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Jaalen Best to Play Boxer Muhammad Ali in ‘The Greatest’ for Amazon/MGM

©Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali The Greatest, a limited series about the late boxer Muhammad Ali is in the works. Jaalen Best will play the iconic pugilist who was originally known as Cassius Clay. Ben Watkins will be the showrunner/executive producer of the series, for which Ali’s widow Lonnie Ali will also serve…

ACA Film Project: Small Slow But Steady, Pugilism Serves As A Tool For Diversity Empowerment

Films about female boxing have been on the rise, from Hollywood’s most famous Million Dollar Baby, to Bollywood’s Mary Kom. Even Netflix has covered the topic with docuseries such as Untold: Deal with the Devil. Now comes the turn of Japan with Small, Slow but Steady (Keiko, me wo sumasete).  The film directed by Shô…

Mike, The Hulu Series Toes The Line Of The Boxing Champion

In boxing the idiomatic expression to “Toe the line” stands for “getting someone’s act in order,” which is exactly what Hulu’s miniseries Mike does with the controversial life and career of heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. This series — based on extensive research of factual accounts, interviews, footage of real-life events — creates a deep and…

David Oyelowo to Play Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson

British actor David Oyelowo is preparing to play the role of boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in the film Sweet Thunder, which he will write and coproduce. Oyelowo, who played Martin Luther King in Selma, told reporters how much the Robinson project had become an all-consuming priority for him. “Selma” took seven years. I think we’re almost…

Tribeca Film Festival ‘Catch the Fair One’ Video Interview: Boxer-Actress Kali Reis and Director Josef Kubota Wladyka on Fighting for the Forgotten

Boxer Kali Reis makes her astounding acting debut as Kaylee, a woman willing to do anything to find her missing sister. buy amoxicillin online https://www.amayadental.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/png/amoxicillin.html no prescription pharmacy Director Josef Kubota Wladyka returns to Tribeca after winning the Best New Narrative Director prize for Manos Sucias in 2014 with a dark and important story of…