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Wrestling Chief Launches Movie Company
By James Wray Jan 18, 2005, 13:42 GMT
World Wrestling Entertainment chief Vince McMahon has launched WWE Films. The company will produce films costing up to $20 million that star his wrestlers, reports Variety.
Steve 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 clinched a deal with 20th Century Fox to distribute his first film, "The Marine", an action flick starring John Cena. In addtition he has signed up with Lions Gate Films for "Goodnight", a horror starring villainous wrestler Kane.
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