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Henry Aaron’s Pursuit Of Babe Ruth Home Run Record Amid Racist Death Threats To Get Movie By Oscar-Winning ‘Precious’ Scribe Geoffrey Fletcher, Mandalay Sports Media & Bluestone
EXCLUSIVE: The attempt by Atlanta Braves slugger Henry Aaron to break Babe Ruth's hallowed record of 714 career home runs, and the armed guard from the Atlanta police department assigned to keep him safe 24/7 amidst racist hate mail and death threats, will be turned into a feature film.
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George Gervin Documentary In Works From ‘Last Dance’ Producer Mike Tollin’s MSM, GameAbove Entertainment & Director One9
EXCLUSIVE: With the NBA’s 75th season underway, Mike Tollin — who helped produce last year’s Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance — has found another basketball legend whose story he’s looking to tell. Tollin’s MSM is planning a new documentary on the life of George Gervin, aka “The Iceman,” who was just named to…
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Common, ‘Last Dance’ EP Mike Tollin & Marshall Goldberg Team On ‘Justice, USA’ Docuseries For OWN & Discovery+
Discovery+ has given a straight-to-series order to Justice, USA, a docuseries which takes a comprehensive insider 360-degree view of the criminal justice system. OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is overseeing production of the series for discovery+. The project hails from Oscar, Grammy and Emmy-winning Common, Humanitas…
Gravitas Ventures Picks Up Climate Change Documentary ‘Meltdown’ From Oscar Nominated ‘Hank Aaron’ Team
EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to distribute the Mike Tollin-produced documentary Meltdown.
Director Fredric Golding (On the Mat) follows acclaimed photographer Lynn Davis and climate scientist Tony Leiserowitz as they confront the effects of climate change in a remote area of the…
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‘…Like You Never Voted Before’ Docu Pinpoints Jacob Blake Shooting & NBA Boycott As Flashpoint For Hoops Stars Getting Out Vote, Embracing Their Political Clout
EXCLUSIVE: The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police galvanized the Black Lives Matter movement, but it was the subsequent viral footage of Jacob Blake shot in the back seven times by a police officer with his children in the back seat in Kenosha, Wisconsin that was the pivot point for the National Basketball…
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Mike Tollin On ESPN Docu Series ‘The Last Dance,’ A Citizen Kane-Sized Rendering Of Michael Jordan’s Legacy
EXCLUSIVE: Sports fans are in a pandemic moment when we have no choice but to watch old game replays, videogame tournaments with NBA player/gamers, even a Dodgeball callback resurrection of ESPN’s The Ocho, a daylong marathon of obscure sports including cherry pit spitting, slippery stairs, stone skipping and cup…
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The CW Developing Action-Drama ‘Infamous’ From George Northy, Darren Stein & Tollin Productions
EXCLUSIVE: The CW has put in development Infamous, an action-drama from writers George Northy (Charmed) and Darren Stein (Jawbreaker), and Mike Tollin and his Tollin Productions.
Written by Northy and Stein, Infamous is a take on the thrilling spy drama with a modern, satirical celebrity twist. It is inspired by the…
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Stephen Belber Tapped To Adapt ‘The Needle And The Damage Done’
EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Belber has been hired to script The Needle and The Damage Done for Mike Tollin and Peter Guber which is based on journalist Paul Solotaroff's article on the opioid epidemic. The project is now being done at USA Networks through UCP. The rights for the project were picked up last fall.
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Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Win Fast Tracks Movie On Long Snapper/Magician Jon Dorenbos
EXCLUSIVE: Producer Mike Tollin has made numerous films and documentaries on sports figures, but the deal he has just closed with Jon Dorenbos puts on a fast track Tollin’s first about a long snapper who moonlights as a magician. Dorenbos spent most of his 15 seasons on a football field as the long snapper for the Phil…
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Sports Illustrated TV, Filmmaker Mike Tollin To Release Docu ‘We Town’
Sports Illustrated TV (SI TV) is set to collaborate with award-winning filmmaker and co-chair of Mandalay Sports Media, Mike Tollin, and Gary Cohen's Triple Threat TV to produce the documentary, We Town. This will be the first original film for the newly launched streaming network.
"SI TV is a one-stop shop for any…
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MSM Nabs ‘The Needle And The Damage Done’ About Nation’s Opioid Epidemic
EXCLUSIVE: Peter Guber and Mike Tollin's MSM has optioned the rights to journalist Paul Solotaroff's in-depth account of the fentanyl epidemic which is currently devastating the suburban communities of New England. The article delves into a local DEA bureau chief's relentless pursuit to fight the war on drugs…
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Bart & Fleming: How Donald Trump’s Football Fumbles Killed USFL; Why The Movie Star Is Dying; Studio Marketing Moves
Peter Bart and Mike Fleming Jr. worked together for two decades at Daily Variety. In this occasional column, two old friends get together and grind their axes, mostly on the movie business.
FLEMING: Could President Trump really be this tone deaf? After antagonizing the paranoid Sony-hacking North Korean leader Kim…
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