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. The story goes…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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: Mandalay Sports Media has acquired the feature life rights to tell the story of John Scott, a journeyman player who: was voted into this year’s NHL All-Star Game as a captain through an Internet write-in campaign, got traded and then demoted to the minors by a pissed-off NHL because he wouldn’t withdraw and…

EXCLUSIVE: Walden Media and Mandalay Sports Media’s Mike Tollin are joining forces on 51 Dons, a feature film about the 1951 University of San Francisco Dons football team whose story rivals the racial tolerance tales told in 42 and Remember The Titans. It’s a fast-tracked project and comes after Mandalay Sports just…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated Birdman co-writer Alexander Dinelaris Jr has set up his next script, The Year Of The Monarchs, with Mandalay Sports Media and Mike Tollin. Inspired by elements of his own life, Dinelaris Jr has scripted a story of the struggles of a father and daughter in a dying town that used to measure…

TruTV continues its push into original scripted programming with a pilot order to Shaq Inq. (working title), a workplace comedy loosely based on the business empire of Shaquille O'Neal. The former NBA star-turned-business mogul and occasional actor will topline and executive produce the project from Mandalay Sports Med…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC, the broadcast home of NBA games, is expanding its relationship with the league to the scripted side with a single-camera comedy, which has received a put pilot commitment. The project, executive produced by The Neighbors and Galavant creator Dan Fogelman, Mandalay Sports Media’s Peter Guber & Mike Tolli…

Just in time for the All-Star break, when America’s Pastime tries to snatch back some of the spotlight from the World Cup, Atmosphere Entertainment's Mark Canton has teamed up with Mandalay Sports Media's Mike Tollin and Peter Guber to option the Ben Bradlee Jr book The Kid: The Immortal Life Of Ted Williams. They…