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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Younger (Snowfall) has been tapped to direct and executive produce ABC drama pilot The Company You Keep, starring Milo Ventimiglia and Catherine Haena Kim, from 20th Television. The project, which is based on Korean format My Fellow Citizens that ran for more than 30 episodes on KBS2, follows con man…

Two years ago, Miles Teller cut his fingers and took a beating as a jazz drummer in the three-time Oscar winning film Whiplash. This year, Teller endures a different type of pummeling as two-time world boxing champ Vinny 'Paz' Pazienza in Ben Younger's Bleed for This. Paz was at the top of the world in 1991, then the…

Director-writer Ben Younger is making his own comeback with Bleed for This, his first film in about 10 years, which tells the story of the ultimate comeback in boxing. Two-time world champion Vinny “Pazmanian Devil” Pazienza was in a terrible car crash in 1991. Nearly paralyzed with a severe neck injury, he found…

There’s been a number of boxing films lately, and while underdog is the de rigueur theme throughout all of them, there’s nothing like the fall, then the severe drop, and then the ultimate rise of two-time world champion fighter Vinny Pazienza aka Vinny Paz. Here’s a boxer who collapsed due to near-fatal hydration…

Writer-director-producer Ben Younger is set to follow up his boxing biopic Bleed for This with Isle of Man for De Luca Productions. Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters and Michael De Luca are producing and Bold Films is funding the film, details of which are under wraps. The deal was announced tonight at the Toronto…