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S. Preston, a nationally known illustrator, is melding sports and classic cartoons with the debut of officially licensed Minimalist Baseball Bugs - MLB Edition prints. Preston has collaborated with Chuck Jones Gallery™ and Major League Baseball to bring fourth his style of art not only to celebrate the national past-time but also the 80 anniversary of that scwey wabbit! Inspired by the Looney Tunes episode Baseball Bugs, these brand new, cross-licensed prints are available for purchase on July 16, featuring the iconic Bugs Bunny representing an MLB team as he winds up for the perfect pitch.

We spoke with Preston about his artistic style, his love of the game and how all this came about.

Visit sprestondesigns.com for more information on his artwork and follow S. Preston on Twitter @pootpoot and on Instagram @sprestondesigns.

MINIMALIST BASEBALL BUGS – MLB EDITION will be available in limited quantities of 100 variants per team, with an MSRP of $80.00. For more information or to reserve your limited edition print early, visit https://sprestondesigns.com/collections/baseball-bugs-team-variants

LIMITED EDITION TEAM VARIANTS

Character: Bugs Bunny

Medium Print - Limited Edition of 100

Large Print - Limited Edition of 10

Celeste M. Cooper was born to play this part...or at least trained for it by force as a child. Cooper, was a track, basketball and swimming star who's father was tough when it came to being the best at the sports she participated in.

Fast forward a few years and we come to Range Runner, a film described as:

We spoke with Cooper about how being physically and mentally prepared she had to be for her role as Mel, working with her co-stars who seemed quite threatening on camera and how fantastic the movie turned out on only a month's shooting schedule.

Range Runner is out now on VOD find it at www.fatalfunnelfilms.com and follow Celeste M. Cooper @_be_that_light_.

I have a tendency to refer to Kat Foster as my, "Fellow May, Bay Area, Baby," because we were both born in the Bay Area and I'm two weeks older than her. Putting that ever-so-slight bias aside, I spoke with Foster and writer/director Gina O'Brien about their new tennis comedy coming to VOD on Tuesday, September 8, 2020 entitled, First One In.

Foster plays Madi, a former high school tennis star that gets canceled by society after a tragic incident on a reality show. In order to start over in her real estate career, Madi gets hired at the most prestigious and competitive firm run by the Johnny Lawrence of tennis, Bobbi (Georgia King). Through her friend with a band of misfits and an old teammate, Madi reconnects with her love of tennis and who she truly is as a person.

Quite frankly, this is far more of a conversation than an interview as O'Brien steals all my best questions before I could ask them, but seriously, this was a lot of fun, like old friends getting together and chatting over brunch.

Follow First One In on Twitter @FirstOneInFilm and Instagram @FirstOneInFilm.  Kat Foster on Twitter @IamKatFoster  and Instagram @iamkatfoster.

Directed by Sanjay Rawal, Gather is a documentary Executive Produced by Jason Momoa about the intimate portrait of a growing movement amongst Indigenous Americans to reclaim their spiritual and cultural identities through obtaining sovereignty over their ancestral food systems, while battling against the historical trauma brought on by centuries of genocide.

The documentary follows the individual stories of several natives on the frontlines of this movement to reconnect with their spiritual and cultural identities. From an indigenous chef who embarks on an ambitious project to reclaim ancient food ways on the Apache reservation; a gifted Lakota high school student, raised on a buffalo ranch proving her tribes native wisdom through her passion for science; and a group of young men of the Yurok tribe in Northern California who are struggling to keep their culture alive and rehabilitate the habitat of their sacred salmon. All these stories combine to show how the reclaiming and recovery of ancient food ways is a means forward for native Americans to bring back health and vitality to their people and communities.

We spoke with Rawal about the documentary and the impact it had not only him but to present these cultural struggles of a neglected indigenous peoples in the nation we have adopted as our homelands.

For more information about Gather visit their official website at: gather.film.

Follow Gather on Instagram @gatherfilm and Sanjay Rawal @mrsanjayr.

Producer, actress and filmmaker Xenia Leblanc (Orange Is the New Black)'s female-driven web series Gritty & Pretty, which will premiere its pilot episode at the Dances with Films festival on September 5, 2020 with a second screening scheduled for Sunday, September 6th. Leblanc's series was accepted into the festival's 2020 Web and TV Series slate.

The series took seven days to film and an $11,000 budget, a testament to the type of guerilla filmmaking that Dances with Films seeks to highlight.

Dances with Films began in 1998 as a film festival dedicated to finding tomorrow’s talent today and continues to carry on this mission. With many world and West Coast premieres, Dances with Films is a coveted first stop on the festival circuit.

We spoke with Leblanc about how the series came about, what her online presence is like now and poked fun at her Russian background, with her people being known for having an extremely long memory.

Follow Xenia Leblanc on Twitter @thexenialeblanc and on Instagram @xenialeblanc.

Check out the trailer and the Dances with Films schedule below:

Dances with Films Screening Schedule

Rarely do I fanboy out hard in an interview, but I've known Vampiro (aka Ian Hodgkinson) for a few years and the last time we spoke was during the final season of Lucha Underground. Vampiro has lived quite an interesting life from being a bodyguard for Milli Vanilli to becoming a Lucha Libre sensation in Mexico.

The guy brought The Misfits to WCW for-crying-out-loud and is a consummate professional in and out of the ring.

Vampiro teamed with first time documentarian, Michael Paszt on their new venture, Nail in the Coffin: The Fall & Rise of Vampiro. In the documentary we follow the career of Vampiro as an agent, a booker, a performer and most importantly, a father. We also learn about several of Vampiro's underlining health issues.

I spoke with both Vampiro and Paszt about this documentary that will bring in the wrestling fan base in, who will convert their friends into watching a film about a man who is a single father trying to overcome his past issues to raise his daughter, who he would challenge God for in keeping her safe.

Nail in the Coffin: The Fall & Rise of Vampiro will be releasing in limited theaters on Friday, September 4, 2020 and will be available on major VOD/Digital platforms beginning Tuesday, September 8, 2020 and on Blu-ray with over an hour of bonus features on September 23, 2020.

Blu-ray pre-order: https://epic-pictures.com/merchandise/nail-in-the-coffin-the-fall-and-rise-of-vampiro-blu-ray

Follow Vampiro on Twitter @vampiro_vampiro and on Instagram @vampirovudu

Performing on Saturday, August 29, 2020 at the Ventura County Fairgrounds, Fitz and the Tantrums takes to the stage in CBF Productions, Concerts in Your Car, California’s first socially-distanced concert and entertainment venue. The special popup style of events will take place through the end of September at the Ventura County Fairgrounds parking lot.

We spoke with Noelle Scaggs of Fitz and the Tantrums about this new experience, how their stage show might change in connecting with their audience and what this, new normal might mean for future events.

Concerts in Your Car offers 700 carloads of fans the opportunity to see live, in-person performances. The empty parking lot is transformed into a pulsing theatre-in-the-round, complete with a massive stage, state-of-the-art sound system transmitting the performance to your car’s FM radio, elaborate lighting and four massive LED video screens that will provide 360 degrees of visual entertainment that can be seen from any parking spot. Concert-goers can also see and interact with one another with the download of a Zoom link, for a more connected crowd experience!

For more information about the upcoming concert series visit www.concertsinyourcar.com.

Follow Concert in Cars on Facebook @concertsinyourcar and Instagram @concertsinyourcar_. Follow Fitz and the Tantrums on Instagram @fitsandthetantrums.

Roughly two decades ago, Hollywood crossed over with professional wrestling, when the first time in history, an actor became the world heavyweight champion as David Arquette won the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) title on an episode of Thursday Night Thunder that aired on TBS. This was all in part to Arquette being a lifelong wrestling fan and the cross promotion for his then upcoming film, Ready to Rumble, with co-star Scott Caan.

We spoke with Arquette about his new documentary entitled, You Cannot Kill David Arquette, where the man who has had a very successful career not only in front of, but also behind the camera decides to return to the squared circle for another wrestling run. We talk death matches, the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) and my prediction that by 2022, David Arquette will come full circle on TNT and win the All Elite Wrestling (AEW) World Heavyweight Championship, making him a two time world champ.

Arquette is an amazingly talented and humble human being that is reflected in this interview and You Cannot Kill David Arquette is a fascinating documentary. It's part work, part shoot and all heart.

You Cannot Kill David Arquette comes to VOD and Apple TV on Friday, August 28, 2020 and is definitely worth your hard earned money.

Follow David Arquette on Twitter @DavidArquette and on Instagram @davidarquette. Follow SuperLTD on Twitter @SuperLTDFilm and on Instagram @superltdfilm.

Click the link You Cannot Kill David Arquette to watch the film via Super LTD's website.

A film that was thought to be lost to the ages that is finally seeing the light of day is Chief Zabu. A comedy that was inspired by our current incumbent 30 years prior to him revealing political aspirations.

Filmmakers Zach Norman (who plays Sammy in Chief Zabu) and writer/producer/director Neil Cohen spoke to me the other day on the significance of the film, how dirty and underhanded politics has always been and that the one honest, altruistic person in that field either has to be corrupted or driven out. Chief Zabu features Marianna Hill, Allen Garfield, and Allan Arbus along with a whole host of other amazing actors, some of which have passed on.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Norman and Cohen on not only how they saved the film from complete deterioration, but the restoration process, which was almost an impossible task, the cast and how in this instance, art definitely influenced life. We had so much fun in discussing the film that was dragged the publicist Monica in on the conversation, which was just too good to cut out. I would reveal Monica's last name, but I think she wants to retain a little bit of anonymity.

Chief Zabu is available now on VOD and hits the nail on the proverbial head a little too hard in their portrayal of dirty politics in a satirical manner that will have you laughing as you keep from crying how accurate they were in that spectrum.

Ron Funches is one of the funniest comedians out on there today. On top of the stresses of living in a pandemic filled world, Funches remains active in his home life as a husband and father. To put the proverbial icing on the cake, Funches has also lost and maintained losing 140 lbs, where as most people have gained the quarantine fifteen.

We spoke to Funches about stand-up, weight loss, family life and his new Netflix series Hoops, which begins streaming today. Funches voices the character of Ron, who is Jake Johnson's reasonable friend that keeps the series grounded in its hilarity.

Follow Ron Funches on Twitter @RonFunches.

Series ynopsis:

Hoops is an animated comedy sitcom that centers on a hot-headed, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach (Jake Johnson) who thinks turning around his god awful team will take him to the “big leagues” and turn his miserable life around.

Hoops is created by Ben Hoffman. Hoffman, Johnson, Seth Cohen, M. Dickson, Itay Reiss, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller serve as executive producers. Hoops is produced by 20th Century Fox Television and animated by Bento Box.