CBS Films and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) announced that Golden
Globe-nominee Michelle Monaghan (True Detective, Trucker, Gone Baby Gone, The Path) has joined Academy Award®-nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, Lone Survivor), Golden
Globe-winner John Goodman (10 Cloverfield Lane, Inside Llewyn Davis, Argo) and Academy
Award-Winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Zootopia), Jimmy
O. Yang (Silicon Valley, Criminal Minds),
Vincent Curatola (The Good Wife, The Sopranos)
and James Colby (Limitless, Jessica Jones) in "PATRIOTS DAY."
The film will be directed by Peter Berg (Deepwater Horizon, Lone Survivor) and produced by Scott Stuber, Mark Wahlberg, Hutch Parker, Dylan Clark, Stephen Levinson, Dorothy Aufiero and Michael Radutzky.
"PATRIOTS DAY" chronicles the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon
Bombing.
Monaghan will play Carol Saunders, the wife of Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Wahlberg) both of who are composite characters.
"In the aftermath of the attack heroes appeared from every corner of Boston," Wahlberg said. "Michelle is a remarkable actress who knows the people of this city and understands their courage and strength."
"PATRIOTS DAY" will be co-financed by CBS Films and Lionsgate with the
former handling production and marketing and the latter handling
distribution.
ICM Partners as well as Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern and Circle of
Confusion represent Michelle Monaghan.
The film will open in Boston, New York and Los Angeles on December 21.
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Lionsgate is a premier next generation global content leader with a strong
and diversified presence in motion picture production and distribution,
television programming and syndication, home entertainment, digital
distribution, new channel platforms, video games and international
distribution and sales. The Company has nearly 80 television shows on 40
different networks spanning its primetime production, distribution and
syndication businesses. These include the critically-acclaimed hit
series Orange is the New Black, the multiple Emmy Award-winning drama Mad Men, the hit broadcast network series Nashville, the syndication successes The Wendy Williams Show and Celebrity Name Game (with FremantleMedia), the breakout series The Royals and the Golden Globe-nominated dramedy Casual.
Its feature film business has been fueled by such successes as the
blockbuster Hunger Games franchise, the first two installments of the Divergent franchise, Sicario, The Age of Adaline,
CBS/Lionsgate's The DUFF, John Wick, Now You See Me, Roadside Attractions' Love & Mercy and Mr. Holmes, Lionsgate/Codeblack Films' Addicted and Pantelion Films' Instructions Not Included, the highest-grossing Spanish-language film ever released in the
U.S.
Lionsgate's home entertainment business is an industry leader in box
office-to-DVD and box office-to-VOD revenue conversion rates. Lionsgate
handles a prestigious and prolific library of approximately 16,000 motion
picture and television titles that is an important source of recurring
revenue and serves as the foundation for the growth of the Company's core
businesses. The Lionsgate and Summit brands remain synonymous with original,
daring, quality entertainment in markets around the world. lionsgate.com
