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. [...]
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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. [...] Stepping out of his wool Brooklyn Dodgers uniform fresh from the hit movie where he portrays baseball legend Jackie Robinson, actor Chad Boseman is reportedly in negotiations to play a linebacker from Louisiana whose future is riding on the annual NFL draft. [...] Scheduled for release nationwide Friday and pegged to Major League Baseball’s annual Jackie Robinson Day, “42” tells the story of two men—African-American Jackie Robinson and trailblazing Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey—whose brave stand against prejudice forever changed the world by changing the game of baseball. [...] Paramount Pictures and producer J.J. Abrams plan on making a motion picture about disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. [...] New on DVD Gus Lobel (Clint Eastwood) has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, however, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus, who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat, refuses to be benched for what may be [...] Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown who left the NFL at the top of his game to pursue a career in Hollywood has formed a new production company, Warrior’s Eyes Productions. Teaming up with independent film makers KC Pierson and D. Keith Davis, their first original film entitled – “It’s Not Football Related: Untold Stories of the NFL Through Warrior’s Eyes”- is slated to premiere theatrically next Fall. [...] Outside of Nicolas Cage in “The Boy in Blue” and Rob Lowe in “Oxford Blues” back in the mid-80s, the sport of rowing hasn’t really stroked Hollywood’s storytelling fancy. [...] A new NFL Films-produced documentary about one of the greatest defensive lines of all-time recently made its debut on the league’s cable network. [...] Hollywood’s love affair with the sweet science continues as it was announced that the late five-time world champion boxer Johnny Tapia will be the subject of a new motion picture with Shiloh Fernandez portraying the late pugilist. [...] ESPN Films, producers of the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Award-winning 30 for 30 film series, has announced the schedule for the new slate of films in its 30 for 30 series The series kicks off with Broke on Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 8 p.m. on ESPN/ESPNHD and will air on consecutive Tuesday nights in October, concluding the 2012 run with one film airing in December after the Heisman Trophy Presentation. The 30 for 30 documentaries airing this fall are: Broke, 9.79*, There’s No Place Like Home, Benji, Ghosts of Ole Miss, and You Don’t Know Bo. [...] |
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