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WORLDVIEW ENTERTAINMENT HEATS UP Eli Roth’s THE GREEN INFERNO

Eli Roth to Direct New Horror Thriller that Exclusive Media will Offer to Buyers in Cannes

May 17, 2012 (CANNES, FRANCE) -- Worldview Entertainment, a New York City-based motion picture production and investment company, has signed on to finance and produce Eli Roth’s new horror thriller, “The Green Inferno.” Roth, who reignited the horror genre with the “Hostel” and “Cabin Fever” franchises, co-wrote the screenplay with “Aftershock” co-writer Guillermo Amoedo, from an original story by Roth. Roth will direct and produce the film alongside Worldview CEO, Christopher Woodrow, Worldview COO, Molly Conners, and Sobras International producers Miguel Asensio Llamas and Nicolás Lopez. Production will begin in the fall of 2012 in Peru and Chile, where Roth recently produced the earthquake thriller “Aftershock,” currently in post production. This will be Roth’s much anticipated directorial follow up to the enormously successful “Hostel” franchise, which collectively grossed over $300 million worldwide. Worldview’s Maria Cestone, Sarah Johnson Redlich and Hoyt David Morgan will executive produce.

Tobin Armbrust, President of Worldwide Production and Acquisition, picked up the film for Exclusive Media. Alex Walton, Exclusive Media’s President of International Sales and Distribution, is launching “The Green Inferno” for the first time to international buyers at the Marché du Film in Cannes. CAA will handle the domestic sale.

Story details on “The Green Inferno” are being kept tightly under wraps.

“Eli has an excellent track record of writing and directing high quality, commercially successful films of this genre. We are big fans of his work and very excited to be a part of his next project,” said Worldview CEO, Christopher Woodrow.

“I’ve had an amazing few years producing, writing and acting, and am very excited to get back in the director’s chair. I’ve been working on this idea for several years, and was inspired by filming in Chile and cannot wait to get back,” said writer-director Eli Roth. “Worldview backs my vision and believes in me, and is giving me the support I need and the freedom to take risks and make something daring and terrifying. I believe this will be the scariest and most intense film I have made to date. I want to audiences worldwide to feel my return to directing was worth the wait.”

"I am a huge fan of Eli Roth. Any filmmaker who can consistently satisfy his audience ultimately can command global box office success. I cannot wait for our international distributors to sink their teeth into this project,” said Alex Walton, Exclusive Media’s President of International Sales and Distribution.

Worldview is currently in production on Guillaume Canet’s crime thriller, “Blood Ties,” starring Academy Award® nominee Clive Owen, Billy Crudup, Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard, Zoe Saldana, Mila Kunis and Academy Award® nominee James Caan. The company is also financing Academy Award® nominee Atom Egoyan’s West Memphis Three biopic, “Devil’s Knot,” starring Academy Award® winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth, slated to begin in June.

Worldview is currently in post-production on James Gray’s untitled epic period drama starring Marion Cotillard and Academy Award® nominees Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner. The company is set to debut their British crime thriller, “Welcome to the Punch,” from BAFTA® nominee Eran Creevy, starring James McAvoy, Mark Strong and Andrea Riseborough later this year. Worldview’s black comedy, “Killer Joe,” from Academy Award® winner William Friedkin, starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Academy Award® nominee Thomas Haden Church, Juno Temple and Gina Gershon will be released theatrically July 27th by LD Distribution.

Roth most recently co-wrote, produced and starred in Nicolas Lopez’s thriller “Aftershock,” currently in post production; produced and co-wrote “The Man with the Iron Fists” for Universal Studios starring Russell Crowe, RZA, and Lucy Liu, with Quentin Tarantino presenting; produced “The Last Exorcism Part II” with Strike Entertainment for StudioCanal. He is currently filming his new series “Hemlock Grove” for Netflix, and will be opening Eli Roth’s Goretorium, a high tech year-round haunted experience in Las Vegas, this September.

About Worldview Entertainment
Worldview Entertainment is a leading independent motion picture production and investment company. The company finances and produces theatrical quality feature films for worldwide distribution. Worldview is a provider of equity and mezzanine capital for the independent film market, and invests across a film's capital structure and throughout its life cycle. The company also makes strategic investments in media and entertainment ventures. Worldview is positioned to take advantage of the opportunities and rapid growth in digital content delivery and distribution. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in New York City. Worldview is backed by a strong capitalization and represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA).

About Exclusive Media
Exclusive Media offers a number of high profile third party productions at Cannes 2012, which currently include Ramin Bahrani’s “At Any Price” starring Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron, Kim Dickens and Heather Graham; “Therese” from producers Mickey Liddell and William Horberg, starring Jessica Lange, Elizabeth Olsen, Tom Felton and Oscar Isaac; “Hit and Run” (aka Outrun) from writer/director Dax Shepard who also stars with Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper and Tom Arnold to be released in the U.S. by Open Road Films on August 24; the ensemble “Disconnect” also produced by Horberg and Liddell with Jennifer Hilton; Sundance favorite “Robot & Frank” starring Frank Langella to be released in the U.S. through Samuel Goldwyn Films on August 24; and “Look of Love” starring Annette Bening, Ed Harris and Robin Williams, from producers Julie Lynn and Bonnie Curtis of Mockingbird Pictures.

Exclusive Media is also a leading producer of feature films and the current production slate includes “Agent: Century 21” starring Cameron Diaz and Benicio Del Toro; Ron Howard’s epic “Rush” starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brühl and produced with production partners Cross Creek Pictures, Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Brian Grazer, and Revolution Films to be released in the U.S. through Universal; “End of Watch” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Peña, Anna Kendrick and America Ferrera set for release through Open Road Films on September 28; “So Undercover” starring Miley Cyrus; “Snitch” starring Dwayne Johnson and Susan Sarandon in post-production and to be released in the U.S. through Summit Entertainment; and “The Quiet Ones” to be directed by John Pogue and starring Jared Harris and Sam Claflin.

Exclusive Media’s recent production titles include George Clooney’s “The Ides of March” produced by Smokehouse Pictures and co-produced by Exclusive Media with Cross Creek Pictures. The company also produced the box office hit “The Woman in Black” starring Daniel Radcliffe and recently announced the next installment in the series, “The Woman in Black: Angels of Death” that it will again produce with Talisman, Cross Creek Pictures and Alliance Films.

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