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Cannes: Voltage Taps Gabriele Muccino To Helm Black List ‘Fathers And Daughters’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday May 16, 2013 @ 8:52am PDTTags: Cannes Film Festival, Cannes Wrap-Up, Fathers And Daughters, Gabriele Muccino, Nicolas Chartier, Voltage Productions
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Productions has set Gabriele Muccino to direct Fathers And Daughters, a Black List script by Brad Desch. Voltage is out to cast on the film and is looking to sell it here at Cannes. Muccino helmed the Will Smith films The Pursuit Of Happyness and Seven Pounds after coming to Hollywood off the success of L’Ultimo Bacio. The plot: a Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown. Much later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

The film will be produced by Voltage’s Craig J. Flores and Nicolas Chartier and Busted Shark Productions’ Sherryl Clark. Clark, whose credits include Cloverfield and Morning Glory, developed the screenplay with Desch and it was one of the first projects under her new shingle Busted Shark. Voltage bought it after the script made the Black List. Desch separately set his script Shotgun Lovesongs at Fox Searchlight, with Clark also producing.

CAA and Untitled rep Muccino and Desch is repped by ICM Partners and Management 360. Voltage’s Babacar Diene is overseeing. Voltate and ICM Partners will sell the film here.

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Voltage Pictures To Fund ‘Home Invasion’, A Low Budget Pic From Joel Silver

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 24, 2013 @ 8:30am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Home Invasion, Joel Silver, Nicolas Chartier, Silver Pictures, Voltage Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures has committed to finance Home Invasion, a thriller developed by Silver Pictures’ low budget label Zinc entertainment. The plot is being kept under wraps, but the title offers clues aplenty. I’m told the story involves a family imprisoned in their own home by intruders who play a life-and-death game in which the mysterious rules become clear as the night unfolds. The script was written by neophyte Joseph Dembner and will be directed by first-timer Sean Carter. After hatching the concept with Silver Pictures’ Alex Heineman, Dembner wrote the screenplay on spec. Joel Silver, Andrew Rona and Heineman will produce. After the Home Invasion script was turned in, those producers shot a test scene which Carter directed and then shopped it. Voltage’s Nicolas Chartier and Craig Flores sparked to it, and they also will be producers. Dembner is co-producer, and Silver’s Steve Richards will be exec producer with Michael Fiore. Read More »

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Nicolas Chartier Bullish On ‘Charlie Countryman’ Heading Into Berlin

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 12:10pm PSTTags: Berlin, Nicolas Chartier, Shia la Beouf, Sundance Film Festival, The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman
Mike Fleming

The hot hot buzz titles at Sundance have been brokered, and while nobody involved in that festival seems to have yet caught up on sleep, the festival is fast fading in the rear view mirror. So what happens to the films that came in with big hopes but haven’t yet sold? Are they headed to the movie equivalent of the Island of Misfit Toys? Hardly, says Voltage chief Nicolas Chartier.

He came to Sundance with two films, and watched the Joe Gordon-Levitt-directed Don Jon’s Addiction quickly sell for close to a festival record $4 million with a $25 million P&A commitment for summer release by Relativity Media. His other Sundance pic, The Shia La Beouf-starrer The Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman directed by Fredrik Bond, didn’t walk off the slopes with a deal. Read More »

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Uday Chopra’s YRF Launches By Funding Jason Bateman Comedy ‘The Longest Week’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 22, 2011 @ 7:07am PSTTags: Billy Crudup, Jason Bateman, Nicolas Chartier, Olivia Wilde
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: YRF Entertainment has launched with this week’s production start of The Longest Week, the Peter Glanz-directed comedy that stars Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde and Billy Crudup. The film just got underway in New York, and Bateman plays an immature … Read More »

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Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie, And Richard Jenkins Keep ‘Company’ With Robert Redford

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday August 11, 2011 @ 3:40pm PDTTags: Brit Marling, Julie Christie, Nick Nolte, Nicolas Chartier, Richard Jenkins, Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Susan Sarandon
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Redford has set Susan Sarandon, Julie Christie and Richard Jenkins to star in The Company You Keep, the drama Redford is directing and starring … Read More »

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Rob Cohen And Voltage Team On ‘Bullet Run,’ A ‘Fast & The Furious’ In The Desert

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday June 23, 2011 @ 4:47pm PDTTags: Craig Flores, James Patterson, Matthew Fox, Nicolas Chartier, Rob Cohen, Tyler Perry, Voltage Productions
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Productions has set Rob Cohen to direct Bullet Run, an Andrew Hilton-scripted action film that puts Cohen back on the fast car track he was on when he helmed The Fast & The Furious. Voltage Productions producers Nicolas … Read More »

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‘Conan The Barbarian’ Helmer Marcus Nispel To Next Direct ‘Backmask’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday May 9, 2011 @ 9:11am PDTTags: Barry Levinson, Cannes, Graham Taylor, Marcus Nispel, Nicolas Chartier, Steven Schneider
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Conan the Barbarian helmer Marcus Nispel will next direct Backmask, a $10 million film that will begin shooting this summer. It’s based on an idea by Nispel, whose recent films include The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th. Kirsten Elms is writing the script. Nispel is keeping the … Read More »

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Nicolas Chartier Teams With Hollywood Gang’s Craig Flores In Production Shingle

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday January 6, 2011 @ 4:54pm PSTTags: Craig Flores, Movie Deals, Movies, Nicolas Chartier, Nicolas Chartier Voltage Pictures, Voltage Productions
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Voltage Pictures chief Nicolas Chartier is branching out from foreign sales into the production game. He has partnered with longtime Hollywood Gang executive Craig Flores to form Voltage Productions, an offshoot of Voltage Pictures that will generate large pictures … Read More »

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