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SPRING BREAKERS TO OPEN IN THEATERS NATIONWIDE SPRING 2013

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ANNAPURNA PICTURES TEAMS UP WITH A24 TO RELEASE THE HARMONY KORINE FILM

NEW YORK (November 15, 2012) – The highly anticipated SPRING BREAKERS will receive a Spring 2013 nationwide theatrical release courtesy of A24 and Annapurna Pictures. The film stars Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, and Rachel Korine as four college coeds willing to do anything to have their dream Spring Break. Film also features rap star Gucci Mane, introduces the ATL Twins, and has an incredible scene-stealing turn by Academy-Award nominee, James Franco. The film is written and directed by acclaimed provocateur Harmony Korine (KIDS, GUMMO) and prominently features an original score by Cliff Martinez and Skrillex.

The film had its worldwide premiere at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, followed by a North American Premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival where Time Out New York’s Josh Rothkopf described it as “Devastatingly fun…DayGlo Miami Vice Shoot-outs melded with Girls Gone Wild skankitude and a leering, instantly quotable turn by a grill-toothed James Franco as a wanksta potentate…” The companies plan a Spring 2013 release with heavy promotion around spring break.

“Leave it to Harmony to create one of the most anticipated movies of the social media generation,” says A24. “His film is at once incredibly mainstream and wildly subversive.   We couldn’t imagine a better partner on this film than Annapurna and Megan Ellison, one of the most daring producers working in film today.”

Film is produced by Chris Hanley, Jordan Gertner, David Zander and Charles-Marie Anthonioz. Annapurna’s Megan Ellison serves as Executive Producer on the film.

Presented by A24, Annapurna Pictures and HERO, who developed and financed the film in collaboration with MUSE Productions, SPRING BREAKERS tells the story of four sexy college girls as they plan to fund their spring break getaway by robbing a fast food joint. But that’s only the beginning… At a motel room rager, fun reaches its legal limit and the girls are arrested and taken to jail. Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien (James Franco), an infamous local thug and amateur rapper who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history. `Rough on the outside but with a soft soul on the inside, Alien wins over the hearts and dreams of the young SpringBreakers, and leads them on a Spring Break they never could have imagined.

ABOUT ANNAPURNA PICTURES  (@AnnapurnaPics)

Annapurna Pictures is a film production and finance company founded with the goal of creating sophisticated, high-quality films that might otherwise be considered risky by traditional Hollywood studios.

The company, which many consider to be a one-stop shop for filmmakers, has provided the industry with a critical boost of mature, adult dramas in recent years. Annapurna currently has two films in theaters:  Paul Thomas Anderson’s mind-blowing masterpiece THE MASTER and John Hillcoat’s LAWLESS.

Upcoming releases include Andrew Dominik’s KILLING THEM SOFTLY, a modern crime drama starring Brad Pitt, which premiered at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and Kathryn Bigelow’s ZERO DARK THIRTY, a dramatization of the Navy SEALs hunt for Osama Bin Laden, set for a December 2012 release, as well as Wong Kar Wai’s THE GRANDMASTERS, the story of martial arts master and Bruce Lee’s trainer Ip Man.

Current projects include the new Untitled Spike Jonze Project starring Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Rooney Mara, which recently wrapped production, Bennett Miller’s FOXCATCHER which is currently in production and David O’Russell’s Untitled film starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams.  Annapurna also acquired the rights to the highly successful TERMINATOR franchise and has partnered with Nina Jacobson’s Color Force on the best-selling comedic novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette, written by Maria Semple. This past spring, the company made a deal to back Panorama Media and will serve as the international sales agent on select Annapurna projects.

ABOUT A24  (@A24Films)

Launched in the summer of 2012 is a New York-based media company focused on the distribution, financing and production of feature films. The company will distribute, in all media, eight to ten films per year; its initial titles include Roman Coppola’s star-studded comedy A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN III, starring Charlie Sheen, Bill Murray and Jason Schwartzman, and Sally Potter’s critically acclaimed GINGER & ROSA starring Elle Fanning, Annette Bening, Alessandro Nivola and Christina Hendricks.

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