Freestyle Releasing has won the battle for U.S. rights to Afghanistan combat film The Hornet's Nest, in which real-life father and son Mike and Carlos Boettcher re-create their time embedded as ABC News correspondents with American forces. Hornet's Nest, made in the same immersive vein as Act of Valor, will open in select theaters May 9 before expanding nationwide May 23, the beginning of the lucrative -- and patriotic-themed -- Memorial Day holiday. David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud directed the feature film, which hopes to emulate the success of Act of Valor, as well as Peter Berg's Lone
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- 2/20/2014
- by Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Freestyle Releasing will distribute war documentary The Hornet’s Nest nationwide in theatres on May 23.
David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud directed the film starring real-life father and son journalists Mike and Carlos Boettcher, the Emmy award-winning correspondents embedded with Us troops in Afghanistan.
The Boettchers spent two years with the Army on the front lines during a sequence of harrowing combat episodes.
Salzberg and Tureaud of HighRoad Media produced with the Boettchers. John Brenkus and Mickey Stern served as executive producers for Base Productions.
The Hornet’s Nest will platform release on May 9 and 16.
David Salzberg and Christian Tureaud directed the film starring real-life father and son journalists Mike and Carlos Boettcher, the Emmy award-winning correspondents embedded with Us troops in Afghanistan.
The Boettchers spent two years with the Army on the front lines during a sequence of harrowing combat episodes.
Salzberg and Tureaud of HighRoad Media produced with the Boettchers. John Brenkus and Mickey Stern served as executive producers for Base Productions.
The Hornet’s Nest will platform release on May 9 and 16.
- 2/19/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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