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The wrestling industry is known to be a highly competitive field, where numerous athletes fight their way to the limited top spots. Since everyone wants to earn their right to be in the limelight, tensions often fill the air as egos clash, leading to conflicts. However, the wrestling industry thrives on the concept of mutual respect.

The Undertaker. Credits: WWE

This belief was evident as WWE Legend, The Undertaker, did not tolerate any disrespect as a budding talent in WWE’s upcoming reality show, Legends & Future Greats (Lfg), decided to disrespect a veteran of the business. The new video promo features a grim ending for the talent as the Deadman gives a teaser on what happens when one becomes full of himself, reminding why they are legends of the field.

The Undertaker questions an emerging star’s attitude

With the commencement of Triple H’s WWE era, the organization is...

The Voice season 27 has a big name returning to the lineup. For the first time since Season 16, Adam Levine is back as a coach on the hit reality singing competition series. Levine is one of the original coaches and was the second to last original to leave the show before Blake Shelton finally stepped away.

Levine has released a first look at the upcoming season’s coaches, and it has fans excited.

Adam Levine Releases First Look At The Voice Season 27 Coaches

The promotion started on X when The Voice announced, “The Og is back in the building. Join us in welcoming @adamlevine Back to #TheVoice for Spring 2025!” That got fans excited, but then Levine went to Instagram and posted a photo of him and his fellow Season 27 judges.

Adam Levine on The Voice | YouTubeThe photo saw the four judges either sitting on the big red chair or standing around it.

WWE has revealed that the critically acclaimed Undertaker 1 deadMAN show will take center stage at The Fillmore in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 4 ahead of WrestleMania Xl.

Undertaker 1 deadMAN Show will feature “The Phenom” in an intimate setting, sharing never-before-heard stories from his Hall of Fame career and taking questions from the WWE Universe in attendance. The show has sold out venues in Nashville, Philadelphia, Boston, San Antonio and Australia, among others, since debuting in 2022.

Tickets for Undertaker 1 deadMAN Show go on sale Wednesday, March 13 at 10 a.m. Et. An exclusive presale opportunity will be available starting Tuesday, March 12 at 10 a.m. Et at: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/02006067C3086197. A limited number of VIP tickets, which includes premier seating and a meet-and-greet with The Undertaker, will also be available.

WrestleMania Xl takes place across two nights on Saturday, April 6 and Sunday, April 7 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

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If there was ever a wrestler with a more protected character than The Undertaker then I’d like to know about them. It’s been a storied and lengthy run, with a debut at Survivor Series back at the end of 1990, until the current day, and for 99% of that time we’ve seen The Undertaker character kept behind the scenes totally, with no real look at Mark Calaway, the man behind the black hat and the trench coat. Sure, we saw The American Bad-Ass back in the early 00s, which saw a more realistic version of ‘Taker on television, but it still wasn’t a reveal. Now, as The Undertaker approaches the end of his in-ring career, we finally see a documentary series from WWE in which access is granted to the cameras and Mark Calaway opens up about his life, his career and his final run as a professional wrestler.

If you’re a fan of cinema, chances are, you’re also a fan of Ethan Hawke. The multi-hyphenate actor/writer/director has made a career out of exploring interesting avenues. As stated once before in a look at the man, there seems to be almost nothing that Hawke can not do. He’s directed films (including a documentary), written novels, starred in tiny indies, large scale movies, and everything in between. He’s likely best known for his collaborations with Richard Linklater, but they hardly define the man. A four time Academy Award nominee, he’s a perfect candidate for a Spotlight piece. After all, if he ever gets to a fifth Oscar nomination without a win, he’ll be hugely overdue for a statue. Hawke’s new film is, of course, First Reformed, which pairs him with filmmaker Paul Schrader. The movie is described cryptically as follows on...

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Cable operator AMC Networks has put in a $16m offer to acquire full control of Rlj Entertainment.

The move to buy outstanding shares of Robert L. Johnson’s company comes 16 months after AMC Networks invested $65m in the form of loans (which have since grown to an aggregate of $78m) as part of a strategic partnership.

AMC and Johnson currently own approximately 26% and 47% of the outstanding shares of Rlj Entertainment common stock, respectively.

The proposal involves paying $4.25 per share in cash, with the goal of turning Rlj Entertainment into a privately held subsidiary.

AMC Networks said, ”AMC Networks has advised Rlj Entertainment that it is only interested in acquiring the shares of Rlj Entertainment not owned by AMC Networks or entities affiliated with Mr. Johnson, and has no interest in disposing of its stake in Rlj Entertainment or participating in any other strategic process.”

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Rlj channels include Acorn TV and Umc.

Cable operator AMC Networks has put in a $16m offer to acquire full control of Rlj Entertainment.

The move to buy outstanding shares of Robert L. Johnson’s company comes 16 months after AMC Networks invested $65m in the form of loans (which have since grown to an aggregate of $78m) as part of a strategic partnership.

AMC and Johnson currently own approximately 26% and 47% of the outstanding shares of Rlj Entertainment common stock, respectively.

The proposal involves paying $4.25 per share in cash, with the goal of turning Rlj Entertainment into a privately held subsidiary.

AMC Networks said, ”AMC Networks has advised Rlj Entertainment that it is only interested in acquiring the shares of Rlj Entertainment not owned by AMC Networks or entities affiliated with Mr. Johnson, and has no interest in disposing of its stake in Rlj Entertainment or participating in any other strategic process.”

Rlj Entertainment’s Ott branded...

‘American Gods’

It’s been a long time coming, but American Gods is finally here, closing out a month that’s been filled with exciting new shows. With May, though, comes the return of a science program that ought to interest movie fans (Breakthrough) and a new feature documentary that ought to interest comic book fans (Batman & Bill). Plus we’ve finally got a new season of Sense8 and new episodes of some of the greatest TV series, Better Call Saul and Fargo, plus the penultimate chapter of Riverdale’s first season.

To help you keep track of the most important programs over the next seven days, here’s our guide to everything worth watching, whether it’s on broadcast, cable, or streaming for April 30–May 1:

SUNDAYAmerican Gods (Starz, 9pm)

Neil Gaiman’s 2001 novel hits the small screen from the showrunning team of Bryan Fuller (Hannibal) and screenwriter Michael Green (Logan), and it’s “the adaptation...

“My character, and in some ways the show, is less Mussolini and more Machiavelli,” Paul Giamatti said when asked about “Billions” Season 2 during Showtime’s TCA panel presentation for the high-rated drama. And by that, he means the characters will be “less brutal and more strategic” in the upcoming episodes.

“You see vulnerabilities in them,” co-star Damian Lewis added. “These vulnerabilities and frailties become burdensome in trying to win this game.”

The game Lewis refers to is the winner-takes-all throw-down between Chuck Rhodes, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Bobby “Axe” Axelrod, an aggressive hedge fund manager who Rhodes suspects is corrupt. Much of Season 1 focused on the two waging war against each other, as Axe attempted to grow his empire and Rhodes aimed to expose Axe in order to destroy him.

But in Season 2, things are intensifying at work and at home for both men…...

At the end of Season 1 of “Billions” there was a lot of wreckage, with fund king Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damien Lewis) and U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) ruining each others lives.

Season 2 of the critically acclaimed Showtime series picks up immediately where the finale left off, and promises to give viewers even more drama in the upcoming episodes.

“What have a I done wrong, really? Except make money,” asks Bobby in the behind the scenes video released by the cable network.

Read More: ‘The Affair’: Watch the First Episode of Season 3 Online for Free

The series is currently in production in New York and upon its return, the two men will square off in a costly war for personal domination. It’s a law versus money, with power, sex, and the soul of New York in the balance.

“In Season 2, the major reversal is that Bobby has...

The Late Bloomer is basked on author and E! News personality Ken Baker’s incredible life story and is directed by multi-hyphenate Kevin Pollak (Misery Loves Comedy, War Dogs, The Usual Suspects, A Few Good Men) and stars Johnny Simmons (The Phenom, The Perks of Being a Wallfower), Maria Bello (Prisoners, A History of Violence), Brittany Snow (Pitch Perfect 1&2, Hairspray), Golden Globe and Emmy winner Jane Lynch (“Glee”, “Two and a Half Men”, Best in Show), Oscar and Golden Globe winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Up in the Air, Juno), Kumail Nanjiani (“Silicon Valley”), Beck Bennett (“SNL”), and Paul Wesley (“The Vampire Diaries”).

Check out the trailer for The Late Bloomer:

Now you can win a The Late Bloomer poster signed by cast members J.K. Simmons, Brittany Snow, Johnny Simmons, Maria Bello, director Kevin Pollak and author Ken Baker. We Are Movie Geeks has this amazing prize package to give away.

In 2001, entertainment journalist Ken Baker released the memoir “The Late Bloomer: A Memoir of My Body,” which tells the story of his battle with a prolactinoma, a testosterone-sapping tumor that inhibits puberty. Baker experienced late-onset puberty at age 28, undergoing rapid teenage hormonal changes well into his adult years.

Read More: Kevin Pollak on Dedicating ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ to Robin Williams

Now, Kevin Pollak has adapted Baker’s memoir into the indie ensemble comedy “The Late Bloomer” starring Johnny Simmons as Dr. Pete Newmans a 30-year-old sex therapist who discovers that he has a pituitary tumor that has delayed puberty for over half his life. After receiving a simple surgery, Pete must struggle with his body changes while trying to win over the girl he loves. The film co-stars Maria Bello (“A History of Violence”), Brittany Snow (“Pitch Perfect”), Jane Lynch (“Glee”), J.K. Simmons (“Whiplash”), and Kumail Nanjiani (“Silicon Valley...

The summer movie season is winding down, and as always, there are some movies which didn’t get the attention they deserved, and one of them is the “The Phenom,” a truly original psychological baseball drama. And today we want to give some lucky readers a chance to catch up with their own DVD copies. Read […]

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While many parents regularly strive to provide the best possible life for their children, so that they can achieve their goals, some parents instead coerce their kids into fulfilling their personal aspirations. Hopper Sr., the at-times daunting father who’s portrayed by Ethan Hawke in the sports drama, ‘The Phenom,’ is one such parent who isn’t afraid to emotionally and psychologically push his son into capturing his dream. That determined ambition is showcased in Shockya’s exclusive clip premiere for the film’s Blu-ray and DVD release this Tuesday, August 30. Rlj Entertainment will unveil ‘The Phenom’ on Blu-ray and DVD after the distributor released the drama in theaters and on VOD and [ Read More ]

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Title: The Phenom Rlj Entertainment Director: Noah Buschel Writer: Noah Buschel Cast: Johnny Simmons, Paul Giamatti, Ethan Hawke Running Time: 87 min Rated: Not Rated (language, domestic violence) In Theaters, On VOD And Digitial: June 24, 2016 Hopper Gibson (Johnny Simmons, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) is a young major-league rookie pitcher with issues with his past that are affecting his performance. His manager sets him up with sports psychologist Dr. Mobley (Paul Giamatti, Straight Outta Compton) whom manages to bring Hopper’s issues to light. Hopper talks about his high school valedictorian girlfriend Dorothy (Sophie Kennedy Clark, Nymphomaniac parts I & II) whom loves him and treats him like an intellectual [ Read More ]

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“In a Valley of Violence” follows Paul (Ethan Hawke), a mysterious drifter who is making his way towards Mexico through the Old West with only his trusted dog by his side. In an attempt to take a shortcut, Paul passes through Denton, Texas, a nearly abandoned no-horse town dubbed by locals as the “valley of violence.” It’s controlled by a group of violent misfits led by brash troublemaker Gilly Martin (James Ransone), the son of the town’s marshal Clyde Martin (John Travolta). As tension between Paul and Gilly rise immediately, the Denton residents witness an act of violence that sets off a chain of events which affects everybody in the small town. Soon, everyone’s body and soul will be at hazard. Watch the trailer for the film below, courtesy of EW.

Read More: Review: Ti West’s ‘In A Valley Of Violence’ Is A Western ‘John Wick,...

Some baseball stories are exciting even to non-fans, and in theory, “Undrafted” should be one of them. Over 30 years ago, writer (and fantasy baseball pioneer) Daniel Okrent used a 1982 regular season Milwaukee Brewers/Baltimore Orioles game as the basis for “Nine Innings.” From the perspective of an outsider, the book offered one of the purest glimpses at the details that make the sport a rewarding watch. What Okrent did in 288 pages, writer-director Joe Mazzello tries unsuccessfully to do in 105 minutes with his new film “Undrafted.” From a inspired-by-a-true-story premise, “Undrafted” takes that one-game premise inside the dugout, watching a team of hapless amateurs stare down a crucial league playoff matchup in the wake of learning that their best player was overlooked at the Mlb Draft.

“Team” is a loose term here, as the dozen players and their accompanying, overriding personalities never really seem like a cohesive group. There are the standouts: Philip Winchester as Fotch,...

SXSW’s 2016 Audience Award winner “Transpecos,” from rookie director Greg Kwedar, has a new trailer. Samuel Goldwyn Films, which picked up the distribution rights to the border-patrol thriller back in April, has also announced the release date for the film.

The story follows three border patrol agents, rookie Davis (Johnny Simmons), seasoned Flores (Gabriel Luna) and callous, world-weary Hobbs (Clifton Collins Jr), who man a check point on a remote highway. On what feels like another routine stop, the contents of one car suddenly throws their lives out of control. As dark secrets are revealed, each passing hour will bring them closer to a nightmarish conclusion that could cost them their lives, in a world where the line between right and wrong shifts like the desert itself.

Watch: Exclusive Clip from SXSW Premiere ‘Transpecos’ Leaves You in the Desert

The screen play was co-written by Kwedar and Clint Bentley. The...

With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit the interwebs. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Aferim! (Radu Jude)

Leave it to a Romanian director to make a movie that best expresses the dangers of the dyed-in-the-wool mindset of modern America. Culled partly from historical documents, Aferim! is a twisted history lesson whose messages transcend its insular time period of 19th-century Romania. Its story concerns Constable Costandin (Teodor Corban) and his son, Ionita (Mihai Comanoiu), who chase after a wanted Gypsy slave...

Plot: A young major-league pitcher (Johnny Simmons) in the middle of a slump, sees a sports psychologist (Paul Giamatti) in order to figure out why he’s having so much trouble performing at the level he’s capable of. Review: Noah Buschel is an interesting young director. The guy behind The Missing Person and Glass Chin, The Phenom actually seems like a bit of a departure for him. Those other... Read More...

To help sift through the increasing number of new releases (independent or otherwise), the Weekly Film Guide is here! Below you’ll find basic plot, personnel and cinema information for all of this week’s fresh offerings.

Starting this month, we’ve also put together a list for the entire month. We’ve included this week’s list here, complete with information on screening locations for films in limited release.

See More: Here Are All the Upcoming Movies in Theaters for June 2016

Here are the films opening theatrically in the U.S. the week of Friday, June 24. All synopses provided by distributor unless listed otherwise.

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Director: Gary Ross

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Keri Russell, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Jacob Lofland

Synopsis: “In Jones County, Miss., Newt Knight joins forces with other farmers and a group of slaves to lead a rebellion against the Confederacy.”

Independence Day: Resurgence...

For a film that’s nominally a sports movie, there’s something conspicuously absent from “The Phenom”: teammates. Instead, writer-director Noah Buschel carves out the time usually spent on building camaraderie and team-based drama to hone in on a single player. Without that team as the go-to filter to understand this talented-but-struggling pitcher, what follows in “The Phenom” is an atypical meditation on what it means to succeed on stages great and small.

Johnny Simmons stars as Hopper Gibson, a young righthander consigned to a rehab assignment after his lack of control derails a promising career. His team enlists the help of Dr. Mobley (Paul Giamatti), a renowned sports psychologist, to help unlock the mental secret to restoring Hopper to winning ways. While Hopper and Mobley philosophize over the nature of mental blocks, Buschel intersperses scenes from the player’s past family turmoil and struggles as a high school standout.

The promising rookie, the come from behind victory, the underdog beating the odds, the veteran making one last stand — baseball movies usually follow a familiar pattern, and generally speaking, the genre has largely drawn from this well. They are also pictures that usually have an extra coating of nostalgia for the country’s national pastime, […]

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I admittedly didn’t think too much on The Phenom after watching its trailer. There was a good cast, its look behind the curtain of fame seemed intriguing, and there’d probably be some darkly honest depictions of sports abuse at the hands of over-zealous parents. But then I saw who the writer/director was and suddenly all I could do was think. Noah Buschel is the man behind a wonderful little character piece from a few years back called Sparrows Dance and seeing his name as the creator of this baseball movie had me scratching my head. It looked run-of-the-mill: prodigy gets the “yips” and must face his past to overcome. It didn’t seem like something the author of Sparrows Dance would tackle. And to a point I was right.

The Phenom isn’t about baseball. Sure we see a few pitches — mostly the wild ones that derailed...

Calling The Phenom a baseball movie is deceptive despite obvious themes. Yes, a rookie struggles with focus on a major league level, but Noah Buschel’s latest film is less about athletic superiority, and more about mental health. We rarely see baseball movies that explore a young character who doesn’t take to fame and success with celebrity grace, since filmmakers typically opt for happy-go-lucky stories of underdogs finding superiority. Is an 18-year-old pitcher no longer a kid just because he signed on the dotted line? Buschel offers an intriguing look into the mind of a boy who’s forced into maturity on a public stage, pumped full of praise while a regretful father blurs the lines between motivation and abuse.

Johnny Simmons stars as Hopper Gibson, a rookie hurler dealing with confidence and control issues in his first year as a big-leaguer. After leaving high school and entering the...

Ethan Hawke is teaching his son about greatness by throwing a can of beer at him in the first trailer for sports drama The Phenom. “A Major League rookie pitcher loses control over his pitching and is sent down to the minor leagues, where he begins sessions with an unorthodox sports psychologist. In the process, […]

Read Ethan Hawke is Teaching Greatness in The Phenom on Filmonic.

Generally speaking, baseball movies (and sports flicks in general) tend to follow a down-on-your-luck team or player as they wise up, overcome obstacles, and win the Big Game. Rarely does a film probe the psychological underpinnings of a rising star, but the upcoming “The Phenom” does just that, in what looks like “Whiplash” for baseball. […]

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The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival saw its fair share of first time filmmakers as well as returning and well experienced actors and directors. In an eclectic ensemble of actors, writers and directors, The Phenom stars Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti as they play the father and psychiatrist respectively of a rookie pitcher who loses his A game. Johnny Simmons stars as that pitcher, while Yul Vazquez plays his coach.

Performance anxiety, a pretty bad father, and relationship issues. What can go wrong, especially if you’re playing in front of hundreds of thousands of people who aren’t quiet about their boos? They demote you, and that’s exactly what happens to Hopper Gibson (Simmons) a rookie pitcher who gets demoted to the Little Leagues after completely losing his game.

The film was written and directed by Noah Buschel, who also wrote and directed Glass Chin, nominated for 2014 Tribeca’s Best Narrative Feature.

In The Phenom, Johnny Simmons plays a burgeoning Mlb pitcher whose throwing arm begins to fall apart — but it’s not due to a physical condition. “They call it the Yips. It happens in musicians. I think it happens in actors as well. There’s no real way to cure it, and they don’t know what brings it on,” Simmons said during a visit to Deadline’s Tribeca Film Festival Studio. “Even naming it, can put an association with it where you have an inadequacy, and the more you think…...

Ethan Hawke impresses as an abusive father to a major-league rookie pitcher in an intriguing character study that’s admirably hard to pin down

From its graceful opening credits sequence, which, backed by an elegant classical music score, fixes the viewer’s gaze on some tasteful wallpaper, writer and director Noah Buschel’s The Phenom immediately goes out of its way to subvert all the expectations associated with baseball movies.

Despite its rigorously formal leanings, The Phenom is still a film about a young man struggling to regain his focus and grow into the athlete he was born to be. But unlike Field of Dreams, Bad News Bears, Bull Durham and countless other films centered on the sport, The Phenom is more interested in its hero’s psychological trappings than his talents on the field.

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Ethan Hawke impresses as an abusive father to a major-league rookie pitcher in an intriguing character study that’s admirably hard to pin down

From its graceful opening credits sequence, which, backed by an elegant classical music score, fixes the viewer’s gaze on some tasteful wallpaper, writer and director Noah Buschel’s The Phenom immediately goes out of its way to subvert all the expectations associated with baseball movies.

Despite its rigorously formal leanings, The Phenom is still a film about a young man struggling to regain his focus and grow into the athlete he was born to be. But unlike Field of Dreams, Bad News Bears, Bull Durham and countless other films centered on the sport, The Phenom is more interested in its hero’s psychological trappings than his talents on the field.

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Johnny Simmons is doing double duty at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival as a struggling Mlb pitcher in The Phenom and a cash-strapped piano player in Dreamland. The pic also marks the feature directorial debut of Coppola cousin and Jason Schwartzman’s brother, Robert Schwartzman, and like the Golden Globe-winning Amazon series Mozart in the Jungle that Jason co-created, Dreamland also shows the seedy side of the musical life. In this case, Simmons’ Monty Fagan dreams of…...

Exclusive: Ethan Hawke is one of those few actors who can segue comfortably between playing the sensitive guy (Before Sunrise, Reality Bites) and man at his most primal (the upcoming The Magnificent Seven, Training Day). In The Phenom, the four-time Oscar-nominated actor portrays an ex-con father, whose tough love has turned into a head game for his major league pitcher son Hopper Gibson (Johnny Simmons). When the rookie is demoted to the minor leagues, he looks to an…...

Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti star in the upcoming world premiere drama set in the world of baseball.

Rlj Entertainment has acquired Us rights from Wme to Noah Buschel’s film, which will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York on April.

The Phenom centres on a major league rookie pitcher with a confidence crisis who is dispatched to the minor leagues to work with an unorthodox sports psychologist as tensions with his overbearing father bubble to the surface.

Antonia Bogdanovich produced alongside Jeff Elliott, Kim Jose, and Jeff Rice. Johnny Simmons and Sophie Kennedy Clark round out the key cast.

Rlj Entertainment plans to release The Phenom in theatres and VOD on June 24.

The distributor’s recent features include Bone Tomahawk, Criminal Activities, The Cobbler, and the upcoming controversy-hit Nina Simone biopic Nina starring Zoe Saldana.

Rlj Entertainment has acquired “The Phenom,” a baseball-themed indie movie starring Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti, in advance of its premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 17, the company announced on Tuesday. It plans to release the movie, which also stars Johnny Simmons, in theaters and on demand on June 24. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The film stars Johnny Simmons (“The Perks of Being a Wallflower) as a major-league rookie pitcher named Hopper Gibson who can’t find the plate and is sent down to the minor leagues. There, he begins sessions with an unorthodox sports psychologist.

Rlj Entertainment has acquired baseball drama The Phenom, starring Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti. The company has all U.S. rights and plans to release the picture day-and-date theatrically and on VOD on June 24. Written and directed by Noah Buschel (The Missing Person), the film is making its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 17. The film is about a major-league rookie pitcher Hopper Gibson (Johnny Simmons) who can’t find the plate and is sent down to…...

The first half of Tribeca’s feature film slate was announced last week; now we’ve got the second part. Regular contributor Noah Buschel is in there with his new film The Phenom, although the big marquee title is probably the spectacle of Michael Shannon as Elvis Presley. Centerpiece Elvis & Nixon, directed by Liza Johnson, written by Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes. (USA) – World Premiere, Narrative. In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself. Elvis & Nixon, starring […]...

Afm top brass announced on Thursday that more than 400 films will screen at the Santa Monica market including 80 world and 324 market premieres.

Among the world premieres are Protagonist Pictures’ Trespass Against Us starring Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson, Conquistador’s The Phenom with Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti and and John Travolta in Hannibal Classics’ I Am Wrath.

Further world prems include two Fortitude International tiles: Urge with Pierce Brosnan and Ashley Greene and Daughter Of God, with Keanu Reeves.

Afm market premieres include Content’s Janis: Little Girl Blue from Amy Berg, Mongrel International’s Angry Indian Goddesses and The Exchange’s Ithaca from director Meg Ryan starring Tom Hanks.

Further market debuts include Beta Cinema’s Colonia with Emma Watson and Daniel Brϋhl, Arclight’s The Confirmation starring Clive Owen and Maria Bello, Metro International Entertainment’s Urban Hymn and Electric Entertainment’s Go With Me, starring Athony Hopkins, Julie Stiles and [link...

Exclusive: The company has unveiled its Cannes slate led by Jean-Michel Cousteau’s nature documentary.

Conquistador president Pascal Borno plans to show a promo reel to buyers on May 13 from Odyssea 3D, which is currently in production.

Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Mantello Brothers co-direct and 3D Entertainment Films produces the tribute to Cousteau’s father Jacques Cousteau, the renowned oceanographer and director of 1956 Palme d’Or winner The Silent World.

Noah Buschel’s The Phenom stars Ethan Hawke, Paul Giamatti and Johnny Simmons in the story of a gifted and troubled young athlete who enlists the help of a mental coach to untangle his difficult relationship with his father.

Conquistador’s slate includes Devon Downs’ directorial debut Parlor.

“We are thrilled to bring Jean-Michel Cousteau’s 3D masterpiece to the market this year, working with such an incredible team of filmmakers, following in the legacy of the great Jacques Cousteau,” said Borno.

Exclusive: On the back of its marquee sales title and awards contender Cake starring Jennifer Aniston, Conquistador Entertainment will kick off sales in Berlin on the drama starring red-hot Ethan Hawke, Paul Giamatti and Johnny Simmons.

Noah Buschel wrote and directed the Elephant Eye Films production that wrapped principal photography on December 20 in Atlanta.

Wme Global represents Us rights to the story about a gifted and troubled young athlete in his first year at a professional team who enlists the help of a mental coach played by Giamatti to untangle his difficult relationship with his father, played by Hawke.

“Making The Phenom in Atlanta was the best movie experience I’ve ever had,” said Buschel. “The combination of the New York actors mixing with the Atlanta crew was very… I don’t like to use this word, but it was very magical for me. It was a tremendous group, professional but fun, and I had the...

Exclusive: On the back of its marquee sales title and awards contender Cake starring Jennifer Aniston, Conquistador Entertainment will kick off sales in Berlin on the drama starring red-hot Ethan Hawke, Paul Giamatti and Johnny Simmons.

Noah Buschel wrote and directed the Elephant Eye Films production that wrapped principal photography on December 20 in Atlanta.

Wme Global represents Us rights to the story about a gifted and troubled young athlete in his first year at a professional team who enlists the help of a mental coach played by Giamatti to untangle his difficult relationship with his father, played by Hawke.

“Making The Phenom in Atlanta was the best movie experience I’ve ever had,” said Buschel. “The combination of the New York actors mixing with the Atlanta crew was very… I don’t like to use this word, but it was very magical for me. It was a tremendous group, professional but fun, and I had the...