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Sport And Cinema

Sports Playing a Big Part of Hollywood’s Upcoming Production Slate

Motion pictures, documentaries and television series with a sporting backdrop are filling the development and production pipeline across the networks and studios. [...]

Steve McQueen’s Classic “Le Mans” Featured at TCM Film Festival

In a festival filled with planes, trains, or automobiles, auto racing fans will be ecstatic to learn there will be in depth coverage in addition to the screening of the classic film, “Le Mans” featuring Steve McQueen. [...]

ESPN’s “30 for 30″: The Complete Collector’s Set

In time for the holiday shopping rush comes the entire set of thirty films now combined into one DVD package (and available on Blu-ray) from ESPN’s acclaimed 30 for 30 series, a compelling “television film festival”. The 30 for 30 Limited Edition Collector Set is packaged in a collectible box & contains 30 for 30 Gift Sets Volume 1 & Volume 2 as well as an exclusive retro ESPN hat featuring the company’s original logo. [...]

Steve Mc Queen’s Le Mans Turns 40

With reports that a new feature film about auto racing is in the works (Ron Howard reportedly set to direct a Formula One picture entitled Rush), one of the sport’s better feature films was released 40 years ago [...]

Cars DVD – Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo

In addition to Cars2 currently running strong in theaters across the country, the studio also has available for post-BBQ home entertainment a Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging of the original that also features Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt and Larry the Cable Guy [...]

Cars 2 Starts Its Engines

Cars 2, the follow up to one of the most successful movies with an auto racing background in Hollywood history, begins its box office run this Friday when star racer Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) and his tow truck pal Mater (Larry the Cable Guy) head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship picks up the pace from the original with added complications that includes going wheel to wheel with newcomer Finn McMissile (Michael Caine) and a high-tech coupe named Holley Shiftwell (Emily Mortimer) as the racers veer off track and get tangled up in international espionage. [...]

Ayrton Senna Racing Film

A new documentary film about one of the great drivers in Formula One racing history, Brazil’s Ayrton Senna is now out in limited release including the Los Angeles Film Festival this week. The movie, which will go wider in August, takes you inside the sport with brilliant on-board cameras as well as the politics and rivalries that were part of the three-time world champion’s world. [...]

The 100th Indianapolis 500

Unser, Andretti, Foyt, Mears, Rutherford – it is a competition that conjures up the greats of motor racing as The Indy 500, one of America’s most iconic events, celebrates its centennial edition tomorrow. [...]

Trevor Bayne Wins the Daytona 500 in His First Attempt

In a day of records where crashes had drivers seeing too much yellow, Trevor Bayne, a 20 year-old rookie was the first to see the black and white of the checkered flag to take NASCAR’s biggest race earlier today at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. [...]

Michael Schumacher Returns to F1 Racing

After weeks of speculation Mercedes confirmed on Wednesday that Michael Schumacher will make a comeback to race for the team next season alongside fellow German Nico Rosberg. [...]