JAMIE FOXX AND MICHELLE MONAGHAN TO STAR IN ACTION THRILLER “SLEEPLESS NIGHT,”
FINANCED AND TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY OPEN ROAD FILMS
VERTIGO
ENTERTAINMENT TO PRODUCE; OPEN ROAD FILMS INTERNATIONAL AND FILMNATION
WILL BE SELLING THE FILM AT BERLIN FILM MARKET NEXT
WEEK
BARAN BO ODAR WILL DIRECT, FROM A SCRIPT BY ANDREA BERLOFF
LOS ANGELES, CA, January 30, 2015 – Academy Award-winner Jamie Foxx (Annie,
The Amazing Spider-Man 2,
Django Unchained) and Golden Globe-nominee Michelle Monaghan (Mission Impossible,
Trucker, Source Code,
True Detective) will star in SLEEPLESS
NIGHT, an action thriller that will be directed by Baran Bo Odar. The
announcement was made today by Tom Ortenberg, CEO of Open Road Films.
SLEEPLESS NIGHT
is the story of Vincent Downs (Jamie Foxx), a seemingly corrupt Las
Vegas cop. When gangsters kidnap his son as ransom for a shipment of
cocaine he stole,
Downs races to save his son's life without getting caught by Internal
Affairs and before the mobsters discover that he's actually lost the
goods. Monaghan plays officer Jennifer Bryant, an Internal Affairs
agent investigating Downs who ultimately has to decide
which side of the law he's on.
The screenplay was written by Andrea Berloff (World Trade Center, the upcoming
Straight Outta Compton). SLEEPLESS NIGHT
is a reinvention of the French film Nuit Blanche, directed by Frédéric
Jardin, written by Frederic Jardin, Olivier Fox and Nicolas Saada.
Vertigo
Entertainment will produce SLEEPLESS NIGHT for Open Road Films who will
finance production and take worldwide distribution rights under their
recently announced
partnership with FilmNation.
“With a sharp
script and a first rate team of talent in front of and behind the
camera, we are proud to produce SLEEPLESS NIGHT and to make this project
the inaugural film
under our international distribution agreement with FilmNation,” stated
Tom Ortenberg.
Roy Lee and
Vertigo Entertainment President of Production, Adam Stone, will produce
for Vertigo Entertainment, along with company partner, John Powers
Middleton, and company
VP, Alex Foster, who will both executive produce. Open Road Films’ Tom
Ortenberg and Peter Lawson are executive producers. Lauranne
Bourrachot and Marco Cherqui from Chic Films who produced the original
French film will serve as Executive Producers.
The
deal was negotiated on behalf of Open Road Films by Tom Ortenberg,
Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel, Elliott Kleinberg, and
Executive Vice President of Production
and Acquisitions, Peter Lawson and Rick Genow and Aron Baumel on behalf
of Vertigo. Jamie Foxx is represented by Jim Toth of CAA and Rick Yorn
of LBI Entertainment. Michelle Monaghan is represented by Bonnie
Bernstein and Carter Cohn of ICM and Frank Frattaroli
of Circle of Confusion. Baran Bo Odar is represented by UTA, 42 and
Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein. Andrea
Berloff is represented by John Campisi of CAA and Jill McElroy of
Management 360.
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