THE ICEMAN Production Notes - Visual Hollywood

THE ICEMAN (2013)PRODUCTION NOTESCage and Josh Lucas, and Straight A's, starring Anna Paquin. He was an executive producer onStone, starring Robert De Niro, Drive Angry, with Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard and WilliamFichtner, as well as the upcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D. As a production executive forMillennium, Besson oversaw production on the box-office hit The Expendables, starring and directedby Sylvester Stallone, and Righteous Kill, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro. He alsoserved as executive in charge of production on The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans,starring Nicolas Cage, Leaves of Grass, starring Edward Norton, and Solitary Man, starring MichaelDouglas. Over the course of his years in the film industry, Besson has also worked with other productioncompanies. His credits as a producer include Until Death, Circadian Rhythm and MainStreet. He was also the post-production manager on Imaginary Heroes and Manic.Originally from Miami, Besson has also worked as a producer and director on national promotionand branding campaigns for such clients as Sony Pictures Television, Telemundo, NBC, Bank ofAmerica, Subaru, Uni-Ball, Coca-Cola, Visa, Best Buy, Subaru, Budweiser, Sprint, Ready Pac,Kraft, TIAA CREF, and the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games.JOHN THOMPSON (Executive Producer) grew up in Rome where his fine body of work in theItalian film industry throughout the 1980s and 90s includes Franco Zeffirelli's Otello (two Oscar®nominations, Cannes Official Selection, American Critics Award); Claude D'Anna's Salome(Cannes Official Selection); Lina Wertmuller's Camorra (four Donatello Awards, Berlin Film Festofficial entry); Liliana Cavani's Berlin Interior (Donatello Award, Berlin Film Festival official selection);Paul Schrader's The Comfort of Strangers (Cannes Official Selection); Ivan Passer'sHaunted Summer (Venice Film Festival Official Selection); Jerzy Skolimowski's Torrents of Spring(Cannes Official Selection) and Giuseppe Tornatore's Everybody's Fine (Cannes Official Selection).Thompson returned to Los Angeles to helm production for Millennium Films in 1998. Films he hasproduced or co-produced for Millennium include American Perfekt written and directed by PaulChart (Cannes Official Selection); Susanna Styron's Shadrach (Venice Official Selection); SomeGirl from Rory Kelly (Best Director Award, LA Independent Film Festival); Audrey Wells' Guinevere;George Hickenlooper's Big Brass Ring, as well as Prozac Nation, Nobody's Baby, TheReplicant, Try Seventeen, Undisputed and other successful productions.Continuing as Millennium's Head of Production, Thompson has gone on to produce The Mechanic,The Expendables, Brooklyn's Finest, Righteous Kill, Rambo IV and soon to be released The Expendables2, The Big Wedding, Playing the Field and Stolen.As Vice President of Acquisitions & Development for Bleiberg Entertainment, NICHOLASDONNERMEYER (Associate Producer) is responsible for seeking out new films and projects forthe company's ever-growing library of titles. He will next be executive producing "McCanick," agritty cop thriller starring David Morse and Cory Monteith; "Battle of the Damned," a sci-fi actionfilm starring Dolph Lundgren; and "Hunting Elephants," a comedic crime film with Sir PatrickStewart.Previously, Donnermeyer served as associate producer on "Ingenious" a true story comedy starringJeremy Renner and Dallas Roberts; William Bonin biopic "Freeway Killer" with Michael Rooker;and the horror comedy "Dance of the Dead," which premiered at SXSW before being released byLionsgate and Sam Raimi's Ghost House Underground. He also co-produced a series of genre filmsfor Bleiberg's Compound B label including "Episode 50," "Necromentia" and "Robotropolis." Additionally,Donnermeyer oversaw various facets of development and production as an executive onPaul Schrader's "Adam Resurrected" starring Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe; Danny Lerner's© 2013 Millennium Entertainment16