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Culver City, CA (July 7, 2008) –Academy Award®-nominated writer/director David Mamet (1998, Best Adapted Screenplay, Wag the Dog; 1983, Best Adapted Screenplay, The Verdict) explores the fascinating world of martial arts in his latest film Redbelt. This Sony Pictures Classics film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor (American Gangster, Children of Men), Emily Mortimer (Lars and the Real Girl, Match Point), Alice Braga (I Am Legend, City of God), Tim Allen (Wild Hogs, TV’s “Home Improvement”), Joe Mantegna (The Godfather Part III), Rodrigo Santoro (300, Love Actually), Academy Award® nominee David Paymer (1993, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Mr. Saturday Night; Ocean’s Thirteen) and Ricky Jay (The Prestige, State and Main), will be released on DVD and Blu-ray™ High-Def by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on August 26, 2008 at an SLP of $38.96 for Blu-ray High-Def and $27.96 for DVD. Special features on the Blu-ray and DVD will include several behind-the-scenes featurettes, interviews, and a rare commentary track with director/writer David Mamet and UFC Champion Randy Couture.

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Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff) lives a modest but comfortable life with a young family, a fledgling business and a promising future ahead. But in an instant, his life, and that of everyone he loves is threatened and possibly gone forever when he’s convicted of killing a man while protecting his fiancée, Laura (Marisol Nichols) and their three year old son. In just 24 hours, the unimaginable conditions of a new world order begin to take hold. Violence is the answer to everything and, even for Laura, what it means to fight for your life - alone - becomes all too real.

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By: Jim Amato
This 2008 boxing movie is what I call a " sleeper ". The cast is headed by veteran actor Danny Glover who plays George Carvery. George is a former trainer whose son is beaten up outside the ring and left permanently disabled. The young man accused of this crime is Donnie Rose ( played by Rossif Sutherland ). Rose served nine years in prison for the crime but upon being released he is challenged to a boxing match by prospect Ossie Paris ( played by Flex Alexander ) , a friend of the Carvery family. This is the perfect revenge setting George and his distraught wife but the plot takes some interesting twists and turns.

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Newark, N.J. (Tuesday, May 20, 2008) - New Jersey Ironmen public address announcer, Ed Kalegi, has been selected to perform vocal roles in two movies set to debut later this year. Kalegi will provide his voice in the upcoming baseball motion picture Sugar and the animated film The Champion.

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By: Jim Amato

I started following boxing with the emergence of Cassius Clay in the early 1960's. Whether you liked Clay or not he must be given credit for revamping the business of boxing. He was to boxing what the Beatles were to music. Clay who would later become Muhammad Ali changed the face of the sport.

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By: Jim Amato

There have been so many wonderful boxing movies that have graced the big screen over the decades. It was very difficult to decide what my favorite pugilistic film was. After much thought I decided on the 1942 production of " Gentleman Jim ".

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By: Jim Amato

Since this is the holiday season you may have some time off of work to relax and watch a few movies. There are several classic boxing movies that are available at your local video store to fill a void left by a lack of live boxing action.

I'm going to list some of my favorites that you may find entertaining. "Gentleman Jim", the story of James J.Corbett is my personal favorite. Errol Flynn is great as Corbett and Ward Bond is even better as John L.Sullivan.Next up would be Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano in "Somebody Up There Likes Me".Then Robert DeNiro in the story of Jake LaMotta titled "Raging Bull".

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RESURRECTING THE CHAMP

Samuel L. Jackson And Josh Hartnett Lead An All-Star Cast In A Powerful Story About Fathers and Sons, Personal Responsibility And Redemption,
Returning To The Ring On DVD April 1st.

“Samuel L. Jackson knocks out a championship performance in this gritty, uplifting tale.”

--The Hollywood Reporter
CENTURY CITY, Calif. – When a struggling sports writer with dreams of big-time stories rescues a homeless man from an attack by a gang of street thugs, he unwittingly finds himself with a one-time boxing legend believed to be dead, in Resurrecting The Champ, arriving on DVD April 1st from Fox Home Entertainment. Discovering Bob “The Champ” Satterfield is actually alive could be the story of a lifetime and the title shot the young journalist has been waiting for. What begins as an opportunity to bring back to life the memory of a boxing great turns into an incredible journey and a chance for the ambitious reporter to examine his own life and relationship with his family.

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By: Danny Serratelli

Bill Coleman, a Marine Corps veteran who worked in the computer field for 20 years and established a successful career and a comfortable life for himself and his family still felt he had some unfinished business. Coleman embarked on a journey and he eloquently takes you through it with him in his book, "Million Dollar Maybe". Coleman's transition from corporate vice president to professional boxer at age 40 is highly recommended.

The following is the introduction and a chapter personally selected by author Bill Coleman to preview exclusively on Brickcityboxing.com.

For an autographed copy of the book please contact Bill direct at hometowndecisions@earthlink.net. At $20 plus $5.00 shipping and handling the Brickcityboxing Team guarantees you will get a lot of bang for your buck.

Introduction
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

- Henry David Thoreau

Everybody has a dream of some sort, but few people are fortunate enough to be provided an opportunity to devote their energies to pursuing it. Whether your dream is boxing or ballet is irrelevant to whether or not you’ll be interested in my story, because it’s not about boxing, it’s about dreams.

When I began writing this book I assumed it would be an insider’s view of professional boxing. To be sure, that element exists, but the boxing is just a lively background to the actual story, which is an insider’s view of somebody who decides to “advance confidently in the direction of his dreams.”

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Film Review

By: Christopher Roche

Photo: Chris Farina/Top Rank

Back in the 1980’s, the State of New Jersey’s slogan was: “New Jersey and You, Perfect Together”. That slogan can also be applied to the marriage of boxing and film. There is no other sport that lends itself so gracefully to the silver screen, and that is one reason why I attended the premiere of Magic Man, a documentary starring Paulie “The Magic Man” Malignaggi, at the Hoboken International Film Festival.

Last night Hoboken, NJ, which is a favorite destination for brickcityboxing.com, hosted renowned boxer Malignaggi and promoter/producer Lou DiBella for the initial screening of their collaborative documentary film. Malignaggi is an intriguing and charismatic subject, and the film captures highlights of his career leading up to and including his epic battle with Miguel Cotto. In between the boxing highlights, there are sprinklings of sidebars with Malignaggi sitting on his front stoop in Brooklyn, NY, as well as behind the scenes action from press conferences, nights on the town, doctor visits, training sessions and dressing room footage from after the Cotto fight.

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