarsgård and Naomie Harris; and Netflix Original Message from the King, directed by Fabrice du Welz and starring Chadwick Boseman, Luke Evans, Teresa Palmer and Alfred Molina. Cornwell is currently executive producing The Ink Factory's forthcoming production of “The Little Drummer Girl”, directed by Park Chan-wook and starring Florence Pugh, Alexander Skarsgård, and Michael Shannon. Cornwell came to The Ink Factory from top European venture capital firm Amadeus Capital Partners, where he was a senior partner. Prior to that he was founder and CEO of a pioneering company in the field of interactive television. His early career included stints at Granada in the U.K., at the Boston Consulting Group in the U.S., and running refugee relief programs for the United Nations in Thailand.

JEFFREY STOTT (Executive Producer) began his career on Rob Reiner’s mock- rockumentary, This Is Spinal Tap, and went on to collaborate as a producer for Reiner on his iconic films Stand by Me, The Princess Bride, Misery, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men and The American President. His long association with Reiner continued through the formation of Reiner’s company, Castle Rock Entertainment. During his stay there as Executive Vice President of Production Management, Stott oversaw production of more than 80 films including Academy Award® winners The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, and working around the globe in Asia and Europe with Academy Award®-winning and nominated directors including Taylor Hackford, Peter Yates, , and Wolfgang Peterson. In addition to producing films, Stott produced 180 episodes of Castle Rock’s iconic hit TV series “.”

Following his tenure at Castle Rock, Stott returned to independent producing where he teamed with producer John Davis on the feature-length comedies Fat Albert and Marmaduke. Other independent credits include the 20th Century Fox remake of The Omen, directed by John Moore. Producing and consulting on the acclaimed HBO mini-series “John

Adams,” Stott returned to television before pairing once again with Reiner on the movie and box office smash The Bucket List, starring and Morgan Freeman.

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Stott continues to work independently and has collaborated with Marc Platt and Adam Seigel on the enormously successful Ryan Gosling and Nicolas Wending Refn movie Drive, followed by the Denzel Washington and Mark Walberg action comedy 2 Guns for . He completed the circle with Gosling by producing his directorial debut, Lost River, at Warner Brothers. Most recently, Stott teamed again with Nicolas Refn on his 2016 Cannes selection , produced the prison thriller Shot Caller, and executive produced Stronger starring . Stott holds an M.A. in history from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

CHUNG-HOON CHUNG (Director of Photography) is a Korean cinematographer who broke out in the Asian film industry with his collaboration on director Park Chan- wook’s highly stylized Oldboy in 2003. Oldboy won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the festival’s Palme d’Or. Chung-hoon subsequently received acclaim for his work on such films as Lady

Vengeance, I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK and Thirst.

Chung-hoon made his American debut in 2013 with Stoker, also directed by Park, and last year reunited with Park for the BAFTA®-winning The Handmaiden. In 2015, Chung-hoon lensed the teenage drama Me and Earl and the Dying Girl for director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, with whom he re-teamed with on the upcoming . He also served as the cinematographer on the box-office sensation It, based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King and directed by Andres Muschietti.

RAMSEY AVERY (Production Designer) has worked in various aspects of filmed, live and themed entertainment for the past 29 years. His most recent work as a feature film production designer is 10 Cloverfield Lane for Paramount and . Two others, Waitress and Right at Your Door, were Sundance Film Festival selections. Avery was the supervising art director on Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Star Trek Into Darkness, Tomorrowland and Team America, among other major films. He has designed several attractions for Disney theme parks, including the Animation Pavilion at Disney’s California Adventure, which won a THEA Award (the themed entertainment

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equivalent of an Oscar®). Other projects include the concept design for a Marvel theme park in Dubai and the holiday decorations for downtown Santa Monica’s original Winterlit. In addition, he has designed national commercials for clients such as Capri Sun, Budweiser, Microsoft and Skittles, plus a Superbowl spot for Dodge. Theater projects include many award-winning regional theater projects from California to New York and a tour for Martina McBride.

LISA LOVAAS (Costume Designer) has designed costumes for feature films including Tom Cruise’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot with Tina Fey, this year’s Transformers: The Last Knight, and others. With a long history in the motion picture industry, Lovaas has worked in the costume department on films as varied as Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes, Oliver Stone’s JFK, the iconic L.A. Confidential, and three previous Transformers films. A lifelong resident of Malibu, California, Lovaas studied abroad at the University of in and graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles. In addition to her film work, she has worked on numerous commercial and television projects, and began her career in local Los Angeles theater.

PAUL ZUCKER, A.C.E. (Editor) has worked with some of today’s most innovative filmmakers, from (Mister Lonely) and Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, BAFTA® winner for best editing), to Gus Van Sant (Gerry). He has edited two films for Judd Apatow (This Is 40 and Trainwreck, for which he received an A.C.E. award nomination). He edited the first three seasons of the hit HBO series “Girls” for , as well as the pilot episode of “Silicon Valley” for Mike Judge. Selected other credits include Twelve for director Joel Schumacher, Delirious for Tom DiCillo, and Wilson for Craig Johnson. Zucker is also an accomplished commercial editor, and a member of the American Cinema Editors.

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GARDNER GOULD, (Editor) came up in NY and LA cutting rooms under editors Tim Squyres (Life Of Pi), and Michael Berenbaum (Before Night Falls). Gould earned his first feature editing credit on Don’t Breathe directed by Fede Alvarez and produced by Sam Raimi in 2016, grossing over $157M worldwide. He followed this taut editorial debut with the lush and exploratory Perfect directed by Eddie Alvarez and executive produced by , which premiered at SXSW 2018. It was HOTEL ARTEMIS that allowed Gould to play with a delicate myriad of dramas, interleaving them to a chest-sweating boil. Also, he enjoys a creative partnership with Tiffanie Hsu editing both Wonderland in 2017, Sutures in 2014, and her upcoming feature. He is repped by Allison Irvin at WME.

CLIFF MARTINEZ, (Composer) who was born in the Bronx but raised in Ohio, moved to California in 1976 landing in the middle of the punk movement. After stints as the drummer for the Weirdos, Lydia Lunch and Foetus frontman Jim Thirlwell, and the final incarnation of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Martinez joined the Red Hot Chili Peppers (playing on the band’s first two ) and later the Dickies. It was during his tenure with the Chili Peppers that Cliff began exploring the new technologies of that era, which would eventually guide him towards the film music world.

A tape Martinez had put together using these new technologies made its rounds, leading him to score an episode of Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. The same recording also ended up in Steven Soderbergh’s hands and Martinez was hired to score the famed director’s first theatrical release 1989’s sex, lies, and videotape. Martinez’s longstanding relationship with Soderbergh has continued through the years and they have worked together on ten theatrical releases including Kafka, The Limey, Traffic, Solaris, Contagion and the critically acclaimed TV series The Knick. Perhaps it is because of his time in the punk scene that Martinez’s approach to scoring is nontraditional. His scores tend towards being stark and sparse, utilizing a modern tonal palette to paint the backdrop for films that are often dark, psychological stories like Pump Up the Volume (1990), The Limey (2009) Wonderland (2003), Wicker Park (2004), and Drive (2011). Martinez has been nominated for a Grammy Award

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(Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic), a Cesar Award (Xavier Giannoli’s A L’origine), and a Broadcast Film Critics Award (Drive). His second film with Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn, Only God Forgives, earned Martinez a 2014 Robert Award (Danish Academy Award). His score for Refn’s The Neon Demon was awarded Best Soundtrack at the 2016 Cannes International Film Festival. Still the drummer at heart, Martinez’s use of audio manipulations, particularly for percussive sounds, has been evolving through the years and is evident by the hammered dulcimer of Kafka (1991), the gray-areas between sound design and score for Traffic (2000), the steel drums and textures of Solaris (2002), what Martinez called ‘rhythmi- tizing pitched, ambient textures’ of Narc (2002), and ‘using percussion performances to trigger and shape the rhythmic and tonal characteristics of those ambient textures,’ as he described his score for 2011’s The Lincoln Lawyer. Martinez’s recent films include Martin Campbell’s The Foreigner, Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon, ’s The Company You Keep, Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage, Harmony Korine’s (co-composed with Skrillex) and the Warner Bros. thriller/comedy Game Night. Next up is Refn’s new Amazon series Too Old To Die Young. Cliff Martinez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April 2012 with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He earned the prestigious Richard Kirk Lifetime Achievement award from BMI in 2013. Martinez served as a juror for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and served on the International Feature nominating committee for 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards.

FATHER JOHN MISTY, (P-22 and Songwriter) is the brainchild of singer- songwriter Josh Tillman. Tillman has released three widely acclaimed albums – (2012), I Love You, Honeybear (2015) and Pure Comedy, his Grammy-nominated (2017). Father John Misty has also recently contributed to songs by Beyoncé and Lady Gaga. As for his most recent album, Pure Comedy it is a complex, often-sardonic, and, equally often, touching meditation on the confounding folly of modern humanity. The album has earned Father John Misty placement on over "50 Best of 2017" lists from , , The Sunday Times, , ,

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Pitchfork and more. The reception to Pure Comedy also led to a series of incredible performances with Saturday Night Live, Austin City Limits, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Tonight Show and Late Night with Seth Meyers. He also completed a wildly successful tour in support of the album. And 2018 will be just as busy, as Father John Misty's delivered a new single, “Mr. Tillman,” and is set to release his fourth album later this year.

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SYNOPSIS

Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, HOTEL ARTEMIS is an original, high-octane action- thriller starring Jodie Foster as The Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only hospital for criminals. Jodie Foster is joined by an all-star cast that includes Sterling K. Brown, Sofia Boutella, Jeff Goldblum, Brian Tyree Henry, Jenny Slate, Zachary Quinto, Charlie Day, and Dave Bautista.

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TECHNICAL DETAILS

Running Time: 93 mins

Unit Production Manager Jeffrey Stott First Assistant Director Alex Gayner Second Assistant Director Christophe Le Chanu

THE NURSE Jodie Foster WAIKIKI Sterling K. Brown NICE Sofia Boutella NIAGARA Jeff Goldblum HONOLULU Brian Tyree Henry MORGAN Jenny Slate CROSBY FRANKLIN Zachary Quinto ACAPULCO Charlie Day EVEREST Dave Bautista BUKE Kenneth Choi P-22 Josh Tillman TROJAN NASH Evan Jones ROCCO Nathan Davis, Jr. TARIQ Ramses Jimenez UNION CALIFIA HOLOGRAM Angela Sprinkle KT-EYE NEWS ANCHOR Lloyd Sherr UNION CALIFIA BANK MANAGER Baldeep Singh MALIBU MOB DIAMOND COURIER Brandon Morales PROSHIELD RIOT WALL OP Tanner Gill PROSHIELD TEAM LEADER Bruce Concepcion PROSHIELD COP #1 Travis Parker PROSHIELD COP #2 Antal Kalik GATEPOST NETWORK NEWS REPORTER Lauren Sivan DETROIT WASTE DISPOSAL OPERATOR Sarah Shankman MIKE THE WOLFKING’S ENFORCER Mark Kubr CHOPPR LIASON Kate Higgins ANXIETY TAPE GURU Elizabeth Laime YOUNG BEAU Mason Shea Joyce DEAD BEAU James Rackstraw DENNIS THE WOLFKING’S CHAUFFEUR Matt Morgan

Stunt Coordinator Wade Allen Fight Choreographers Wade Allen Eric Brown

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The Nurse Stunt Double Jill Stokesberry Waikiki Stunt Doubles Travis Parker Clay Fontenot Everest Stunt Double Cale Schultz Nice Stunt Double Ellette Craddock Acapulco Stunt Double Josh Fried Buke Stunt Double Steven Chang P-22 Stunt Double Oakley Lehman Proshield Officer #1 (Stunt) Duffy Gaver Proshield Officer #2 (Stunt) Torrey Vogel Malibu Mob Corridor Fighters (Stunts) Michael Lehr Dennis Keiffer Matt Berberi Eric Brown Travis Parker Efka Kvaraciejus Bruce Concepcion Joshua Yadon BMX Rioters (Stunts) Danny Downey CJ Stuart SUV Drivers (Stunts) Jason Rodriguez Danny Wynands Robert Nagle Malibu Mob (Stunts) Eddie Perez Michael Lehr Vladimir Orlov Rob Mars Dennis Keiffer Ray Siegle Proshield Cops (Stunts) Jason Rodriguez Terry Jackson Anthony Genova Stunt Rioters Chad Guerrero Eric Van Arsdale Jawed El Berni Noelle Mulligan Chris Campos Roel Failma Justin Gant Ladell Preston Alvin Zalamea Johnny Yang Stunt Riggers Randy Haynie Craig Silva

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Production Supervisor Alice S. Kim Post

Production Supervisor Bill Wohlken Associate

Producer Ian Fisher

Art Directors Jon Carlos Samantha Avila Assistant Art Director Gary McMonnies Set Designer Dan Jennings Junior Set Designer Joe Weber Conceptual Artists Till Nowak Mark “Jock” Simpson Simon Stalenhag Graphic Artist Dianne Chadwick Visual Consultants Heiko Von Dregenberg Emily Dean Art Department Coordinator Lucie Bourgeau Art Department Production Assistant Gordon Stotz

Futurist Consultant Thomas Wagner

Set Decorator Rosemary Brandenburg Leadman Mark Boucher Set Dec Buyer Lisa Tong On Set Dresser Jeremy Cisneros Set Dec Gang Boss Bart Barbuscia Set Dressers Paul Boucher John Bradley James Malley Set Dec Production Assistant Chase L. Helzer

Script Supervisor Renetta G. Amador

First Assistant “A” Camera Trevor Loomis Second Assistant “A” Camera Natasha Mullan “B” Camera Operator/Steadicam Jody “Monty” Miller First Assistant “B” Camera Sergius Nofield Second Assistant “B” Camera Sarah Brandes Digital Imaging Technician Lonny Danler Loader Danny Park Video Assist Bob Branam

First Assistant Editors Michael Costello Lillian Dawson Bain Editorial Production Assistant Chris Dold

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Assistant Costume Designer Chrissy Callan Costume Supervisor Jaclyn Tamizato Set Costumers Jenny Lind Bryant Anita “Snoops” Brown Textile Artist Melissa F. Binder Costume Production Assistant Kristen Kathol

Department Head Make-Up Aurora Bergere Key Make-Up Artist Molly Tissavary Make-Up Artist Stephen Bettles Make-Up Artist to Jodie Foster Lois Burwell

Department Head Hair Darlene Brumfield Key Hair Stylist Corey “Chill” Hill Hair Designer / Hair Stylist to Jodie Foster Frances Mathias

Chief Lighting Technician Jarred Waldron Assistant Chief Lighting Technician Damon Marcellino Lighting Console Programmer Jessica Plaxton Set Lighting Technicians Douglas Kieffer John Zivelonghi James “Biff” Thomsen Bruno Nguyen

Rigging Chief Lighting Technician Toby Le Cheminant Rigging Assistant Chief Lighting Technician Robert Lopez Rigging Lighting Technicians Anselmo Vargas Michael Murray Ryan Redlin Precilliano Ordaz Greg Mc Eachen

Key Grip Patrick “The Dragon” Heffernan Best Boy Grip Nicholas Klein “A” Dolly Grip Eric Zucker “B” Dolly Grip Daniel W. Roberts Grips Kevin Hites Anthony Sepian Chris Cotterman Gor Haroutunian

Rigging Key Grip Nicholas Rini Best Boy Rigging Grip Troy Rice Rigging Grips Blake Pike

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Jefferey “JJ” Johnson Tony Sommo Jerry Marshall

Sound Mixer Shawn Holden, CAS Boom Operator Douglas Shamburger Utility Sound Technician Michelle Guasto

Supervising Sound Editor Zach Goheen Sound Effects Designer Leo Marcil Sound Editor Hector C. Gika Re-Recording Mixer Eric Hoehn Post Sound Services Carol Thomas Lisa Stateman Sound Editorial Services by Twenty Four Seven Sound

Special Effects Coordinator James Lorimer Special Effects Foremen Mario Vanillo Lance Inoue Special Effects Technicians Bob Bell Steven Dearth Doug Passerelli Vincent Vanillo

Casting by Telsey + Company Casting Associates Rachel Dill, CSA Conrad Woolfe, CSA Casting Assistant Rose Bochner

Extras Casting by Bill Dance Casting/Bill Dance Extras Casting Associate Terence Harris

Unit Publicist Peggy Mulloy Still Photographer Matt Kennedy

Second Second Assistant Director Nathan Kimball Key Set Production Assistant Kit Conners Set Production Assistants Becca Rogers Holland Graham Geraghty Charlotte Gleason J.H. Carter

Production Coordinator Ryce Hetherington Assistant Production Coordinators Alyssa L. Feener Chad Heffelfinger

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Office Production Assistants Crystal Flores Logan Rose

Location Manager Michael Burmeister Key Assistant Location Managers Lee David Lee Alex Kivlen Assistant Location Manager Jonathan Blake

Production Accountant Susan Murphy Best Boy Accountant S.R. Conger Second Assistant Accountant Amandarina Tuccio Payroll Accountant Debra Burgess Accounting Clerk Ricardo Higareda

Post Production Accountant Kelly McCrossan Supervising Post Accountant Emily Rice Payroll Post Accountant Bruce Wrigley

Construction Coordinator Bruce Di Valerio General Foreman Jon Kazunaga Stage Foreman Eric Pifer Location Foreman Cesar Orozco Labor Foreman Brian Di Valerio Toolman Philip Ginolfi Paint Supervisors Mark Boucher Rod K. Nunnally, Sr. Plaster Foreman Lex Malan Propmakers Chris Athas Darrick Bailey Doug McCoy Steven L. Scott David Slater Painters Larry “The Legend” Corralez Roderick Nunnally Tamarind DeRuiter Anthony Karlic Laborers James Piccione Mark Roberts Jeff Wohl Stand By Painter Scott B. Valdes Stand By Carpenter James Crain Plasterers Keith Kramer

Property Master Josh Roth Assistant Property Master Max K. Bozeman Property Assistant Lawson Brown

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Property Researcher Crystal Kenrick Armorer Tony Didio

Transportation / Picture Car Coordinator Louis D’Argenzio Transportation Captain David Kent Christenson DOT Administrator Catherine Nguyen Drivers Wayne Flowers Ronald A. Baker Barton E. Johnson Chris Schimmel Jon Wilborn Frederico Gonzalez Michael Medlin Randall Wolff

Executive Assistant to Marc Platt Joey Levy Creative Assistant to Marc Platt Katie McNicol Assistants to Adam Siegel TJ Barber Panchi Simeto Executive Assistant to Simon Cornwell Sarah Ireland Assistants to Stephen Cornwell Chad Heffelfinger Jeffrey Reeser Assistant to Jeffrey Stott Melanie Callahan Assistant to Jodie Foster Sarah Dryden

Medical Technician Britt Sanborn Set Medic Adriana De La Cruz Construction Medics David Littlefield Phil Orpilla

Catered by Ann and Mario Catering Chef Anthony Zoric Chef’s Assistants Ramon Ochoa Martin Reyes Chloe Ferry Stefanie Zoric Jorge Jimenez Francisco Alfaro Craft Service Leah Amir Assistant Craft Service Aaron Sessions

FOR THE INK FACTORY Head of Physical Production Jane Frazer Head of Development Emma Broughton Commercial Finance Manager Rishi Patel

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Management Accountant Jean Hong Marketing Manager Amy Basil London Office Assistant Eddie Harris

FOR 127 WALL PRODUCTIONS Managing Partner Oliver Weisberg Managing Partner Alexander West Partner and General Counsel Henry Li Chief of Staff Tammy Poon

Visual Effects by CANTINA CREATIVE

Visual Effects Executive Producer Sean Cushing

Visual Effects Senior Creative Stephen Lawes

Visual Effects Producer Donna Cullen

Visual Effects Artists Marbella Calvillo Carly Cerquone Julianne Dome Aaron Eaton Matt Eaton Jay Grunfeld Andrew Hawryluk Justin Hemsley Nate Jess Yorie Kumalasari Tony Lupoi Stephen Morton Leon Nowlin, Jr. Brian Sales Gregory S. Scribner Takashi Takeoka Jonathan Thompson Alan Torres Cisco Torres Cameron Walser

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Dailies provided by OUTPOST® - a Light Iron service Dailies Producer Robert Bowman Dailies Operator Greg Pastore Head of Dailies Operations Dylan Damian

Digital Intermediate by LIGHT IRON Digital Intermediate Colorist Ian Vertovec Digital Intermediate Producer Zara Park Digital Intermediate Coordinator Mary Omel Digital Intermediate Editors Matt Blackshear Manny Dubon Digital Intermediate Finishing Artist Monique Eissing Digital Intermediate Executive Producer Paul Geffre Data Management Keenan Mock Scott Nye Brittany Ringer Ahmad Stewart Digital Intermediate Assists Christopher Abdon Hugo Smith Brandon Trotter Digital Intermediate Management Michael Cioni Peter Cioni Dana Blumberg Kyle Barrett Jeff Sengpiehl Engineering Ryan McKeague Zack Howell Vince Palazzo Digital Intermediate Administration Peyton Van Amburgh Matt Eisenoff Hannah Joyner Bryce Marrero Linda McDonnell Mallory Ott Eboni Price Jennifer Razon

Main & End Titles Designed and Produced by FILMOGRAPH Title Designers Aaron Becker Alphonse Swinehart Title Executive Producer Seth Kleinberg Title Producer Troy James Miller Additional Animation Zachary Carnes

Loop Group Casting by Joe Cappelletti Voice Performers David Andriole

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Robin Atkin John Eric Bentley Andrew Morgado

ADR Mixers Wouter Van Herwerden (Margarita Mix, Hollywood) James Moore (Margarita Mix, Hollywood) Michael Greenberg (Margarita Mix, Hollywood) Bob Lacivita (Technicolor Paramount, Hollywood) Dan Mockenstrum (Mach 1 Productions, Tampa) Mike Rivera (Harbor, New York) Mark DeSimone (Soundtrack, New York)

Dolby Sound Consultant Bryan Pennington

Additional Music by Gregory Tripi and Thor Laewe Score Mixed by Thor Laewe Electric Violin by Martin St. Pierre Score Recorded at Moonglow Ranch in Topanga Canyon, CA

Music Editors Mary Parker Mark Jan Wlodarkiewicz

Music Services provided by Lakeshore Records

Production Legal Services – Irwin M. Rappaport, P.C.

Bank Financing provided by Natixis Coficine – Christopher Vidal with the assistance of

Edwige Rolin (Films Consultancy Services Limited)

Legal Advisors to Natixis Coficine – Fieldfisher – Tim Johnson

Legal Advisors to The Ink Factory – Wiggin LLP – Neil Gillard and Beth Wyllie Legal Advisors to 127 Wall Productions – O’Melveny & Myers LLP – Bruce D. Tobey Completion Guarantee provided by Film Finances, Inc. Production Incentive Administration provided by EP Financial Solutions

Insurance Provided by Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. Payroll Services by Cast & Crew Production Services, LLC

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Clearances – Cleared by Ashley, Inc. / Ashley Kravitz Script Research Provided by – Act One Script Clearance Collection Account Management by Freeway CAM B.V.

“California Dreamin'” Written by John Edmund Andrew Phillips, Michelle Gilliam Phillips Performed by The Mamas & The Papas Courtesy of Geffen Records under license from Universal Music Enterprises

"Helpless" Written by Neil Young Performed by Buffy St. Marie Courtesy of Vanguard Records A Division of Concord Music

“City of the Angels” Written by Cori Bishop Performed by Elyse Weinberg Courtesy of The Numero Group By Arrangement with Bank Robber Music

“Gilded Cage” Written by Josh Tillman Performed by Father John Misty

SPECIAL THANKS TO: Amy Barham Anne and Scott Pearce Iain Morris Jason Segel Jon Favreau J.J. Abrams Father John Misty Amy Gordon-Fisher Light in the Attic Records Gary Goetzman Michael Tronick Becky Sloviter Jane Frazer Clarissa Cornwell Mimi Cornwell and

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The City of Los Angeles

DEDICATED TO: Noah and Winston, when they eventually see this.

Stock Footage provided by Axiom Images Additional Visual Effects assets provided by Brusheezy.com

This motion picture was produced in the State of California and with the California Film Commission

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