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The Queen of the Ring trailer reveals an Arrowverse star bulking up as the first-million dollar female athlete in the upcoming wrestling biopic.

Today, Sumerian shared the first official teaser trailer for Queen of the Ring. Watch it below:

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Queen of the Ring

Queen of the Ring chronicles the journey of Mildred Burke, a waitress who transformed into a pioneering female wrestler. Burke challenged gender norms by defeating male wrestlers and became the longest reigning champion, navigating the duality of being both a formidable brawler and maintaining her feminine identity.

Release Date  October 25, 2024Runtime  130 minutesGenres  DramaCast  Byron Johnson II, Barron Boedecker, Kailey Dawn Latimer, Brittany Baker, Toni Rossall, Trinity Fatu, Chaney Morrow, Marie Evans James, Damaris Lewis, Ash Avildsen, Marie Avgeropoulos, Jim Cornette, Gavin Casalegno, Adam Demos, Deborah Ann Woll, Walton Goggins,...

Kemp Powers is adding serious star power to his upcoming feature film Lunik Heist, which will star Jared Leto, Lupita Nyong’o, and John Mulaney. Powers directs Lunik Heist from his own script based on actual events. The story orbits around the American government’s plot to steal a Soviet spacecraft during a 1959 exposition in Mexico City. Jeff Maysh’s MIT Technology Review article inspires the screenplay, with Maysh executive producing. In addition to his starring role, Jared Leto produces alongside Emma Ludbrook via the duo’s Paradox studio with Mark Johnson for Gran Via Productions.

“We’re so thrilled to bring together such an exceptional team,” said Matthew Greenfield, the President of Searchlight Pictures. “With the extraordinary talents of Jared, Lupita, and John, led by the visionary Kemp, Lunik Heist is a wild, roller-coaster ride filled with subterfuge and unlikely heroes.”

After directing one of my Top 10 animated films, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse,...

Ali, the Broadway-bound musical about boxing titan and 20th century icon Muhammad Ali, who sought to use his fame to champion human rights, is headed for a springtime rumble in Chicago.

The show, part of the next Broadway in Chicago season, will have its out-of-town premiere at the James M. Nederlander Theatre from April 22-May 18, 2025.

Richard Willis, Ali‘s lead producer, told Deadline that the production is raring to go.

The creative team is led by the show’s writer and director Clint Dyer, the deputy artistic director of London’s National Theatre, and by its composer, the conductor and musician Teddy Abrams, who is music director of the Louisville Orchestra.

From left: Clint Dyer, Richard Willis and Teddy Abrams

They’ve done workshops for music, choreography, scenic design, the book and other disciplines. ”And I mean, we’re hammering now,” Willis said.

“The throttle is to the floor now,...

Rustin is a biographical drama film directed by George C. Wolfe, from a screenplay by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black. The Netflix film is based on the life of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, who helped Martin Luther King Jr. and others organize the 1963 March on Washington. The film shows us how history erased him from the civil rights movement he helped build just because an openly gay Black man. Rustin stars Colman Domingo in the lead role of Bayard Rustin, with Chris Rock, Jeffrey Wright, Aml Ameen, Lilli Kay, and Johnny Ramey starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the Netflix film here are some similar movies you could watch next.

Selma Credit – Paramount Pictures

Synopsis: Selma is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition.

There’s a lot to enjoy, but nothing new, in this documentary that focuses on a key transitional period in Muhammad Ali’s life

Here to prove you can never have enough documentaries about Muhammad Ali is New York director Muta’Ali Muhammad, who has made a new film on the subject for the US’s Smithsonian Channel; it is entertaining, but perhaps unsure of what exactly it’s saying that is new. It focuses on the legendary boxer’s public life from 1959 to 1964, as he negotiated a new existence as world champion and member of the Nation of Islam, changing his name from Cassius Clay to (initially) Cassius X in a key transitional moment. It is written by Scottish author and producer Stuart Cosgrove, adapting his own 2020 book Cassius X: A Legend in the Making.

This perfectly watchable film moves with breezy fluency from Ali’s early years, the sensational...