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ABOUT VOLTAGE PICTURES

Founded in 2005 by veteran sales agent and Academy Award-winner Nicolas Chartier, Voltage Pictures has emerged as one of the most distinguished and well-rounded finance, production and distribution companies in the industry with its film, television and merchandising units.

Voltage has assembled an exciting array of 400+ motion pictures, from Oscar-winning dramas, epic scale action adventures, romantic comedies, young adult romances, and genre films. The films in the Voltage library have received a total of nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (The Hurt Locker), and two Golden Globes. In addition, they have been nominated for 15 Academy Awards and five Golden Globes, as well numerous PGA, DGA, SAG, BAFTA awards and nominations.

In 2010, Voltage produced and financed the critically-acclaimed The Hurt Locker, directed by Kathryn Bigelow. The film, which starred Jeremy Renner, took home six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. Four years later Voltage produced and co-financed Dallas Buyers Club, directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and starring Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner. The film received three Academy Awards, including Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, and two Golden Globes, again for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. The company has attracted the skills of the industry’s top filmmakers such as Kathryn Bigelow, Rob Reiner, Jean-Marc Vallée, William Friedkin, Terry Gilliam, Robert Redford, Tyler Sheridan, and Andrew Niccol.  

Voltage financed and distributed the recent smash hits I Feel Pretty starring Amy Schumer and Michelle Williams, grossed nearly $100 million worldwide upon its release in 2018 and the action-thriller Last Seen Alive starring Gerard Butler, Jaimie Alexander, Russell Hornsby and Ethan Embry, which released June 2022.

Voltage represented worldwide rights on After, based on the internationally best-selling series of books, that debuted number one at the box office in 17 international territories including Germany and Italy when released in April 2019 and grossed over $70m worldwide. The highly anticipated sequel, After We Collided, opened in September 2020, and grossed nearly $50m worldwide. The third installment, After We Fell grossed over $32m worldwide while the fourth film, After Ever Happy, was released in September 2022 and grossed over $28m worldwide.  The fifth and final instalment of the After franchise, After Everything, is scheduled for a 2023 release. 

Following the success of the After franchise, Voltage has emerged as an industry leader in the YA romance space. The company’s next highly anticipated YA franchise, Beautiful Disaster, will release globally in April 2023 in 50+ markets. Directed by Roger Kumble, the YA adaption of the New York Times bestselling novel stars Dylan Sprouse, Virginia Gardner, Austin North and Libe Barer. The sequel, Beautiful Wedding, is currently in post-production with Kumble, Sprouse and Gardner all returning.

Additional YA films Voltage represents and released theatrically include First Love (2022) starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Sydney Park, Time Is Up (2021) and Game of Love (2022), starring Bella Thorne and Italian popstar Benjamin Mascolo, Finding You (2021) starring Katherine McNamara, Tom Everett Scott and Vanessa Redgrave, and the best-selling YA novel adaptation Words on Bathroom Walls (2020), starring Charlie Plummer, Andy García, Taylor Russell, AnnaSophia Robb, Molly Parker and Walton Goggins.

The current Voltage film slate includes Roger Kumble’s YA adaption of the New York Times bestselling novel Beautiful Disaster, starring Dylan Sprouse, Virginia Gardner, Austin North and Libe Barer which releases April 2023, the suspense thriller Play Dead starring Bailee Madison and Jerry O’Connell, directed by Patrick Lussier releasing April 2023, the YA romance Marked Men starring Chase Stokes, Sydney Taylor, Alexander Ludwig, Ella Balinska, Evan Mock, Natalie Alyn Lynd, Matthew Noszka, directed by Nick Cassavetes (The Notebook) and based on author Jay Crownover’s New York Time’s best-selling novels releasing 2024, the high-octane action thriller Aftermath starring Dylan Sprouse, Mason Gooding, Dichen Lachman releasing in 2024, and the biopic Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid and Penelope Ann Miller with Academy Award-winner John Voight.

Looking to the future, Voltage plans to continue its history of partnering with the most respected talents in the industry and to continue producing, financing, and selling a diverse array of films that connect with audiences around the world.