Film & TV production co. Founded by Best-selling authors and producers Casey Sherman & Dave Wedge, creative forces behind The Finest Hours & Patriots Day
06/12/2024
🚨Some more coverage of our Hagler film project, based on my upcoming book! Super excited to get to work with Sam and his team! 🥊🎬🎥🎞 Contactmusic.com Hamilcar Publications
Sam Rockwell is developing a film about the late boxing legend Marvin Hagler - who reigned as undisputed middleweight world champion during the 1980s.
06/11/2024
Rockwell is producing via his Play Hooky Productions — and is eying the role of one of the Petronelli brothers, who served as Hagler’s manager and trainers.
06/01/2024
A Murder in Hollywood, nominated for Book of the Year at tonight's Clue Awards in Nashville.
05/14/2024
🚨June 13 we will finally be unveiling an incredible statue honoring the great Marvelous Marvin Hagler in downtown Brockton. Marvin was an icon and I'm looking forward to helping celebrate his legacy! And as this story mentions, I'm currently writing a book about Marvin's early years. The book will be out next spring! If you have a story to share, feel free to message me! 🥊 City of Brockton The Enterprise of Brockton
If you're a fan of boxing, Brockton or both, mark June 13 on your calendar.
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New York Times bestselling authors Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge, one of the premier non-fiction writing teams in the industry, founded film/TV/streaming production company Fort Point Media in 2018.
Together, they co-wrote the definitive story of the Boston Marathon bombings in “Boston Strong: A City’s Triumph Over Tragedy,” which was adapted for the 2017 Mark Wahlberg film “Patriots Day.” They also wrote “Ice Bucket Challenge: Pete Frates and the Fight against ALS,” which is in development as a Netflix feature film, with Sherman and Wedge attached as producers. They also wrote the 2018 New York Times bestseller, “12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption,” which is in development as a feature film with the producers/writers of “The Fighter,” “Patriots Day,” and “The Finest Hours.” Sherman co-wrote “The Finest Hours” book, which was the basis of the hit Disney film starring Chris Pine and Casey Affleck.
Fort Point Media has several projects in various stages of development, including “Ice Bucket Challenge,” “12: The Inside Story of Tom Brady’s Fight for Redemption,” “Tracking the Wild Coomba: The Life of Legendary Extreme Skier Doug Coombs,” and “Thatcher Island,” a thriller based on Sherman’s 2014 book, “Animal.”
“Thatcher Island” is in development at 20th Century Fox with the team behind “BlacKkKlansman,” while “Tracking the Wild Coomba” is in development with Outside Studios, the driving force behind such hit films as “127 Hours,” “Everest,” “Into the Wild,” and “The Perfect Storm,” among others.
Sherman has written 10 books and is a veteran investigative TV producer and journalist who has written for Esquire, FoxNews.com, Huffington Post and more. Wedge was an award-winning investigative reporter for the Boston Herald who has also written for VICE, Esquire, Newsweek and Boston magazine.
Sherman, Wedge and Fort Point Media are represented by the Gotham Group.