FROM JUNE 2-8,

NYC'S IFC CENTER CELEBRATES THE ART OF TELEVISION

WITH STAR-STUDDED SPLIT SCREENS FESTIVAL

Inaugural Week-Long Event, Programmed By Critic/Author Matt Zoller Seitz,

To Feature Exclusive Screenings and Panels Spotlighting Critically-Acclaimed Scripted Series

World Premiere Screening of HBO’s Highly Anticipated Drama

'The Deuce' Kicks Off Curated Lineup On Friday, June 2nd; Featured Content To Include: 'Better Call Saul,' 'Billions,' ‘Brockmire,’ ‘Difficult People,’ 'The Get Down,' 'The Girlfriend Experience,' 'Mr. Robot,' ‘Orphan Black,’ ‘Search Party,’ ‘Underground’ Plus Other Special Events To Be Announced

Specials Guests Include Hank Azaria, Sarah Violet Bliss, Lilly Burns, Asia Kate Dillon, John Fawcett, Nelson George, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Anthony Hemingway, Aisha Hinds, Lodge Kerrigan, Julie Klausner, Brian Koppelman, Rami Malek, Tatiana Maslany, Michelle MacLaren, Graeme Manson, Michael McKean, Amanda Peet, George Pelecanos, Charles Rogers, Amy Seimetz and More

Tickets on Sale Beginning May 11

[New York, May 11, 2017] – IFC Center today announced the first portion of its impressive lineup for the inaugural Split Screens Festival taking place Friday, June 2 through Thursday, June 8, 2017, at the IFC Center in New York City.  Throughout the week, the festival will host a series of special events celebrating the art and craft of TV with exclusive screenings and vibrant panel conversations featuring the biggest and boldest names in scripted content.  Tickets to the public go on sale beginning Thursday, May 11.

Curated by one of television's biggest fans, author and critic Matt Zoller Seitz, the festival will be anchored by four signature categories: PREMIERES, an opportunity for audiences to be  among the first to screen an anticipated new series; CLOSE-UP, focused primarily on the work of one or two celebrated actors in a series; SHOWCASE, which will take a deeper look at a series through the lens of its creators, producers and stars;  and REWIND, revisiting an iconic episode of television via a screening and conversation with the creatives who have brought their vision to life. 

The festival's opening night will kick-off with a world PREMIERE of HBO’s highly anticipated new NYC period drama, “The Deuce” followed by a Q&A with series producer and co-star Maggie Gyllenhaal, pilot director Michelle MacLaren and series co-creator George Pelecanos.  Additional highlights throughout the week include: SHOWCASE events on acclaimed series “Difficult People” (Hulu), “The Get Down” (Netflix), “Orphan Black” (BBC AMERICA), and “Search Party” (TBS); REWIND panels on “The Girlfriend Experience”(STARZ), and “Underground” (WGN America); CLOSE-UP conversations featuring Asia Kate Dillon of “Billions" (Showtime), Hank Azaria and Amanda Peet of “Brockmire” (IFC), Rami Malek, star of “Mr. Robot” (USA Network), and the many faces of Michael McKean who currently stars as Chuck McGill on “Better Call Saul” (AMC). 

Additional festival programs and special events, including awards presentations, will be announced in the coming days.

Most festival screenings and panel discussions will be hosted and moderated by Split Screens artistic director Matt Zoller Seitz. As Editor-in-Chief of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the author of TV (The Book) and studies on Wes Anderson, Oliver Stone and Mad Men, Seitz, the ultimate TV fan, knows that audiences can't get enough of good television content.

Seitz said: "First and foremost, I am a fan--so studying the great work of these casts and creators has been an honor. What we have done in this inaugural Split Screens Festival is to cull what we believe to be the best of the best in today's content landscape and it has been thrilling and as a creative myself, incredibly humbling. I look forward to having both powerful and meaningful dialogue throughout the week and am excited about the opportunity to share art and craft of these programs with passionate and enthusiastic TV fans from NY and beyond."  

“We are thrilled to welcome the first-ever Split Screens Festival to New York City next month,” said Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment Commissioner, Julie Menin. “Our city’s television production industry is booming like never before, and the Festival is an ideal venue to celebrate and reflect upon the groundbreaking content being created in this increasingly popular medium. I thank the IFC Center for their partnership and encourage New Yorkers to experience this celebration of creativity in the entertainment world.”

Ticket information:

• Tickets for the opening night premiere of “The Deuce” are $30 ($25 IFC Center members)

• Tickets for individual events are $12-$19 ($10-$16 IFC Center members)

• A festival pass, providing admission to all festival programs, is available for $125 ($95 IFC Center members)

Tickets and festival passes are available online at splitscreensfestival.com, or in person at the IFC Center box office at 323 Sixth Ave. (at West 3^rd St.), open daily 10:30am-10:00pm

Event details and additional program announcements are available at splitscreensfestival.com

SPLIT SCREENS FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

FRIDAY, JUNE 2  

7:00PM - “THE DEUCE” (HBO) OPENING NIGHT PREMIERE 

In person: Series producer and co-star Maggie Gyllenhaal, pilot director Michelle MacLaren and series co-creator George Pelecanos

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Split Screens premieres the pilot episode of HBO’s eagerly anticipated New York period drama from executive producers David Simon and George Pelecanos (The Wire), about the rise of the porn industry in and around Times Square in the 1970s. The cast includes Maggie Gyllenhaal as an entrepreneurial sex worker and James Franco as twin brothers who serve as fronts for the Mafia. True to form for a producing team that shepherdedThe Wire and Treme into existence, The Deuce is a beating-heart-of-the-city drama that explores the interconnectedness of characters from different social classes and ethnicities, some of whom find themselves at odds over money, honor and the obligation to uphold the law. 

SATURDAY, JUNE 3  

4:30 PM – “MR. ROBOT” (USA Network) CLOSE-UP with Rami Malek 

In person: Actor Rami Malek

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It’s tricky enough to be the lead actor on a TV drama, more so when you’re in almost every scene, and trickier still when your character narrates the show. USA Network’s Golden Globe^®award winner Mr. Robot tasks its star, Rami Malek, with all these responsibilities, then adds more: It’s one of the most relentlessly interior shows, inviting you into the headspace of its lead character—computer expert and secret vigilante hacker Elliot Alderson—and showing you the world as he sees it. 

Through clips and discussion, the event takes a deep dive with Malek into his performance as the show’s title character. Playing an introvert turned underground revolutionary, Malek shapes his role through research and prep work, posture and gestures, and even the way he modulates his voice between Elliot’s dialogue with different characters and his voiceover narration directly to the audience.

9:00 PM – “SEARCH PARTY” (TBS) - SHOWCASE 

In person: Series creators, co-directors and executive producers Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, and Executive Producer Lilly Burns 

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It’s rare to encounter a TV series that could accurately be described as a satire, much less an unsparing one, but Search Party absolutely qualifies. It’s a mystery about people trying to get to the bottom of a young woman’s disappearance, but that’s just what’s happening on the surface. The mystery is the gimmick that draws you in so that this exceptional and surprising show — credited to a rogue’s gallery of executive producers, including Michael Showalter, Sarah-Violet Bliss, and Charles Rogers, Lilly Burns and Tony Hernandez  — can work its dark magic. Chantal’s vanishing is a device that the show uses to explore Dory’s (Alia Shawkat) world and make uncomfortable observations about modern life, in particular the tendency to confuse the ego-stroking virtual busywork of the text- and social media-driven era for actual, meaningful action. There’s an even deeper level to this series, something on the order of an existential quest, a long journey into the heroine’s emotional interior. The condition of believing oneself sensitive while feeling very little has rarely been examined with such exactness.

SUNDAY, JUNE 4

2:30 PM - “THE GET DOWN” (Netflix) - SHOWCASE 

In person: Series co-executive producer Stephen Adly Guirgis, supervising producer Nelson George

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“Unfold your own myth,” blares a graffiti tag on the skin of a subway car in The Get Down. Baz Luhrmann and Stephen Adly Guirgis’s 1970s musical melodrama about the birth of hip-hop and the fall of dirty-glorious Gotham is forever characterizing itself this way: like a rapper nimbly reframing a story as he tells it. It’s a multimedia work—television, cinema, a novel, a scrapbook; collage, decoupage, a montage barrage. The sheer, shameless entertainment value of The Get Down camouflages how formally inventive it is. The gleeful way that the image texture changes from shot to shot (1970s TV news video, 16mm, what looks like enhanced YouTube footage) suggests the filmmakers are glorying in a crazy-quilt aesthetic instead of knocking themselves out trying to make every piece seem like part of a seamless whole. The show is sampling pop culture history, New York City history and music history to create its own sound.

4:30 PM – “DIFFICULT PEOPLE” (Hulu) - SHOWCASE

In person: Series creator, executive producer, writer and star Julie Klausner

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Julie Klausner’s series about brilliant, acerbic, self-defeating best buds on the fringes of stardom is tailor-made for the YouTube era, when artists and entertainers act as their own agents, publicists and managers and watch their colleagues’ successes and failures unfold in real time, with envy or glee, depending.

Julie (Klausner) and Billy (Billy Eichner) keep hatching schemes like a couple of Lucy Ricardos, even though their quest is motivated less by a burning urge to express themselves than a lust for fame and comfort. They pop others’ delusions and preserve their own, but even at their pettiest, there are moments when they speak the truth, and some of their most penetrating insights have to do with the show you’re watching and the medium that spawned it. One of Difficult People’s fiercest convictions is that a sitcom’s first obligation is to be funny and engaging, a surprisingly contrarian point of view now that every form of scripted entertainment is striving to subvert rather than embrace proven formulas. “When did comedies become 30-minute dramas?” Billy asks, with an aghast tone that suggests Difficult People is not interested in becoming one. The upcoming third season of Difficult People premieres Tuesday, August 8 on Hulu. 

6:15 PM – “BETTER CALL SAUL” (AMC) - CLOSE-UP with Michael McKean  

In person: Michael McKean and series co-creator and co-executive producer Peter Gould

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Better Call Saul, Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould’s improbably just-as-good prequel to Breaking Bad, is a showcase for ace character actors, none as sneakily great as Michael McKean, who costars as the slippery hero’s straight-arrow older brother, Chuck McGill. Chuck is a feared trial lawyer at a top Albuquerque, New Mexico law firm who claims to be hypersensitive to electricity, and is equally allergic to laziness and ethical short cuts. In lesser hands, he could have been an amusing if one-note foil. But McKean, a wizardly comic actor with the soul of a Method chameleon, imbues him with so many layers of personality, all operating simultaneously, that you can’t help feeling for him and understanding Chuck even when the character grates on you. This close-up panel will explore McKean’s collaboration with the character’s creator, writer-producer Peter Gould, and delve into McKean’s long and varied history as a dramatic and comedic actor and improvisational comic.

TUESDAY, JUNE 6

6:30 PM – “ORPHAN BLACK” (BBC AMERICA) -SHOWCASE 

In person: Actors Tatiana Maslany, Jordan Gavaris, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kristian Bruun, Kevin Hanchard, Evelyne Brochu and Ari Millen, and Executive Producers Graeme Manson and John Fawcett

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BBC AMERICA’s clone conspiracy thriller stars Emmy^® award winner Tatiana Maslany as multiple genetically identical women. But this is not merely a series about clones; it’s a continuous study in nature versus nurture that routinely puts Maslany in conversations with iterations of herself, and each iteration feels like a distinct human being rather than a sketch-comedy caricature. Graeme Manson and John Fawcett create a maze-like world where the reflections can not only talk, but have their own opinions. The result is sorcery, and Maslany is at the center, playing as many as four personalities at once while a constellation of gifted supporting players, including, Jordan Gavaris, Kristian Bruun, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Hanchard, Evelyn Brochu, and others swirl around her. The show’s bottomless inventiveness and persistent sense of fun are infectious. In addition to the suspense generated by the story itself, there’s a secondary thrill from watching the cast and crew struggle to top themselves in sheer outrageousness.

8:45 PM - “BILLIONS” (Showtime) CLOSE-UP with Asia Kate Dillon

In person: Actor Asia Kate Dillon and creators David Levien and Brian Koppelman

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In its second season, Showtime’s hit drama series Billions made history by introducing TV’s first gender non-binary major character, Taylor Mason, an intern at Axe Capital (played by Asia Kate Dillon) who unexpectedly becomes a favorite of macho hedge funder Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis). Dillon, who uses the singular they pronoun, auditioned for the role shortly after playing the racist skinhead Brandy on Netflix’sOrange is the New Black. Sharing the stage with series creators and executive producers Brian Koppelman and David Levien, they will discuss the second season of Billions and the fine points of playing a trailblazing character in a medium where starkly defined gender roles still rule the perceptions of casting directors and viewers alike.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7

7:00 PM – “BROCKMIRE” (IFC) CLOSE-UP with Hank Azaria and Amanda Peet  

In person: Series executive producer and star Hank Azaria and star Amanda Peet

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Although he’s perhaps best known as one of the versatile repertory actors on The Simpsons, Hank Azaria is also a formidable live-action performer who can adjust his body to suit the needs of a role as deftly as he can his voice. Jim Brockmire, a minor-league sportscaster struggling with alcoholism and his own monstrous ego, gives the actor a rare opportunity to hold the spotlight for the entire running time of a series, as a character he’s been developing for years. The results are dazzling.

He’s matched by Amanda Peet, who brings a no-nonsense toughness to the role of Jules James, the owner of both the team and a local bar. Peet is equally comfortable as a romantic leading lady, a kitchen-sink drama actress and a pratfaller, and she gets to combine all three of those talents here. This detailed one-on-one discussion will delve into Peet and Azaria’s varied careers, their chemistry on the show, and the ne points of bringing these two eccentric characters to life. 

8:45 PM –“THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE” (STARZ)REWIND with “Separation” episode  

In person: Co-executive producers Lodge Kerrigan and Amy Seimetz

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The most narratively complex single episode of an ongoing series since the hero of Louie went to China, this alternately unnerving, baffling and hilarious half-hour of The Girlfriend Experience works as a psychological X-ray of the show’s heroine, escort Christine (Riley Keough); a play within a play; and a meditation on voyeurism, exhibitionism, sex, and acting. Co-written by series creators Amy Seimetz and Lodge Kerrigan, and directed by Kerrigan, the episode doesn’t just avoid the traditional sorts of closure that TV viewers tend to crave; it throws the totality of the show’s first season into question, making us question the intent and substance of everything we’ve seen. As such, it owes less to current trends in scripted TV, even the most rarified kinds, than to 1960s European art cinema classics like Blow-Up, Last Year at Marienbad and The Exterminating Angel.

THURSDAY, JUNE 8

7:00 PM –“UNDERGROUND” (WGN America, produced by Sony Pictures Television) - REWIND with “Minty” episode  

In person: Actor Aisha Hinds and executive producer/director Anthony Hemingway

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WGN America’s groundbreaking series “Underground” made television history with the extended episode “Minty” that originally aired April 12. Featuring an hour-long solo, and career-defining performance, Aisha Hinds brings Harriet Tubman back to life, as she delivers a monumental and definitive speech in character as the Underground Railroad's most famous conductor.  Set in 1858 against the backdrop of a nation deeply divided by race, class and gender, Tubman makes a passionate plea to abolitionists to shift their thinking as she challenges them to take swift action against those who are determined to oppress others.  “Minty,” was written by series co-creators Misha Green and Joe Pokaski, and directed by Emmy and Golden Globe Award^® winner Anthony Hemingway.

ABOUT SPLIT SCREENS FESTIVAL

Split Screens Festival is an annual event produced and presented by IFC Center, one of New York’s leading independent cinemas, and is organized by the core team of its successful DOC NYC documentary film festival, including Executive Director Raphaela Neihausen, Partnerships Director Deborah Rudolph and Operations Director Dana Krieger. Collaborating with broadcasters, cable networks and streaming services, the festival will highlight great content from a range of platforms to bring together the creative talent behind TV’s most acclaimed shows and sophisticated New York audiences.

ABOUT IFC CENTER

IFC Center is a five-screen, state-of-the-art cinema in the heart of New York’s Greenwich Village that opened in June 2005 following an extensive renovation of the historic Waverly Theater. IFC Center presents the very best in new foreign-language, American independent and documentary features to audiences and is also known for its innovative repertory series and festivals, showing short films before its regular features in the ongoing “Short Attention Span Cinema” program, and special events such as the guest-programmed “Movie Nights” and frequent in-person appearances by filmmakers. In 2010, IFC Center launched the acclaimed DOC NYC festival, a high-profile showcase that celebrates nonfiction filmmaking and is now the largest documentary festival in the US. For additional theater information, current and upcoming program details and more, visit ifccenter.com.

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New York (September 4, 2014) – Magnolia Pictures announced today that they will be launching FRANK on iTunes and On Demand this Friday, September 5th.  Now in theaters across the country, FRANK is a charming comedy starring Michael Fassbender as an outsider rock musician who notably sports a giant paper-mache head that he never removes. 

FRANK had its coming out party here in early August, where the cast members reunited for a performance of the climactic song from the film, “I Love You All”, at its premiere at the Westway club in NYC. The next night, they reprised their performance on the Colbert Report, head and all, following a very funny interview with Colbert and Fassbender.

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson, FRANK also stars Domhnall Gleeson (Star Wars: Episode VII) as Jon, a young wannabe musician who discovers he's bitten off more than he can chew when he joins a band of eccentric pop musicians led by the mysterious and enigmatic Frank (Fassbender) and his terrifying sidekick, Clara (Maggie Gyllenhall). Frank’s uniqueness lies in the fact that he makes music purely for the joy of creating…and because he wears a giant fake head. After a rocky start, Jon ingratiates himself with the band members, and they retreat to a cabin in the woods to record an album. As his influence waxes, creative tensions mount, and the band’s entire raison d'être is called into question. 

“A genuine original in a summer sea of sameness. A profound examination of what constitutes creativity and genius. A story about the perpetual tension between vision and mediocrity, integrity and celebrity. It couldn’t be more classic, or of the moment.” – John Anderson, Wall Street Journal

“Certified Fresh” by Rotten Tomatoes, and currently is rated 91% on the site, FRANK has opened major markets across the country to excellent reviews:

“Captivating. It’s like an album made up of B sides and lost demo tracks that you stumble across and can’t stop replaying.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times

“You’re in for something funny, touching and vital. A hymn to the healing power of art.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

“Honest and affecting. Best of all, we get to witness Fassbender at full tilt.” – Anthony Lane, The New Yorker

FRANK will remain in theaters through September (complete list of bookings here), where it continues to perform strongly—grossing $23K at the Arclight in Los Angeles alone last weekend—while its expansion to iTunes and On Demand will make it available to virtually everyone in the US.

View trailer here:

About Magnolia

Magnolia Pictures (www.magpictures.com) is the theatrical and home entertainment distribution arm of the Wagner/Cuban Companies, a vertically-integrated group of media properties co-owned by Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban that also includes the Landmark Theatres chain and AXS TV. Recent releases include Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac, Richard Ayoade’s dystopian vision The Double, Steve James’ moving Roger Ebert doc Life Itself, Joe Berlinger's Whitey Bulger doc Whitey, Lenny Abrahamson’s Frank, Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas and Lukas Moodysson’s We Are the Best! to name a few. Upcoming releases include the award winning Force Majeure, which is Sweden’s selection for this year’s Academy Awards, The Two Faces of January with Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Issac and Kirsten Dunst, Gregg Araki’s White Bird in a Blizzard starring Shailene Woodley, Life Partners starring Leighton Meester and Gillian Jacobs, New York City Ballet documentary Ballet 422, and many more.

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Check out the trailer for FRANK starring Michael Fassbender, Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Scoot McNairy:

Magnolia Pictures will release FRANK in select theaters August 15, 2014.

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson

Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Scoot McNairy and Michael Fassbender

FRANK is an offbeat comedy about a wannabe musician who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant-garde pop band led by the enigmatic Frank - a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head.

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“A Die Hard-style thriller that will make pulses race!”

-Claudia Puig, USA Today

“A non-stop thrill ride that will have you leaping out of your seat.”

-Nikki Novak, Young Hollywood

Channing Tatum & Oscar® Winner Jamie Foxx Star in the Explosive Action Thriller

WHITE HOUSE DOWN

From the Director of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow & 2012  

It all goes down Nov. 5 on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD & Digital

Combo Pack includes Blu-ray, DVD & Digital HD UltraViolet™

Bonus Features Include 9 Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes, Gag Reel & More

Culver City, CA (9/3/13) – From Roland Emmerich, director of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012, comes the hard-hitting, non-stop thrill ride WHITE HOUSE DOWN, available on Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD and Digital on Nov. 5 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Two of Hollywood’s most sought-after actors, Channing Tatum (21 Jump Street, Magic Mike) and Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx (Best Actor, Ray, 2005), team up in this explosive action thriller about a capitol policeman (Tatum) trying to protect the U.S. President (Foxx) during a hostile takeover of the White House. Featuring breathtaking action sequences and special effects, WHITE HOUSE DOWN also stars a top-notch supporting cast, including Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight), Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty), Richard Jenkins (Jack Reacher), Joey King (The Conjuring) and James Woods (Casino).   

The Blu-ray disc comes with over an hour of bonus features, including an exclusive gag reel, along with nine exclusive making-of featurettes, taking audiences behind the scenes to see what it took to bring the high-adrenaline adventure to the big screen (more details below).  Both the Blu-ray and DVD come with four additional behind-the-scenes featurettes (more details below), chronicling the on- and off-screen chemistry between the dynamic leading duo, their willingness and desire to train for and perform their own stunts, a look at Emmerich’s vision for the film and how he was able to achieve it, along with a spotlight on the star-studded supporting cast.

Synopsis: Capitol Policeman John Cale (Tatum) has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service of protecting President James Sawyer (Foxx). Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, when the complex is overtaken by a heavily armed paramilitary group. Now, with the nation's government falling into chaos and time running out, it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter, and the country.

WHITE HOUSE DOWN was written by James Vanderbilt (The Amazing Spider-Man, Zodiac). It was produced by Bradley Fischer (Black Swan, Shutter Island), Harald Kloser (2012, The Day After Tomorrow), James Vanderbilt, Larry Franco (2012, Batman Begins), and Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Shutter Island), with co-producers Volker Engel (2012, Anonymous) and Marc Weigert (2012, Anonymous). Executive producers are Ute Emmerich (2012, The Day After Tomorrow), Channing Tatum, and Reid Carolin (10 Years, Magic Mike).

It has a run time of approximately 131 minutes and has been rated PG-13 for prolonged sequences of action and violence including intense gunfire and explosions, some language and a brief sexual image.

 

Blu-ray Exclusive Bonus Material Include:

·         Gag Reel

·         Nine Featurettes:

o   The Beast – A look at the film’s presidential limo, better known as The Beast. 

o   The Full Arsenal – Guns,  Grenades, Tanks and Choppers

o   VFX Boundaries Down – From massive blue screens to virtual sets, audiences will discover technologies that were literally invented by filmmakers.

o   The Inside Story – Uncover this concept’s fast-moving rise to the big screen.

o   Presidential Treatment – A look at the size and scope of this massive production.

o   Lights, Camera, Heart-Pumping Action – Uncover how filmmakers utilized a unique and stylistic approach to lighting, as well as various filming techniques to capture the true scope of the film’s immense action.

o   Crashing The Oval Office – See how filmmakers constructed a stunt set then drove an SUV at full speed into the Oval Office.

o   Drowning The Beast – The presidential limo escape.

o   Recreating The White House – Hear from the filmmakers about the meticulous detail that went into replicating the White House.

Blu-ray and DVD Bonus Material Includes:

·         Four Featurettes:

o   A Dynamic Duo – a look at the chemistry between Tatum and Foxx and their dynamic on-screen presence.

o   Men Of Action -- Discover Tatum’s willingness and desire to perform his own stunts, as well as the extensive training required.

o   Roland Emmerich - Upping The Ante – A look at Emmerich’s vision for the film.

o   Meet The Insiders – Shining a spotlight on the star-studded supporting cast.

 

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