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FPG ENTERTAINMENT SET TO BEGIN SHOOTING IN FT. LAUDERDALE IN OCTOBER
By: Keith Witchka, Staff Writer -10-01-07 PDT 12:00 a.m.
FPG Entertainment whom you know from their hit release through Pulse Distribution
Punks [2006], slipped a bit of news to us here at JRL. Niccolo Mazzi, CEO and Executive Producer of FPG Entertainment, has told us that he has brought together producer Marco Guerra and director Cameron Finn whom you'll get to know by your register receipts for their upcoming October release of Topdawgs [2007].
Check out the sypnosis on their next project:
This is a tale about a professional acquaintance of mine named Charlie and a couple of his protégés in Gold Coast Championship Wrestling. Charlie had been in the wrestling business for over 35 years. He started out as a rather successful wrestler himself, but years of bumps and tumbles took its toll, so he turned to promoting matches and training younger, more pliable wrestlers.
His promotion packed the arenas along the Gold Coast and through much of the state for decades. But during the 80s, a powerful North East promotion gobbled up more and more of the television market. Local broadcasters opted to purchase nation-wide cable programming rather than support local wrestling talent.
Then in the 90s, the mixed martial arts phenomenon stole the remaining audience all together. Like boxing, the wrestling business took a beating at the box office.Ticket sales plummeted as everyone vacated the more traditional ring in favor of cage fighting of one sort or another. Who can blame them? Boxing and even pro-wrestling seemed tired and two-dimensional compared to a sport that combined the best of both…and is viscerally real.
In a financial bind and desperate to keep his wrestlers employed, Charlie (what was never the savviest businessman) took out a bad loan. Yeah, having been rejected by more reputable lenders, he was befriended by Antonio Pug…well, let’s just stick with first names, for safety’s sake.
As you might have figured, Tony was in the unsavory business of lending to small businessmen, at what seemed like good terms…only to become effective owner of those businesses when the borrowers couldn’t erase their debt. Sometimes these transactions were…well…brutal…and viscerally real. This is what happened to Charlie, Tony and those who worked with both…
