Contagion

23 July 2011

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Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) directs the global thriller Contagion. The film brings together a stellar international ensemble cast, including Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, Inception); Academy Award winner Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting, the Bourne films); Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne (What’s Love Got to Do With It, The Matrix); Oscar nominee Jude Law (Cold Mountain, Sherlock Holmes); Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love, Iron Man); and Academy Award winner Kate Winslet (The Reader, Titanic).

Contagion follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh from an original screenplay by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum, The Informant!), the film also stars Bryan Cranston (AMC’s Breaking Bad) and Sanaa Lathan (Alien Versus Predator). It is produced by Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher (World Trade Center), and Gregory Jacobs (The Informant!), with Jeff Skoll, Michael Polaire and Jonathan King serving as executive producers.

Soderbergh’s creative team includes production designer Howard Cummings (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief), Oscar-winning editor Stephen Mirrione (Traffic) and costume designer Louise Frogley (Quantum of Solace, Ocean’s Thirteen).

Cliff Martinez (Traffic) will compose the score.Contagion was filmed on locations around the world, including sites in Hong Kong, Macao, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, Abu Dhabi, London and Geneva. A Warner Bros. Pictures presentation, in association with Participant Media and Imagenation Abu Dhabi, a Double Feature Films/Gregory Jacobs Production, Contagion will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company.