Voltage Pictures

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Founded in 2005, Voltage Pictures is an international sales, finance & production operation formed as a partnership between sales veteran/Academy-Award winner Nicolas Chartier and producer Dean Devlin. Devlin has written and produced such notable blockbusters as Independence Day, Godzilla, Stargate and The Patriot. In addition to being a partner in Voltage, Devlin heads Electric Entertainment, where he continues to produce independent, commercial films. Prior to forming Voltage, Chartier was VP of sales and acquisitions at Myriad Pictures. He has been involved in the sales of a diverse range of films, including Van Wilder, The Good Girl or the Olsen twins movies. As the president of Vortex Pictures, he sold My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Nicolas Cage's Sonny. As head of sales and acquisitions at Arclight Films, Chartier acquired Dean Devlin's The Librarian, 2006 Academy Award winner Crash and The Matador with Pierce Brosnan. During his time at Arclight, Chartier also sold Lord of War with Nicolas Cage and The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino. In March 2010, Voltage's first in-house production The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse and Evangeline Lilly, won six Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, best Editing, best Sound and best Sound Editing. It was nominated for nine Oscars. The Whistleblower, starring Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn, Vanessa Redgrave, and executive produced by Voltage Pictures, will premiere in Toronto 2011. Voltage's library includes titles: Spread, with Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche; George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead & Survival of the Dead; Personal Effects with Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates; Bryan Singer & Dean Devlin's The Triangle; While She Was Out with Kim Basinger; four Steven Seagal movies; The Librarian 2&3 starring Noah Wyle; and many others starring Wesley Snipes, Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Cuba Gooding Jr, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, John Malkovich, Ray Winstone, Ian McKellen, Mischa Barton, Hillary Duff, Kellan Lutz, Laurence Fishburne, Thomas Jane, Ed Harris, Famke Janssen, James Franco, Jean Reno, Chloe Sevigny, Asia Argento, Sam Neill, Leelee Sobieski, Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, David Strathairn, Amy Smart, Brittany Murphy, Julie Delpy, Ron Perlman, Bill Pullman, Christopher Lloyd, David Arquette, Courtney Cox and others'In addition to theatrical films & DVD premieres, Voltage is also involved in financing, producing and selling films & series for TV. Created by John Rogers and produced by Dean Devlin, Leverage is now in its third season, with 43 episodes on TNT. Oscar winner Timothy Hutton, Beth Riesgraf, Aldis Hodge, Christian Kane and Gina Bellman star in this action TV series. Voltage is in production in Vancouver on its first season of 13 one-hour series True Justice, produced by Phil Goldfine and starring Steven Seagal for the first time in an action TV series.