J.K. Simmons Enlists For Patriots Day

J.K. Simmons Enlists For Patriots Day

LOS ANGELES & SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- CBS Films and Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF) announced that Academy Award®-winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash,Zootopia) will join Academy Award-nominee Mark Wahlberg (The Departed, Lone Survivor) 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 and Michael Radutzky.

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PATRIOTS DAY chronicles the events surrounding the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing. Simmons will play Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese of the Watertown Police Department who distinguished himself in combat with Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Wahlberg will play a composite Boston Police Department officer who is central to the investigation and manhunt.

"Beyond his considerable talents, J.K. Simmons is a person who respects the solemn trust that these real life heroes are putting in our hands," commented Berg, who continued. "This is an actor who will represent the role in the best way possible."

PATRIOTS DAY will be co-financed by CBS Films and Lionsgate with the former handling production and marketing and the latter handling distribution.

J.K. Simmons is represented by Stephen Hirsh at Gersh Agency. The film will begin production in Boston next month.

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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.

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