\n\tDick\u2019s Sporting Goods is launching a production banner called Cookie Jar & A Dream Studios, which will make its official debut on an ESPN documentary titled \u201cBig Dreams: The Little League World Series 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tThe 51-minute film explores the wins, losses, sweat and tears at the tournament in rural Pennsylvania. Produced alongside\u00a0Imagine Documentaries in association with MLB Studios, the documentary will premiere on ESPN on Aug. 12 at 9:30 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n
\n\tDick\u2019s says Cookie Jar & A Dream is a \u201cnatural progression\u201d of the sporting goods brand\u2019s decade-long foray into filmmaking. The company has backed five feature-length films and 10 short-form and episodic documentaries. Its 2014 doc \u201cWe Could Be King,\u201d about two rival high schools that merged due to budget cuts, made Dick\u2019s one of the first consumer brands to win an Emmy for best sports documentary. The company netted another Emmy win in 2024 with its Netflix film \u201cThe Turnaround,\u201d which tells the story of how Phillies superfan Jon McCann sparked a game-changing standing ovation for shortstop Trea Turner.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s really about telling great stories, creating more fans of sport and hopefully fans of Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods as a brand,\u201d says Mark Rooks, vice president of creative, sponsorships and entertainment at Dick\u2019s. He hopes the production studio serves as a marketing tool for the sporting goods brand.<\/p>\n
\n\tAside from the Little League documentary, Dick\u2019s is cooking up a story about Rachel Foster, a woman who was pronounced dead after an accident, miraculously recovered and currently runs marathons. Another project slated for 2026 follows the 1994 U.S. Men\u2019s National Team at the World Cup.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe name of the production banner, Cookie Jar & A Dream Studios, references the origins of Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods. In 1948, Richard \u201cDick\u201d Stack founded the company with a $300 loan from his grandmother, who kept her savings in a cookie jar.<\/p>\n
\n\tSays Rooks, \u201cWe use that inspiration and that story to remind us of who we are and what our North Star is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods is launching a production banner called Cookie Jar & A Dream Studios, which will make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28103,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-50683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dicks-sporting-goods","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}