VOLTAGE PICTURES – Company Biography
Founded in 2005, Voltage Pictures is an international finance, sales & production operation created by veteran sales agent and Academy-Award winner Nicolas Chartier and producer Dean Devlin.
Devlin wrote and produced such notable blockbusters as Independence Day, Godzilla, Stargate and The Patriot. Devlin heads Electric Entertainment, where he continues to produce independent, commercial films and TV shows.
Prior to forming Voltage, Chartier was VP of sales and acquisitions at Myriad Pictures. He has been involved in the sales of a diverse range of films, including Van Wilder, The Good Girl and the Olsen twins movies. As President of Vortex Pictures, he sold My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Nicolas Cage’s Sonny. As head of sales and acquisitions at Arclight Films, Chartier acquired Dean Devlin's The Librarian, 2006 Academy Award winner Crash and The Matador with Pierce Brosnan. During his time at Arclight, Chartier also sold Lord of War with Nicolas Cage and The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino.
In six years, Voltage has built a library of over 175 films.
In March 2010, Voltage’s first in-house production The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse and Evangeline Lilly, won six Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, best Editing, best Sound and best Sound Editing. It was nominated for nine Oscars.
In January 2011, Chartier partnered with longtime Hollywood Gang executive Craig Flores to form Voltage Productions, an offshoot of Voltage Pictures aiming to generate films set at studios in the $15M-$40M budget range. Craig Flores is the executive producer of 300 and Immortals.
Currently, Voltage is proud to present, among others:
• The Company You Keep, directed by Robert Redford, starring Shia LaBeouf and Robert Redford. Produced by Voltage Pictures and Wildwood Enterprises.
• Killer Joe, directed by Billy Friedkin, starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Gina Gershon, Juno Temple and Thomas Haden Church. Produced by Voltage Pictures.
• Fire with FIre, directed by David Barrett, starring Josh Duhamel, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson and Vincent D’Onofrio.
• Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, directed by Bruce Beresford, starring Jane Fonda, Catherine Kenner, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chace Crawford and Elizabeth Olsen.
• Ten Year, starring Channing Tatum, Justin Long, Kate Mara, Rosario Dawson, Brian Geraghty, Anthony Mackie, Chris Pratt, Oscar Isaac and Lynn Collins.
• Generation Um, starring Keanu Reeves, Bojana Novakovic and Adelaide Clemens. Produced by Voltage Pictures.
• The Whistleblower, starring Rachel Weisz, Monica Bellucci, David Strathairn, Vanessa Redgrave. Executive produced by Voltage Pictures.
• Another Happy Day, starring Ellen Barkin, Kate Bosworth, Demi Moore, Thomas Haden Church and Ellen Burstyn.
Voltage’s library includes: Spread, with Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche; George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead & Survival of the Dead; Personal Effects with Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashton Kutcher and Kathy Bates; Bryan Singer & Dean Devlin’s The Triangle; While She Was Out with Kim Basinger; four Steven Seagal movies; The Librarian 2&3 starring Noah Wyle; and many others starring Wesley Snipes, Christian Slater, Val Kilmer, Cuba Gooding Jr, Dominic Purcell, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, John Malkovich, Ray Winstone, Ian McKellen, Mischa Barton, Hillary Duff, Kellan Lutz, Laurence Fishburne, Thomas Jane, Ed Harris, Famke Janssen, James Franco, Jean Reno, Chloe Sevigny, Asia Argento, Sam Neill, Leelee Sobieski, Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, David Strathairn, Amy Smart, Brittany Murphy, Julie Delpy, Ron Perlman, Bill Pullman, Christopher Lloyd, David Arquette, Courtney Cox and others…
In addition to theatrical films & DVD premieres, Voltage is also involved in financing, producing and selling films & series for TV.
• Voltage is in pre-production on the second season of 13 episode one-hour series True Justice, produced by Phil Goldfine and starring Steven Seagal for the first time in an action TV series.
Finally, Voltage currently handles international sales for the Qualia-Pandora, Splendid, and Quadra libraries.