Mo McRae knows how to handle himself amongst heavyweights. He's gone from standing next to Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson in the film Gridiron Gang to joining the One-Niners as Tyler on FX's Sons of Anarchy. But don't let the filmography fool you: he's only a tough guy on-screen - off of it, he's a pleasure to be around. So who's the real Mo McRae?

His story began at a young age. "It started in high school," he said of when he developed his interest in acting. "I played basketball in high school and pretty serious about that [but] we had a pretty good drama department at my high school a...

Football's opening game may have been Wednesday night, when the Dallas Cowboys beat the New York Giants, but the real opening event will be this weekend when the NFL debuts with a full slate of Sunday games. If you aren't excited yet, check your pulse - and watch these 10 Football Films.

Remember The Titans: Although this Disney production plays it safe for the most part, it's still an inspiring and dramatic tale of a real African American coach (Denzel Washington) who was hired at a desegregated school in Virginia in the 1971. There's some good football action mixed in there, as well.

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The truth is finally out there on DVD and Blu-ray! Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents The X-Files: I Want To Believe, a gripping feature film based on the global phenomenon that descends onto DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) on December 2nd.

Marking the Studio's first foray into BD-Live, The X-Files: I Want To Believe BD release takes full advantage of the high-def format's "web-enhanced" functionality with exclusive features, games, additional content and connectivity to other BD-Live users and X-Files fans nationwide. "The X-Files Dossier" allows BD-Live connected users to c...

Inspired by a true story and "one of the year's best films" (Chicago Sun-Times), The Great Debaters is a touching and heartfelt drama about the power of words, fighting its way onto DVD May 13 as a two-disc collector's edition from Genius Products and The Weinstein Company.

Two-time Academy Award winner Denzel Washington (American Gangster) directs and leads an ensemble cast with "strong, emotionally grounded performances" (New York Times) including Oscar winner Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland), Kimberly Elise (Diary of a Mad Black Woman), Jurnee Smollett (Gridiron Gang, B...

This is a bittersweet time of year for all football fans - the season is over, and the Super Bowl peaks over the horizon. Then comes the pain of football withdrawal. What will we do on Sunday afternoons and Monday nights? We've compiled a list of movies that we hope will ease the misery.

Some football films have rousing, rough-and-tumble-scream-at-the-TV football action. This is the "Football Factor." They're just like watching a game with two great defenses. Others have an interesting football story. This is the "Heart Factor." Often there are a lot of both factors in each movie. Her...

In Employee of the Month, two slackers at Costco change their tune when they discover the store hottie (Jessica Simpson) will date the employee of the month. Also on DVD: Gridiron Gang and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.

America's favorite pranksters, the Jackass crew, are back at the top of the U.S. box office thanks to an amazing $28.1 million opening-weekend take. The crazy combo's Jackass sequel, Jackass: Number Two, easily beat the competition.

Martial arts star Jet Li's new film Fearless opened at $10.5 million, and last week's top film Gridiron Gang, slipped to number three on the new box office chart with $9.7 million. Meanwhile, period drama Flyboys debuted at number four with $6 million.

Marcia Cross has missed out on a dream role in a touching new movie because she's too famous. Cross asked her agent to call director Shane Stanley and request a lead role in his new movie “Corners” the day after picking up a Golden Globe Award earlier this year - but her joy was shattered when Stanley turned her down flat.

Ironically, Stanley, whose prison sports documentary has been turned into America's number-one movie Gridiron Gang, had Cross in mind for one of the smaller characters in the film, about a community dealing with Down Syndrome, but he couldn't give the TV star the le...

Football season is back at the box office - the second sporting film in three weeks has scored a touchdown at the top of the movie charts. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's new movie Gridiron Gang, in which he plays the coach of a prison team, opened at number one yesterday with a $15 million opening weekend.

Hollywood couple Scarlett Johansson and Josh Hartnett's new movie, The Black Dahlia, debuted at number two with a $10.4 million opening. And another sporting film, Everyone's Hero - Christopher and Dana Reeve's final animated project - debuted at three with $6.1 million.

Zach Bra...

The true story of the football team that proved sometimes second chances can make a difference comes to the screen in director Phil Joanou's tale of self-respect and social responsibility on the gridiron. Continue summary...

Starring: The Rock, Xzibit, Kevin Dunn, Leon Rippy, Brandon Smith

Shooting Gridiron Gang in a juvenile delinquents facility made rapper Xzibit realize how close he came to a life of crime and an early death. The star plays a football coach in the new film and spent weeks thanking his lucky stars that he turned his back on the life many of the delinquents he came into contact with on location had chosen.

He explains, "I was doing dumb s**t, getting caught at state fairs with guns; ridiculous stuff because I didn't have anything to focus on. I was angry; my mother had passed when I was nine, my dad got remarried and we moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico...

Hollywood action man Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is donating $2 million to his old college the University of Miami, where he was a star football player. The money will go towards the construction of an alumni centre on campus, with a room being named after Johnson and his wife Dany Garcia, who is on the board of trustees.

And Johnson will be using his star athlete past for his role in new movie Gridiron Gang, where he plays a football coach at a juvenile prison.

(This news article provided by World Entertainment News Network)

Former wrestler Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is living his life-long fantasy by playing an American football player in "The Game Plan." The star won a football scholarship to Florida's University Of Miami as a young man, but never took his sport skills to a professional level.

To research his role in the upcoming movie, which starts filming in Massachusetts next month, Johnson has been hanging out with New England Patriots Quarterback Tom Brady.

Johnson enthuses, "I'm playing a NFL quarterback and I never made it to the

NFL - I wasn't that good. I get to go to the Super Bowl! I'...

The best-selling video game Dead or Alive has an interesting feature: you can stop the female characters’ breasts from bouncing if they are too distracting. On Sept. 8, legendary Hong Kong action director and choreographer Corey Yuen brings DOA: Dead or Alive to the big screen in a martial arts extravaganza. The female cast includes Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Jaime Pressly, and Holly Valance.

Gridiron Gang (Sept. 15) is an inspirational story about teenagers at a juvenile detention center who gain confidence by playing football. This real-life story has Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and X...

Action man Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson was touched when a hardened criminal took time out to pray for him after the movie star fell ill during the shoot of new movie The Gridiron Gang. The former wrestler was desperately trying to recover from a bout of food poisoning as he shot night scenes at juvenile prison Camp Kilpatrick in California when he confronted a convict on his way to solitary confinement.

Johnson, who plays real-life probation officer-turned-American football coach Sean Porter in the film, exchanged a few words with the troubled teen and was amazed to find he had a heart ...

Sony Pictures Entertainment has surpassed the $1 billion mark in box office receipts for calendar year 2006, making it the fifth year in a row the studio has reached that milestone at the box office.

The announcement was made by Jeff Blake, Chairman of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution for the Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group and Vice-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Contributing to the success of the 2006 slate are eight number-one films: Columbia Pictures' The Da Vinci Code, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Click, RV, and Pink Panther; Screen Gems' Un...