Photo: Neal Preston/SHOWTIME
Episode 2 – What Would Phil Do?:
Score by Jordan Cook (Reignwolf)
Episode 1 – Life is a Carnival:
Freddie Mercury at Wembley Stadium. Photo by Neal Preston
We want to wish the one and only Neal Preston a very happy birthday today! His relationship (both personally and professionally) with Cameron goes back 40+ years and we all love him at Vinyl Films. Happy Birthday Neal!
Neal and Cameron (2003) Courtesy of Neal Preston
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwYCA7dbqJ8
Happy Monday everybody. Showtime has made the pilot for Roadies available for free to anyone. Just a word of warning that some streaming platforms will be editing the episode for content (i.e. nudity and language). If you are a paid Showtime or Hulu subscriber it appears that episode will be uncut. Most likely this free episode is only available to stream in North America.
It can be watched on Showtime.com, YouTube, Hulu, iTunes and many other platforms. Let us know what you think!
Here’s our first extended look at Roadies. The song featured here is “San Francisco” by The Mowglis. Cameron directs the first three episodes of the series and we thought you might like the titles.
Roadies debuts on Showtime on June 26th.
We love Kelly Ann in Roadies and we think you will too. Here’s a recent interview that Imogen Poots did about the show, her character Kelly Ann and her newest movie Pop Star with Out.
As we inch closer to Jerry Maguire‘s 20th Anniversary, I thought you might want to read Cameron’s original Mission Statement (that is only briefly featured in the film). Here’s the entire 25 pages penned by Cameron. Happy Monday!
THE THINGS WE THINK AND DO NOT SAY
Thoughts of a Sports Attorney
Miami Hilton, 1 AM
It’s 1 AM and this might be the bad pizza I had earlier talking, but I believe I have something to say. Or rather, I have something to say that I believe in. My father once said, “Get the bad news over with first. You be the one to say the tough stuff. Well, here goes. There is a cruel wind blowing through our business. We all feel it, and if we don’t, perhaps we’ve forgotten how to feel. But here is the truth. We are less ourselves than we were when we started this organization.
Sports Management International began as a small company. I was hired by Jack Scully in 1981, I was fresh out of college, I didn’t even watch much sports. But a young man came to me, and his name was Bill Apodaca. He asked me to look at a contract he’d acquired to play football for the Atlanta Falcons. Before long I was overseeing the business of another member of the Falcons, and two baseball players. The nuances and the small miracles of professional sports would soon hook me — there was something simple and perfect about the way a stadium felt. The way vou felt when a player you’d helped and represented made his stand in front of 54,000 people. And I remember the conversation Mr. Scully and I had by an elevator, standing next to one of those sand-filled ashtray posts, right before he hired me as one of the first agents in this company. “You and I are blessed, he said, “we do something that we love.”
