Jim Gaffigan joins the Liev Schreiber passion project along with Michael Rapaport, Pooch Hall, and Morgan Specter. The Bleeder follows the life of boxer Chuck Wepner.
Mike Tollin
Fresh off of her final season on AMC’s hit series Mad Men, Elisabeth Moss is now joining the biopic about Rocky inspiration Chuck Wepner. The Bleeder, starring Liev Schreiber as Wepner, centers on the boxer’s claim to fame after he shocked the world by knocking Muhammad Ali to the canvas.
Chronicles Cedric Jennings’ academic life in Ballou High School, an inner city school in Washington, D.C., and eventually to Brown University, exemplifying the problems of inner-city education systems.
The book details Jenning’s academic life in Ballou High School, an inner city school in Washington, D.C., and eventually to Brown University. Tollin optioned the book, as well as Jennings’ life rights, and will be producing the adaptation via his shingle Tollin Productions.
Logline: Follows the struggles of a father and daughter in a dying town that used to measure its success by a booming industrial economy and the boxscore of its baseball team.
A round-up of the week’s TV news!
A recap of the week’s TV news!
Logline: A free-spirited English teacher reluctantly takes the head coach position for his small-town high school’s baseball team and leads them to the state finals.
Industry executive moves of the week.
Logline: Story centers on former heavyweight champion, Chuck Wepner and his boxing match with Muhammad Ali.
Logline: After the sudden and tragic death of his father, an 11-year-old boy struggles to fulfill the dream he shared with his father of making the national 12-and-under soccer team.
Logline: A man returns to summer camp to recapture his childhood before his upcoming wedding.
