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Logline: A diverse group of baseball players fighting for a shot at the majors find themselves in the wild and cutthroat world of the minor leagues, navigating crazed fans, corrupt coaches, and backstabbing teammates as they travel from city to city fueled by little pay, little sleep, and big dreams.
Logline: After a devastating marriage proposal rejection, a down on his luck man decides that the best way to get his life back on track and prove his worth is to return to the sport he excelled at in his youth—curling.
Logline: After being passed over for the position of head football coach, a female PE teacher teams up with a disaffected, yet highly skilled Muslim girl to help her infiltrate the football team and prove once and for all that girls can not only coach, but can play in a male- driven sport.
Logline: A young, idealistic general manager takes over a failing major league baseball club being run by an incompetent and ridiculous family.
Logline: After an injury forces a young figure skater from fulfilling her dreams of Olympic gold, and forces her to join the world of professional ice shows to pay her bills, she not only discovers how cutthroat the professional circuit can be, but that it may be the only place that can offer her another shot at going for gold.
In 1970 Las Vegas, Sonny Liston is cashing in on his fading notoriety in the casinos, while also dealing drugs and working as an enforcer for a crime syndicate. All of this as he’s trying to collect the money he believes the Mob owes him for having “thrown” the controversial Cassius Clay fight.
Project based on the video game which lets gamers play with professional athletes, who are morphed into kids, to participate in games played in the yard.
Explores a cross section of sports, friendship, and race through the fast friendship and eventual falling out between the legendary boxer Muhammad Ali and the iconic civil rights activist Malcolm X.
The biopic will focus on Louis’ historic two fights with German boxer Max Schmeling.
Logline: When a former football legend returns to his alma mater to coach, he struggles to keep the alumni happy, the media at bay, and his unruly team under control—which now includes his own son.
Logline: An ex-NBA superstar is suddenly thrust into the position of Chicago Bulls head coach and must navigate a maelstrom of blackmail, gambling addiction, public hatred, disgruntled players, and a reckless son who undeservedly made the NBA.
A female NBA executive for the Golden State Warriors pursues the biggest free agent of her career while managing a messy divorce and a complicated relationship with a younger colleague and his teenage sister. The script was a winner of the 2015 Nicholl Fellowship Award.
Gluck may be directing the adaptation of R.A. Dickey’s unusual memoir, which follows his life as he lands, and then loses, an MLB pitching contract and must bring back an almost forgotten pitch to stay in the game.
Co-starring Steve Carell, the upcoming biopic, BATTLE OF THE SEXES, was set to star Emma Stone as Billie Jean King, the 1973 female tennis pro who defeated a male former Wimbledon champion.
Logline: Centers on Moe ‘Pipeline Moe’ Norman, a Canadian professional golfer who set numerous course records and dazzled spectators with his unerring accuracy and penchant for holes-in-one. Yet his eccentric behavior kept him from earning fame or financial reward during his lifetime and he spent much of his career alone and in poverty.
Kept under wraps, but based on the life of Pittsburgh Pirates legend Roberto Clemente, who was the first Latino inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Details the life of Elizabeth “Betty” Robinson, who won the first Olympic 100-meter dash for women.
Logline: A female NBA executive for the Golden State Warriors pursues the biggest free agent of her career while managing a messy divorce and a complicated relationship with a younger colleague and his teenage sister.
Logline: The 1978-79 Boston College point-shaving scandal was orchestrated by mobster Henry Hill eventually brought down one of the most powerful crime families in New York.
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.
Logline: Set in the 1980s, the story centers on the spiral of Major League pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee, a hot-tempered, self-serving madman unable to see himself as anything other than a baseball player.
The true story of Mike Evans and the against-all-odds championship season of the Belfast Blazers, a team made up of at-risk teens and natural born enemies from the Catholic and Protestant ghettos of Northern Ireland.