Elite Squad 2 - To avoid Piracy Padilha selected very carefully the companies we worked with

Distributed by Universal in 2007, Elite Squad 1, the original film totalled 2.43 million admissions. But this figure was not so representative given the fact that Elite Squad generated one of the biggest piracy phenomenon in the country, which definitely hurt the film’s box office.
Specialists in Brazil believed that 11.5 million people saw a pirate copy of the film before it was in the theatres.

Director José Padilha

To avoid the piracy this time, José Padilha and his team were extra careful while making the sequel. “The strategy was simple: doing as much as we could in house and selecting very carefully the companies we worked with,’’ says José Padilha, who focused more in the corruption among politicians in the second film, instead of the police force, in the original.
There is no release date for the film overseas.