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SYNOPSIS

The worst scares come from chance meetings, and the best stories are worth killing for, as a desperate

writer and a young drifter find out in the dramatic thriller BLACK BUTTERFLY. Outside a mountain town

grappling with a series of murderous abductions, Paul (Antonio Banderas) restlessly stalks his remote

cabin property, trying to start work on a career-saving screenplay. After a tense encounter at a diner with

a hitchhiker named Jack (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), Paul offers Jack a place to stay – and soon the tough,

edgy, demanding Jack muscles his way into Paul’s work. As a storm cuts off power to the isolated cabin,

the two men enter into a jagged game of one-upmanship that will bring at least one tale to an end.

Antonio Banderas (Desperado, Haywire, The Skin I Live In), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Match Point, Mission:

Impossible III, The Tudors) and Piper Perabo (The Prestige, Looper) star in this riveting adaptation of the

acclaimed French thriller, Papillon Noir. Directed by Brian Goodman and written for the screen by Justin

Stanley & Marc Frydman, BLACK BUTTERFLY will be in theaters and on May 26.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

“You would kill me without a second thought. I like that.”

There’s a part of all of us that wants to help each other, give directions to lost travelers, or commit

random acts of kindness. But there’s another, more primal side that thrives on suspicion, antagonism,

and brutality. It flutters on the edges of our psyches, emerging with a vengeance when the right

combination of events unfolds. For Paul Lopez, those events occur at a critical juncture of his life. A writer

living in a rural pocket of Colorado, Paul is several decades into a career but a long way from his last

success. Now, he’s having trouble starting a screenplay. Drinking alone day and night, sobering up

enough to go hunting, he has minimal contact with people besides the pretty realtor Laura (Piper Perabo)

who’s preparing to sell Paul’s rustic home.

But Paul’s not the only loner in his area. There’s a serial killer on the loose who has abducted four women

– including, it’s believed, Paul’s missing wife. After a dangerous run-in with a truck driver on a winding

highway, Paul stops at a diner to discuss the house sale with Laura. But when the truck driver shows up

spoiling for a fight, a drifter, Jack (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), steps into the situation and stops it. To show

his appreciation, Paul offers him a ride. After striking up a conversation, Paul lets Jack stay in his guest

house, doing odd jobs around the grounds.

Yet as Jack begins to offer ideas and motivations for Paul’s screenplay, their dynamic changes, and Paul

sees a different side to Jack. Questions start to emerge: What was this vagabond doing in the diner at

that moment? Where is the prison Jack did time in? What do all of his cryptic butterfly tattoos mean? And

what does he know about all the local women who’ve gone missing?

As Paul and Jack face off, truth and anger come to the surface. Ferocity kicks in, tensions rise. When

Laura arrives at the cabin, the violence and deceptions increase. As a storm rages outside, the mystery

deepens. Is everyone really who they say they are? Is the conflict headed toward a dead-end? And who

is trapped with their hands tied behind a chair, trying to find a way out?

TAKING FLIGHT:

THE MAKING OF BLACK BUTTERFLY

“I just wanted to show you something real. Sorry for the scare.”

BLACK BUTTERFLY began its life as a French thriller from 2008. The acclaimed drama, directed by

Christian Faure and starring Eric Cantona (formerly a star of England’s Manchester United team),

Stéphane Freiss and Hélène de Fougerolles, was praised for having an “effective scenario [that] puts

nerves to the test, with Eric Cantona and Stéphane Freiss offering a masterful duel.” The set-up was ripe

to get an English-language adaptation, with cinematic themes that draw from classic noir, psychological

dramas, serial killer crimes, who’s-conning-who thrillers, and a face-off anchoring a three-character

triangle that hides even more sides.

It was director Brian Goodman’s job to visually realize the script by Justin Stanley and Marc Frydman.

Goodman – a veteran TV (Revenge, Rizzoli & Isles, Aquarius) and film actor who’s appeared in films by

Steven Spielberg (Catch Me If You Can, Munich) as well as Annapolis, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo

Drift, and Mark Ruffalo’s directorial debut Sympathy for Delicious – cut his teeth on dramatic thrillers with

his first turn behind the camera, What Doesn’t Kill You, costarring Ethan Hawke, Ruffalo, Amanda Peet,

and Donnie Wahlberg.

“This is a film where emotions cascade as the story unfolds with twists and turns that create unrelenting

drama and thrills,” says producer Andrea Iervolino. Adds producer Silvio Muraglia, “BLACK BUTTERFLY is

a rollercoaster ride of suspense, twists, and turns that relies on superb writing, sophisticated acting, and

character work. We couldn’t have been happier to put this film in the hands of Brian, whose vision and

passion for this project is tremendously inspiring.”

To play the two forces of nature at the center of the story, the filmmakers chose a pair of actors whose

collective body of work have thrilled, excited, and seduced filmgoers in both blockbusters and indie films,

in Oscar®-nominated dramas and in edge-of-your-seat actioners: Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Rhys

Meyers.

“We are thrilled to be producing a film with such amazing talent on both sides of the camera,” Muraglia

says. “Antonio and Jonathan are each a powerful force on screen, and they have roles here that will tap

into his amazing versatility as an actor.” Adds Iervolino, “Antonio’s intensity and versatility, and

Jonathan’s depth and range, are the key to bring this film to life.”

Banderas became a star in the 1980s in his native Spain starring in director Pedro Almodóvar’s Labyrinth

of Passion, Matador, and Law of Desire. He came to worldwide attention after starring in Almodóvar’s

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and the filmmaker’s buzz-making (and controversial)

international hit Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, playing an obsessed psychiatric patient who kidnaps an adult-

film actress to make her fall in love with him. As he became a major Hollywood talent, Banderas starred

in The Mambo Kings, Philadelphia, Interview with the Vampire, Assassins, Evita, The Mask of Zorro, and

Femme Fatale, among many others. He collaborated with acclaimed filmmakers including Robert

Rodriguez (Desperado, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the Spy Kids movies), Steven Soderbergh

(Haywire), Woody Allen (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger), and Terence Malick (Knight of Cups).

Banderas also voiced the swashbuckling feline Puss in the Shrek and Puss in Boots animated adventures,

reunited with Almodóvar for the scintillating psychosexual thriller The Skin I Live In, and headlined the

true-life drama The 33, about Chilean miners trapped for 69 days in 2010.

“To me, acting means visiting many different genres and very different characters,” Banderas told The

Associated Press in an interview as he made BLACK BUTTERFLY. “I really like the possibility of change

and since I came to the United States I have virtually tried it all…. This is my way of understanding this

profession.”

“BLACK BUTTERFLY is very special,” Banderas said in another interview during the making of the film. “I

like being part of movies that tell good stories.”

Says Iervolino, “To pull this role off, you need an actor with real gravitas and proven connectivity with

audiences. We’re fortunate to have Antonio step into this incredible role and do what he does best —

own a role and deliver an amazing performance.”

Starring opposite Banderas is the incomparable Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who came to acting from a

different direction and a different time, but connects with Banderas in variety and scope. The Dublin-born

actor caught audiences’ attention by assassinating Liam Neeson’s Irish leader in Michael Collins, then

appearing as a 1970s Brit glam rocker in Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine and a young British football

coach in Bend it Like Beckham. He gave gripping performances for directors Ang Lee (Ride With the

Devil), Mira Nair (Vanity Fair), and Oliver Stone (Alexander), then lit up Woody Allen’s Oscar®-nominated

Match Point opposite Scarlett Johansson. Rhys Meyers followed that up with action-packed hits including

Mission: Impossible II and From Paris With Love before holding court as King Henry VIII on Showtime’s

The Tudors. He costarred in the Oscar®-nominated Albert Nobbs and returned to rock ’n’ roll with a

portrayal of The Clash’s Joe Strummer in London Town, and gave major TV turns in Roots, Vikings, and

starring as the original bloodsucking villain, Dracula.

“I often play the bad guy, I think, because I look like one,” Rhys Meyers told Parade magazine with a hint

of winking self-amusement. “People have sort of put me into that thing. It’s not something I would have

chosen for myself. Some people say it has something to do with me being a very intense character

onscreen, and that’s usually the bad guy. There’s something in my physicality that lends to it.”

Yet that doesn’t mean the actor has ever shied away from more intense roles. “I have a lot of fear in my

life – I live in the world of fear,” Rhys Meyers from the Cannes red carpet last year. “But I’ve never been

afraid of any role I’ve taken on.”

MULTIPLE DESIGNS:

THEMES AND ECHOES IN BLACK BUTTERFLY

“I thought a writer would appreciate being cut off from the world.”

In addition to being a visceral face-off between characters pushing each other to the limit, BLACK

BUTTERFLY joins a long list of movies that burrow into deeper areas of drama.

First and most prominently is the tradition of “doubling.” Famously utilized by director Alfred Hitchcock in

a number of films including Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, The Wrong Man, Vertigo, Psycho, and

Frenzy, the narrative notion of the Illuminating Other can serve many purposes: to heighten antagonism

(as in Sleuth and The Double); to depict a psyche divided against itself (as in Dead Ringers and Enemy);

to make two characters become, in essence, the same (as in Persona, Sisters, and Single White Female);

and to bring out a hidden side to a protagonist (as in Something Wild, The Double Life of Veronique, Lost

Highway, Mulholland Drive, and Black Swan), among many other motifs.

In BLACK BUTTERFLY, Paul – who at one point early on states to Laura that his name is really Pablo, “but

Paul is fine” – and Jack may not necessarily represent alternate sides of each other, but they certainly

trigger things in each other. While working to help Paul overcome his writer’s block, Jack is a window to

the world Paul wasn’t expecting. Whether the truth is going out or coming in that window, however, is

part of the film’s mystery.

Another part of the mystery is the rare Lepidoptera image that gives the film its memorable title. A black

butterfly is the tattoo Jack has on his shoulders, a keepsake, he says, of his days behind bars. It

represents freedom to him. (“Ironic, isn’t it?” Jacks asks ruefully.) The butterfly that he identifies with –

the one, because of its position on his body, will forever be shadowing him – could also be a symbol of

what Paul is or isn’t seeking. He certainly wants freedom from his writer’s block. But is it going to wind up

representing a freedom he doesn’t have, the way it was for Jack? And the fact that it’s colorless – stark,

silhouetted, noir – could predict doom.

The cultural and literary depictions of butterflies are evocative and full of meaning. According to Diderot's

Encyclopédie, the mid-18th century encyclopedia that annotates the Age of Enlightenment, butterflies

symbolize the soul. Some native cultures use butterflies to represent rebirth, while in the Philippines, a

black butterfly in the house precedes a death in the family.

Alternately, butterflies often represent freedom, especially at the movies: Think of the tattoo on the chest

of the Devil’s Island inmate played by Steve McQueen as the real-life author Henri Charrière in the action

drama Papillon. But they can also remind us of cages that create a yearning for escape, like the mental

(and literal) one a serial killer with a butterfly fetish resides in in The Silence of the Lambs, or the locked

room in The Collector, where a disturbed butterfly collector (Terence Stamp) keeps his new beauty, a

kidnapped local girl (Samantha Eggar). And then there’s the haunting poetry of the butterfly’s brief life,

and humanity’s interaction with it: Fans of Ray Bradbury’s 1952 short story A Sound of Thunder recall all

too well what happens when a time traveler accidentally steps on a butterfly.

The rich, wide-ranging symbolism of BLACK BUTTERFLY could cut many ways, including in the most

literal: According to Nature, the weekly journal of science, insects can use trickery to make their wings

look darker.

As for the darkness around us, few locales seem ready-made for thrillers than the far-flung,

underpopulated landscapes of rural America. Though BLACK BUTTERFLY was filmed in 2016 near

Subiaco, Lazio, Italy, outside of Rome, its setting is the mountain towns of Colorado – and, more

generally, an unreachable outpost in today’s ultra-connected world. Paul’s overgrown foliage represent an

unkempt life made messier by the writer’s block that has driven him to drink.

It’s the type of setting familiar from thrillers like Straw Dogs, Blue Velvet and Fargo, as well as River’s

Edge, Red Rock West, A Simple Plan, and A History of Violence, to name a few. In BLACK BUTTERFLY,

Goodman presents many markers of the lonely American West – truck-stop diners, remote cabins,

winding highways, rural overgrowth. This is a picturesque setting where even wide-open spaces contain

places to hide. In the second half of BLACK BUTTERFLY, Paul’s cabin loses Internet and phone service

due to a storm that descends on the area. It’s another turn of the screw for a story that holds its grip on

audiences until the final twist.

Of course, in thrillers, writers often face dangers far more deadly than just a little creative block.

In Rob Reiner’s film of Stephen King’s Misery, a novelist (James Caan) falls prey to an obsessed fan

(Kathy Bates). In Deathtrap, a playwright (Michael Caine) finds himself involved in a diabolical triangle

with a student (Christopher Reeve) and the playwright’s hysterical wife (Dyan Cannon). In Swimming

Pool, a mystery writer (Charlotte Rampling) finds herself diving into a psychosexual pas de deux with a

young woman (Ludivine Sagnier). And, of course, in Stanley Kubrick’s film of Stephen King’s The Shining,

a writer (Jack Nicholson) caretaking an empty hotel starts to get a little…violent.

In BLACK BUTTERFLY, Paul is hoping to recapture elusive fame with a screenplay. But it’s a hurdle Paul

can’t leap until Jack enters the picture – yet what kind of conclusion are they facing?

“This is all going to end the way I want.”

The stage is set, the pieces are in place: One man is trying to break through the walls of creativity.

Another, to break the perception of his past. A woman doesn’t know what lies beneath the surface. A

town in the middle of nowhere hides secrets no one wants to discover. As the tense, exciting BLACK

BUTTERFLY forces its characters into a puzzle with more than one solution, and violence threatens to

trap anyone who comes close, we’re gripped and spun into a match-up of wits and murderous ingenuity.

There’s only one way to escape. And only one man who will.

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ABOUT THE CAST

ANTONIO BANDERAS (Paul) is irrefutably one of the most highly acclaimed, leading international

actors of his generation since his introduction to American cinema. He has received critical praise for his

performances in film, television and theater, as well as behind the scenes as a feature film director. In

2005, he was honored with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

His second directorial feature is the Spanish film El Camino De Los Ingleses (titled Summer Rain in the

U.S.). A coming of age story, the film follows the first loves, lusts and obsessions of friends on vacation

at the end of the 1970s. He made his directorial debut with Crazy in Alabama starring Melanie Griffith.

In 2003, Banderas earned a Tony nomination for Best Actor in a Musical for his Broadway debut in the

Roundabout Theater Company production of NINE, a musical inspired by Fellini’s 8 ½ . He also received

a Best Actor Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama League Award and Theatre World

Award. NINE, directed by David Leveaux, also starred Chita Rivera.

Banderas has worked with some of Hollywood’s best directors and leading actors including Robert

Rodriguez’s Desperado opposite Salma Hayek and the sequel Once Upon a Time in Mexico opposite

Johnny Depp; Original Sin opposite Angelina Jolie; Alan Parker’s Evita opposite Madonna, in which he

received his first Best Actor Golden Globe® nomination; Martin Campbell’s The Mask of Zorro opposite

Catherine Zeta-Jones, in which he received his second Best Actor Golden Globe® nomination, and the

sequel The Legend of Zorro; Neil Jordan’s Interview with a Vampire with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt;

Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia opposite Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington; Bille August’s House of

the Spirits with Meryl Streep and Glenn Close; and Brian de Palma’s Femme Fatale. He was nominated for

his third Best Actor Golden Globe® for his performance as the infamous Pancho Villa in HBO’s 2003

release of And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself.

Born in Malaga, Spain, Banderas attended the School of Dramatic Arts in his hometown, and upon

graduation he began his acting career working in a small theater company based there. He later moved

to Madrid and became an ensemble member of the prestigious National Theater of Spain.

In 1982, Banderas was cast by writer/director Pedro Almodovar in Labyrinth of Passion. It was the first

of seven films Banderas would do with Almodovar, the others being Matador, Law of Desire, Women on

the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! The international success of these

films introduced to him to Hollywood. Banderas can also be seen in La Piel Que Habito (The Skin I Live

In) and I’m So Excited, also written and directed by Almodovar.

Other film credits include: Automata, Knights of Cups, The Expendables 3, SpongeBob: Sponge Out Of

Water, Machete Kills, Justin and the Knights of Valour, Ruby Sparks, Haywire, Black Gold, Day of the

Falcon, Puss In Boots, You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, The Big Bang, The Other Man, Shrek 2 and

Shrek the Third, Shrek Forever After Take the Lead, Spy Kids trilogy, Miami Rhapsody, Four Rooms,

Assassins, Never Talk to Strangers, Two Much, The 13th Warrior, Play it to the Bone and Ballistic: Ecks

vs. Sever.

Banderas can also be seen in The 33, directed by Patricia Riggen starring alongside Juliette Binoche and

Rodrigo Santoro. Banderas upcoming projects include Simon West’s action film Salty starring opposite

Olga Kurylenko and Alan Derroche’s action film Security. Banderas recently wrapped production on Isaac

Florentine’s Stoic alongside Paz Vega, Karl Urban, and Robert Forster.

It was recently announced he will star in Aleksandr Boguslavskiy’s Beyond The Edge and the Andrea

Bocelli biopic The Music of Silence with Michael Radford directing.

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS (Jack) continues to land leading roles opposite today’s hottest film actors

and directors, and has emerged as one of Hollywood’s most sought after leading men.

Born in Ireland, Rhys Meyers made his film debut in A Man of No Importance, but it was his starring role

in Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine in 1998 that gained him international attention and a London Film

Critics Circle Award. Rhys Meyers also earned critical acclaim for his role in the edgy Woody Allen film

Match Point. Dubbed as Allen’s “comeback,” the film was nominated for three Golden Globes® including

Best Picture. The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005 with Rhys Meyers winning the

festival’s Chopard Trophy for Male Revelation.

Rhys Meyers is also recognized for his role as the girls’ soccer coach in the award-winning sleeper hit

Bend It Like Beckham along with other notable film credits including a starring role in Mira Nair’s Vanity

Fair.

His film credits also include Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins, Kirsten Sheridan’s August Rush, Telling Lies in

America, Mike Figgis’ The Loss Of Sexual Innocence, Ang Lee’s western Ride with the Devil, Roland

Emmerich’s Stonewall and most recently the spy thriller Damascus Cover and Derrick Borte’s London

Town. He has also worked with such talented directors as Michael Radford, Oliver Stone, Julie Taymor,

Luc Besson and Harald Zwart.

Rhys Meyers has also garnered 2 Golden Globe® Award nominations for his role as Henry the VIII in The

Tudors and was rewarded with a Best Actor Globe® for his starring role in the CBS television miniseries

“Elvis” as well as an Emmy® nomination. Among his television credits is the NBC drama “Dracula”, which

he was also a producer, the mini-series “Roots” for The History Channel and most recently just finished

shooting “VIKINGS” for the History Channel.

PIPER PERABO (Laura) is one of the most talented and versatile actresses working today.

Perabo most recently co-starred with Daniel Sunjata in ABC’s 2016 legal drama “Notorious.” Prior to that,

she starred as Annie Walker in all 5 seasons of USA Network’s spy drama, “Covert Affairs.”

In May 2009, she made her stage debut in Neil Labute’s controversial play Reasons To Be Pretty directed

by Terry Kinney. She co-stared alongside Alison Pill, Thomas Sadoski and Pablo Schreiber. In fall 2015,

Perabo returned to the stage in the MCC Theater’s off-Broadway production of Lost Girls.

Although new to the theater, she is no stranger to the screen. In 2007, she was seen in Christopher

Nolan’s The Prestige with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale, in Because I Said So with Diane Keaton and

Lauren Graham and in First Snow, a film directed by Mark Fergus, costarring Guy Pearce and Adam Scott.

Next, Perabo was seen in John Glenn’s disturbing thriller The Heaven Project with Paul Walker and

Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua alongside Jaime Lee Curtis.

Perabo was also seen in Paramount Vantage’s Carriers in New Mexico. She played the female lead

opposite Chris Pine and Lou Taylor Pucci in the post-apocalyptic thriller about four friends trying to

escape a viral pandemic.

Shortly after, Perabo starred alongside Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon Levitt, Emily Blunt and Jeff Daniels in

the sci-fi action film, Looper.

Some of her other film credits include Adam Shankman’s Cheaper By The Dozen 2 in which she reprised

her role as the eldest daughter to Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, along with the romantic comedy

Imagine Me & You with Lena Heady and Matthew Goode and the crime drama 10th & Wolf with an

ensemble cast that included James Marsden and Dennis Hopper.

Her feature film debut was in the comedy WHITE BOYZ, written by Danny Hoch. She also starred in

Coyote Ugly.

Outside of her work on screen and stage, Perabo became an IRC Voice to raise awareness of the refugee

crisis in Europe and help those displaced by conflict, religious persecution and political oppression around

the globe.

Perabo lives in both Los Angeles and New York City.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

BRIAN GOODMAN (Director) is an American film and television director, writer, and actor. After

growing up in Boston and deciding to pursue acting, he went to an audition for a low-budget film called

Southie with Donnie Wahlberg where he landed his first role. At this time, Goodman also began writing.

In 2008, Goodman and Wahlberg co-wrote and directed the Ethan Hawke/Mark Ruffalo film What Doesn’t

Kill You. Goodman has also had recurring and guest-starring roles in a number of different films and

television series, including all thirteen episodes of “Line of Fire” (as Donovan Stubbin) and three episodes

of “Lost” as Ryan Pryce. Some of his other appearances include 2001 film The Last Castle, 2006 film The

Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, two episodes of “24” and a recurring role on the first two seasons of

“Rizzoli & Isles.” His recurring role on “Rizzoli & Isles” led to him becoming a main cast member starting

with the season 3 premiere.

Goodman resides in Los Angeles.

JUSTIN STANLEY (Screenwriter) was born into a working class family in the small town of Sandwich

where discovered a passion for cinema and filmmaking at a young age. This passion led him to organize

a London-based film festival which garnered a stateside job offer as an assistant in the film industry from

one of the festival's VIP guests. He jumped at the chance and hasn’t looked back since and now counts

Los Angeles as his second home.

As an assistant he worked alongside some of the most respected producers and directors in the business.

It was during a later stint in motion picture and television creative development that he discovered a

knack for writing, which then became his career of choice. He has now co-written projects for companies

like Universal Pictures, Arnon Milchan’s New Regency, Marc Platt Productions, Atlas Independent, Fox

Television and HBO, which involved producers and filmmakers such as David Kirschner (of the Child’s Play

series and Frailty), Oscar® winner Arnold Kopelson, and visionary director Timur Bekmembatov.

He is represented by Ed Hughes at Linda Seifert Management in the United Kingdom.

MARC FRYDMAN (Screenwriter/Producer) began his career as part of the founding team that created

the French pay TV channel Canal+, serving as Vice President of Feature Film Co-productions. In 1992,

when Canal+ created Hexagon Films, Frydman became Hexagon’s President of Film Production. After

Hexagon, Marc moved on to form Battle Plan Productions with his producing partner, writer-director Rod

Lurie.

In television, Marc and his partner Rod Lurie executive produced the drama Commander In Chief for

Touchstone Television and ABC as part of an overall multi-year deal between the studio and their

company, Battle Plan Productions. In 2006 the show’s star, Geena Davis, was awarded the Golden

Globe® for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series. In 2002 Frydman executive produced

Lurie’s one hour television drama pilot, Line of Fire, in conjunction with ABC, Touchstone, and

DreamWorks. The series was given a thirteen episode commitment and aired on ABC in the fall of 2003,

making Frydman the first French executive producer of a major network television series. The drama

series was called the “best new show of the year” by the Associated Press and the Miami Herald.

SILVIO MURAGLIA (Producer) is a respected international producer and television executive,

possessing extensive knowledge of both the European and the American entertainment industries and

film markets. For the past 20 years, Muraglia has specialized in the field of international co-production,

developing extensive expertise in multi-national film financing, financial credit enhancements and tax

incentives. And he has established a reputation for successfully combining financial responsibility with

commercial viability.

Born in Italy, Muraglia completed his studies in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Milan. He

subsequently attended the University of Southern California (USC) receiving a degree in broadcast

journalism. He began his media career in Los Angeles working on the news assignment desk at KHJ-TV.

He then became an entertainment reporter covering major Hollywood events for Radio Televisione

Italiana (RAI), one of the largest and oldest European television networks, which in turn led to producing

major RAI news events that included coverage of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, the Soccer World

Championship in Mexico and Pope John Paul II’s visits to the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and

Fiji.

Muraglia was subsequently promoted to senior vice president and put in charge of creating and managing

the Los Angeles office of RAI. In this capacity, he developed a steady dramatic co-production business,

serving as executive in charge of production for RAI’s feature films and television co-productions

including the first ever motion picture utilizing Sony’s high-definition technology, Julia and Julia, a co-

production of RAI and Japan’s NHK Network starring Kathleen Turner and Sting.

Muraglia left RAI to serve as President of Los Angeles-based Quinta Communications USA, a joint venture

between Silvio Berlusconi's Finivest, the French bank Credit Agricole and the French insurance company

AXA. Under Muraglia’s direction Quinta produced for USA Network Nobody’s Children, starring Ann-

Margret and Voyage, starring Rutger Hauer, Karen Allen and Eric Roberts,; for ABC Yes Virginia, There Is

a Santa Claus, starring Charles Bronson and Ed Asner,; for NBC Drug Wars II: The Colombia Connection,

a four-hour mini-series written and produced by Michael Mann. Muraglia also exec-produced the

Universal Pictures release Foreign Student, starring Robin Givens and Marco Hofschneider.

Muraglia left Quinta Communications to start his own film production company, Cine Grande Films, under

a three-year production deal with USA Network and continued to make commercial independent films

with his US company Cine Grande Films and his European company Mediterranean Films for the next

twelve years. Notable among films Muraglia produced under this banner is the Golden Globe nominated

Prayers for Bobby, starring Sigourney Weaver.

Muraglia was in charge of production for Bavariapool, a company owned by Telepool and the Bavaria Film

Studios.

In total, Muraglia's entertainment industry career spans two decades as a television and motion picture

executive. He has five Executive in Charge of Production credits, three Executive Producer credits and

thirteen primary Producer credits. Muraglia’s current project Finding Steve McQueen starring Travis

Fimmel, Rachael Taylor and Forest Whitaker will be released in the US by Open Road Films.

Muraglia is currently President and CEO of Paradox Studios LLC a partnership between Swedish Financier

Mikael Wiren’s TKOF and AMBI Group.

Muraglia holds dual citizenship in Italy and the USA.

Muraglia possesses a fluent command of Italian, English, French and Spanish.

ANDREA IERVOLINO (Producer), 29 years old, was awarded as Best Producer at the 71st Venice Film

Festival, together with Al Pacino and Barry Levinson.

He was named Filmmaker Of The Year for his roles as producer of In Dubious Battle at Capri Hollywood

Film Festival 2016.

In 2015 he became “Ambassador of Italian Cinema in the World” and “Best Italian Businessman of the

World”. He received many other awards during his successful career.

He was named one of Variety’s 2015 Dealmakers.

In 2016 he awarded at ICFF – Italian Contemporary Film Festival as Best Producer and Businessman.

Andrea Iervolino, who has been a producer since the age of 16, produced, financed and distributed over

60 films.

Co-founder of a number different production companies, he is currently the youngest and most highly

regarded Italian entrepreneurs in the world of film-making.

Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s AMBI Group is currently on a strong upward roll, producing and

putting together many of those films that will be screened in forthcoming movie and television seasons.

ROD LURIE (Producer) wrote and directed the widely-praised Academy Award® and Globe Award®

nominated political thriller The Contender, starring Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman and Christian

Slater. The film was also honored by the Broadcast Film Critics with the first-ever Alan J. Pakula Award.

In television, Lurie created the series “Commander In Chief,” which was nominated for the Best Drama

Series Golden Globe®, and for which Geena Davis won the Best Actress Golden Globe® for her depiction

of the first female President of the United States.

His other recent projects include writing and directing the films Straw Dogs, a remake of the 1971 classic

starring James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, and Alexander Skarsgard, Nothing But the Truth, starring Kate

Beckinsale, Alan Alda, and Matt Dillon, and Resurrecting the Champ, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Josh

Hartnett. Additionally, created and executive-produced Line of Fire, a one-hour FBI drama for ABC, and

directed the feature film The Last Castle, which starred Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, and Mark

Ruffalo.

Lurie made his film writing and directing debut in 1998 with the dramatic short Four Second Delay, which

won the Best Short Film award at the Atlanta Film Festival and the Crested Butte Reel Fest. The film also

won the Prix du Jury at the Festival of American Cinema in Deauville, France. Lurie followed in 2000 with

his first feature film, Deterrence, a drama about America coming to the brink of nuclear war, starring

Kevin Pollak and Timothy Hutton.

Before he segued to filmmaking, Lurie graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point

in 1984 and went on to serve for four years as a Combat Arms officer in the U.S. Army. After the military,

Lurie first enjoyed success as a film critic and entertainment reporter, breaking into journalism as a

reporter for the New York Daily News, and was also a film critic and interviewer for Channel 12 in

Fairfield, Connecticut. In addition, he was a frequent contributor to such magazines as Premiere,

Movieline and Entertainment Weekly.

ALBERTO BURGUEÑO (Producer) is the former Partner of the Entertainment and Film Finance Practice

in KPMG Spain for the last five years, Burgueño was invited to join Elipsis Capital as a partner and

shareholder of the company on January 2016.

Elipsis Capital is a boutique merchant bank focused in project finance for entertainment and live events

industries, incorporated in 2014. Since then, Elipsis Capital has participated in films with above 100

million Euro budgets and has a project portfolio above 120 million Euro. Additionally, Elipsis has

incorporated a film fund (RAIF) to channel investments of several institutional and private investors

through a regulated investment vehicle.

ALEXANDRA KLIM (Producer) started as a TV-presenter, model and actress for several German TV-

stations. Amongst other activities she was host of the travel journal "Schlaflos" and "Die Redaktion" on

RTL2 (1999, 2002-2004), "Welt der Wunder" and "Wissen und Technik" on n24. From 2005 until 2007

she was the news anchor of "K1 Nachrichten" on kabel eins. Since 2014 she is the host of "Screen - Das

Kinomagazin", on Welt der Wunder TV. As an actress she is featured in Eine Insel zum Träumen - Koh

Samui and Huldra: Lady of the Forest. Since 2013 she’s been working as a producer and developer for

Paradox Studios. She was credited as a producer in the movies All Roads Lead to Rome, Lavender,

Reclaim and Finding Steve McQueen.

CREDITS

Directed by

BRIAN GOODMAN

Screenplay by JUSTIN STANLEY & MARC FRYDMAN

Produced by SILVIO MURAGLIA

ANDREA IERVOLINO MONIKA BACARDI

ALEXANDRA KLIM

Producers

MARC FRYDMAN ROD LURIE

Producers

ALBERTO BURGUEÑO

JUAN ANTONIO GARCÍA PEREDO

Executive Producers MIKAEL WIRÉN

ANTHONY MASTROMAURO

Executive Producers

MIKAEL WIRÉN ANTHONY MASTROMAURO

Executive Producers

BARRY BROOKER STAN WERTLIEB

Executive Producers EMMANUEL PAINTENDRE

GERARD BARBA

Executive Producers JASON GARRETT

DAVID ROGERS

Executive Producers

CHRISTOPHE CARMONA FRANCOIS CHARLANT

Co-Executive Producers

ANDREA ZOSO

GUGLIELMO MARCHETTI

Supervising Producer DANIELLE MALONI

Co-Producer

VIKI MARRAS

Associate Producer

MATT VAROSKY

Director of Photography JOSÉ DAVID MONTERO

Production Designer MICHAEL FISSNEIDER

Editors

JULIA JUANIZ MARK SULT

Costume Designer MASSIMO PARRINI CANTINI

Original Music by

FEDERICO JUSID

Casting Directors

SCOT BOLAND VICTORIA BURROWS

ANTONIO BANDERAS

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS

PIPER PERABO

LIONSGATE PREMIERE GRINDSTONE ENTERTAINMENT GROUP and

AMBI DISTRIBUTION Present

A

PARADOX STUDIOS

ELIPSIS CAPITAL and BATTLEPLAN PRODUCTIONS

Production

In Association With

AMBI MEDIA GROUP and PREMIERE PICTURES

Based on the French Film

“PAPILLON NOIR” Written by

HERVÉ KORIAN

“BLACK BUTTERFLY”

CAST

Paul Jack Laura

LT Carcano Truck Driver/ Agent Rothwell

Nancy AJ

Sam Mr. Owen Mrs. Owen

Pat Delivery Man

Julie Waitress

Diner Manager News Reporter

Michelle Emerson Paul’s Wife

ANTONIO BANDERAS

JONATHAN RHYS MEYERS PIPER PERABO VINCENT RIOTTA BRIAN GOODMAN KATIE MCGOVERN JAKE DALEY CRAIG PERITZ

RANDALL RICHARD PAUL CRISTINA MOGLIA ABEL FERRARA NICHOLAS AARON NATHALIE RAPTI GOMEZ GIOIA LIBARDONI TRACY SHERMAN GREENE TIMOTHY MARTIN CHERISH ANN GAINES ALEXANDRA KLIM

CREW

Stunt Coordinator Stunts

ALESSANDRO NOVELLI EMILIANO NOVELLI MAURO AVERSANO GAIA AMATO FEDERICO BENVENUTI SIMONE GIROLAMI DIEGO GUERRA ANDREI JDANOV GIONATA MARZEDDU MASSIMILIANO UBALDI

ANGELA DENISE URGESI VITTORIO VERDIROSI

DAVIDE TOVI GIUSEPPE MANZI

Line Producer Unit Production Manager

Unit Manager

2nd Unit Manager Production Coordinator

Production Secretary

Assistant Producer Production Assistants

PIERPAOLO DI ROSA FABIO MANCINI FEDERICA NARDELLI EDOARDO CATELLANI GIOIA LIBARDONI TULLIO ABRUZZESE MASSIMILIANO SORIA LORENZO VANDINI EVA VIVO VALENTINA RIBEZZI SARA PELUSO CARMELO MICCOLI VALERIO GIUBILEI ORLANDO ORLANDI EDVIGE DE TOMMASO

Additional Production Assistants

Unit Publicist

1st Assistant Director 2ND Assistant Directors

Additional 2nd Assistant Directors

ROY BAVA LUCA JOHN ROSATI VALENTINA DE CASSAN MARCO DELLA TORRE JACOPO FOURNIER ABBEY SPACIL RENATA MALINCONICO YOLANDA POLINO JAMIE O’KEEFFE

Director’s Assistants

Assistant to Antonio Banderas Assistant to Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Director of Photography

A Camera Operator

B Camera Operator

Additional Camera Operator

1st AC A Camera 1st AC B Camera

2ND AC A Camera 2ND AC B Camera

Data Manager Digital Imaging Technician

Video Assistant

JOSE DAVID MONTERO

SACHA IPPOLITI

JOSE DAVID MONTERO

ROBERTO DE FRANCESCHI DUCCIO MACCARI FABIO CIOTTO EUGLEN SOTA FLORIANA COSENTINO UMBERTO BENDINI DAVIDE LEONE FILIPPO SILLI

Still Photographer

Still Photographer – Day Player Backstage

Backstage Boom Operators

ROMOLO EUCALITTO

PIERRE ANDRE TRANSUNTO

PIERRE ANDRE TRANSUNTO

GUIDO SPIZZICO EDUARDO MARTIN

Gaffer ANTONIO LA BARBERA

Electricians MASSIMO DI DOMENICO LORENZO LA BARBERA ANTONIO FORTUNATI MARCO RAIMONDI CLAUDIO TERLIZZI ALESSIO GABRIELE FABIO DELL’ORCO ALESSIO NANNICINI

Daily Labor

Key Grip Grips

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Daily Labor

Generator Operator Drivers

Additional Drivers

Sound Mixer Sound Mixer

Boom Operator

MARIO IAQUONE EDUARDO MARTIN GUIDO SPIZZICO

Script Supervisor ELIDE CORTESI

Production Designer Assistant Production Designer

Set Decorator Assistant Set Decorator

Property Master Leadman

MICHAEL FISSNEIDER MAURO PARADISO AMENAH MONEM GUENDALINA BARBIERI STEFANO MORBIDELLI MASSIMILIANO PAONESSA

Property Man Stand-by Props

Graphic Designer Daily Labor

BRUNO FALCONI ALESSANDRO MORBIDELLI STEFANO VECCHIARELLI ALESSANDRO BERNABEI MARIO COURRIER EMILIANO DE VECCHIS ROMANO DI MASCIO NUNZIO MASINO KAMIL STANISZ ADRIANO TORRE MAURO TOZZI VITTORIO DI PERSIO ADA TRIFILO

Painters

Costume Designer Costume Supervisor

1st Assistant Costume Designer

2nd Assistant Costume Designer Costume Seamstress

MASSIMO CANTINI PARRINI JESSICA ZAMBELLI VALENTINA FUCCI LAURA RICCARDI SABRINA FABRIZI SILVIO GUIDONI ANTONIETTA PARMEGIANI

Make-up Department Head Make-up Artist

Additional Make-up Artist Hair Department Head

Hair Stylists Additional Hair Stylists

JORGE HERNANDEZ BARBARA PELLEGRINI FEDERICA BASTREGHI FRANCESCO PEGORETTI ANNA DE SANTIS SOFIA AMABILE MARTA VICINI

Special Effects Coordinator Special Effects Assistants

RENATO AGOSTINO STEFANO CORRIDORI MARCO CORRIDORI MONETA

Location Managers FEDERICO SANTANGELO FRANCESCO COLICIGNO ANTONIO MESSINO

Transportation Captain Genny Facilities

Machinist Grip Truck MDP Camera Truck

Wardrobe Truck Make-Up Truck

FABIO DI MICHELE STEFANO ROSATI MAURIZIO CONSOLI LUIGI LOMBARI VALENTIN CIOBANU MAURIZIO AGNOSTINELLI

Tricamper Camper #1 Camper #2

WC Honey Wagon

MARTINO ROBERTO TONINO QUARANTA ANGELO MARCHESANI ION GHEORHITA

Picture Vehicles

Drivers

PRONTIMOTOREAZIONE.COM

DEVIS MOCCI

MARCO MOLINARO MANOLO MOLINARO NICOLAS MOLINARO DIEGO MONTINARI GIANLUCA CATERINI

Head Production Accountant Cashier

ANNA MARIA TURCHI FRANCESCA SCUTTI

Italian Casting Director Extras Casting

AOSM UK Casting

GAIA CASANOVA ANGELA D’AGUANNO BENEDETTA CATUFA SHARON HOWARD FIELD, CDG SUZANNE M. SMITH, CDG

Post-Production Supervisor ERIKA SCARAMELLA

Editors JULIA JUANIZ MARK SULT NAGORE GARCIA FRANCESCO CUCINELLI ALESSANDRO SALVATORI MARINELLI EFFETTI SONORI S.r.L THEO FRANCOCCO MARCO MARINELLI MASSIMO MARINELLI ENZO DI LIBERTO MASSIMO MARINELLI FABIO PALMISANO ALESSANDRO PELLICCIA IVAN TOZZI GABRIELE CHITI SUSANNA GIORGI GIANNI MONCIOTTI CARLO FANFONI MARK ASHWORTH EMILIANO COBAI

Assistant Editor Re-recording Mixer

Sound Editor Sound Effects

Sound Effects Editors

Foley Artists

Foley Recording Mixer Video Post Production Supervisor

Color Correction Conforming

Dallies Audio Post Production Coordinator

Mix Assistant Dubbing Director

Dubbing Mixer

Original Music Composer and Conductor

Music Production Manager Associate Music Producer

Orchestrations

FEDERICO JUSID MARIA ULLED ADRIAN FOULKES GUSTAVO GINI FEDERICO JUSID JUAN CORTES Music Programming & Session

Preparation

Piano Prepared Pianos, Percussions, and

Electronic Sounds Conductor Budapest Orchestra Budapest Orchestra Contractor

Budapest Orchestra Recording Engineer Budapest Orchestra Protools Assistant

Metronome MP Mix Engineer Recorded in Hungary with

FEDERICO JUSID ADRIAN FOULKES

PETER PEJTSIK MIKLOS LUKACS JR GABOR BUCZKO MIKLOS LUKACS JOSE VINADER THE BUDAPEST ORCHESTRA

Original Soundtrack Produced By ALA BIANCA GROUP S.r.L IERVOLINO ENTERTAINMENT S.p.A GIOVANNI MAROLLA METRONOME MP TAKA TAKA STUDIO METRONOME MP

Music Supervisor Music Recording-Budapest and Madrid

Music Mix-Madrid

Production Supervisor-Canada Post Production Supervisor-Canada

VFX Supervisor Production Accountant-Canada

Bookkeeper-Canada VFX Production Manager

VFX Artists

FERDINANDO DELL’OMO MEGHAN ARMSTRONG PETER NALLI

JOCELYN ARMAH PETER NYKIEL JAMES ANTHONY YOUNG JIN SUNGJIN AHN ALEX FREITAS ANDREA GIL JAY KINSELLA ZANE KOZAK

BLAYKE NADEAU ROSHAN PINTO AYAZ AHMED VIJAPURWALA JAMES ANTHONY YOUNG

End Credits Animation Rolling Credits

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