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Run time: 139 minutes

CAST CHARACTER

Joel Edgerton Brendan ConlonTom Hardy Tommy Conlon

Jennifer Morrison Tess ConlonFrank Grillo Frank Campana

AndNick Nolte Paddy Conlon

Denzel Whitaker StephonBryan Callen HimselfKevin Dunn Principal Zito

Maximiliano Hernandez Colt BoydSam Sheridan Himself

Fernando Funan Chien FenroyJake McLaughlin Mark Bradford

THE FILMMAKERS

Directed by Gavin O'ConnorScreenplay by Gavin O’Connor &

Anthony Tambakis &Cliff Dorfman

Story by Gavin O’Connor &Cliff Dorfman

Produced by Gavin O'ConnorGreg O'Connor

Director of Photography Masanobu TakayanagiProduction Designer Dan Leigh

Edited by John Gilroy, A.C.E.Sean Albertson, A.C.E.Matt Chessé, A.C.E.Aaron Marshall

Costume Designer Abigail MurrayExecutive Producers Michael Paseornek

Lisa EllzeyExecutive Producers David Mimran

Jordan SchurJohn J. Kelly

Co-Producers Anthony TambakisJamie MarshallJosh Fagin

Music by Mark IshamMusic Supervisor Brian Ross

Casting by Randi Hiller

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SYNOPSIS

Rising stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton command the screen as two estranged brothers facing the fight of a lifetime in Lionsgate’s WARRIOR, a moving, inspirational action drama from acclaimed director Gavin O’Connor (“Miracle” and “Pride and Glory”).

Haunted by a tragic past, Marine Tommy Conlon (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his father (Nick Nolte) to train for Sparta, the biggest winner-takes-all event in mixed martial arts history. A former wrestling prodigy, Tommy blazes a path toward the championship while his brother, Brendan (Edgerton), an ex-fighter-turned teacher, returns to the ring in a desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin.  But when Brendan’s unlikely, underdog rise sets him on a collision course with the unstoppable Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront each other and the forces that pulled them apart, facing off in the most soaring, soul stirring, and unforgettable climax that must be seen to be believed.

A rousing ode to redemption, reconciliation and the power of the human spirit, WARRIOR is also a moving testament to the enduring bonds of family.   WARRIOR stars Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom, Star Wars: Episode III), Tom Hardy (the upcoming The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Black Hawk Down), Jennifer Morrison ("House", Star Trek) and Nick Nolte (Tropic Thunder, The Thin Red Line).  The film is directed by Gavin O'Connor; screenplay by Gavin O’Connor & Anthony Tambakis & Cliff Dorman and story by Gavin O'Connor & Cliff Dorfman. Lionsgate and Mimran Schur Pictures present a Lionsgate / Mimran Schur Pictures production. A Solaris Entertainment and Filmtribe production.

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ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

What Do You Fight For?

That is the central question of director Gavin O’Connor’s WARRIOR. The movie is an intense

glimpse into the world of a sport never before shown like this on film. More than that though, it’s

an intense glimpse into a family’s journey from brokenness to reparation, and into the hearts of

two brothers – one fighting for his country, the other for his family – both tapping into immense

stores of vigor and courage.

WARRIOR thrives on the juxtaposition of its portrayal of something as contemporary, infectious,

and specific as the phenomenon that is mixed martial arts with a story that is thoroughly classic, a

story of family. In fact, mano-a-mano chronicles of estranged brothers confronting one another

are one of the oldest themes in literature, and telling one in such a fresh setting was O’Connor’s

primary inspiration for making the film. While the movie was indeed an opportunity for him to

realistically dramatize a not-yet-mainstream sport with a major mystique, the story is really for

and about “people who live warrior lives,” – everyday heroes fighting everyman fights for better

opportunities and better relationships.

The start of the film finds Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy) back in the orbit of a broken family he’d

given up on years ago. When he and his mother escaped his abusive father Paddy (Nick Nolte),

his brother Brendan (Joel Edgerton) stayed behind to be close to his high school girlfriend Tess

(Jennifer Morrison), to whom he is now married. Though Paddy and Tommy have made a patchy

truce in order to train together once again, communication between the brothers is nonexistent

when they both make a surprise ascent up the rungs of the nationally televised Sparta tournament.

The matches, explains O’Connor, are the backdrop to “a story about two brothers on a collision

course who have to deal with their past in the present day, in a cage, communicating with their

fists to rectify a very painful situation.”

Although by facing off the brothers are ultimately able to break through many years of pent up

hostility and regret, each has more than their fraternal relationship at stake in the tournament.

Each really needs to win the giant cash prize, though for very different reasons. Brendan’s family

has been hit hard by the economic crisis and he and Tess are in deep debt on their modest house.

Having exhausted all other avenues, Brendan, a longtime high school teacher, reluctantly revisits

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his distant past and begins moonlighting in small local underground fights, hoping to win enough

money to stay in the house for another month while they can figure out a viable solution. When

his fighting gets him suspended from his teaching job, a comeback that began in parking lots out

of desperation for quick extra cash morphs into a personal crusade: to be taken seriously as a

fighter despite his age and long absence from the sport, and to push himself as far as he can

possibly go.

Tommy, on the other hand, is a lone wolf. He joined the Marine Corps after his mother’s death

and has been drifting and falling into trouble since he returned from Iraq. When we first meet

him, Tommy’s past is a mystery and his motives are inscrutable. But as the story unfolds, we

learn he made a promise to a fallen comrade to take care of his family in the event of his death.

Now, he is fighting for the money to fulfill that promise. Should he win the $5 million grand

prize at Sparta, he has pledged to give it all to the now single mother and small children his

former friend left behind.

Balancing the audience’s sympathies and alliances between the brothers was one of the biggest

challenges inherent in the filmmaking. With both of them fighting for something so important, as

O’Connor puts it, “you’re rooting for Tommy to keep winning, and you’re rooting for Brendan to

keep winning.” But then, the audience is faced with a decision: who they root for when the

brothers finally face each other. In O’Connor’s mind, despite Tommy’s noble motives for

entering the tournament, the trick to the movie is that the audience has to be ready to see Tommy

lose, which for him is also actually to win. He elaborates, “Tommy’s win is losing, because he’s

so spiritually bankrupt. He needs to die at the hands of his brother to be reborn. It’s very Old

Testament storytelling in the most contemporary way.”

In many ways, the project was a second-nature stop on O’Connor’s filmmaking trajectory. Many

of his colleagues on the film see WARRIOR as sitting firmly at the intersection of the sentiments

and stories at the heart of his previous films “Miracle” and “Pride and Glory.” “Gavin brought an

energy and a populist quality to ‘Miracle’ that had you standing on your feet cheering at the end

of the movie, despite the fact that you knew exactly what was going to happen,” explains

producer Greg O’Connor. “He’s an All-American college linebacker. He understands

camaraderie, how sports work. ‘Pride and Glory’ was sort of an evolution of Gavin’s style – a

very intense, muscular cop movie, a hard ‘R’ where ‘Miracle’ was meant for a broad audience.”

Greg O’Connor points out that WARRIOR combines the best of both of these films. “We get the

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investment in the sport and the on-your-feet cheering response from ‘Miracle,’ but also the drama

– the story of a father-son relationship getting torn apart and put back together again –, with some

of the grit of ‘Pride and Glory.’ That makes this the perfect movie for Gavin.”

Another thing that made this film the perfect fit for O’Connor was his credibility in the fight

world, after having produced the acclaimed 2003 HBO documentary “The Smashing Machine:

The Life and Times of Mark Kerr,” which took a hard look at the life of MMA fighter Kerr in and

out of the ring, as he battled his own demons and attempted to hold his personal life together

while traveling the world as a mixed martial arts professional. The film was noted especially for

presenting Kerr as an intelligent man who made a calculated decision to pursue a career in a

physically dangerous sport. The honest portrayal is what resonated with so many in the

professional fight community, which led to their support of O’Connor’s desire to make a fictional

film set in their world. Says JJ Perry, the film’s stunt coordinator and fight choreographer,

“’Smashing Machine’ is my favorite documentary of all time. It really captures what MMA is,

and it came out before the sport was popular. I knew immediately that if WARRIOR was in the

same hands, it was with someone who understood and would do justice to what we love as

stuntmen, martial artists and fighters. That’s what really got us here.”

O’Connor’s original, enduring story idea was one about two brothers who haven’t seen each other

in fourteen years and end up fighting for the world championship, both coming up as extreme

underdogs. Although on paper the story might sound farfetched, the door to the room where

Anthony Tambakis and Gavin wrote bore a sign with the Aristotle quote “A convincing

impossibility is better than an unconvincing possibility.” To them, this meant that in the world of

fiction, anything is possible if it’s told truthfully. Despite starting in two extraordinary sets of

circumstances and meeting in an against-all-odds scenario at the film’s climax, the brothers’

journey has a deep-seated veracity. Tambakis drew inspiration from the real life examples of the

Williams sisters facing off at Wimbledon, the likely eventuality of the Manning brothers playing

against one another in the Super Bowl, and the Ukraine’s Heavyweight Champion Klitschko

brothers. “It seems impossible, yet it isn’t impossible. That was our job,” he explains, of making

the seemingly unlikely feel absolutely authentic.

That kind of artful storytelling is exactly what lends the movie an appeal beyond sport-specific

fans or even general sports fans. Although WARRIOR offers a glimpse into the world of the

sport, it was made for a general audience, a huge portion of which will no doubt be completely

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unfamiliar with of it. Not a problem, as O’Connor explains, “If you don’t know it technically,

you’re going to get it emotionally, because every fight has a story. And the dynamic of the story

within each fight is very clear. It’s as simple as, ‘I’m rooting for him. And I know that if his

hand goes up, he won. If the other guy taps, that guy lost.’” A viewer may not understand arm

bars and grappling techniques, but it doesn’t matter because they understand the stakes of each

fight. The fighting is contextualized and dramatized very clearly. Adds co-writer Tambakis, “To

talk about WARRIOR as a fight movie is like saying “Rocky” is a boxing movie, or “Breaking

Away” is a bicycle movie, or “Hoosiers” is a basketball movie. They’re not. They’re character

pieces that are set in a specific world, like all good stories are set in a specific world.” Audiences

walk away from all satisfying movies learning something about a world they previously knew

nothing about, and this film is no different.

While making the movie meant to capture so many specifics of a rarely-portrayed sport and

sports culture, the obvious question would be how to cast the film—with real fighters who would

be trained to act, or with professional actors who would be taught to fight. For O’Connor, there

was no question. The emotional complexity of the roles demanded experienced actors.

Convinced that a traditional actor-director rapport and a common language of film was key and

that with enough commitment, actors with natural athleticism could be trained to look like

authentic fighters on screen, O’Connor set out to cast the film’s two pivotal roles.

Finding an actor with an absolutely unique balance of opposite qualities to play Tommy Conlon,

a character who does some unlikeable things and who is often unpleasant but whose core

goodness and vulnerability must be ever apparent to the audience, was the key to the film first

and foremost. O’Connor had read close to 200 actors for the part when after an initial phone

conversation, he arranged for an in-person meeting with Tom Hardy. “It wasn’t a traditional

audition” explains Hardy, who was confident in the dramatic essence of the character but had

fierce initial doubts about whether he could “close the gap” presented by the accent

transformation, physical transformation, and cultural transformations the role required. After

sharing his concerns with O’Connor, the two settled on a pow-wow in the United States to do

some reading, development and analysis, and hopefully arm Hardy with a fully rounded

character. That experience turned out to be more in-depth than O’Connor ever imagined. He

recounts, “(Hardy) showed up at my house at midnight on a Sunday, unannounced. Just a knock

on the door, and there’s Tom Hardy. He was supposed to go to a hotel, but instead stayed at my

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house for five days. He never left, so I got to know him very well. And the qualities that he had

as a human being were just right for the character.”

Hardy’s co-star Edgerton feels strongly that the people with the most interesting lives off-screen

make the most interesting presences on screen, and thinks that Hardy’s performance falls

squarely into that category. He feels that the key to playing this combustible character was that

“Tom is definitely a character in real life, a really loving, lovely, thoughtful, intelligent guy. He’s

a complex guy and that shows through in his work.”

The next step was finding the right actor to play Tommy’s brother Brendan. The brothers are

almost psychological mirror images – where Tommy is full of surface rage that masks the decent

person he really is, Brendan is very mature and thoughtful, but harbors a fierce fighting spirit at

his core. With a black belt in karate and a famed Australian stunt coordinator for a brother, Joel

Edgerton had the athletic background O’Connor was looking for. But he also had the key layers

the role of Brendan required. O’Connor needed an actor who the audience could sense straight

away had an abundance of integrity, and “integrity reeks off him. You can’t fake that.” However,

the role also demanded someone that the audience would believe had a past. “Brendan was a

fighter when he was younger, and he got into some trouble,” O’Connor elaborates. “But he’s

evolved and become a man, a father, a great husband. Still, there’s something primal about him.

So you need to see in his eyes that he could have the capacity to regress, to drink and throw a

punch.” It’s a balance that O’Connor thinks today’s Australian actors exhibit more readily than

their American contemporaries, an Aussie mystique of sorts. Edgerton’s co-star Nick Nolte also

makes the connection, pointing out a discernable “pioneering spirit” from Australian actors of

Edgerton’s generation.

Jennifer Morrison adds of her on-screen husband, “Joel has a huge heart. He always wants the

best for those around him, and he’s incredibly disciplined. Having all those qualities in Joel

obviously infused the character of Brendan. They automatically make you want to stand behind

him and root for him. Whether it’s him working out his finances, saving his family, or winning

the fight, you want him to win.”

Casting the role of Paddy didn’t require an international search. In fact, Gavin had to look no

further than down his own street. The part of Paddy, a man very much in need of redemption,

was actually written for O’Connor’s neighbor and friend Nick Nolte, who was originally cast in

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“Pride and Glory,” but had a last-minute scheduling conflict that prohibited his participation.

O’Connor and Tambakis both grew up as enormous fans of Nolte’s work and vowed to write him

a special part. O’Connor tells of humoring everyone on the production by “pretending to go

through the lists” of suggestions for the role, all the while knowing that it should and hopefully

would belong to Nolte in the end. “He’s a national treasure,” says O’Connor, “and I wanted to

use him how he’s best and hoped the role would remind everyone what he’s capable of.”

“Acting is a contact sport for Nick,” says Hardy of his co-star. “You’re going into the room with

somebody who’s going to judge you on your give and take. He’s a live wire, an actor with

incredible presence.”

Though the primary relationships explored in the film are father-son and fraternal, Jennifer

Morrison’s character Tess is in many ways the “heartbeat of the film,” as producer Greg

O’Connor puts it. Where Paddy is holding together Tommy’s side of the fight, his training and

his business, Tess is holding Brendan’s world together. “If it’s not for Tess’s female qualities

holding these men together,” explains co-star Nick Nolte, “we don’t have a film.” With the

audience’s investment in Brendan and Tess’ relationship the key to their emotional investment in

the final fight and indeed the whole story, the filmmakers were prepared for a vast search for their

Tess. But Gavin O’Connor tells of turning to the casting director after hearing from Morrison,

only the fifth actress to read, and calling off the search on the spot. “That very rarely happens,

and when it does, we don’t challenge the movie gods on those things. She just had it. She had the

fire, the spirit, the compassion, the sexiness, the toughness, the maternal qualities.” On-screen

husband Edgerton agrees, “The warmth of Jen becomes the warmth of Tess. The goodness you

see on screen is a quality that cannot be manufactured for a role.”

For all of the actors, understanding the complicated, emotional history of the characters’

relationships was a key part of their preparation. Tommy and Brendan haven’t seen each other in

fourteen years and beyond being out of touch, they are completely estranged when they reunite.

Conversely, Brendan and Tess have shared a fourteen-year marriage that grew out of a high

school courtship. The challenge for each actor was to believably erase – or instantly populate –

fourteen years of a shared story with another actor prior to shooting. Along with O’Connor, all

kinds of details were discussed and explored with the actors that according to him “eventually

worked their way into the DNA of the script and the movie,” going deeper and deeper until “it

had footprints and fingerprints that just felt truthful.”

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Perhaps as important as any of the above, the locations where WARRIOR was filmed and is set

truly become characters. After originally considering a range of gritty, working class locations

such as the docks and gyms of Long Beach, California, O’Connor and his team ultimately chose

Pittsburgh as both the film’s shooting location and the story’s setting. “Pennsylvania felt right,”

says the director. “Pennsylvania is wrestling country, it’s football country. I went to Pittsburgh

and fell in love with the ‘working class poetry’ of that city. Its trains, its rivers, its churches. It’s

a tough environment and its textures just felt right.”

The filmmakers also chose to forgo the glitz of Las Vegas for the grittier atmosphere of Atlantic

City for the tournament. “I love the way it looks,” explains O’Connor. “It was the hub of boxing

many years ago, and now it’s kind of downtrodden. I loved the look of the beach, the old

boardwalk, casinos that are falling apart.” But another major selling point for the filmmakers was

the fact that Atlantic City had not been photographed in quite some time. On all levels, from the

sport it portrays to the settings where it portrays them, the film felt like an opportunity to show a

world on film that is little-seen in the medium.

Stunt coordinator JJ Perry was also satisfied with the chosen shooting location, explaining that

filming in a city like Pittsburgh really brought everyone together to focus on the training and

work in total “eat, train, and sleep” mode in a way that might not have happened in a more

cosmopolitan environment.

Although Edgerton’s physical preparation involved gaining almost twenty pounds of muscle for

the role, his fighting style in the film didn’t call for him to bulk up beyond recognition. Perry

describes Edgerton’s physical presence in the film, in contrast to Hardy’s, as that more of a

technician. “He uses jiu-jitsu, the slick maneuvers, and is the underdog who comes from

nowhere whereas Tom is like the Raging Bull that just comes through and wrecks everything in

his wake.” Edgerton describes his training experience as being a physical, mental and emotional

“patchwork.”

While both lead actors were put on a grueling ten-week, full-time training regimen and a strict

high protein diet of six small meals per day, Hardy’s regimen focused much more on heavy

weightlifting with the goal of bulking up, ultimately to the tune of twenty-eight additional pounds

of muscle put on for the part. Unlike Edgerton, Hardy didn’t have previous athletic experience.

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The son of a Cambridge academic father, Hardy is the first to admit that prior to WARRIOR, he

was not a fighting man, and not intimately familiar with “alpha male territory.” While the

structure of his training days, which consisted of two hours of boxing, followed by two hours of

kickboxing and Muay Thai, followed by two hours of choreography, and finally two hours of

lifting, won’t be missed by Hardy (who Perry lovingly described during training as “carb-

depleted, angry and moody”), the sense of accomplishment and athletic prowess gained as a

result of appearing in the film will be forever treasured.

Edgerton concurs, relaying a somewhat transcendent moment during filming: “I always imagined

that when you’re fighting, the crowd just disappears, and I had an experience of that sort on set.

You can see them, you can hear them, but for some reason, when you step into the ring, it all falls

away. Then you step out, and you’re like ‘Oh, that’s right. There are thousands of people

watching.’”

With three World MMA Awards to his name, and having been named the 8 th Most Powerful Man

in MMA by Fight! Magazine, the legendary Greg Jackson was a technical advisor for the film.

Jackson has trained many successful fighters, including current UFC welterweight champion

Georges St. Pierre. He is also the trainer of former King of Pancrase Nate Marquardt, who

appears in the film. On WARRIOR, he would be entrusted to run both lead actors through their

grueling training regimen.

Production of the fight scenes went on for six straight weeks, with over two hundred hours of

footage ultimately shot for the film, much of it extra fight coverage. As the shoot began, training

transitioned from Jackson’s Albuquerque, New Mexico facility to the Pittsburgh Fight Club,

which played dual host to the production, both as a setting for the film’s gym scenes and as the

cast’s off-camera training center. While both actors did have stunt doubles, Edgerton and Hardy

themselves eventually completed at least 85% of the fight work seen on screen. Observes

Jackson, “I was incredibly impressed with the quality of the actors on this project. They were

dedicated to really understanding what it takes to be high-level fighters and trainers. They partook

in heavy training and the results speak for themselves. I was honored to be a part of such a

significant project for our art. The script positively shows the great impact MMA can have on

individuals and families.”

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Filming mixed martial arts fight scenes presented a unique set of challenges. For one, the gloves

used in MMA are four ounce gloves – far thinner and less padded than boxing gloves – and

fighters’ chests and legs are exposed. Describing how little room for protection there was, Perry

says, “If we do a fight scene in a nightclub and you’re wearing clothes, I can use knee pads and

elbow pads. We can cheat a lot of things.” Though small concessions were made, like replacing

the gloves’ thin padding with equally thin but higher density padding and installing a special

gymnastics style spring floor in the bottom of the cage to help absorb impact, at the end of the

day, both actors had to literally throw themselves into a physically precarious shooting

environment.

They also had to face real fighters, some of the best in the world, from across a multitude of

specialties. The film features Olympic champion wrestler and Pittsburgh local hero Kurt Angle

as Koba, the Russian wrestling champion who is expected to win Sparta. Though his screen time

is limited to one match, his shadow hangs over the entire film as a fearsome opponent. In fact,

the shadow of Angle himself, as well as those of fellow world class martial arts professionals who

make appearances in the film, from Nate Marquardt, Erik Apple, Anthony “Rumble” Johnson,

and Yves Edwards, hung over the set as forces to be reckoned with.

It was a challenge not just to train the two lead actors as credible fighters, but train real fighters

who have spent a lifetime physically crushing opponents to the ways of stunt fighting, or

“selling” punches versus actually throwing them. In other words, Perry’s challenge was to train

the fighters “not to wreck the actors,” as he puts it. Despite his best efforts though, the occasional

punch did accidentally connect, and there were a handful of “comes with the territory” injuries on

set, including Hardy’s personal tally of a torn ligament, broken foot and cracked rib, and a serious

injury to the MCL of Edgerton’s right knee that jeopardized the shooting schedule. Despite

doctor’s warnings, the Australian toughed it out and finished the shoot despite the tear in his

knee. Perhaps the steepest learning curve for each of the film’s real fighters, however, was to go

against the grain of everything they’ve ever learned and accept that they would ultimately lose the

bout in their filmed fight.

Apart from the real fighters shown in WARRIOR, so many other people who appeared in the film

or participated behind the scenes are renowned members of the sport’s community or just plain

passionate about it.

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Officiating the film’s visceral fights was longtime professional referee Josh Rosenthal, one of the

top refs in the world and himself a jujitsu brown belt. Rosenthal was quite at home in the role,

having refereed over 2,000 real life fights. A staunch admirer of the way O’Connor has captured

the heart and soul of bouts from a fighter’s perspective as well as the infectious crowd energy of

the live events, Rosenthal also had an abundance of compliments for the two lead actors. “They

really stepped up,” he says. “They put themselves through the paces to perform with guys that are

world class athletes at the top of their sport.”

In addition, the film’s ringside announcer is none other than acclaimed sportswriter Sam

Sheridan, author of the acclaimed national bestsellers “A Fighter’s Heart: One Man’s Journey

Through the World of Fighting,” and most recently “The Fighter’s Mind: Inside The Mental

Game.”

As a jiu-jitsu purple belt and boxer, “Pride and Glory” actor and dear friend of the director Frank

Grillo was a natural fit to play Brendan’s trainer Frank Campana, modeled to some extent on

Greg Jackson. To prepare for the role, Grillo spent over a month with the famed trainer in New

Mexico, being schooled in the art of training and closely observing Jackson’s work with Hardy,

Edgerton and the professional fighters.

One thing that struck the filmmakers and actors about the professional fighters was their

gentlemanly ethic. “There’s a real vein of humility, honor and respect that underpins their sport,”

explains Hardy. “People are finding kinship and craftsmanship within this sport. It’s an art

form.” He continues, “I didn’t see that coming – to see that these beings that could tear me limb

from limb are actually really gentle personalities that you could take home to Mom, that’s quite

the opposite of what you’d expect. These are young professionals who really care about what

they do.”

When it came to choreographing and shooting the fight scenes, O’Connor had a very specific set

of criteria in mind. “I didn’t want any Hong Kong fighting,” he explains. Not to be

misunderstood, he clarifies, “It looks great. It’s highly stylized and it’s great cinema, but it’s

movie stuff.” O’Connor went so far as to decree that he didn’t want any move in the film he

couldn’t see on YouTube in a clip from a real match. To make sure they got it right and were

economical with time when the cameras started rolling, Perry pre-shot digital video mock-ups of

each fight scene as he was envisioning it for Gavin’s approval before filming began.

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It was also important to work closely with top cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi, an up-

and-coming director of photography who was a protégé of Rodrigo Prieto on “Babel,” on honing

the perfect cinematic style for WARRIOR. In tandem with the fight choreography, O’Connor

knew he needed the sequences filmed in an intimate way rather than with a glossy veneer.

Takayanagi learned an immense amount about the sport to prepare for the shoot, and together he

and O’Connor developed a very specific style involving multiple cameras, long lenses and a good

deal of hand held work that afforded the right kind of intimacy and an extremely naturalistic look.

At the end of the day, for all of the ‘stand in your seat and cheer’ infectious energy of the film’s

climax, it’s the intimacy and truthfulness of the whole story that makes it really hit home.

Looking back at his personal filmmaking journey, director Gavin O’Connor reflects, "I would

never have been able to make WARRIOR without having made my other films. They freed me to

up the artistic and emotional ante, and though there's a continuity, I think I found in myself a

voice that is stronger and more concentrated. I have no idea how the film is going to be received

commercially, but I do know artistically it's been the most satisfying and fulfilling experience of

my career."

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ABOUT THE CAST

JOEL EDGERTON (Brendan Conlon) was born in Blacktown, New South Wales. He has appeared in such films as “Erskineville Kings,” “King Arthur,” “Ned Kelly” and “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones” and “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith,” portraying a young ‘Owen Lars,’ stepbrother of ‘Anakin Skywalker’ and uncle to ‘Luke Skywalker.’

Edgerton will next be seen in Universal Pictures prequel of John Carpenter’s “The Thing.” The film is about a shape-shifting alien who terrorizes a group of people in a remote facility. “The Thing” is set to release on October 14, 2011.

Edgerton recently starred in “Animal Kingdom,” a powerful crime drama that explores the intense battle between a criminal family and the police, and the ordinary lives caught in the middle. The film received the World Cinema Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was also awarded the Australian Film Institute/AFI Awards for “AFI Best Film” and “AFI Member’s Choice.” Edgerton was honored with an “AFI Award” for “Best Supporting Actor” on behalf of the film.

In 2009, Edgerton starred alongside Cate Blanchett as ‘Stanley’ in the Sydney Theatre Company's acclaimed production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Edgerton and Blanchett also performed the play to sold-out audiences at the Kennedy Center in November 2009, followed by a run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 2009.

Edgerton recently wrapped production on Disney’s “The Odd Life of Timothy Green.” Edgerton will star opposite Jennifer Garner in the fable fantasy centering on a childless couple, unable to conceive, who bury all their wishes for a baby in a box in their backyard. One day, they wake up to find that a child is born, but the child is not all that it appears. The film is slated for a late 2011 release.

In August 2011, Edgerton will begin production on the Baz Luhrmann directed remake of “The Great Gatsby.” Edgerton will portray the character of ‘Tom Buchanan,’ starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. Warner Brothers will release the film, based on the famous novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald in 2012.

Edgerton attended the Nepean Drama School in western Sydney before moving onto various stage productions, most notably at The Sydney Theatre Company (“Blackrock,” “Third World Blues” and “Love for Love”) and Bell Shakespeare (“Henry IV”). On television, Edgerton is known for playing the role of ‘Will’ on the series “The Secret Life of Us” for which he was nominated for an AFI award.

In 2008, Edgerton was seen in the film “The Square,” directed by his brother Nash Edgerton. That same year, Edgerton starred in “Acolytes,” an Australian film about teenagers who get revenge on a serial killer. In 2007, Edgerton was seen in the film “Whisper” with Josh Holloway. He also had a significant role in the 2006 American film “Smokin' Aces.”

In 2005, Edgerton appeared in the British comedy “Kinky Boots,” in a lead role alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, as the son of a deceased shoe maker who must find a niche market in the 21st century. That same year, Edgerton lent his voice to the title character of “The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello,” an Academy Award® nominated animated short film.

Edgerton currently splits his time between Australia and Los Angeles.

TOM HARDY (Tommy Conlon) has quickly become one of Hollywood’s most sought after actors.

Hardy most recently appeared in Warner Bros’ critically acclaimed film, “Inception,” directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, Marion Cotillard and Ellen Page, the film centers on a corporate espionage thief who secretly extracts valuable information from the unconscious mind of his targets while they are dreaming. The film was released in July 2010 becoming the twenty-forth highest-grossing film of all time.

Hardy is currently in production on Warner Bros’ “The Dark Knight Rises” directed by Christopher Nolan. He will play the villain role of ‘Bane’ opposite Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Gary Oldman.

He recently wrapped “This Means War” directed by McG. The story centers on two CIA agents and best friends (Hardy and Chris Pine) who fight over the affections of Reese Witherspoon’s character. In addition, Hardy recently wrapped Universal’s Cold War thriller “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” opposite Colin Firth and Gary Oldman.

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Hardy is next set to start production on George Miller’s new post-apocalyptic Mad Max movie, “Fury Road,” opposite Charlize Theron; as well as Red Wagon’s “The Wettest County,” opposite Shia LaBeouf and Jessica Chastain. The film will be directed by John Hillcoat and produced by Doug Wick.

In 2009, Hardy won a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor for his work in the title role of the 2008 thriller “Bronson.” His recent film credits also include Guy Ritchie’s action comedy “RocknRolla,” with Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton, Idris Elba, Mark Strong and Tom Wilkinson; Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette;” and the crime thriller “Layer Cake,” with Daniel Craig.

Hailing from England, Hardy began his screen career when he was plucked straight from London’s Drama Centre for a role in HBO’s award-winning World War II miniseries “Band of Brothers,” executive produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. He went on to appear in the features “Black Hawk Down,” directed by Ridley Scott; the “Star Trek” feature “Star Trek: Nemesis,” in which he played the lead villain; Paul McGuigan’s “The Reckoning,” alongside Willem Dafoe and Paul Bettany; and “Dot the I,” from first-time writer/director Matthew Parkhill.

On television, Hardy earned a BAFTA TV nomination for Best Actor for his performance in the HBO movie “Stuart: A Life Backwards.” He also portrayed ‘Heathcliff’ in the 2009 ITV production of “Wuthering Heights.” His small screen credits also include the telefilms “Oliver Twist,” “A for Andromeda,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Gideon’s Daughter,” and “Colditz,” as well as the BBC miniseries “The Virgin Queen,” in which he starred as Queen Elizabeth’s lover, Robert Dudley.

Hardy has also starred in numerous plays in London’s West End, including “Blood” and “In Arabia We’d All Be Kings,” winning the Outstanding Newcomer Award at the 2003 Evening Standard Theatre Awards for his work in both productions. For the latter play, he was also nominated for a 2004 Olivier Award. In 2005, Hardy starred in the London premiere of Brett C. Leonard’s “Roger and Vanessa,” under the direction of Robert Delamere. He and Delamere also run a theatre workshop/gym called Shotgun at London’s Theatre 503.

JENNIFER MORRISON (Tess Conlon) currently has her plate full with numerous projects. This fall she stars in ABC’s drama series “Once Upon a Time” as ‘Emma Swan,’ a woman with a troubled past who is drawn into a small town in Maine where the magic of Fairy Tales become real.

In October 2011 she can be seen in the Lifetime TV Movie Project “5 For the Cure,” written by Stephen Godchaux. This is a two-hour movie that brings together five short films on the topic of breast cancer to inform and inspire dialogue, research, prevention and legislation supporting the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Morrison stars in the short film called “Charlotte” which was directed by Demi Moore.

She is currently shooting the independent film “Knife Fight” directed by Bill Guttentag and produced by Guerrino De Luca. The story centers around a young political “crisis manager” who learns a valuable lesson in believing in the most unlikely of people.

On television, Morrison was recently seen on the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother” as ‘Zooey,’ the newest love interested to ‘Ted,’ played by Josh Radnor. She is best know for her work as ‘Dr. Allison Cameron’ on Fox’s critically acclaimed drama “House.” The show was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2009; a Primetime Emmy® Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 2008, 2007 and 2006; and a 2008 Golden Globe®. Morrison was recently nominated for a 2008 WIN Award for Outstanding Actress Drama Series for “House.”

Other film credits include J.J. Abrams’ film “Star Trek” where she played ‘Winona Kirk,’ ‘Captain James Kirk’s’ mother; the 20th Century FOX film “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” starring with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie; Dreamworks’ “Surviving Christmas” starring Ben Affleck and Christina Applegate; and the independent film “Flourish” which she stars in and produced.

Now residing in Los Angeles, Morrison hails from Chicago, where she studied with the celebrated Steppenwolf Theatre Company and earned a degree in theater from Loyola University.

FRANK GRILLO (Frank Campana) recently wrapped production on “The Grey,” a thriller directed by Joe Carnahan starring Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney and James Badge Dale, and will begin work opposite Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall on “Lay the Favorite,” directed by Stephen Frears.

Grillo’s previous film credits include Wes Craven’s “My Soul to Take;” “Mother’s Day” with Jamie King and Rebecca De Mornay; “Edge of Darkness” with Mel Gibson and directed by Martin Campbell; Gavin O’Connor’s “Pride and Glory” with Colin Farrell and Edward Norton; Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report” with Tom Cruise; and “The Sweetest Thing” with Cameron Diaz and Christina Applegate.

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Grillo recently starred on the ABC drama series “The Gates,” and has a number of memorable credits to his name including starring roles on “The Shield,” “Prison Break,” “The Kill Point” with John Leguizamo, “Battery Park” with Elizabeth Perkins and “Blind Justice” with Ron Eldard, as well as guest star appearances on “Law & Order: SVU,” “Without a Trace,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “CSI: NY,” “Las Vegas” and “The District.” 

The oldest of three children, Frank grew up in New York City and spent his teen years in Rockland, New York.  He migrated back to NYC to study and pursue acting where he eventually landed his first major role on the long running daytime drama “Guiding Light.”  After three years, he left the soap to star in his first of many television pilots.  He is an avid boxer and martial artist and sits on the board of Love our Children, a charity that educates against child abuse.  

Grillo lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

A two-time Academy Award® nominee, NICK NOLTE (Paddy Conlon) has sustained a discernible level of integrity throughout his career, leading him to the biggest role of his life – international super-stardom, and to his role as producer of many of the projects in which he appears under the banner of his production company Kingsgate Films.

With the ability to masterfully portray a wide range of roles, Nolte was most recently seen in the Ben Stiller directed Hollywood spoof “Tropic Thunder;” Paramount Pictures’ “Spiderwick Chronicles;” Sony Pictures Classics’ “The Beautiful Country,” directed by Hans Peter Moland and executive produced by Terrence Malick; the Olivier Assayas directed “Clean,” co-starring Maggie Cheung; “The Peaceful Warrior,” adapted from the Dan Millman novel “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” and directed by Victor Salva; and “Neverwas,” directed by Joshua Michael Stern and co-starring Ian McKellan, Jessica Lange and William Hurt. He also voiced the character of ‘Vincent the Bear,’ in DreamWorks’ animated feature “Over the Hedge.”

Nolte will next be heard in Warner Bros.’ animated feature “Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore” as the voice of ‘Butch’ and as the voice of the Gorilla in MGM’s “The Zookeeper.”

Nolte’s additional recent film credits included playing the United Nations commander in the critically acclaimed feature “Hotel Rwanda,” starring Don Cheadle; director Neil Jordan’s crime caper “The Good Thief;” Ang Lee’s “The Hulk” for Universal Pictures; and the Polish Brothers’ “Northfork” for Paramount Classics. Nolte also re-teamed with director Alan Rudolph to film “Investigating Sex,” in which he starred opposite Neve Campbell and Robin Tunney.

Nolte returned to his acting roots when he starred along with Sean Penn, in the stage production of Sam Shepherd’s play “The Late Henry Moss.”

In recent years, Nolte has successfully added to his credit top contending films such as director Paul Schrader’s “Affliction,” in which he received Academy Award®, Golden Globe® and Independent Film nominations for Best Actor; Oliver Stone’s “U-Turn,” co-starring Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez; “Afterglow,” produced by Robert Altman; "Jefferson In Paris," where he portrayed Thomas Jefferson, Martin Scorsese's thriller remake, “Cape Fear;” and "The Prince of Tides," in which he starred opposite Barbra Streisand, and received an Oscar® nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe® as Best Actor from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. He starred opposite Julia Roberts in "I Love Trouble," and as a basketball coach in "Blue Chips" for director William Friedkin. Additionally, Nolte starred in "I'll Do Anything" for writer/director James L. Brooks, and in the critically acclaimed "Lorenzo's Oil," co-starring Susan Sarandon.

His production company Kingsgate currently has in development “White Jazz,” based on the James Ellroy script based on his best selling film noir novel; and “The Last Magic Summer,” an adaptation of the Peter Gent novel of the same name.

Nolte, an Omaha, Nebraska native, played college football before he discovered theatre and began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse. He then studied briefly with Bryan O'Byrne at Stella Adler's Academy in Los Angeles. Soon following, he traveled for several years performing in regional theatres.

Landing a breakthrough role in the legendary television series, "Rich Man, Poor Man," marked only the beginning for Nolte, launching him into international fame. Following its success, he made his feature film starring debut in "The Deep," opposite Jacqueline Bisset. Nolte has since never looked back.

Diversity of character became Nolte's signature in his early film career, with roles as a drug-smuggling Vietnam veteran in "Who'll Stop The Rain;" a disillusioned football star in "North Dallas Forty," which he developed with author Peter Gent; as free-spirited beat-era writer Neal Casady in "Heart Beat;" and as a reclusive marine biologist in "Cannery Row."

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Nolte continued to challenge himself with such character roles as the philosophical vagrant in "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," a tough cop in "48 Hours," an American photojournalist in "Under Fire," and a determined lawman in "Extreme Prejudice." He created another unique character in "Weeds," as an ex-con turned playwright.

Other Nolte film credits have included "Three Fugitives," "Farewell to the King," Scorsese's segment of "New York Stories," Karel Reisz’ "Everybody Wins" and Sidney Lumet's "Q&A."

Actor DENZEL WHITAKER (Stephon) is best known for his role in 2007 feature film “The Great Debaters” where he starred opposite his name sake Denzel Washington. Denzel started acting seven years ago when he began grabbing the spotlight by landing several national commercials. His first feature film was a small role in the film “Training Day.” He followed that with guest star appearances on such shows as “One on One,” “All That,” “ER” and “CSI.” In 2009 Denzel was cast in the ABC pilot “House Rules” as a series regular and also began recurring on the critically acclaimed ABC series “Brother sand Sisters.” In 2010, he had an ensemble lead role in the Wes Craven thriller “My Soul To Take.”

A native of California, Whitaker enjoys writing screenplays, playing basketball, golf, hip-hop dancing, digital animation and independent filmmaking. He is also a techno geek and loves anything that has to do with technology and gadgets. Denzel also enjoys working on cars in his spare time.

Taking notes from the teachings of his mentors (and unrelated namesakes) Denzel Washington and Forest Whitaker, he aspires to be an actor and a director who will simply entertain.

BRYAN CALLEN (Himself) is often recognized from his numerous film and television roles. Currently, he can be seen in a macho performance as ‘Samir,’ the Middle Eastern strip club owner/ gun runner in “The Hangover II.” Audiences also remember him as ‘Eddie,’ the Middle Eastern owner of the wedding chapel in “The Hangover.” Starting in late summer, he’ll play ‘Captain Frank Dashell,’ the leader of the Undead Task Force, whose job it is to rid the valley of Los Angeles of zombies, werewolves and vampires in the upcoming MTV comedy series, “Death Valley.” In addition, he recently filmed his new one-hour special titled “Bryan Callen: Man Class,” which will premiere later this year.

Born in the Phillipines, Callen spent the first fourteen years of his life overseas in countries like India, Pakistan, Greece and Lebanon, before moving to the United States. He went to high school in Massachusetts and earned his BA in History at American University in Washington DC.

Callen began doing standup in New York in 1993 and in 1995, he moved to Los Angeles where he made his television debut as one of the eight original cast members on “MADtv” and he appeared on the show for two seasons, until 1997. His most popular characters included Pool Boy from Cabana Chat with Dixie Wetsworth and motivational speaker Al Casdy. Callen also performed impersonations of Bill Clinton, Robert De Niro, Luke Perry, Steven Seagal, Jim Carrey, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank Gifford.

After leaving “MADtv,” he went on to play numerous roles on the small screen. He had a brief fling with Carrie Bradshaw on HBO’s “Sex and the City” where he played an overzealous lover who turns sex into a hydraulic experience, which she refers to as ‘jackrabbit sex.’ He also appeared as Kirstie Alley’s wisecracking assistant on Showtime’s comedy series, “Fat Actress.” In addition, he has snagged roles on “Californication,” “Oz,” “Entourage,” “7th Heaven,” “King of Queens,” “Stacked,” “Las Vegas,” “West Wing,” “News Radio,” “Significant Others,” “CSI,” “Law and Order: SVU,” “NYPD Blue,” “Suddenly Susan” and “Frasier.” He can currently be seen as a recurring character on USA’s “In Plain Sight,” as well as CBS’s “How I Met Your Mother.”

On the big screen, Callen has been seen in numerous other movies including Todd Phillips’ “Old School,” “Scary Movie 4,” “Bad Santa” and “The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard,” for producer Will Ferrell.

Between television appearances and making movies, Callen headlines clubs and colleges throughout the Unites States and internationally. His numerous standup television appearances include Comedy Central’s “Live at Gotham” and CBS’s “The Late Show w/ David Letterman.” Callen is quickly becoming a recognizable face and his resume as an actor and standup comedian continues to swell.

KEVIN DUNN (Principal Zito) has a vast resume that includes numerous motion picture and television roles. Kevin will next be seen in “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” for which Kevin reprised his role from the first two films as ‘Ron Witwicky,’ Sam Witwicky’s (Shia LeBouf) quirky, handyman father. The film is due out June 29th, 2011.

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Kevin is currently a series regular on the HBO series “Luck.” Michael Mann directed the pilot and is executive producing. David Milch wrote the pilot. Kevin is starring with Dustin Hoffman and Nick Nolte about the world of horse racing and gambling. Kevin is playing the role of ‘Marcus,’ a prodigious misanthrope, he ringmasters this syndicate of misfits.

Recent films include Tony Scott’s “Unstoppable,” with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine where he plays ‘Oscar Galvin,’ Rosario Dawson’s boss and head of the train yard. “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen;” Woody Allen’s “Vicky Christina Barcelona” with Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz where he and Patricia Clarkson’s characters play host to Scarlett Johansson and Rebecca Hall’s characters while in Barcelona; “Lions For Lambs” directed by Robert Redford where he played Meryl Streep’s editor; “The Gridiron Gang” with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson; “Black Dahlia;” and “All the King’s Men.” His other films include “I Heart Huckabees;” the Christopher Guest comedy “Almost Heroes;” the thriller “Stir of Echoes;” “Nixon,” where he played Charles Colson; “Chaplin,” where he played J. Edgar Hoover; “Godzilla;” “Chain Reaction;” “Small Soldiers;” “1492;” “Bonfire of the Vanities;” and “Mississippi Burning.” One of his most known roles is in the film “Dave” as press secretary ‘Alan Reed’ opposite Kevin Kline as the president.

A busy actor seen regularly on television, Dunn has made dozens of guest appearances including playing a lawyer opposite Kathy Bates on David E. Kelley’s “Harry’s Law,” a con artist opposite Josh Holloway’s character, Sawyer on “Lost,” as well as several other television series and has starred in many made-for-television movies. He garnered great reviews for portraying Murray Wilson in the highly rated ABC mini-series “The Beach Boys: An American Family.”

MAXIMILIANO HERNANDEZ (Colt Boyd) was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1973. He is the middle of three children born to Honduran immigrants Jose Maximiliano and Maria Elena Hernandez. He began acting at Bishop Ford High School in order to get out of detention. He continued acting in college where he auditioned and was accepted into the BFA program at the Leonard Davis Center For The Performing Arts in Harlem.

He left the program when he was asked to join the Workhouse Theatre in Tribeca. He later was a founding member of the experimental actors troupe Axis Theatre Company, as well as The Hot Box Theatre Company. He's preformed at countless venues around NYC including The Public, The Lucile Lortell, The Cherry Lane and many others.

Though theatre was his first love, film and television paid the bills. Max has worked with directors Mira Nair, Gavin O'Connor, Kenneth Branagh, Joss Whedon and many others. He first worked with Gavon O’Connor on “Pride and Glory.”

Max has a son, Diego, with long time girlfriend Marta Cabret. He lives in Pasadena.

SAM SHERIDAN (Himself) graduated from high school and went into the US Merchant Marine, where he washed dishes on the USNS Able. From there it was a short step to Harvard University and the Slade School in London, where he studied painting. Sam has worked a variety of jobs, including as a professional sailor (he has circumnavigated), a wild-land firefighter in New Mexico with the Gila Hotshots, and construction at the South Pole Station in Antarctica. During this time Sam boxed and studied martial arts, when in funds.

His first book, “A Fighter’s Heart,” was a memoir of Sam’s experiences in the fight world, in Thailand, Japan, the US and Brazil, where he fought alongside and trained with some of the best in the world. His second book, “The Fighter’s Mind,” is a collection of essays on the mental strategies that great champions use in the ring and the cage.

Sam is currently working on a third book for Rodale Press, about surviving the end of the world - and trying to keep it light.

FERNANDO FUNAN CHIEN (Fenroy) born in Taipei on October 6th, 1974 has followed a diverse road consequently landing him in Hollywood as a budding actor.  At 17, Fernando moved to Montreal and attended McGill University where his interest in performance and film was sparked. While majoring in Evolutionary Biology, Fernando took film courses, attended circus school, studied martial arts, and worked as a personal trainer. In 2000, he landed a role in “The Art of War,” starring Wesley Snipes.

In 2002, Fernando relocated in Los Angeles and began training at the Lee Strasberg Academy, then at the Howard Fine Acting Studio. When not studying acting, Fernando trained in Muay Thai, Judo

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and Jiu-jitsu out of the Hayastan Grappling Academy under Sensei Gene LeBell/Gokor Chivichyan and at the Werdum Combat Team. In 2004, Fernando met Sam Hargrave and created Reel Kick Films (an underground martial arts action team). In 2005, Fernando was cast as ‘Saul the Augment’ in “Star Trek Enterprise.” This launched his professional stunt/action career with titles such as “Crank,” “Flags of Our Fathers,” “Pirates of the Caribbean 3,” “The Mummy 3,” “Monk” and commercials for Diet Pepsi doubling Jackie Chan.

What set Fernando apart was his ability to act. He played action-actor roles in “24,” “Bunraku,” “Angel of Death,” “Honor” and “Crossing Jordan,” to name a few. In 2008, Fernando was cast in the web-series “The Guild” that allowed him to act and display his action skills. Since then, as an actor he has appeared in NBC’s “My Own Worst Enemy,” CBS’ “NCIS: LA” and The CW’s “Melrose Place.” 2009 was his break-out year as an actor playing in the remake of “Red Dawn” as ‘Lt. Yee’ and most recently as ‘Wilkes’ in Universal’s “Fast Five.” His experience in MMA and action filmmaking was a perfect fit when “Warrior” came around. Not only did he play the role of the gym-rat ‘Fenroy,’ but with Sam Hargrave and other talented action choreographers developed a new style of action choreography that was based in realistic techniques for the film.

JAKE MCLAUGHLIN (Mark Bradford) burst onto the scene with his acting debut in Paul Haggis’ war movie “In the Valley of Elah,” playing ‘Spc. Gordon Bonner,’ the most remorseful of a group of squad members that threaten and ultimately participate in the death of their former infantry member. Being a former dismount infantry S.A.W. gunner in Iraq in real life, McLaughlin read for the role after hearing that Haggis was auditioning actual vets for several parts.

Born in Paradise, California, McLaughlin worked on a crab boat in Oregon and as a security guard at Universal Studios before joining the U.S. Army’s 3 rd Infantry Division. He was living in Chico, California with $200 in his checking, doing concrete work when he heard about the casting session for “In the Valley of Elah.”

Since then the athletic six-foot-one actor, has played a valet-turned-killer on “CSI: Miami;” an Iraqi war vet shot by a civilian contractor on “Leverage;” a rookie cop on “Criminal Minds;” a drinking-contest participant alongside Hayden Panettiere on “Heroes;” and a military academy drill instructor breaking down new cadets on the two-part 2009 season finale of “Cold Case.” McLaughlin also recently completed Daniel Espinosa's feature “Safe House” which is slated for February 2012.

On September 2006, KURT ANGLE (Koba) signed with TNA Wrestling on Spike TV. Angle is the first and only 12 time World Heavy Champion in professional history to have conquered all TNA and WWE top titles, in addition to TNA’s X Division Championship, the WCW Championship, Intercontinental Championship, European Championship, Hardcore Championships and King of the Ring titles. Angle is also the only wrestler in history to win every individual title in his first year as a professional. In the past five consecutive years, Angle has been voted by fans worldwide as one of the World’s Greatest Professional wrestlers of all time.

Angle is a 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist, 1995 Olympic Style World Champion and 6-time US National Champion has more than 34 years of blood, sweat and tears of experience on the mat. In 2003 he was a National Hall of Fame inductee. Angle was also voted by the NCAA as one of the top fifteen greatest of all time and one of the top five best amateur and Olympic wrestlers of all time. Over the past two years Angle was inducted into three Hall of Fames (The Pennsylvania, Heinz Museum West PA and South Western PA).

In addition to Angles leadership skills, athletic and entertainment talents, Angle makes personal time to support many charities including Make-A-Wish, Get Tough on Angina Campaign, Get Out & Vote, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s “After School All Stars,” Franco Harris World teen Football Combine and the Kurt Angle Ultimate Teen Challenge and World Teen Championships. Angle’s continues setting his goals and vision to participate again in the 2012 Olympic Games and one day establishing himself as a community leader and serve as the Chairman on “the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness.

Kurt Angle is well known in over 160 countries and has worked with fortune 500 companies as a Speaker and Spokesperson. As an ambassador for both the Olympic Games and Professional Wrestling Angle has also made many public appearances worldwide for AAFES (Amy Airforce Exchange Service), Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Coca-Cola, AT& T, NASCAR and GMC.

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ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS

GAVIN O'CONNOR (Director, Screenwriter, Story by, Producer) is currently writing “Once Upon A Time In New York,” an epic multi-faceted adventure story about a princess and a runaway mute boy who have to travel back in time to alter the course of history to protect the princess’ fate. Additionally, the comedy-drama “Sunny & 68,” which he co-wrote, is in development. “Sunny & 68” is the story of a disgraced poker superstar who is forced to return to his hometown for the first time in 20 years and confront the mother and ex-girlfriend he left behind and the five-year-old daughter he didn’t know he had. He is also adapting the 1961 acclaimed film “The Hustler” into a Broadway stage play. O’Connor also has a wide range of projects in various stages of development for different studios and production entities.

A native New Yorker, O’Connor began writing while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. After graduation, he returned to New York, where he began his career writing short films and plays. O’Connor made his screenwriting debut with the award-winning short film “The Bet,” which also marked Ted Demme’s film directorial debut. O’Connor then wrote and directed the short film “American Standoff.”

O’Connor first garnered attention when he directed the independent feature “Tumbleweeds,” starring Janet McTeer and Kimberly Brown. O’Connor also co-wrote the screenplay with Angela Shelton, based on Shelton’s childhood diaries. The mother-daughter road drama brought O’Connor the Filmmaker’s Award at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, and went on to earn widespread critical acclaim. In addition, McTeer earned several Best Actress honors for her performance, including Oscar® and Independent Spirit Award nominations and a Golden Globe® Award, while Brown won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actress.

O’Connor’s next directing effort was the critically acclaimed 2004 hit “Miracle” for Disney/Touchstone, which was also his first major studio feature. The film starred Kurt Russell in the inspiring story of the U.S. Hockey Team’s Gold Medal triumph at the 1980 Winter Olympics, including a stunning victory over the seemingly invincible Russian team.

Following the success of “Miracle,” Gavin O'Connor co-wrote and directed the drama “Pride and Glory,” starring Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight. The film follows a multi-generational police family whose moral code is tested when one son investigates an incendiary case of corruption and murder that involves his brother and brother-in-law, forcing the family to choose between their loyalties to one another and their loyalties to the department. “Pride and Glory” was released nationwide by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 25, 2008.

Gavin O’Connor resides in Los Angeles.

A native of Fairfield, CT, ANTHONY TAMBAKIS (Screenwriter, Co-Producer) is an award-winning short story writer, former Professor of Creative Writing, and recently completed his first novel, “Swimming With Bridgeport Girls.” Future projects include “Sunny & 68” (written with “Warrior” partner Gavin O'Connor) and “4 1/2 Minutes” (to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke). He is also working on a TV project, “Cinnamon Girl,” with partner Renee Zellweger, and he and O'Connor will be adapting “The Hustler” for Broadway in 2012. He lives in Venice, CA.

CLIFF DORFMAN (Screenwriter, Story by) wrote on season two of “Entourage” for which he was nominated for a WGA Award. After leaving the show he was given a blind script deal at Paramount Television for a spec pilot he wrote entitled “Five Towns,” which was later used on the show as the title of Johnny Drama's fictional TV series. His deal was renewed the next year under which he co-created a show with Gavin O'Connor for Minnie Driver entitled, "Keep Up With the Jones."

He went on to co-create shows for FX with Neil Strauss (“The Game”) and Dave Navarro, ABC with Larry Charles, ABC Family and currently has "The Line" in development at HBO, which he co-created with Peter Berg.

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He's also penned, "Criminal Empire for Dummy's" which is set to start production this year. Furthermore he received a "Special Thanks" on the Bill Maher/Larry Charles film, "Religulous" for which he added content.

In addition to film and television he also co-wrote “The Watchdog,” a comic book for DC Comics with David Arquette; wrote a video game, “Full Auto 2,” for Sega; consulted on "Dead Space" for EA Games; and penned a column in LA Confidential named "Cliff's Notes."

When Cliff's not writing you can find him holed up somewhere deep in the valley with lots of ammo, arms, canned goods, water and his three Schutzhund trained Dobermans.

Originally from Japan, after graduating from the American Film Institute with M.F.A. in cinematography, MASANOBU TAKAYANAGI (Director of Photography) has shot numerous feature films, commercials, documentaries and music videos.

In 2003, he received John F. Seitz Heritage Award for outstanding cinematography from the ASC (the American Society of cinematographers). He also received a Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 2003. Subsequently, Kodak invited him to Cannes Film Festival in 2004 as one of the emerging filmmakers in the world.

His recent feature film works are “The Grey” (2012), “Marley” (2011, additional photography), “The Eagle” (2011, 2nd unit), “Meet Monica Velour” (2010), “Eat, Pray, Love” (2010, 2nd unit), “Promises Written in the Water” (2010), “Amar a Morir” (2009), “State of Play” (2009, 2nd unit), “Babel” (2006, 2nd

unit), among others.

“Warrior” is DAN LEIGH’s (Production Designer) second film for Gavin O’Connor, having also designed “Pride & Glory.” Leigh designed two other films being released this year, Amy Heckerling’s “Vamps” starring Alicia Silverstone and Sigourney Weaver, and the long awaited “Mararet.” Other credits include the Kate Hudson starrer “Bride Wars;” three films for director Tony Goldwyn including “A Walk on the Moon” with Diane Lane and Viggo Mortensen; and Julian Schnabel’s “Basquiat.” For Michel Gondry, Leigh designed “Be Kind Rewind” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” earning a guild nomination and a place as the only American designer at the Locarno International Film Festival focus on Production Design.

Leigh’s HBO projects include Moisés Kaufman’s “The Laramie Project” and Ross Katz’s “Taking Chance” earning an Emmy® nomination for Art Direction. Earlier films include “Fresh” starring Samuel L. Jackson, “A Price Above Rubies” starring Renée Zellweger, “Crossing Delancey” and “Street Smart.”

Leigh has also designed for television, including the pilot episode of ABC’s “Dirty Sexy Money.” Leigh began his design career working in the theatre on and off Broadway, regional theatre, Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

“Warrior” marks JOHN GILROY's, A.C.E. (Editor) fourth collaboration with writer/director, Gavin O’Connor. They have also worked together on “Pride & Glory,” starring Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight and Noah Emmerich; “Miracle,” starring Kurt Russell and Patricia Clarkson; and “Tumbleweeds,” starring Janet McTeer and Kimberly Brown. McTeer won a Golden Globe Award® for “Tumbleweeds” and was also nominated for an Academy Award® for Best Actress.

Recently Gilroy edited “Salt,” starring Angelina Jolie, Live Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor, and is currently preparing to work once again with his brother, writer/director Tony Gilroy on his upcoming film “Bourne Legacy,” starring Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz. This will be their third collaboration, the second being “Duplicity,” starring Julia Roberts and Clive Owen and their first, “Michael Clayton,” starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson and Sidney Pollack. “Michael Clayton” received seven Academy Award® nominations, and Swinton won the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress. Gilroy received a BAFTA and an Eddie Award Nomination for Best Editing.

John has also worked several times with writer/director Joe Carnahan, editing “Narc,” starring Ray Liotta and Jason Patric and “Ticker,” a short film starring Clive Owen and Don Cheadle in BMW’s “The Hire Series.” He won a Cleo Award for his work on “Ticker.”

Other credits include “Diminished Capacity,” starring Matthew Broderick and Alan Alda; “Trust the Man,” starring Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup; “First Born,” starring Elisabeth Shue; “Suspect Zero” starring Aaron Eckhart, Carrie Anne Moss and Ben Kingsley; “Shadow Magic,” starring Jared Harris and Yu Xia; “Game Day,” starring Richard Lewis and “Billy Madison,” starring Adam Sandler. After graduating from Dartmouth College, Gilroy came up through the

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editing ranks in the 1980s working on numerous features as an assistant editor, including two with Francis Coppola, “Peggy Sue Got Married” and “Gardens of Stone.” His first editing credit was “The Luckiest Man in the World,” starring Philip Bosco. It was written and directed by his father, Frank D. Gilroy.

SEAN ALBERTSON, A.C.E. (Editor) grew up in the arts and entertainment industry in New York; his father a musician, chef and film editor. His mother was a Production Manager and Assistant Director. Sean’s start in entertainment was as a young child, acting and playing music. He was involved in plays and small roles in television and feature films, where he got to be an extra in the Academy Award®-winning film, “Kramer vs. Kramer.” Musically, Sean was drawn to percussion and singing. He played with several bands in his teen years in both capacities. Later, these talents were transmuted into the art and craft of film editing. He has since had the opportunity to work with some exceptional Hollywood talents such as Sam O’Steen, Mike Nichols, Alan J. Pakula, Don Zimmerman and Sylvester Stallone. Sean now has over 24 years of filmmaking experience with more than 60 editing credits across a vast array of material, including television movies, series, feature films, award-winning mobile content and more. His editing credits include films such as “Still Breathing,” “The Cat in the Hat,” “Rocky Balboa” and “Rambo.” He has edited television shows such as “E-Ring,” “Cold Case,” “Heroes” and “The Vampire Diaries.” He has also worked as a 2nd unit director and producer, and dabbles in writing as well.

MATT CHESSÉ, A.C.E. (Editor) is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, and he still yearns to return. Born into a family of painters, puppeteers and theater actors, Matt's formative years were spent in theater seats and green rooms.

He put himself through San Francisco State University working as a production assistant in the Bay Area film community, and doubled majored in English Literature and Photo Journalism. He discovered editing, or it discovered him, after 10 years in the production side of films. He was invited to work beside Editor Angus Wall and has never been far from an AVID ever since. He has made eight films with Director Marc Forster, including “Finding Neverland,” “Stranger Than Fiction,” “The Kite Runner” and the James Bond film “Quantum of Solace.” On “Warrior,” he was excited to strike a new alliance with Director Gavin O’Connor and writer Anthony Tambakis. And, to tag team in the editorial Octagon with his teammate, Sean Albertson. He believes in kismet, serendipity and the fundamental powers of the universe to bring you what you need.

AARON MARSHALL (Editor) – Bio forthcoming

ABIGAIL MURRAY (Costume Designer) is a costume designer based in NY and LA. She has designed for films, TV and theater. Her career began in NY, where she assisted Tony Walton.

Her film credits include costume designer for the featured films: “The Next Three Days,” “The Express,” “Pride and Glory,” “Runaway Jury,” “Masked & Anonymous,” “Imposter,” “Scream 3,” “Dogma,” “Kiss The Girls,” “For Richer Or Poorer,” “The Proprietor,” “Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead,” “Tremors,” “Bloodhounds Of Broadway” and “Airborne.”

Abigail Murray's theater work includes opera and ballet, designing for numerous periods. She has designed for the Roundabout Theater, La Mama, Playwrights Horizons & Ensemble Studio Theaters.

Abigail’s work was recently celebrated in the Academy of Motion Pictures Publication 50 Designers, 50 Costumes, representing 50 of the top Costume Designers working today.

MICHAEL PASEORNEK (Executive Producer) has been President of Film Production at Lionsgate since the company's inception in 1997.

In addition to being a key member of the senior management team that has guided Lionsgate from a startup into the leading independent film company, Paseornek has served as an executive producer or producer on over 50 films.

Variety has described him as one of the chief architects of the Lionsgate model.Paseornek has been at the forefront of urban programming. He launched the film career of Tyler

Perry and forged a production slate that includes Tyler Perry's blockbusters “Madea Goes to Jail,” “Why Did I Get Married?,” “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” and “Madea’s Family Reunion,” all of which opened number one at the box office. He also forged a deal for the screen rights to the iconic African-American play, “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Isn’t Enuf.”  He's spearheaded

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films ranging from comedies like “The Wash” to dramas such as “Pride” and the critically acclaimed “Akeelah and the Bee.”

In the horror genre, building on the success of the “Saw” franchise, Paseornek broke new ground with the box office hit “My Bloody Valentine 3D” - the first horror film utilizing new 3D digital technology.  He also executive produced Rob Zombie's “Devil’s Rejects” and the remake of “The Eye,” starring Jessica Alba.  Paseornek has continued to spearhead a 3D agenda with the animated family film “Alpha and Omega” and a slate of upcoming genre fare. 

Paseornek has played a key role moving Lionsgate into the action arena with “Crank,” “The Punisher,” “The Forbidden Kingdom” and the remake of the classic “Conan The Barbarian” which is will be released this August.

In the prestige area, Paseornek executive produced “Monster’s Ball,” which earned Halle Berry an Oscar® for best actress, the critically acclaimed “Akeelah and the Bee,” which earned best picture honors at the Black Movie Awards and was the centerpiece of the first ever Starbucks movie promotion, “American Psycho,” “Shattered Glass” and “Buffalo 66.”

Over the past 25 years, Paseornek has played an important role in the emergence of the independent film scene. He founded Cinepix/Famous Players’ (CFP's) U.S. operations in 1992 which brought American audiences acclaimed films such as Academy Award® winner Ang Lee's first feature “Pushing Hands,” James Mangold's directorial debut “Heavy,” James Coburn's Oscar® winning performance in “Affliction,” and Bill Condon's Oscar® winner “Gods and Monsters.”  When CFP went public and was renamed Lionsgate in 1997, the company grew into the leading independent film company with Home Entertainment and Television divisions.  The Film division has had 25 Oscar® nominations in that time, including six for the 2006 best picture winner, “Crash,” and the critical hit “Precious.”

More than 30 of Paseornek's movies have been selected to appear in major festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Toronto.

Outside of Lionsgate, Paseornek serves on the board of directors of Mattel's Children's Hospital UCLA, is on the advisory board of Hearts of Hope, a foundation sending doctors to Latin America, and the board of Del Corazon, a year-round charitable camp for children with heart disease.

Paseornek began his career after graduating from New York University in 1974 when he became the writing partner of former National Lampoon editor Michel Choquette.  He then became a humorist-speechwriter for some of the nation's leading business executives and worked as a script-doctor on a number of feature films.

In the late 70s, Paseornek met CFP's Canadian co-founders, John Dunning and Andre Link, and developed the sequel to their comedy hit “Meatballs.”

Paseornek is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Writers Guild of America.  He has been a guest speaker at a number of institutions, including Harvard, New York University, and the American Film Institute and has served on numerous industry panels for organizations such as the NAACP and the Directors Guild of America.

LISA ELLZEY (Executive Producer) is an Executive Vice President of Production at Lionsgate Entertainment.  She joined the studio in 2008.  Before joining Lionsgate, she was an executive at Twentieth Century Fox.  Prior to joining Fox, Ellzey was President of Scott Free Entertainment, the company owned by Ridley Scott and Tony Scott.  She was the executive producer of the Academy Award®-nominated “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford” (2007), directed by Andrew Dominick and starring Brad Pitt. She produced “In Her Shoes” (2005), directed by Curtis Hanson and starring Cameron Diaz, Shirley MacLaine, and Toni Collette; and “Tristan and Isolde” (2006), directed by Kevin Reynolds and starring James Franco. Ellzey was the executive producer of Ridley Scott’s “A Good Year” (2006), starring Russell Crowe and Albert Finney; and “Kingdom of Heaven” (2005), starring Orlando Bloom, Liam Neeson, Ed Norton and Jeremy Irons; and of Tony Scott’s “Domino” (2005), starring Keira Knightly and Mickey Rourke. Also while at Scott Free, Ellzey was the co-executive producer of the HBO historical drama “The Gathering Storm” (2002), starring Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave, which earned her the 2002 Emmy® Award for Best Made for Television Movie. In addition, the film received two Golden Globe® Awards, including Best Miniseries or Motion Picture, as well as three BAFTA Awards.  She began her career as the producer of the independent feature “The Poison Tasters,” which premiered at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

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DAVID MIMRAN (Executive Producer) is the Vice Chairman of Breeden Partners, L.P., an actively managed $2 billion investment fund focused on creating value in U.S. public companies. Since 2003, Mr. Mimran has also served as a Board Member and is one of the largest investors in Milestone Capital Partners, a private equity fund focused on control buyouts of underperforming corporate orphans. To date, Milestone Capital has had an impressive investment record posting a realized IRR of over 3,400%. From 2003-2005, Mr. Mimran was Vice Chairman of Milestone Merchant Partners, an investment-banking firm based in Washington, D.C.

More recently and in early 2009 Mr. Mimran teamed up with Jordan Schur, President and CEO of Suretone Records, to form a new entertainment company, Mimran-Schur Pictures, to pursue movie development and production deals in Hollywood.

Prior to moving to the United States in 2003, and for the last ten years, Mr. Mimran served as the President of Eurafrique, Sometra and Cavpa, all part of an international food processing, grain trading and shipping conglomerate owned by the Mimran Group and headquartered in Monaco with operations and extensive holdings throughout Europe and West Africa. In 1990 Mr. Mimran formed Savage Records, a music entertainment and artist management company. Some of the notable musicians that Savage had on its roster were David Bowie and Prince.

From 1999 to 2005, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) where he also served as Chairman of the Audit Committee and was a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Mimran is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Mr. Mimran has been a strong advocate for the promotion of peace in the Middle East and is a governor of the Peres Center for Peace.

A veteran in the music and entertainment industry, JORDAN SCHUR (Executive Producer) has a track record of creating and overseeing businesses that result in great success. Mr. Schur’s ability to bring together art and commerce began with his founding of Flip Records in 1994, discovering world-renowned artists Limp Bizkit and Staind. Flip Records went on to become one of a handful of companies to launch an artist that sold more than 1,000,000 units in one week in America.

In 1999, the then 35-year-old Schur became the youngest label head in the music industry as President of Geffen Records. Ultimately, he went on to oversee the merger of Geffen Records, MCA Records, and the acquisition of DreamWorks Records to become the newly formed Geffen Records. While there, Schur oversaw the careers of many artists including Blink 182, Snoop Dogg, The Cure, Mary J. Blige, Common, Counting Crows, Ashlee Simpson, Weezer, Nelly Furtado, Enrique Iglesias, Sigur Ros, Sonic Youth and Rob Zombie. An innovative businessman with a commitment to artists and artistic integrity, Schur championed a new generation of artists with an unrelenting work ethic and a modern approach to marketing that included grassroots efforts and new media technology. In this regard, one of Mr. Schur’s many accomplishments occurred with his creation of the hit show “The Ashlee Simpson Show” which launched on MTV, a series that was not only the top rated show in its demographic but also spawned a #1 single and a #1 album on the charts in America. Within a year, the newly merged Geffen Records became the market share leader in the industry. Under the leadership of Schur, the company sold in excess of $2 billion in music sales worldwide.

After his tenure at Geffen Records, Schur continued on with his entrepreneurial spirit and founded Suretone Entertainment Group. This multi-faceted company consists of Suretone Records, SJS Management, Suretone Entertainment, Suretone Primary Wave Publishing and Suretone Merchandise. Amongst the many endeavors of Suretone Entertainment Group, Mr. Schur continued his work in TV and launched a new MTV series “Buzzin’” for his artist Shwayze, which charted the artists’ album as the #1 iTunes album in America.

Most recently, in 2009, Schur founded Mimran-Schur Pictures with co-founder David J. Mimran, Vice Chairman of Breeden Partners, L.P. This new entertainment production company was established to pursue movie development and production deals that are aligned with their creative vision. First up on their film slate was the psychological thriller “Stone” which stars Robert DeNiro, Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich. This was followed by their second feature “Henry’s Crime,” starring Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga and James Caan.

Amongst his other ventures, Schur created fashion house Michon Schur with his wife, designer Stephanie Schur. He is also a majority partner and principal in Jordan Realty, with extensive holdings on the East Coast, including Manhattan, and in Cityside Archives, a New York City-based document retention company.

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Schur currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife and family.

JOHN J. KELLY (Executive Producer) was born in Liverpool, England, and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. An early interest in the theater led John to the Entertainment industry.

John first began at Pepin-Merhi Entertainment Group, an independent production/distribution company which produced ten films per year. John was hired as the Production Controller, being quickly promoted through the ranks to the position of Unit Production Manager and then Line Producer. During a five year stay with Pepin Merhi, as the Head of Production and the sole Line Producer, John produced and supervised over seventy episodes of television, forty feature films and numerous music videos for the studio.

In 2001, John was hired as President of Production for American Cinema International. After his fourth film with the company, John broke away to produce freelance projects.

John has produced through his own production company the independent feature film, “Luminaries,” with Scott Bakula and Cheech Marin. John’s first endeavor garnered an ALMA nomination for Outstanding Feature Film in 2001. John’s second independent film venture “Finder’s Fee,” won Best Film at the 2001 Seattle Film Festival. As a producer on “Fire & Ice,” John received an Outstanding Television Movie nomination for the 2002 NAACP IMAGE Awards. Through his production company, John also produced, “Purgatory Flats” and “One Last Ride.” Ang Lee joined with John to executive produce “One Last Ride.”

During a period of six years, John produced with the Spanish entertainment company, Drimtim Entertainment, nine films in Barcelona. John has since worked with directors such as David Mamet on “Spartan,” Kevin Reynolds on “Tristan and Isolde,” Brian DePalma on “The Black Dahlia,” and Roger Donaldson on “The World’s Fastest Indian,” starring Anthony Hopkins. John’s entire year of 2006 was spent working with Sean Penn on the critically acclaimed film, “Into The Wild.” In 2008, John produced “Gentlemen Broncos,” with director Jared Hess. John recently finished the film, “127 Hours,” directed by Danny Boyle, which received many Academy Award® nominations including one for Best Picture. Only months after finishing his work with Boyle, John produced with Lawrence Kasdan on Kasdan’s first directorial project in seven years. John is currently in production in New Orleans on “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.”

Coming to the United States as a child immigrant, John’s first and foremost lesson has been that anything is possible in this country if you just work hard enough for it.

In the complex and fascinating world of film there are well known and respected directors and producers whose names stand out, but for every one of these great names there is also a JAMIE MARSHALL (Co-Producer) working behind the scenes making it all happen. Respected for his experience, edge and fresh approach to filmmaking, Jamie Marshall is a known name in the industry both as a 1st assistant director and more recently as a producer.

Born in the United Kingdom and raised on the numerous film sets that his father worked on, Jamie grew up observing and learning from the ever-evolving world of filmmaking. His father, Alan Marshall understood the shifts the film industry was going through in the UK and relocated his family to Los Angeles where, for 25 years, produced many films with long time friend and business partner, Alan Parker.

From the onset of his career Jamie developed a passion for organization and due largely to his tireless and incomparable work ethic, quickly climbed the ranks as an assistant director. Producers and directors alike found in him a leader and partner capable of overcoming the many obstacles and challenges the Hollywood film set can present. This successful run as an assistant director prepared Jamie for more challenging projects and saw him successfully complete over 20 studio films.

Taking advantage of his experience as a 1st Assistant Director, Jamie was brought on to co-produce the very profitable “Twilight” film and shortly thereafter the much anticipated “Immortals” film that will be released later this year. In 2006 while working on the film “Reign Over Me,” Jamie teamed up with Producer Jeff Waxman (“The Fighter,” “Immortals”), developing a great partnership that has brought them to Relativity Media and their slate.

Having gained domestic and international recognition, Jamie Marshall has become a noted Producer and 1st Assistant Director and is developing projects with Gianni Nunnari, Mickey Rourke and Gavin O’Connor. Currently Jamie is Executive Producer on Tarsem’s “The Brothers Grimm: Snow White.”

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JOSH FAGIN (Co-Producer) is a writer/producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Prior to “Warrior,” Josh co-produced the Warner Bros/ New Line film “Pride and Glory” starring Edward Norton, Colin Farrell and Jon Voight.

As a writer, Josh most recently adapted the true story of the Iranian human rights activist Ahmad Batebi, based on Anderson Cooper’s “60 Minutes.” Josh is currently adapting Michael Lewis’ Vanity Fair article “Wall Street on the Tundra.” With Gavin O’Connor, Josh co-wrote the screenplay “Born to Rock” for Paramount.

From 1998-2009 Josh worked as a producer and Head of Development for Gavin and Greg O’Connor’s company Solaris. Josh was involved with Solaris since its inception and was instrumental in building the company during his tenure there. In its first three years, Solaris operated under a deal at New Line; then subsequently with Paramount Television from 2005-2008. At Solaris, Josh was responsible for overseeing all of the company’s film and TV projects for numerous studios and networks.

Early in his career Josh was a production executive for Solaris on the Disney film “Miracle,” which told the story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. He associate produced “Tumbleweeds,” which won the 1999 Filmmaker’s Trophy Award at the Sundance Film Festival and for which actress Janet McTeer won a Golden Globe® and was nominated for an Academy Award®. He associate produced “The Slaughter Rule” starring Ryan Gosling; the HBO documentary “The Smashing Machine;“My Generation” for Academy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple; and the documentary “Mule Skinner Blues” for the Sundance Channel.

Josh graduated from Cornell University and lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and two young children.

MARK ISHAM’s (Music by) musical brilliance is evident in his memorable scores for such notable films as “Crash” (Oscar® winner for Best Picture), “Miracle,” “A River Runs Through It” (Oscar® nomination for Best Score), “Nell” (Golden Globe® nomination for Best Score), “Save The Last Dance,” “Blade,” “Don’t Say A Word,” “8 Below,” “Kiss The Girls,” “Rules of Engagement” and “Point Break.” Starting with his first score for “Never Cry Wolf,” Isham’s unique voice has graced such artistic films as “Quiz Show,” “The Cooler,” “In The Valley of Elah,” “Little Man Tate,” “The Moderns” and “Fly Away Home.” He has recently scored films in a variety of genres including films such as “The Crazies,” “The Mechanic” and “The Conspirator.”

His lists of collaborators in film is a veritable who’s who of the entertainment industry – Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Brian De Palm, Chick Corea, Jodie Foster, Robert Altman, Sting, Wil.I.Am, Sydney Lumet, Mick Jagger and countless others. As a performing artist, Mark has added his unique sound – melodic, moody, sexy and cool – to a wide variety of genres. He has graced the albums of such diverse artists as Bruce Springsteen, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett, Ziggy Marley, Joni Mitchell, The Rolling Stones, Chris Isaak, and Van Morrison. 

His solo recordings span from electronica and classic jazz to hip-hop and ethnic world music, receiving worldwide critical acclaim including Grammy® nominations for his albums “Castilla” and “Tibet,” and a win for his Virgin Records release, “Mark Isham.”

BRIAN ROSS (Music Supervisor) is a music supervisor, producer, manager and consultant in the feature film and music industries. He is been an integral part of the primary creative team for over thirty feature films as music supervisor.

Brian began working as a music supervisor for independent feature films in New York City in the 1990s. His fourth film, “Tumbleweeds,” helmed by “Warrior” director Gavin O’Connor, garnered both Academy Award® and Golden Globe® nominations in major categories, and won a Golden Globe® for Best Actress. In 2000, he relocated to Los Angeles and has continued to work as a music supervisor, manager and producer.

Brian’s other film credits include: “Michael Clayton,” “Miracle,” “Duplicity,” “Narc” and “Crossing Over.”

RANDI HILLER (Casting by) is an award-winning casting director. With over 15 years of experience and over 80 films, she has worked on a wide range of projects extending from independent films to major studio productions and covering all genres. She has made a name for herself with her eye for talent and for going outside the normal channels to find new faces. This has led her to audition a wide

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range of people including actors, surfers, policemen, criminals, basketball players, breast cancer survivors, hockey players and inner city kids.

She has been nominated for 11 Casting Society of America Artios Awards and has won three. The first award was for Best Casting on an Independent Feature Film for “In the Bedroom.” This film was nominated for five Academy Awards® and numerous other accolades. Three of the five lead actors were nominated for Oscars®.

Her second Artios award was with her former business partner for Best Feature Film Casting for “Crash,” which won the Academy Award® for Best Picture in 2006. The film also won the SAG Award for Outstanding Ensemble Cast, the NAACP Image Award for Best Picture, the Hollywood Film Festival for Best Cast, and numerous other distinctions and awards. The team then worked again with director Paul Haggis on the critically acclaimed film “In the Valley of Elah” for which lead actor Tommy Lee Jones earned an Oscar® nomination.

In 2006, Ms. Hiller was invited to join the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.Some of her other credits include “Iron Man,” “Iron Man 2,” “Life as a House,” “Miracle,”

“Coach Carter,” “Pride and Glory,” “Hotel for Dogs,” “The Fast & The Furious 3 & 4,” “Terminator 3,” “Blue Crush,” “Thor” and the upcoming films “Blackbird” and “Captain America.”

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Unit Production Manager John J. Kelly

First Assistant Director Jamie Marshall

Second Assistant Director T. Coe

Executive in Charge of Production Donna Sloan

Sound Effects by Mark Mangini

Co-supervising Sound Editor Glenn T. Morgan, MPSE

Sound Re-recording Mixers Gary SummersChristian P. Minkler

CastBrendan Conlon Joel EdgertonTommy Conlon Tom Hardy

Paddy Conlon Nick NolteTess Conlon Jennifer Morrison

Frank Campana Frank GrilloPrincipal Zito Kevin Dunn

Colt Boyd Maximiliano HernandezBryan Callen Himself

Sam Sheridan Himself Fenroy Fernando Funan Chien

Mark Bradford Jake McLaughlinPilar Fernandez Vanessa Martinez

Stephon Denzel WhitakerTito Carlos Miranda

Nash Nick LehaneKC Laura Kenley

Emily Conlon Capri ThomasRosie Conlon Lexi Cowan

Dan Taylor Noah EmmerichDan "Punkass" Caldwell Himself

Timothy "Skyskrape" Katz HimselfJ.J. Riley's Assistant Julia Stockstad

Referee Josh Rosenthal Josh RosenthalKoba Kurt Angle

Pete "Mad Dog" Grimes Erik AppleOrlando "Midnight" Le Anthony Johnson

Karl Kruller Nate MarquardtMarcos Santos Roan Carneiro

Francisco Barbosa Daniel StevensSun Chu Anthony Nanakornpanom

Diego Santana Hans MarreroHouston Greggs Yves Edwards

Yosi Amir Perets

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Sparta Official Anthony TambakisTender Trap Promoter Jimmy Cvetic

Mike "The Mutilator" Moore Jace JeanesTender Trap Announcer Jake Digman

Tender Trap Referee Richard FikeMidnight Corner Man Andre Mason

State Official James HoukKoba Entourage #1 Aaron R. Kleiber Koba Entourage #2 Raymond RoweKoba Entourage #3 Lambert R. Strayer Koba Entourage #4 Roman Vasylyshyn

Jonathan Matthew Anik HimselfRashad Evans Himself

Stephan Bonnar HimselfMichelle Dawn Mooney Herself

A.V. Simers Tim BickelPlatoon Sergeant Jack Fischer

Marine MP #1 Jeff HochendonerMarine MP #2 Armon York

Marine #1 Adam Christian StanleyMarine #2 James DreussiInspector Kevin P. Hanley

Zito's Wife Tammy TownsendZito's Secretary Etta CoxDiner Waitress Sandy Notaro

Concierge Francesca OrtenzioManny Jaime Sinue Aguirre

Desk Girl Tracy CampbellTaxi Cab Driver Thomas McCue

Stunt Coordinator/Fight Choreographer JJ "Loco" PerryAssistant Stunt Coordinator Chien Funan

Assistant Fight Choreographer/Stunt Double Samuel Ambler HargraveStunt Double Jace Jeanes

Double for Stunt Doubles Daniel Stevens

Technical Advisor Greg Jackson

Utility Stunts David Anthony BuglioneHunter ChechakBrendan M. ConteErick FinkJustin FulmerNorberto GarridoDaniel HargraveThayr HarrisSam JonesRicardo MarstonBrian PfeifferMark Shrader

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Ronald StrangBrian ThatcherErin M. ThompsonKip WolvertonLee Zawacki

Aerial Director of Photography David B. Nowell, ASCHelicopter Pilots Cherokee Walker

Cliff Fleming

CrewProduction Supervisor Criag Ayers

Art Director James DonahueSet Decorator Ron von Blomberg

Camera Operator/Steadicam Marcis ColeFirst Assistant 'A' Camera Donald Burghardt

Second Assistant 'A' Camera Brett F. GatesFirst Assistant 'B' Camera Brian LeGrady

Second Assistant 'B' Camera Alex AndresLoader Amanda Rotzler

Still Photographer Chuck ZlotnickAdditional Operators Lukasz Bielan

John GrilloMaurice McGuire

Additional First Assistant Camera John J. EllingwoodJohn SzajnerRick Crumrine

Additional Second Assistant Camera Eric YuColin Sheehy

Additional Loaders Deb PetersonDIT Justin Wells

Key Video Assist Greg MitchellDouglas Stanczak

Video Assist Pasquale GrecoVideo Assist Utility Adam Marze

Video Utility Nic Pesante

Post Production Supervisor Charlene Olson

First Assistant Editor James W. Harrison III

VFX Editor Janet GaynorVFX Assistant Editor Sarah Porter

Assistant Editor Nick Houy

First Assistant Editor Stacey S. Clipp

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Assistant Editors Evan SchiffRobin Gonsalves

Apprentice Editor Peter Lam

Post Production Assistants Taylor WilliamsMichael KarnellStephen D. MannellaElizabeth Maher

Post Production Intern Leila Battersby

Post Production Accountant Emily RiceAssistant Post Production Accountant Maria de los Angeles Uribe

Script Supervisor Anna Rane

Production Sound Mixers Peter J. DevlinGlen Trew

Boom Operator Scott SolanCable Utility George Simpson

Key Grip John JanusekBest Boy Grip John P. Shine

Additional Best Boy Grip Ryan NelsonDolly Grip Troy Wade

Grips Matthew BulleriBrian BuzzelliGregory L. EdwardsNick Zinobile

Key Rigging Grip Bart FlahertyBest Boy Rigging Grip Keith B. Seymour

Rigging Grips Mark D. PasqualeBrennan ReillyMichael Zee Zinobile

Balloon Technicians John D. WrightMario Pignard Jr.

Arm Over David E. Auguston

Gaffer Michael KellyBest Boy Electric Chris Milani

Electricians Allan BarchJarrett BubaAlexander (Lex) CrowPeter G. KlingenbergTerry ShirkScott SpragueSean MurrayMatt Schafer

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Jeff Vander MolenJared WellmanNicholas Yost

Lighting Console Programmer Kevin Hogan

Rigging Gaffers Jean-Pierre "Sasquatch" NutiniJon D. Morrison

Best Boy Rigging Electric John A. Roush

Rigging Electricians Keith R. BradleyChris MuchowRussell McCormackDavid G. PipikEric RiedmanWilliam J. Weaver

Art Department Coordinator Diane SunderlinStoryboard Artists Raymond Consing

Jeff LavezoliLen MorgantiJonathan Woods

Lead Dresser Justin PelisseroSet Dressers Demian Aspinwall

Daragh ByrneJonathan CurotolaGene DoyleBrandon PlonkaRaymond R. PivirottoShawn TambelliniLeo Welsh

On Set Dressers Timothy BarnhillPaul BucciarelliWilliam FrankoJesse Ross

Buyer Merissa LombardoLeadman Severino Gonzales

Swing Gang Zachary DwyerKenneth Kellers

Key Greens Gregory JonesGreens Joe T. Conard

Property Master Joe ArnoldAssistant Property Master Thomas Garrigan

Assistant Property Mamie Kay SteinAdditional Props Kelley Snyder

Construction Coordinator Buster Pile IIGeneral Foreperson Michael Richer

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Construction Assistant Lisa BradleyUtility Cody Pile

Welder Edward Parrish Jr.Gang Bosses Mike Matesic

Scott B. WoodCarpenters Greg Boggs

Daniel BotheKeith BrzozowskiRobert BuncherCharles "Chip" EcclesNorm JohnsonJoseph A. ManniDaniel McGuinnessMichael J. McKeeLance R. WaltersJoseph Waterkotte

Painters Mark GualtieriBrett KennedyKevin Wenner

Charge Scenic Lara LampenfieldScenic Gang Boss Smith Harper Hutchings

On Set Scenic Gregory Puchalski

Scenic Julie ChillEmilie Bosworth-ClemensDarien D'AlfonsoJolene Elyse DrylieJosh DrylieGina FavanoJoshua HoganThomas MatelaTim McGraneDavid MoriartyElizabeth A. NallyShawn Watrous

Art Department Production Assistant Jennifer Albaugh

Costume Supervisor Gail FitzgibbonsKey Costumers Catherine Riley

Diane K. CollinsCostumers Demetricus Holloway

Jason CalabroTailors Leslie A. Maxsen

Marlene SperanzaCostume Assistant Michelle Christensen

Wardrobe Buyer Lindsey Tervo-ClemmensAger/Dyer Art Finisher Lauri Mancuso

Additional Costumers Alison Leigh Evans

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C. Susan HallLaura Kaminski

Additional Costumers (Sparta) Darcie ButerbaughJames EidelMelanie Marie EvansVirginia Lynn Phillips

Interns Ian CramptonMatthew FeilerLeah Winkler

Department Head Makeup Artists Felicity BowringRandy Westgate

Key Makeup Artists Calvin ScottHeather Mages

Assistant Makeup Artists Rod CarterRachel KickSharyn CordiceJeannee JosefczykMarianne Skiba

Makeup Intern David Presnell

Department Head Hairstylists Trish AlmeidaDugg Kirkpatrick

Key Hairstylists Mishell ChandlerAmanda M. Williams

Assistant Hairstylists Karen LovellNancy KeslarRosalee Riggle

Special Effects Coordinator David BeavisSpecial Effects Foreman Aaron Strickland

Special Effects Technicians Robert L. GirardMichael Hauck

Pittsburgh Location Manager David "Wino" WeinsteinPittsburgh Assistant Location Manager Kent Jackson

Pittsburgh Location Liaison Maria F. LeonPittsburgh Key Location Production Assistant Stephen D. Shephard

Pittsburgh Additional Scout Jason PlanitzerPittsburgh Locations Intern Todd Cappelt

Pittsburgh Location Production Assistant Timothy Lee Nelson

Additional Location Managers R. Michael CharskeJean ChienYoli Poropat

Additional Assistant Location Manager Eric PapaAdditional Location Production Assistants Andrew B. Nicholas

Jared Ortega

Transportation Coordinator Marc C. Scott

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Transportation Co-Coordinator Katie ScottTransportation Dispatcher Lauren Newhouse

Transportation Captains Dennis BraunByron C. Roland

Transportation Captain, Philadelphia Frank Conway

Drivers David AllenMike BearerRobert BowenCharles V. Brown Frank ConfortiRoy Dillon Jr. Lauren B. DonnellyKevin C. DoughertyThomas FlemingRobert Foster Jr.Billy GillespieRoger GrahamAlbert E. Hippert Sr. Kevin HumeThomas R. JohnstonRichard A. KoenigTerence W. MahoneyRichard P. MarenoThomas McCueTimothy S. McLaughlinDennis MichaelsJustin NanceRoger NicholasVince RiggleJoe RogersPatrick RolandMario D. RussoKarriem SamiMichael ShuronRobert J. SzaliwskiGreg ViglioneGeorge WaidelichTom WeifenbachKeith John WichrykStanley M. Wojtaszek III

Technocrane Operator Michael H. Howell

Production Coordinator Franses SimonovichAssistant Production Coordinator Anna Burd

Office Production Coordinator, New Mexico Melanie Kirk Travel Coordinators G.R.M. Cross

Larry GeyerTravel Production Assistant Olwen Turtle

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Production Secretaries Tory LenoskyTom Rumpf II

Office Production Assistants Darrell AbbottAlex BeneventKrystal FinkbeinerNeil Henke IIIDouglas R. KennedyZane ShapiroJessica Fay Silver

Office Production Intern Harley Wilson

Second Second Assistant Director Susan Ransom-CoyleAdditional Second Assistant Director Fred Roth

Additional Second Second Assistant Director Deon BoyceKey Set Production Assistant Walter E. Myal

Set Production Assistants Alyssa BatchelorDaniel ShortTravis Johnston

Additional Set Production Assistants Christina MyalMary Flynn FeeneyKate BauerMichael DayRyan KlutchDrew Edward LevinsonJesse McMartinDominic MecchiaNatasha EspiedraRyan McCloskeyStephen ThieleChristian VagleyM. Lamine KeitaJakob HochendonerBenjamin Jeran McGinnRobert PalloneAlejandra Briones

Production Accountant Thane WatkinsFirst Assistant Accountants Francesco Giuseppe Pace

Krystal MathiesenAccounting Clerk Gary Ebron

Solaris Production Executive Jillian SteinAssistant to Gavin O'Connor Samantha Ellison

Assistant to John J. Kelly David DilleyAssistant to Nick Nolte Melissa Rotonto

Tom Hardy's Personal Trainer Patrick "PNutT" Monroe

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Casting Associate Tamara-Lee NotcuttCasting Assistant Gina Gallego

Pittsburgh Casting Donna Belajac, C.S.A.Pittsburgh Casting Assistants Kim Crawford

Alexander ZahnExtras Casting by Lissa Brennan

Meg HalseyExtras Casting Production Assistants Will Guffey

James Alexander McCulloughRyan K. SchmidtCory TucekZoe C. West

Studio Teachers Marla JonasStephanie Turman

Production Consultant George Parra

MMA Consultants Alan VittJosh Rosenthal

Dialect Coach Don Wadsworth

Caterer Hat Trick CateringOwner Paul KuzmichChefs Peter A. Lowe Jr.

Paul RathburnFirst Assistant Chef Jose D. Garcia

Assistant Chefs Jebadiah LemosGabriel Rivera

Caterer Realms of CateringChef Mark Davis

Head Chef Jeff P FrankekAssistant Chefs Todd Hill

Kelsie Kirchartz

Additional Catering Charles S. BadamoCarlos Giovanny CastilloSalvador HernandezJebadiah LemosMelissa MillerMichael MimsJose MenjivarPeter A. RoccaJeremy Walker

Craft Services Drew SmithAssistant Craft Services Jason Silvis

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Paula D. CollinsJimmy Gee GieslerPaula A. GreggDonald Lee Rager Nicole D. RebyanksiSabine RehfeldJeremy (Spike) SpeicherNick SpivakAndrea "Petey" SpringZoran Zdrnja

Key Set Medic Virginia M. Herdman R.N.Set Medic, New Mexico Jim Ivy

Additional Set Medics Martha Allen, EMTPMichelle MarinoMary Beth Spear

Set Security Peak Security

Clearance Supervisor Erin GilletteRights & Clearances Entertainment Clearances, Inc

Laura SevierCassandra Barbour

Product Placement Rosemary Lara

EPK Produced by Sam Hurwitz Productions

Second UnitSecond Unit Director of Photography John Grillo

Video Assist Alfred Ainsworth, Jr.Script Supervisors Susan Bambara

Jan McWilliamsProduction Sound Mixer George Simpson

Boom Operator Kelly RoofnerCable Utility Chris "Lurch" Rudyk

Post ProductionSound Effects Editors Piero Mura

Ben WilkinsMike ChockEzra Dweck

Dialogue & ADR Editors Daniel S. IrwinNancy Nugent Margit PfeifferSteve Robinson

Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixers (Pre-Dubbs) Ezra Dweck

Mark ManginiBen Wilkins

Digital Assistants Paul Flinchbaugh

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Mark Coffey

Re-recording Facilities TODD AO[logo]

Mix Technicians Robert AlthoffZach Howard

ADR Mixers Ron Bedrosian David BoultonRobert DeschaineMitch DorfTami TreadwellDavid Wilson

ADR Recordists Julio CarmonaDante FazioBrian GallagherGreg Zinerman

Sound Effects Recording Charlie Campagna

Additional Sound Services Bob RosenthalJeff EisnerKimberly JimenezArda GulesserianPaul RodriguezKyle SeoDavid YoungJohn BiresRich Toenes Emma MinklerGracie MinklerTallulah MinklerMadelaine ChurchEmma ChurchLauren Fraser

Foley Artists Goro KoyamaAndy Malcolm

Foley Recording Mixers Don WhiteIan RankinJack Heeren

Foley Recordists Jenna Dalla RivaStephen Muir

Foley Recorded at Footsteps Post-Production Sound Inc.

ADR Walla Group Caitlin McKennaJames AroneKirk BailyJames Dever

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Michelle Jubilee GonzalezKerry GutierrezWalter Emmanuel JonesBridget HoffmanMatt LaboryteauxScott MenvilleHeidi Brook MyersJonathan Nichols                      Paul Pape                  JJ PerryKelly StablesJustin ShenkarowWarren Asher SrokaMark SussmanShane SweetRon Yuan

Warrior Sound FX Field Recordingsby

Elliott Koretz, MPSEBruce Barris

Dolby Sound Consultant Andy Potvin

Dailies by Technicolor HollywoodDailies Colorist Mark Sachen

Editorial Equipment Rentals Provided by Mega Playground

Avid Editorial Services Supplied by Electric Picture Solutions

Main and End Title Design by Deborah Ross Film DesignTitle Animation by Gravity

End Crawl by Scarlet Letters

Visual Effects by LOOK Effects, Inc.Visual Effects Supervisor Henrik FettDigital Effects Supervisor Derek Bird

Visual Effects Producer Jenny FosterCompositing Supervisor Brad Kalinoski

Visual Effects Executive Producer Steve DellersonDigital Artists  Danny Kim    

 Ben Sumner    Cyntia Buell    Tina Wallace

Visual Effects by 2G Digital Post, Inc.Visual Effects Producer Jason Sanford

Visual Effects Account Executive Cortney HaileDigital Effects Supervisor Spencer Hecox

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Digital Compositing Supervisor Andreas JablonkaDigital Compositors Patrick Keenan

Eddie GutierrezJason BidwellJohn CornejoBrian Holter

Lead Roto Artist Justin PascalRoto Artists Francesco Panzieri

John BrubakerGabriel Lopez

Visual Effects Coordinator Ashley J. WardVisual Effects Interns Chris Castro-Rappal

Colby Bartine

VFX by XY&Z VISUAL EFFECTSVFX Supervisor Mike Uguccioni

Compositors Jamie BaxterTrinh BaxterRoger Mocenigo

Roto Jeff LeavittDebra GeorgeDrew RedfordJeff Ginyard

Internal Graphics by PICPamela Green

Jarik Van Sluijs Omer Avarkan Garrett KnisleyBen Bullock Emily Powell 

Paul MakowskiEmi Kimura

Yooha JoKayoon Oh

Digital Intermediary Services by LaserPacific[logo]

Supervising & Lead Colourist David ColeDigital Intermediate Producer Anna DiNuovo

Assistant Digital Intermediate Producer Sadie JohnsonDigital Intermediate Editor Valance Eisleben

Digital Data Conform Carrie OliverStacy Underhill

Color Science Doug JaquaConcierge Paul Diaz

Training Montage by Modern VideoFilm, IncSmoke Artist Mike Wil

Project Manager Marisa Clayton

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Video Projection Equipment Provided by American Hi-Definitions

HD Digital Services by WLA Post Group

Prints by DeluxeLab Color Timer Lance Spindler

Lab Account Manager Saj JayasingheAccount Managers Assistant Bruce Fowler

Stock Footage Supplied by Classic ImagesThought Equity Motion

For LIONSGATESupervisor of Production Curtis A. Miller

Manager of Production Bree BaileyManager of Production Accounting Mark PedanteProduction Department Coordinator Ami Cohen

Assistant to Mr. Paseornek Jina JonesAssistants to Ms. Ellzey Alex Plapinger

Ryan Wickers

Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs Robert Melnik

Assistant to Mr. Melnik Lindsay GoresVice President, Business & Legal Affairs Charlyn Adkins

Manager of Business & Legal Affairs Bill JacksCredits Coordinator Shauna Brianne Wong

Chief Marketing Officer Tim PalenVice President, Assets and Unit Publicity Yon Elvira

Senior Vice President, Feature Film Post Production Carl Pedregal

Vice President, Feature Post Production Mark W. McCoySenior Post Production Coordinator Ariana Young

Post Production Assistant Justin PowellPost Production Interns Hayley Lloyd

Andrei Grigoriu

Executive in Charge of Music Tracy McKnightGeneral Manager & EVP, Business Affairs Lenny Wohl

Budget Supervisor Chris BrownMusic Assistant Willa Yudell

Executive Vice President, Finance Wescott GuarinoScreening Operations Executive Timothy Ralston

Camera Cranes & Dollies by Maxim Crane Works, L.P.Dwight CraneCineMoves

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Blane Allan's Media MastersNES RentalsLightspeed

Lighting and Grip Equipment Provided by Cinelease, North Carolina

Production Financing Provided by Union Bank, N.A. and City National Bank

Insurance Provided by Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance ServicesBrian Kingman

Completion Guaranty Provided by Film Finances, Inc.

Music Composed & Produced by Mark IshamOrchestrations Brad Dechter

Additional Orchestrations Jonathan BartzAdditional Music Cindy O’Connor

Orchestra Conductor Adam KlemensOrchestra Contractor Petr Pycha

Recorded by Gary ChesterMixed by Jason LaRocca at ClockworkLabs

Assisted by Hector DelgadoElectronic Prerecords Tyler Parkinson

Music Editors Julie PearceGedney Webb

Additional Music Editors Clint BennettJennifer Nash

Cello Loops Zöe KeatingGuitar Jason LaRocca

Music Clearance & Licensing Matt Lilley / MCL Music Services, Inc.

“Start a War”Written by Matthew Berninger and Aaron Dessner

Performed by The NationalCourtesy of 4AD Records

"Take Time in Life"Traditional Nigerian Folk Song

Arranged and additional lyrics by Ellen EdsonPerformed by Ellen Edson

Courtesy of Elm Hill Music

“On My Side”Written by Zach Sciacca, Michael Urbano, Lateef Daumont and Sean Daley

Performed by Z-Trip Featuring Lateef & SlugCourtesy of Decon

“This is Me”Written by Jahmal Bush, Eric Goldman and Zedrick Kelly

Performed by Rock from Heltah Skeltah

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Courtesy of Shameless Entertainment

“You Know I Like That”Written by Jim Beadle and Martin Haene

Performed by Abi RyanCourtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

“Smack Zone (pigmix)”Written by Casper Skafte and Michael Boegballe

Performed by SmaxoneCourtesy of Roasting House Music

By arrangement with pigFACTORY USA, LLC

“Sweat”Written by Curtis Allen Marolt and Michael Dicillo

Performed by Sarah LeichtenbergCourtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

“Lido Shuffle”Written by William R. Scaggs and David F. Paich

Performed by Boz ScaggsCourtesy of Columbia Records

By arrangement with Sony Music Licensing

“Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, ‘Choral’, 2nd movement”Written by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performed by Nicolaus Esterházy SinfoniaCourtesy of Naxos

By arrangement with Source/Q

“Partita for Violin Solo No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004, transcribed for piano by Ferruccio Busoni”Written by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performed by Sequeira CostaCourtesy of Naxos

By arrangement with Source/Q

“The Sun and Earth”Written by Stephen Kilroy, Stephen Smith, Timothy Chappelear, Erik Dean and Anthony Acampora

Performed by Middle Distance RunnerCourtesy of Songs Music Publishing

“Roses From The South”Written by Johann Strauss Jr.Arranged by George Wilson

Courtesy of APM Music

“The August Waltz”Written by Andy Vale

Courtesy of APM Music

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“Drum and Stilt Walking Creation”Written by Robert Dickerson

Performed by Jamal P. Dickerson, Nasir P. Dickerson, Kysame Watson and Niseeah BranchCourtesy of Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble

“This is War”Written by Tyler Wayne Parkinson

Performed by Tyler Parkinson and Ethan Embry

“Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, ‘Choral’, Finale”Written by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performed by the Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia and ChorusCourtesy of Naxos

By arrangement with Source/Q

“Fight Night”Written by Jamal Grinnage, Eric Murry, Eric Goldman and Zedrick Kelly

Performed by M.O.P.Courtesy of Shameless Entertainment

“The Halls of Montezuma”Traditional

“Everything”Written by Lauren Boquette and Alan L. James

Performed by Lords of RuinCourtesy of 1605 Records

By arrangement with pigFACTORY USA, LLC

“Everyday”Written by Keith Ryan Fertwagner

Performed by The FonzarelliesCourtesy of Pacifica Music, LLC

“I Got Everything I Need”Written by Todd James SchofieldPerformed by The Chelsea SmilesCourtesy of Pacifica Music, LLC

“Get Up!”Written by Curt Harpel and Kelly Moneymaker

Performed by 2 Clicks DownCourtesy of Pacifica Music, LLC

“Fastidious Horses”Written by Vladimir Vissotsky

Performed by Vladimir VissotskyCourtesy of Le Chant du Monde

“About Today”Written by Matthew Berninger and Aaron Dessner

Performed by The National

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Courtesy of Radio France for Bernard Lenoir’s program “White Sessions” on France InterBy arrangement with The National

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Kevin MorrisDavid Krintzman

Evan BellLiza de Leon

Kevin HuvaneKim Hodgert

Howie NuchowLisa Shotland

Ian WhiteJohn O'ConnorJulia O'Connor

Sue KrollDan Fellman

Jimmy PittsburghDan "Punkass" Caldwell

Timothy "Skyskrape" KatzGreg Jackson

Cary Kolat and FamilyDavid and Zac Coe

Kieren PortleyMichael HumesMatt Leonetti

Allegheny Valley SchoolAmanda Anderson

The American National Red CrossAshley T. Taylor

Atlantic City Convention - Visitors AuthorityChris Farina

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ESPNErica Cowan

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Children's Artwork by Bronwen O'Connor

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