Additional Cast Set To Star Alongside Academy Award® Winner Halle Berry
LOS ANGELES (October 27, 2014) – Lotus Entertainment announced today that Luis Prieto‘s heart-stopping thriller KIDNAP started principal photography. The film, based off Knate Gwaltney’s screenplay, will shoot in New Orleans and wrap on November 25. Sage Correa, (Lawless, Unstoppable) and Chris McGinn join the cast alongside Academy Award® winner Halle Berry, a mother who will stop at nothing to rescue her kidnapped son. Lotus is handling international sales, with Relativity Studios distributing in the U.S.
Di Bonaventura Pictures’ Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Erik Howsam, Gold Star Films’ Joey Tufaro and Gregory Chou of Rumble Entertainment are producing; executive producers are Halle Berry and her producing partner Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas through their 606 Films production banner, Lotus Entertainment’s Bill Johnson, Jim Seibel, D.J. Gugenheim and Ara Keshishian, alongside Gold Star Films’ Colin Bates and Todd Trosclair, Knate Gwaltney, and Doris Pfardrescher of Well Go .
The creative team behind KIDNAP includes Director of Photography Flavio Martinez Labiano (The Gunman, Non-Stop), Stunts Coordinator Steve Ritzi (Prisoners, G.I. Joe, Looper), Costume Designer Ruth Carter (Old Boy, Abduction, Frankie and Alice), and Production Designer Sarah Webster (Pusher).
Lotus Entertainment’s current film slate includes: the recently announced REPLICAS with Keanu Reeves; Tom Tykwer’s A Hologram for the King starring two-time Academy Award® Winner Tom Hanks; Scott Hicks’ FALLEN based on the best-selling YA novel; Henry Hobson’s MAGGIE starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin, which Lionsgate recently acquired North American rights; Craig Zobel‘s Z For Zachariah with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chris Pine; and SONG ONE starring Anne Hathaway.
