{"id":105054,"date":"2025-10-30T00:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105054\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T00:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T00:18:07","slug":"russell-crowe-mma-movie-beast-in-me-sells-to-grindstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/105054\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Crowe MMA Movie &#8216;Beast in Me&#8217; Sells To Grindstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/grindstone-entertainment\/\" id=\"auto-tag_grindstone-entertainment\" data-tag=\"grindstone-entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grindstone Entertainment<\/a> Group has taken domestic distribution rights to the mixed martial arts action drama <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/beast-in-me\/\" id=\"auto-tag_beast-in-me\" data-tag=\"beast-in-me\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Beast in Me<\/a> starring Oscar winner <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/russell-crowe\/\" id=\"auto-tag_russell-crowe\" data-tag=\"russell-crowe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Crowe<\/a>, Daniel MacPherson, and Luke Hemsworth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCrowe co-wrote the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/david-frigerio\/\" id=\"auto-tag_david-frigerio\" data-tag=\"david-frigerio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Frigerio<\/a> in a story about a former MMA legend turned family man who is lured back into the cage for a high-stakes rematch with the champion he once defeated. Now the underdog, he must wrestle with guilt, grief, and his violent past to win one last fight for his family and himself. For Crowe, it\u2019s the second movie he\u2019s co-written after the 2022 feature Poker Face which he also directed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTyler Atkins directs Beast in Me which was produced by Tim O\u2019Hair, alongside Frigerio, John Schwarz and Michael Schwarz. The movie shot in Australia and Bangkok and was made in collaboration with Asian martial-arts franchise ONE Championship. The Solution Entertainment Group was selling the movie this past winter at EFM. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGrindstone Entertainment Group, run by President and CEO Barry Brooker and principal Stan Wertlieb, has a distribution deal with Lionsgate that runs through 2027. Lionsgate and Grindstone count a near 18-year working relationship in what is a 700-title content library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGrindstone previous releases include the thriller\u00a0Fall, Damaged, with Sam Jackson and Vincent Cassell;\u00a0How the Gringo Stole Christmas, starring George Lopez,\u00a0Desperation Road,\u00a0Manadrome\u00a0with Jesse Eisenberg;\u00a0and\u00a0Lamborghini\u00a0with Frank Grillo, Mira Sorvino and Gabriel Byrne.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCrowe stars in Sony Pictures Classics upcoming awards season contender, Nuremberg. Frigerio previously co-penned the Crowe, Luke and Liam Hemsworth movie, Land of Bad, from director William Eubank. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Grindstone Entertainment Group has taken domestic distribution rights to the mixed martial arts action drama Beast in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[68825,68826,146,68827,85,46,2835],"class_list":{"0":"post-105054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-beast-in-me","9":"tag-david-frigerio","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-grindstone-entertainment","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel","14":"tag-russell-crowe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}