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Youngblood Feature Adaptation Selected to Premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival
Dolphin Partners with CAA Media Finance for Domestic Sales TORONTO, ON AND LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / August 12, 2025 / Dolphin (NASDAQ:DLPN), a leading entertainment marketing and premium content production company, announces that the feature ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Dolphin Partners with CAA Media Finance for Domestic Sales","length":58,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"TORONTO, ON AND LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / August 12, 2025 / Dolphin (NASDAQ:DLPN), a leading entertainment marketing and premium content production company, announces that the feature film adaptation of the 1986 sports drama, Youngblood, has been selected to have its world premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, with additional details announcing later this month. Filmed this winter in and around Toronto, Youngblood is being produced by Academy Award® and Emmy Award® nominated Aircraft Pictures, in association with Dolphin and Photon Films & Media. Dolphin is partnering with CAA Media Finance to handle domestic sales for the film.","length":670,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The film, directed by Academy Award® Nominee Hubert Davis (The Well, Black Ice),follows hockey prodigy Dean Youngblood who joins the Hamilton Mustangs and discovers he must face off against toxic behavior on the ice and within himself to fulfill his potential as a professional hockey player. The original 1986 film, distributed by MGM, starred Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves in his feature film debut, and has since become a cult classic among hockey fans.","length":468,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The Youngblood adaptation is based on a script by screenwriters Josh Epstein & Kyle Rideout, Seneca Aaron and the late Charles Officer. The film will be distributed in Canada by Photon Films & Media. Dolphin's Bill O'Dowd and Emerson Davis serve as Executive Producers, alongside Allan Fung and Photon's Mark Slone and Zanne Devine. Aircraft's Anthony Leo and Andrew Rosen produced the film. Associate Producer Christopher V. Nelson (Miracle, The Mighty Ducks: Gamechangers) serves as Hockey Consultant. The film is produced with the financial participation of Telefilm Canada and the Talent Fund, Ontario Creates and the Shaw Rocket Fund.","length":663,"tagName":"p"},{"type":"text","content":"The cast includes Ashton James (Boxcutter, Revenge of the Black Best Friend) in the title role of Dean Youngblood, Blair Underwood (Longlegs, Deep Impact, LA Law) as his father Blane Youngblood, Shawn Doyle (The Expanse, Fargo, Big Love) as Coach Chadwick, Alexandra McDonald (Night Bloom...