Escapade Media has sold Australian factual reality series Wimp 2 Warrior to the Rtl CBS Asia Entertainment Network.
Created by Showrunner Productions and Richie Cranny, the show follows 40 everyday people as they battle it out over 20 weeks to become a warrior at fight night..
The series, which will premiere on Rtl CBS's male-skewed channel Extreme later this year, features ex-ufc world champion Jens Pulver as a coach and mentor. The final fight night is filmed live at Luna Park. Escapade Media.s Hamish Lewis said: .Wimp 2 Warrior is an amazing format that is capitalizing on the mass global appeal of Mma and incorporates elements of all the inspiring health and fitness series we have grown to love..
There is no Australian broadcast deal yet.
Created by Showrunner Productions and Richie Cranny, the show follows 40 everyday people as they battle it out over 20 weeks to become a warrior at fight night..
The series, which will premiere on Rtl CBS's male-skewed channel Extreme later this year, features ex-ufc world champion Jens Pulver as a coach and mentor. The final fight night is filmed live at Luna Park. Escapade Media.s Hamish Lewis said: .Wimp 2 Warrior is an amazing format that is capitalizing on the mass global appeal of Mma and incorporates elements of all the inspiring health and fitness series we have grown to love..
There is no Australian broadcast deal yet.
- 6/11/2015
- by Staff writer
- IF.com.au
Screening in the Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca N.O.W. section (as in, “new online work”) is Gregory Bayne and Christian Lybrook’s Zero Point, a 45-minute independently-produced pilot for what the two Idaho-based creators hope will be full-on television series. Director, producer and screenwriter Bayne is well known to Filmmaker readers by virtue of his various documentaries (Jens Pulver Driven, Bloodsworth) and opinion pieces, and he’s been at the Diy distribution forefront long before it was in vogue. So, perhaps its appropriate, then, that he and producer and screenwriter Lybrook are now early adopters of a new indie model: rather than make […]...
- 4/25/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Screening in the Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca N.O.W. section (as in, “new online work”) is Gregory Bayne and Christian Lybrook’s Zero Point, a 45-minute independently-produced pilot for what the two Idaho-based creators hope will be full-on television series. Director, producer and screenwriter Bayne is well known to Filmmaker readers by virtue of his various documentaries (Jens Pulver Driven, Bloodsworth) and opinion pieces, and he’s been at the Diy distribution forefront long before it was in vogue. So, perhaps its appropriate, then, that he and producer and screenwriter Lybrook are now early adopters of a new indie model: rather than make […]...
- 4/25/2015
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Back in 2006, up-and-coming mixed martial arts fighter Frankie Edgar tried out for the fifth season of The Ultimate Fighter, where he could have competed under coaches Bj Penn and Jens Pulver. “I thought the tryout went well,” Edgar says. “The TV producers said, ‘We’ll give you a call back within a couple days,’ and then I flew home. I remember I went with a buddy of mine, and he got the call before we even landed, and I didn’t get it at all.”
Eight years on, Edgar is coaching a team on The Ultimate Fighter against Penn, one of his biggest rivals.
Eight years on, Edgar is coaching a team on The Ultimate Fighter against Penn, one of his biggest rivals.
- 4/16/2014
- by Kyle Anderson
- EW - Inside TV
As the practice of ‘crowd-funding’ has come of age over the past couple years, so has the wide array of opinion about it. Some have called it a ‘game-changer’, especially when it comes to funding films, others seem to think of it as a magical place where free money simply appears from thin air, and yet others are wholly unconvinced, if not fully disdainful, of this practice of ‘organized-begging’.
I can sympathize with the latter, seeing how crowd-funding has contributed to the advent of incessant self-promotion via social media sites, and the fact that you feel like everywhere you turn someone is asking you for a dollar whilst waving the banner of “support indie (insert art form here)” in your face. It can quickly begin to turn into noise, that you’ve soon trained yourself to immediately tune out. I’ve been on both sides of this proverbial coin and completely understand the frustration.
I can sympathize with the latter, seeing how crowd-funding has contributed to the advent of incessant self-promotion via social media sites, and the fact that you feel like everywhere you turn someone is asking you for a dollar whilst waving the banner of “support indie (insert art form here)” in your face. It can quickly begin to turn into noise, that you’ve soon trained yourself to immediately tune out. I’ve been on both sides of this proverbial coin and completely understand the frustration.
- 11/14/2011
- by Gregory Bayne
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
“It’s always a battle. Everything…everyday. It’s like,…can I just get off the battlefield for one day? Step out of the war-zone for a minute?” – Jens Pulver from Jens Pulver | Driven
This confession from Jens has rung through my head almost daily over the past year as I’ve worked to make, complete and subsequently market and release our film, Jens Pulver | Driven. With the film being fully crowd-funded, having garnered festival play and just released nationally on nearly every major VOD network in North America it can be legitimately counted as a marked success in the micro-budget independent feature film world. Though, the day to day efforts put forth to get to this point do at times give one pause and beg the question, “at what cost?” Nearly 7,000 hours and over 21 months committed to this film, and the work is still far from done.
This is...
This confession from Jens has rung through my head almost daily over the past year as I’ve worked to make, complete and subsequently market and release our film, Jens Pulver | Driven. With the film being fully crowd-funded, having garnered festival play and just released nationally on nearly every major VOD network in North America it can be legitimately counted as a marked success in the micro-budget independent feature film world. Though, the day to day efforts put forth to get to this point do at times give one pause and beg the question, “at what cost?” Nearly 7,000 hours and over 21 months committed to this film, and the work is still far from done.
This is...
- 7/27/2011
- by Gregory Bayne
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
“You have no idea what you’ve created, and how many people this will help”
I was wrapped in warm embrace with a woman I had just barely met when she whispered this sentence into my ear. We were standing in the lobby of the Egyptian Theater in downtown Boise, Idaho where my film, Jens Pulver | Driven, had just let out after a lengthy and fairly emotional Q&A with me and Jens Pulver, the subject of my film. This surprising interaction was the first of many that night, and one that came as quite a shock to both myself and Pulver.
I knew from my very first meeting with Jens that he was of that special breed, that wholly engaging personality you would gladly have bend your ear for hours. As he says, he’s “not famous, just popular,” and for good reason. Not only a champion in his...
I was wrapped in warm embrace with a woman I had just barely met when she whispered this sentence into my ear. We were standing in the lobby of the Egyptian Theater in downtown Boise, Idaho where my film, Jens Pulver | Driven, had just let out after a lengthy and fairly emotional Q&A with me and Jens Pulver, the subject of my film. This surprising interaction was the first of many that night, and one that came as quite a shock to both myself and Pulver.
I knew from my very first meeting with Jens that he was of that special breed, that wholly engaging personality you would gladly have bend your ear for hours. As he says, he’s “not famous, just popular,” and for good reason. Not only a champion in his...
- 4/4/2011
- by Gregory Bayne
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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