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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 [...]

ESPN Reportedly the Star of a New Film

The cable sports giant, ESPN, is reportedly going to become the subject of a new film. [...]

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. [...]

Tribeca’s Endless Summer of Sports Movies

Tribeca, in partnership with ESPN Films, has announced a summer sale offering for the first time a handful of independent sports films to over 40 million homes via VOD. [...]

The Tribeca Film Festival’s Sporting Element

Now in play and running through May 1st, Tribeca, with partner ESPN, present a compelling and diverse slate of sports documentary films in its 10th annual gathering throughout New York City. [...]

The Fighter

Nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, this boxing drama, based on the real life story of Micky Ward is now out on DVD [...]

USC School of Cinematic Arts

Writer/Producer and Sportandcinema.com creator and contributor Randy Williams will be teaching a new course this summer at the renowned USC School of Cinematic Arts bringing his “Sports in Cinema” studies and findings to a new generation of students. [...]

New College Hoops Movie from ESPN Films

Coinciding with the annual tip off into March Madness, ESPN will air a new film next weekend about one of college basketball’s more memorable teams. [...]

The Fighter Wins a Pair of Academy Awards

After years of fighting to get this story of boxer brothers Dicky Eklund and Micky Ward from a hardscrabble town of Lowell, Massachusetts off the canvas, actor/producer Mark Wahlberg triumphed with The Fighter scoring a one-two punch at the 83rd Academy Awards ceremony held at Kodak Theater in downtown Los Angeles Sunday night. [...]

Charlie Sheen Returning to the Majors?

Charlie Sheen, the star of Two and a Half Men is out, suspended for at least the remainder of the year, but reports are he is a key component likely to return to the bullpen in a popular baseball film franchise. [...]

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