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Voltage Pictures or Voltage Productions, is an Los Angeles-based American film financing, production and distributing company founded by Oscar winner producer Nicolas Chartier. Voltage Pictures has a history of suing people it says have illegally shared movies online. On May 19, 2015 Voltage Pictures was sued by Toho for copyright and trademark infrigement of its Godzilla properties. The company's first financed and produced film was The Hurt Locker, which was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won six. On January 6, 2011, it was announced that Voltage's president Chartier partnered with longtime Hollywood Gang Productions executive Craig Flores to form Voltage Productions to produce large pictures set at studios, and films in the $15 million-$40 million budget range.
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Filmography of Voltage Pictures (37 films)
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The Traveler (2010)
, 1h36Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Val Kilmer, Dylan Neal, Paul McGillion, Camille Sullivan, Chris Gauthier, John Cassini
A stranger walks into a small town's police station during a rainstorm on Christmas Eve. He tells the desk sergeant that he wishes to confess to murder, after which the desk sergeant points a handgun at him and calls for his colleagues to restrain him with handcuffs.
A Dangerous Man (2009)
, 1h32Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Steven Seagal, Daryl Shuttleworth, Mike Dopud, Jerry Wasserman, Byron Mann, Jesse Hutch
In Arizona, ex-Special Forces soldier Shane Daniels (Steven Seagal) saves his wife, Holly (Aidan Dee), from a car jacking and chases the mugger (Clay Virtue) away. The mugger later ends up dead, and Shane is the sole suspect. After being locked up for 6 years, Shane is released from jail due to new DNA evidence found which clear his name.
The Hurt Locker (2008)
, 2h11Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action
Themes Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Jeremy Lee Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Evangeline Lilly, Ralph Fiennes
The Hurt Locker opens with a quotation from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a best-selling 2002 book by Chris Hedges, a New York Times war correspondent and journalist: "The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug."
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Ambushed (2013)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Dolph Lundgren, Gianni Capaldi, Vinnie Jones, Carly pope, Holly Lynch, Mindy Robinson
Mid-level drug dealers Eddie and Frank grow restless with their limited growth potential and set up a meeting with their supplier, Madsen. Instead of negotiating, Frank impulsively murders Madsen and takes his cocaine. Eddie's excitement quickly turns to apprehension when he hears about Madsen's death, but Frank talks him into bluffing their way back into drug lord Vincent Camastra's good graces. At the same time, dirty cop Jack Reiley investigates the murder and is annoyed when DEA agent Maxwell takes over the investigation. As Frank attempts to save his relationship with his naive girlfriend, Ashley, Reiley violently bullies his informants for information, and Camastra sends assassins to kill Eddie. After Eddie engages in a brief gunfight with the assassins, Camastra himself beats Eddie unconscious. Ashley, who has become suspicious of Frank's secretive lifestyle, is shocked when Kathy and Beverly, Eddie's friends, interrupt them to explain that Camastra has kidnapped Eddie.
Open Graves (2009)
, 1h40Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Eliza Dushku, Mike Vogel, Ethan Rains, Naike Rivelli
In the medieval era, a witch named Mamba is tortured and skinned alive in punishment for her crimes. Her skin and organs are then used to make a cursed game. If a player wins the game they are granted a wish, however if a player loses the game they are killed in a fashion predicted by the game.
100 Feet (2008)
, 1h36Directed by Eric Red
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Michael Paré, Patricia Charbonneau, Jonathan Sanger
Marnie Watson (Famke Jannsen) is being driven home in a police car after killing her abusive husband in self-defense—to be placed under house arrest. She is escorted home by Shanks (Bobby Cannavale), a police officer and former partner of her husband. After they get inside, another officer arrives to fit Marnie's ankle bracelet telling her she cannot move more than 100 feet (30 m) from the detector in the hallway and if the alarm sounds for more than three minutes, the police will be notified.
Severed (2005)
, 1h33Directed by Carl Bessai
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Paul Campbell, Sarah Lind, JR Bourne, Julian Christopher, Patrick Gallagher, Sage Brocklebank
In a forest on a remote island, a team of loggers led by Mac (Julian Christopher) face opposition from protesters led by Rita, a known eco-terrorist. The company that employs Mac's team is conducting an experiment in the area, supervised by Carter, a chemist. One of Mac's loggers hits a spiked tree and suffers a wound from his chainsaw. The sap of the tree infects his wounds and causes him to undergo a transformation.