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30-461: Bad News Bears is a 2005 American sports comedy film directed by Richard Linklater , written by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa and starring Billy Bob Thornton , Greg Kinnear , Marcia Gay Harden and Sammi Kane Kraft . It is a remake of the 1976 sports film The Bad News Bears , produced by Paramount Pictures . Unlike the original film, it received mixed reviews and grossed just $ 34 million against its $ 35 million budget. Morris Buttermaker

60-557: A Los Angeles –area little league in financial difficulty received a donation from the owner of a local strip club in order to continue operating. Comparisons were immediately made to a scene in Bad News Bears in which the team received a donation from " Bo-Peeps Gentlemen's Club" and is required to put the logo of the strip club on their uniforms. The real-life club did not require similar stipulations, preferring to donate anonymously . However, local civic leaders encouraged that

90-464: A better coach. Amanda Wurlitzer, a skilled pitcher, is the 12-year-old daughter of one of his ex-girlfriends. After a couple requests, she decides to join the team. Kelly Leak, a local troublemaker but solid hitter, also joins the team, and the Bears start winning games. Before the championship game Liz congratulates Buttermaker on his success, which leads to them sleeping together, which Toby, her son and

120-502: A for-profit "unsolicited submission" service, charging independent filmmakers who wished to have their work reviewed by the site. In 2015, Gore reacquired Film Threat and took the site offline, seeking to reboot the brand with a "Save Film Threat…" crowdfunding attempt at Kickstarter , which ran from March 19 to April 22. The attempt failed, with pledges totaling $ 63,725 falling short of the goal of $ 125,000. In late August 2016, Gore started another Kickstarter campaign to save and revamp

150-494: A more mainstream release for the magazine, while its new offshoot Film Threat Video Guide , edited by Williams, continued to focus on the underground films and filmmakers that the magazine had featured in its early days. Film Threat eventually found a new home with Larry Flynt Publications (LFP), relaunching in November, 1991 as Volume 2, Issue 1. "I darted to the newsstand to grab the first glossy edition of what promised to be

180-430: A more richly developed sport world, and may also be more player-oriented or thematically complex. Often, they feature a hero of adventure origins and a clear distinction between loss and victory set against each other in a play time struggle. Thematically, the story is often one of "our team" versus "their team"; their team will always try to win, and our team will show the world that they deserve recognition or redemption;

210-478: A player on the team discovers by accident. The Bears eventually make it to the championship game. In the middle of that game, the Bears and Yankees fight after Amanda is shoved during a play at the plate. A few innings later the Yankees coach Ray Bullock orders his son Joey to intentionally walk Mike Engleberg, one of the Bears' best hitters. Instead of walking him, he almost hits Engleberg, causing Ray to push Joey to

240-435: A punk rock-attitude movie magazine—and then, the people from this magazine would eventually go off and make films. Wouldn't it be great?" In issue 9, Film Threat became a printed magazine, and also around this time, Seewood left the project to pursue independent filmmaking and to write seriously about the cinema. This second life of Film Threat included Gore and "Square Dance Instructor" Paul Zimmerman getting kicked out of

270-508: A quarterly print and e-book edition beginning in September 2011, relying upon crowdfunding for the resources. The campaign to return Film Threat to print raised only $ 5,111 of its $ 60,000 crowd-funding goal (based on two coinciding $ 30000 campaigns, one of which was cancelled on June 11), and were unsuccessful in its attempt to raise the necessary monies by the conclusion of the crowdfunding campaign. In 2011, Film Threat instituted

300-562: A specific moment in history like I, Tonya (2018). Examples of this overall genre/type include: Body and Soul (1947), The Hustler (1961), Rocky (1976), Hoosiers (1986), Remember the Titans (2000), Lagaan (2001), Moneyball (2011), Ford v Ferrari (2019), Ferrari (2023) and the Goal! trilogy. There have been numerous sports movies that have become award winning phenomenons. Several films have been nominated for and won

330-451: A worldwide total of $ 34,252,847, becoming a box office bomb . Bad News Bears received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 48% based on 164 reviews, with an average rating of 5.70/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "This too-faithful remake aims low for laughs, turning off the easily offendable; despite another lovably irascible contribution by Thornton, it lacks

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360-575: Is a washed-up alcoholic baseball player who was a pitcher for the Seattle Mariners before getting kicked out of professional baseball for attacking an umpire. He works as an exterminator and is a crude womanizer. He is hired by Liz Whitewood to coach the Bears, a children's baseball team with poor playing skills. They play their first game and do not even make an out before he forfeits the game. The entire team decides to quit afterwards, but Buttermaker dissuades them from quitting and promises to be

390-467: Is clear that this genre is loved by many. Film Threat Film Threat is an American online film review publication, and earlier, a national magazine that focused primarily on independent film , although it also reviewed videos and DVDs of mainstream films, as well as Hollywood movies in theaters. It first appeared as a photocopied zine in 1985, created by Wayne State University students Chris Gore and André Seewood. In 1997, Film Threat

420-634: Is like a merger of [Thornton's] ugly drunk in Bad Santa and his football coach in Friday Night Lights , yet [he] doesn't recycle from either movie; he modulates the manic anger of the Santa and the intensity of the coach and produces a morose loser who we like better than he likes himself". James Berardinelli of ReelViews also gave Bad News Bears three stars out of four, calling it "an entertaining motion picture" that "won't make fans forget

450-420: The 1988 Toronto Festival of Festivals , only to return the following year under fake names representing a fake publication, Film Forum . In issue 18, San Francisco State student David E. Williams wrote in, sparking a friendship with Gore that led to both of them relocating to Los Angeles in summer 1989 to work on the magazine. During the early 1990s, Film Threat was transformed as Gore attempted to find

480-617: The club in question be made public so that they could get the proper recognition they deserved. Sports film The first sports film was released 1915, this was during the era of silent films. Several sub-categories of sports films can be identified, although the delineations between these subgenres, much as in live action, are somewhat fluid. The most common sports subgenres depicted in movies are sports drama and sports comedy. Both categories typically employ playground settings, match, game creatures and other elements commonly associated with biological stories. Sports films tend to feature

510-576: The course of 2009, the site was edited by Don R. Lewis and Matthew Sorrento, before a brief hiatus where the site went offline in December 2009. On January 25, 2010, during the Sundance Film Festival , Gore sold the website and rights to the magazine to former editor Bell, who then relocated Film Threat to New Jersey and relaunched the website on February 23, 2010. On May 11, 2011, Film Threat announced that it planned to produce

540-471: The ensemble strength and originality of the 1976 version". Metacritic gives the film a score of 65 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". On CinemaScore , audiences gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four, praising Thornton's performance in particular: "The movie

570-487: The film "simply another in a long line of utterly unnecessary remakes that, having nothing new to say, clutch at crassness and dumbness", while Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said that while "the screenplay [...] makes the most of Thornton's dry, skewed humor, [...] nothing happens here that would distinguish this film from other sports movies". In a case of life imitating art , in 2012,

600-663: The game but is thrown out at the plate on a close call, causing the Bears to lose the championship 8–7. After the game, Buttermaker gives them non-alcoholic beer, and they spray it all over each other. Although they did not win the championship, they have the satisfaction of trying, knowing that winning is not so important. Bad News Bears opened on July 22, 2005 and ranked #5 at the North American domestic box office with $ 11,382,472. The film ultimately earned $ 32,868,349 in North America and $ 1,384,498 internationally for

630-415: The ground in anger. As revenge, Joey throws Engleberg an easy pitch which he smacks for a home run and leaves the game with his mother. Later, Buttermaker changes the lineup, putting the benchwarmers in and taking out some of the good players which causes the Bears to fall behind heading into the last half of the inning. With two outs, one of the Bears players, Garo, drives in two runs and tries to score to tie

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660-497: The highest award of Best Picture at the Academy Awards , including Chariots of Fire (1981), Rocky (1976), and Million Dollar Baby (2004). Other movies that received awards of a high caliber are Jerry Maguire (Best Supporting Actor, 1996), Bull Durham (Best Original Screenplay, 1988), and The Karate Kid (Best Supporting Actor, 1984). Regardless of the awards that these sports films have been granted, it

690-402: The indie and mainstream equally. Over the first 14 years of its online life, FilmThreat.com continued in the tradition of its print counterpart, courting controversy—such as when editor Ron Wells wrote a scathing criticism of Harry Knowles . Chris Gore was succeeded as editor of the website by Ron Wells (1997–2003), who was then followed by Eric Campos (2003–6) and then Mark Bell (2006–8). Over

720-471: The magazine continued to grow, but Film Threat' s tenure with LFP ended after 28 issues in February 1993. Gore managed to buy back the rights from LFP, and launched the magazine, for a third time, in December 1996. He printed only two issues, before retiring the magazine in 1997. Gore launched Film Threat as a website in 1996. At first a sparse collection of film news, FilmThreat.com grew, covering both

750-504: The original, but it's not so feeble that it disappears into the earlier movie's shadow". Giving the film two stars out of five, Don R. Lewis of Film Threat said that it has "a few laughs" but that it "just trudges on, going through the motions of the original with no spark" and that it "suffer[s] from the unbearable, crushing weight of political correctness ". Paula Nechak of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called

780-485: The sport they are playing and trying to get back into it. Examples and staples of the genre include The Waterboy , The Longest Yard , Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby , and Blades of Glory . Sports drama combines the sports film genre with drama film elements. These films rely on conflict, usually revolving around an athlete or a team. These dramas can further be broken up into categories, some movies focusing on race such as 42 (2013), or focusing on

810-434: The story does not always have to involve a team. The story could also be about an individual athlete or the story could focus on an individual playing on a team. Sports comedy combines the sports film genre with comedy film elements. Traditionally, these films heavily rely on slapstick humor and very physical comedy, such as someone getting hurt in a comical way. A typical storyline may revolve around someone losing sight of

840-456: The turning of the tide for 'Let's-Blow-and-Stroke-the-Interviewee' type film journalism. And whose face did I see? Macaulay Culkin 's," stated filmmaker Kevin Smith of the first issue of Film Threat' s new edition. In 1993, the magazine—then published bimonthly—had a circulation of 125,000, and was competing with such titles as Premiere . Paul Zimmerman became executive editor in 1994, and

870-689: The website with a more modest goal of $ 37,500. The campaign brought in $ 56,199 (against the stretch goal of $ 50,000, enabling the production of a documentary about Film Threat .) On February 6, 2017, the Film Threat website was relaunched. It also has a presence on YouTube, where Gore reviews films, many of which are mainstream releases, alongside new personality Alan Ng. Gore also has playlists dedicated to various film festivals, and so-called "Gore Rants" where he rails against certain practices in Hollywood. One rant targeted people trying to profit from

900-640: Was converted to a solely online resource. The current incarnation of Film Threat accepts money from filmmakers who are looking for a way to promote their films. Since 2011, those seeking a review from the site can pay between $ 50 and $ 400 for varying levels of service, ranging from a "guaranteed review within 7–10 days" to a package that includes a guarantee of "100K minimum impressions". The initial issues of Film Threat combined theories on cinematic narrative form and political ideology by Seewood and cinematic material and parody of mainstream film by Gore. In Gore's own words, "I thought, wouldn't it be great to start

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