Two-time Academy Award® nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Hurt Locker,” “The Avengers,” “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” and “Rogue Nation”) has signed on to voice the lead character (Swifty) in the epic 3D, CGI animated family film “Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad” from Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi’s AMBI Group.
Renner will lead an ensemble voice cast for "Arctic Justice” that includes Alec Baldwin (“The Departed,” “Blue Jasmine,” “Mission Impossible – Rogue Nation”), Heidi Klum (“The Devil Wears Prada,” “Project Runway”), John Cleese (“A Fish Called Wanda,” “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” “Life of Brian”), James Franco (“The Interview,” “127 Hours,” “Spider-Man”), Anjelica Huston (“The Royal Tenenbaums,” “The Addams Family”), and Omar Sy (“Jurassic World,” “Inferno”).
When the sinister Doc Walrus (voiced by John Cleese) hatches a secret plot to accelerate global warming and melt the arctic circle, a rag-tag group of inexperienced heroes (voiced by Renner, Franco, Baldwin, Huston, Klum and Sy) must come together to foil his evil plans and save the arctic.
The movie is fully financed and being produced by AMBI and its principals, Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi.
Animation work for the film is being done out of AMBI’s Toronto based studio, AIC Studios.
AMBI Distribution, the worldwide sales arm of the AMBI Group, is overseeing worldwide distribution for “Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad” and has already closed a deal with The Walt Disney Company for German Speaking Europe.
Said Andrea Iervolino, “Jeremy is as talented a performer as you’ll find anywhere in the world and we’re very happy he’s bringing his talents to ‘the Arctic’ for this fun, big screen adventure for the whole family.”
Monika Bacardi added, “Jeremy’s voice, energy and charisma will be the center of this heartwarming, family-friendly comedy. His animated nature lends itself perfectly to Swifty’s character. We believe that this contemporary voice cast will resonate with audiences. The real life takeaway from this animation is entertaining and thought provoking all at the same time.”
Jeremy Renner is an Oscar® nominated actor, musician, and film producer. Over the course of 20 + years, Renner has established himself as one of Hollywood's most versatile and accomplished actors. Among the hit films he’s starred in include “The Avengers,” “The Bourne Legacy,” “The Hurt Locker,” “The Town,” “American Hustle,” and “Kill the Messenger,” among many others.
In 2011, Renner and his producing partner Don Handfield formed their own production company, The Combine. Their next film is “The Founder,” an upcoming biopic of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, starring Michael Keaton.
In addition to acting and producing, Renner is also a singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, and drummer. He has performed in several of his films including “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,” “North Country” and “Love Comes to the Executioner.”
“Arctic Justice: Thunder Squad”: The Story
Swifty (Jeremy Renner), an arctic fox, dreams of becoming one the famous Top Dogs, a team of huskies that deliver packages for the Arctic Blast Delivery Service. In the Arctic, every day trips can quickly turn into epic journeys, which make the Top Dogs the Arctic’s every day heroes.
In an effort to prove himself, Swifty secretly commandeers a delivery sled to takes a mysterious package to a secret, icy, fortress where he comes face to face with Doc Walrus (John Cleese), a blubbery evil genius who walks around on robotic legs, and commands a loyal army of oddly polite puffins. Swifty stumbles upon Doc Walrus’ evil plan to drill to the center of the Earth to unleash enough lava to melt the polar ice caps in order to flood the planet and become be king of the world.
Now, Swifty has to enlist the help of his friends: PB (Alec Baldwin), an introverted polar bear, Lemmy (James Franco), a scatter-brained rock and roll albatross, Sal (Omar Sy) and Weez (Heidi Klum), two conspiracy theorist otters, and Jade, a red fox, who’s a tough as nails mechanic that Swifty has a secret crush on. This ragtag team has to band together and overcome their differences if they’re going to stop Doc Walrus and his army of Puffins from destroying the world.
About AIC Studios
AIC Studios is a vertically integrated group of Canadian companies specializing in the financing, production, post-production and distribution of feature films, television programs and animated series.
Blending innovative technology with inspired artists and producers, AIC Studios is the newest and most energized digital studio in Toronto. Since 2013 AIC Studios has worked on a number of internationally successful films.
AIC Studios combines the latest digital technologies with traditional animation expertise to deliver the highest quality standards in both 2D and 3D CGI feature films. The studios’ uncompromising quality and creative vision have quickly made AIC Studios an audience favorite all over the world.
About AMBI
AMBI Group is a consortium of vertically integrated film development, production, finance and distribution companies wholly owned and operated by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Gomez del Campo Bacardi, Lady of Bayfield Hall, better known as “Monika Bacardi.”
AMBI has quickly emerged as one of the industry’s most prolific financing, production and sales companies with the capacity to develop, package, finance, produce and sell a broad array of films for worldwide distribution. Among the films on AMBI’s burgeoning film slate are James Franco’s post-apocalyptic thriller “Future World”, starring Milla Jovovich, Lucy Liu, Method Man, Suki Waterhouse, Snoop Dogg, and James Franco; the psychological thriller “Black Butterfly” starring Antonio Banderas and Jonathan Rhys Meyers; a remake of Christopher Nolan’s iconic film “Memento”; “Lamborghini – The Legend,” a biopic on Lamborghini founder Ferruccio Lamborghini to be written by Bobby Moresco; the faith based children’s film “Beyond the Sun,” featuring His Holiness Pope Francis; “Septembers of Shiraz,” starring Salma Hayek and Adrien Brody; the contemporary fairy tale “This Beautiful Fantastic” starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Tom Wilkinson; James Franco’s “In Dubious Battle,” featuring an ensemble cast that includes Franco, Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston, Josh Hutcherson, Zach Braff and Sam Shepherd; and the sci-fi thriller “Rupture” starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Chiklis and Peter Stormare.
In 2015, AMBI acquired the Exclusive Media Group film library, which includes an incredibly diverse portfolio of critical hits, commercial blockbusters and cult favorites such as “Begin Again,” “Cruel Intentions,” “Donnie Darko,” “End of Watch,” “Ides of March,” “Hit & Run,” “Memento,” “The Mexican,” “Parkland,” “Rush,” “Sliding Doors,” “Snitch,” “Undefeated” and “The Way Back,” to name a few. In addition to the library titles, AMBI now has the rights to a number of titles within EMG’s active movie development slate, as well as all sequel and remake rights to the popular EMG films.
The company operates joints ventures in the Caribbean with Lantica Media (Dominican Republic) and in the Middle East with Barajoun Entertainment (Dubai).
Andrea Iervolino has produced, funded and distributed over 55 feature films including “The Merchant of Venice” and “The Humbling.” He is considered one of the youngest and most accomplished entrepreneurs in the Italian film industry and was the recipient of the coveted Mimmo Rotella Award for his contributions to the Italian cinema industry - presented to him at the 2014 Venice Film Festival, alongside fellow recipients Al Pacino and Barry Levinson. Iervolino most recently received the Honor of Recognition as Ambassador of Italian Cinema in the World at annual Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF).
Lady Monika Bacardi is the widow of Luis Adalberto Facundo Gomez del Campo Bacardi, Lord of Bayfield Hall, known as Lord Luis Bacardi (descendent of the Bacardi founder, still a family-run company). Renowned for her passion of modern art and love of photography and movies, Monika Bacardi is a highly successful businesswoman who is now committed to producing films, through AMBI, on top of her numerous philanthropic activities.
For more information on AMBI please visit http://ambidistribution.com/