Post by Pennyroyal_Tea (admin) on Jan 18, 2005 5:44:10 GMT -5
World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Vince McMahon has launched WWE Films, a division that will produce and fully finance genre films costing up to $20 million that star his wrestlers, reports Variety.
McMahon has completed production on two films and signed "Stone Cold" Steve Austin to a three-picture deal (The Longest Yard). Austin will make his screen starring debut later this year in the WWE-financed The Condemned, a Rob and Andrew Hedden-scripted drama that casts Austin as a framed ex-cop given a reprieve from death row when chosen to compete on a fight-to-the-finish reality show.
McMahon has also made a deal with 20th Century Fox to distribute his first film, The Marine, an action vehicle for WWE star John Cena. He has enlisted Lions Gate Films for Goodnight, a horror film vehicle for villainous wrestler Kane.
Credit: Comingsoon.net
McMahon has completed production on two films and signed "Stone Cold" Steve Austin to a three-picture deal (The Longest Yard). Austin will make his screen starring debut later this year in the WWE-financed The Condemned, a Rob and Andrew Hedden-scripted drama that casts Austin as a framed ex-cop given a reprieve from death row when chosen to compete on a fight-to-the-finish reality show.
McMahon has also made a deal with 20th Century Fox to distribute his first film, The Marine, an action vehicle for WWE star John Cena. He has enlisted Lions Gate Films for Goodnight, a horror film vehicle for villainous wrestler Kane.
Credit: Comingsoon.net