"Like Mortal Kombat - for real." Gunpowder & Sky have unveiled an official trailer for a documentary film titled UFC 1: Origins, telling the origins of the UFC ("Ultimate Fighting Championship") and its early history. Everyone knows all about the UFC nowadays, it's a worldwide spectacle, and it's already up to the 254th edition this year. From the producers who brought us The Last Dance doc series on Netflix, UFC 1: Origins explores the improbable tale of how Rorion Gracie, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist, and Art Davie, a used car salesman, teamed up to launch the first Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), now a multibillion dollar industry. Tracing the roots of the pro-mma league back to its tumultuous first event in 1993, which kicked off with "UFC 1" in Denver. The first show proposed to find an answer for sports fans' questions such as: "Can a wrestler beat a boxer?" The rest is history,...
- 9/30/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Sports Illustrated TV’s Si Films and Mandalay Sports Media are teaming to produce Ufc 1: Origin of the Octagon, a feature-length documentary that traces the roots of the pro Mma league back to its tumultuous first event in 1993. A fall 2019 premiere on the Si TV digital network is in the works.
The docu, being directed by John Mason Gordon, explores the improbable story of Rorion Gracie and Art Davie, the two unlikely entrepreneurs who created the Ufc, eventually acquired in 2016 by Wme-img in a $4 billion deal.
Interviews with Mma icons including Jim Brown, Royce Gracie, Ken Shamrock, Tellia Tuli, Art Jimmerson and Gerard Gordeau help tell the tale of how Rorion Gracie, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist, and Davie, a onetime used car salesman, teamed with Bob Meyrowitz’s pay-per-view company Seg to mount Ufc 1 in Denver and launch a sports phenomenon.
Mandalay Sports Media’s Mike Tollin, Select Films...
The docu, being directed by John Mason Gordon, explores the improbable story of Rorion Gracie and Art Davie, the two unlikely entrepreneurs who created the Ufc, eventually acquired in 2016 by Wme-img in a $4 billion deal.
Interviews with Mma icons including Jim Brown, Royce Gracie, Ken Shamrock, Tellia Tuli, Art Jimmerson and Gerard Gordeau help tell the tale of how Rorion Gracie, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist, and Davie, a onetime used car salesman, teamed with Bob Meyrowitz’s pay-per-view company Seg to mount Ufc 1 in Denver and launch a sports phenomenon.
Mandalay Sports Media’s Mike Tollin, Select Films...
- 4/30/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Robert Specland, the Black List scribe who has just come aboard to pen the Ufc origin film Gracie, has been hired to write Reincarnation Type, a thriller in the works from Bad Robot and Bristol Automotive. The logline is under wraps, but the producers’ research on reincarnation inspired a character-based thriller in the vein of The Sixth Sense. Specland’s take on the material sparked the deal.
Specland penned the 2015 Black List script Nyad about the famed swimmer Diana Nyad, and then The Impossible War, about Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin’s race against the clock and each other to find a polio cure. The latter pic is in the works with Black Bear Pictures financing and producing with Pacific View Management & Production.
Gracie, a drama that will tell the story of how the Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Rorion Gracie co-founded the Ufc as a way to give traction to a new martial arts form,...
Specland penned the 2015 Black List script Nyad about the famed swimmer Diana Nyad, and then The Impossible War, about Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin’s race against the clock and each other to find a polio cure. The latter pic is in the works with Black Bear Pictures financing and producing with Pacific View Management & Production.
Gracie, a drama that will tell the story of how the Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Rorion Gracie co-founded the Ufc as a way to give traction to a new martial arts form,...
- 7/13/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Mandalay Sports Media through its Img joint venture has set a feature film about the formation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Robert Specland will write Gracie, a drama that will tell the story of how the Brazilian jiu-jitsu legend Rorion Gracie co-founded the Ufc as a way to give traction to a new martial arts form. The film will be produced by Msm’s Mike Tollin and Mason Gordon, and Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray.
The film has funding through Msm’s co-fi deal with Img, which comes under the Endeavor umbrella that owns Ufc. Taught jiu-jitsu in Brazil by his father Helio — who pioneered the Brazilian style — Rorion Gracie came to the U.S. hoping to elevate the popularity of a self-defense system designed so that smaller men and women could use leverage to defend themselves and prevail over much larger opponents. Rorion became one of the martial...
The film has funding through Msm’s co-fi deal with Img, which comes under the Endeavor umbrella that owns Ufc. Taught jiu-jitsu in Brazil by his father Helio — who pioneered the Brazilian style — Rorion Gracie came to the U.S. hoping to elevate the popularity of a self-defense system designed so that smaller men and women could use leverage to defend themselves and prevail over much larger opponents. Rorion became one of the martial...
- 6/18/2018
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Bellator
The big news leading into Bellator 129 has very little to do with the action inside the Bellator cage: Bellator Mma has signed Ufc Hall of Famer and their inaugural champion Royce Gracie. The news actually broke in the build-up to Bellator 128, but with a title fight headlining that card (won by Joe Warren, now the promotion’s first full-fledged two weight class champ), there was still a lot to talk about. Bellator 129, however, has largely been overshadowed by continued talk of the signing of Gracie, one of the biggest names in Mma history – though well past the point of actual combat.
Instead, Gracie will serve as a “Promotional Brand Ambassador” – meaning he’ll show up at events and no doubt help lure fighters to the promotion. It’s a Chuck Liddell type of job, something that the Ufc probably should have given him – but may have passed on because...
The big news leading into Bellator 129 has very little to do with the action inside the Bellator cage: Bellator Mma has signed Ufc Hall of Famer and their inaugural champion Royce Gracie. The news actually broke in the build-up to Bellator 128, but with a title fight headlining that card (won by Joe Warren, now the promotion’s first full-fledged two weight class champ), there was still a lot to talk about. Bellator 129, however, has largely been overshadowed by continued talk of the signing of Gracie, one of the biggest names in Mma history – though well past the point of actual combat.
Instead, Gracie will serve as a “Promotional Brand Ambassador” – meaning he’ll show up at events and no doubt help lure fighters to the promotion. It’s a Chuck Liddell type of job, something that the Ufc probably should have given him – but may have passed on because...
- 10/15/2014
- by Jay Anderson
- Obsessed with Film
The movies are full of one-on-one battles, not least in X-Men: First Class, which arrives on disc next week. To celebrate, here are 10 classic cinema showdowns...
Perhaps someone has dissed your woman/man, or perhaps they threaten you, your loved ones, or your way of life. Or perhaps someone within earshot uttered something none-complimentary about Bruce Campbell. Whatever the reason, when diplomacy has failed, capitulation is not an option. And when your pride - nay, your life - depends on it, sometimes there is no other choice but to confront your nemesis, roll up your sleeves and have an almighty dust-up.
The movie showdown is a trapping almost as old as movies themselves; two sworn enemies face-to-face, once and for all, knowing there can be only one victor. In celebration of cinema’s affinity with the showdown, here’s a selection of ten of the best.
Luke Skywalker vs Darth...
Perhaps someone has dissed your woman/man, or perhaps they threaten you, your loved ones, or your way of life. Or perhaps someone within earshot uttered something none-complimentary about Bruce Campbell. Whatever the reason, when diplomacy has failed, capitulation is not an option. And when your pride - nay, your life - depends on it, sometimes there is no other choice but to confront your nemesis, roll up your sleeves and have an almighty dust-up.
The movie showdown is a trapping almost as old as movies themselves; two sworn enemies face-to-face, once and for all, knowing there can be only one victor. In celebration of cinema’s affinity with the showdown, here’s a selection of ten of the best.
Luke Skywalker vs Darth...
- 10/27/2011
- Den of Geek
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