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‘The Raid’ Helmer Gareth Evans Conspiring With Universal On MMA Fighter-Turned-Bank Robber Tale ‘Breaking The Bank’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday May 4, 2012 @ 11:42am PDTTags: Gareth Evans, UFC, Universal Pictures
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EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has acquired the fact-based drama Breaking The Bank as a directing vehicle for Gareth Evans, whose Indonesian action film The Raid: Redemption electrified numerous festivals before being released recently by Sony Pictures Classics. The fact-based drama is based on the book Heist: The True Story Of The World’s Biggest Cash Robbery by Howard Sounes, and the Sports Illustrated article Breaking The Bank by L. Jon Wertheim. XYZ Films is producing with Evans. XYZ is the company that executive produced and handled worldwide sales for The Raid: Redemption, and the remake of the action movie that is in the works at Screen Gems. READ MORE »

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Cinedigm Acquires UFC Documentary ‘Like Water’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 25, 2012 @ 12:49pm PSTTags: Cinedigm, UFC

Cinedigm Entertainment Group has picked up Like Water, a documentary about the life of Ultimate Fighting Championship star Anderson Silva, one of the best-known figures in the growing sport of mixed martial arts. Lionsgate will handle domestic ancillary distribution, and … Read More »

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Cinedigm & UFC Pact For Live 3D Events

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday October 20, 2011 @ 9:30am PDTTags: Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp, Pay Per View, UFC

Woodland Hills, CA (Oct. 20, 2011) – The Ultimate Fighting Championship® (UFC®) will partner with innovative digital theatrical distribution company Cinedigm Digital Cinema (NASDAQ:CIDM) for the first ever, live 3D broadcast of a UFC Pay-Per-View event when it brings

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It’s Official: UFC Signs Multi-Year Deal With Fox Sports; Fox To Air Live Events, FX Gets ‘Ultimate Fighter’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 18, 2011 @ 10:13am PDTTags: Fox Sports Media Group, Fuel TV, FX, UFC
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Rights Deal Puts Fox In Ring With UFC
Spike TV Announces The End Of ‘Ultimate Fighter’

Los Angeles – Today, Ultimate Fighting Championship, the world’s leading mixed martial arts organization and No. 1 Pay-Per-View event provider in the world, finds its perfect media match in FOX, the No. 1 television network in the country. FOX Sports Media Group, the umbrella entity representing FOX Networks Group’s wide array of sports platforms, has reached a multi-year, multi-media rights agreement with Zuffa, LLC, owner of the UFC brand.

The landmark agreement, which puts UFC on par with many of the country’s professional sports organizations, delivers four live events in prime time or late night each year to the FOX broadcast network, home to the country’s biggest sports events, including the Super Bowl, World Series and Daytona 500. The first live event airs Saturday, Nov. 12 at 9:00 PM ET/6:00 PM PT. Additional programming on multiple FOX networks launches January 2012 and includes live fights, pre and post shows, countdown shows, UFC Unleashed, UFC Primetime, the UFC Knockout series, Best of Pride, weigh-in specials, and much more original content from extensive Zuffa archives.  The agreement also provides for developing robust mobile and authenticated online offerings to exploit a vast array of digital platform rights.

In spring 2012, THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER, UFC’s signature weekly reality show moves to FX, FOX’s general entertainment cable network now in more than 99 million homes.  With the move to FX, the show will feature a newly-designed format. FX is also set to televise another four-to six-live UFC events annually, with a mixture of additional events and programs heading to FSMG cable networks including FUEL TV.

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Spike TV Announces The End Of ‘Ultimate Fighter’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday August 18, 2011 @ 9:45am PDTTags: FX, Spike TV, UFC
Nellie Andreeva

With Fox Sports poised to officially confirm this morning that it has signed a multi-year deal with mixed-martial arts league UFC for coverage on Fox and FX, Spike TV announced the end of its UFC franchise, The … Read More »

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Rights Deal Puts Fox In Ring With UFC

By PATRICK HIPES, Managing Editor | Tuesday August 16, 2011 @ 11:45am PDTTags: Comcast, Fox, Fox Sports, FX, G4, Spike TV, TV Rights, UFC, VERSUS

Fox Sports and mixed-martial arts league UFC have just finalized a multi-year deal that will put at least four primetime MMA cards on the Fox network … Read More »

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