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MY GOOD FRIEND MANNY Needs Your Help To Get Manny Pacquiao's New Action Comedy Going

Boxing champion and actor Manny Pacquiao often gets attached to a lot of films as he also has some starpower based from his native Philippines. This week however, in lieu of his forthcoming match with Floyd Mayweather, he’s got a new major motion picture in the works with a Kickstarter and publicity push already underway. My Good Friend Manny is the name of the film which pits two geeks trying and failing to make it to the high-life within boxing scene until they decide to try and kidnap the champion boxer out of sheer desperation. Crazy, daring, and nonetheless quite promising for folks who are into road comedies like the Hangover trilogy and the like. Two Can Play That Game helmer and Barbershop trilogy creator and producer Mark Brown is tapped to direct the film which currentluly has fourteen days left to help crowdfund just enough to help the solidify […]

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Phillip Darlington’s THE DARK ZONE To Launch Kickstarter On March 30

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Kickstarter teaser from Phillip Darlington on Vimeo. The video you see above is only a few days old as of this write-up, although there is plenty of time to take note of what’s about to happen in relation to this week’s newest press release announcing crowdfunding for the new contained action thriller, The Dark Zone. “Die Hard in a cave” are a good way to describe the story being sold here about a former soldier’s relentless cave trek in search of his daughter being held hostage by pack of jewel thieves led by Jim Hanks (brother of actor Tom Hanks) and champion boxer Manny Pacquiao as one of his machine gun-wielding henchman. The film will be directed by former James Cameron cohort Phillip Darlington and you can learn more at the official website prior to the launch of the film’s Kickstarter campaign at the bottom of the month. Feel free […]

CHAMPION ROAD: My Chat With Actor TOMMY LENG

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It’s not everyday you get to meet boxing champion Manny Pacquiao. Although if you live somewhere in California, you are likely to bump into at least one individual who gets to taste just a little bit of that celebrity quite regularly. His name is Tommy Leng, actor, nine-year athlete, six-year veteran screenfighter, stuntman and member of the highly acclaimed cinematic action performance and independent filmmaking team, EMC Monkeys. The team recently featured Leng in a new promo to showcase another one of their concepts for action design titled Champion Road, which you can view at the bottom of the page. The skit features Leng donning a pair of boxing gloves as the iconic Flipino boxer up against actor Malcolm McAllister as Floyd Mayweather, and illustrates another in a string of innovative film ideas for Team EMC to hopefully be able to build off on. In light of the instavideo above, […]