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Grindstone Leisure is moving into the ring with Ving Rhames.
Grindstone have picked up all rights in North America for Uppercut, a boxing thriller starring the Mission Not possible and Pulp Fiction actor as a coach who agrees to tackle a brand new feminine fighter.
The English-language debut of German author/director Torsten Ruether, Uppercut is an adaptation of Ruether’s 2021 characteristic Leberhaken. Each the German and English movie’s star Luiii, aka Luise Großmann, a former skilled pole vaulter-turned-actress. Joanna Cassidy (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and Jordan E. Cooper (Ain’t No Mo) co-star in Uppercut.
Ving Rhames and Louis in Uppercut
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Hi there Second Productions are the lead producer on Uppercut. Sublimity Leisure is dealing with world gross sales on the movie and pitching it to patrons on the Cannes movie market this 12 months.
Set in New York Metropolis in 2014, the movie follows Toni (Luiii), as she seeks out Elliott (Rhames), a former boxer turned health club proprietor in gritty Bushwick. Elliott first refuses to coach her however an sudden bond grows between the unlikely pair, breaking by means of social, racial and private boundaries.
Years later, Toni, now a pioneering feminine boxing supervisor, is shepherding Payne (Cooper) to his first
championship battle, drawing upon the knowledge she realized from Elliott, and with every part, even the destiny of her younger daughter, on the road.
Leberhaken opened the Oldenburg Movie Pageant in 2021. On the opening evening celebration, US producers approached Ruether with the thought of doing a US remake. Ruether gave them two: A stripped-down arthouse model of the story, which closed final 12 months’s Oldenburg pageant, and the extra mainstream model that Grindhouse will launch.
Feig Finkel LLP negotiated the deal on behalf of the producers whereas Alfredo Lara Orbezo and Ryan
McCombs from Sublimity Leisure brokered the cope with Stan Wertlieb from Grindstone
Leisure.
Ruether and Grossmann produced Uppercut along with Matthew Berkowitz (A Violent Man),
Josef Brandmaier (Iron Sky: The Coming Race) and Stephen Castor. Jim Rygiel was government producer, with Riccardo Maddalosso serving as co-executive producer.
Wertlieb known as Uppercut “a battle fan’s should see.” Ving Rhames and Louis ship highly effective and
heartfelt performances.
“Ving Rhames has delivered one other powerhouse efficiency whereas forging unimaginable chemistry with Louis, and we’ve a unbelievable manufacturing crew led by Matthew,” stated Ruether. “We’re thrilled to have such a distinguished and influential staff bringing our movie to audiences and to worldwide patrons, and we’re wanting ahead to maintaining moviegoers on the sting of their seats.”
Grindstone has a long-standing movie slate cope with Lionsgate to spice up the discharge of its style titles on day-and-date theatrical/VOD. The corporate has not but set a US launch date for Uppercut.
Grindstone Takes Ving Rhames’ Boxing Film Uppercut for North America
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