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Here is an exclusive clip before tonight’s premiere of the finished feature biopic of boxer Chuck Wepner gets a splashy Tribeca Film Festival premiere, the film showing for the first time under its new title Chuck. Producer Mike Tollin, who has been promising Wepner his life story would make the screen for real since…

EXCLUSIVE, updated with Liev Schreiber statement: IFC Films and Showtime are partnering on a deal to acquire The Bleeder, the Philippe Falardeau-directed drama that stars Liev Schreiber as New Jersey boxer Chuck Wepner, the Rocky inspiration who almost went the distance with Muhammad Ali (he knocked him down but…

Liev Schreiber starrer The Bleeder has its official out-of-competition screening here at the Venice Film Festival this evening, before stepping into the Toronto ring on September 10. Directed by Monsieur Lazhar Oscar nominee Philippe Falardeau, The Bleeder tells the real-life story of Chuck Wepner, the journeyman…

Chuck Wepner, the ex-boxer said to have inspired the Rocky Balboa character and who is the subject of the upcoming pic The Bleeder, is suing the producers of what he calls an unauthorized “copycat” film based on his life. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here), claims that the…

Ron Perlman has signed on for The Bleeder, the film that stars Liev Schreiber as heavyweight fighter Chuck Wepner. Perlman will play Al Braverman, the manager/trainer who guided Wepner to an unlikely title fight with Muhammad Ali. Ali is being played by Pooch Hall, who stars with Schreiber on Ray Donovan. The…

Elisabeth Moss has been cast as boxer Chuck Wepner’s second wife in The Bleeder, the pic about the true-life tale of the journeyman underdog boxer who improbably pushed world champ Muhammad Ali to the limit in their 1975 title fight. As Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. told you Liev Schreiber has signed on to play Wepner…

Mandalay Sports Media and Campbell Grobman Films will begin production this month in New York on The Bleeder, with Ray Donovan‘s Liev Schreiber to play heavyweight boxer Chuck Wepner, and Naomi Watts to play his wife Linda. Philippe Falardeau, the Canadian helmer of The Good Lie and the Oscar-nominated Monsieur…