Move Over Bourne - Here Comes Largo Winch
MUSIC BOX FILMS HOME ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
ACTION, ADVENTURE & INTRIGUE ARE THE ORDER OF THE DAY IN THE ACCLAIMED JET-SETTING THRILLER STARRING INTERNATIONAL SENSATION TOMER SISLEY
Available on DVD with Special Features
March 27, 2011
–Ain’t It Cool News
“A briskly paced action adventure…handsome, large-scale escapist fare.”
–Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
“A crazy thrill ride…like Batman Begins and Citizen Kane all rolled up into one.”
–CraveOnline
Tomer Sisley in The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Chicago, IL (February 10, 2012) - Back up, James Bond. Step aside, Jason Bourne –meet Largo Winch, the newest international man of mystery but he is no secret agent! Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Jérôme Salle and based upon the wildly popular Belgian graphic novel series by Philippe Francq and Jean Van Hamme, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch features a jet-setting adventurer, martial arts expert, super-sexy hero and…the inheritor of a multi-national conglomerate? Absolutely! For audiences interested in turning up the action and amping up the adventure, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch has the right amount of energy to kick movie night into high gear!
Watch what happens when death-defying adventure meets high-charged boardroom politics in the action-filled thrill ride The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch starring international sensation Tomer Sisley (Sleepless Night) as the irrepressible titular hero and Academy Award-nominated superstar Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) as The W Group’s suspicious second-in-command, Ann Ferguson. Also featured are acclaimed actors Miki Manojlovic (Irina Palm) and Karl Roden (RocknRolla) along with world-renowned beauty Mélanie Thierry (Babylon A.D.)
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch will be released on DVD by Music Box Films Home Entertainment on March 27 (prebook Feb. 21). Packed with a making-of documentary, a digital comic and other exciting bonus features, the DVD will carry the suggested retail price of $29.95.
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch follows the thrill-a-minute exploits of the dashing, twenty-something titular heir Largo Winch. The heretofore unknown adopted son of the murdered billionaire founder of the international corporation The W Group, the ever-resourceful Largo must overcome an onslaught of drug traffickers, assassins, corporate raiders and double-dealing insiders before taking over the conglomerate and enacting the revenge on his father’s murderers. In a globe-hopping adventure that takes him from Brazil to Hong Kong to the Balkans and back again, Largo uses his wits and intelligence-along with his fists, feet and a phalanx of motorcycles, helicopters and speedboats-to get the job done in time and get back in time for his first board meeting!
Released theatrically around the world and in the U.S.’s top markets in November 2011, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch grossed more than $17 million at the worldwide box office. Its international success has already spawned a sequel, The Burma Conspiracy, once again directed by Jérôme Salle and starring Tomer Sisley, alongside the latest “Winch Girl,” sexy Sharon Stone.
More information on The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch can be found on the film’s website, http://www.musicboxfilms.com/largo-winch.
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch — Synopsis:
When self-made billionaire Nerio Winch (Miki Manojlovic), founder of the multinational corporation known as The W Group, is murdered, it’s up to his second-in-command (Kristin Scott Thomas) to locate his only heir - a heretofore unknown adopted son, Largo (Tomer Sisley). But before the adventurous, twenty-something Largo can even move into his new offices, an evil former gunrunner named Korsky (Karel Roden) makes a move to steal away the business empire that Nerio spent his life creating. Soon enough, a host of other nefarious villains-drug traffickers, assassins, corporate raiders and double-dealing insiders-circle in on The W Group and its new chief executive. Now it’s up to Largo Winch to overcome an onslaught of fiendish and ferocious bad guys to fulfill his destiny…and maybe even save the world in the process!
About Music Box Films:
Founded in 2007, Music Box Films has quickly established itself as one of the leading distributors of non-English language feature films in the US in theaters, on DVD and Blu-ray, and via Video-on-Demand. Music Box’s release of Guillaume Canet’s Tell No One was the most popular foreign-language film of 2008. In 2010, the film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s trilogy of international mega-sellers dominated the foreign-language film market: the first in the series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, was one of the most popular international releases of the decade with over $10 million in US box office. Music Box Films is independently owned and operated by the Southport Music Box Corporation, which also owns and operates The Music Box Theatre, Chicago’s premiere venue for independent and foreign films.
Kristin Scott Thomas in The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Music Box Films Home Entertainment
STREET DATE: March 27, 2012
Pre-book Date: February 21, 2012
SRP: DVD $29.95
Cast: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Miki Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry, Karel Roden
Director: Jérôme Salle
Running Time: 108 minutes
Format: 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen
Sound Format: Dolby Digital
Rating: NR
Country: France, Belgium, Croatia (Hrvatska)
Language: French, English and Croatian with English subtitles
Bonus Features*
-Special digital comic of Largo Winch, issue #1 “The Heir”
-Making of Largo Winch
-Theatrical trailer
Media Contact:
Margarita Sophia Cortes
MSOPHIA PR
margarita (at) msophiapr.com
