Sports movies share a common theme: a person overcomes all odds to become the greatest athlete in their sport, changing their ...

Rachel Morrison's feature-length debut nearly turns a real-life story of sport and circumstance into something worthwhile.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series highlighting awards season’s buzziest movies continues with The Fire Inside, the boxing ...

PERSPECTIVES: A new film about boxing champion Claressa Shields wrestles with a difficult truth: in women's sports, making ...

Ryan Destiny, Rachel Morrison and Claressa Shields talk about bringing the Olympic boxer’s little-known life story to the ...

"The Fire Inside" is loosely based on Shields' life so all events in the film are not exactly true. For instance, the movie ...

The story of the boxer Claressa Shields could have been just another sports movie. Directed by Rachel Morrison and penned by Barry Jenkins, it’s much more than that.

"The Fire Inside," in theaters Christmas Day, casts Ryan Destiny as history-making Olympic boxer Claressa Shields.

Claressa Shields was only 17 when she went to the 2012 London Olympics and became the first American woman to win gold in ...

A pandemic, the loss of a studio and the exit of a key actor were just some of the obstacles in the way of the biopic of ...

The boxing film has evolved into a subgenre. 1976’s Oscar-winning “Rocky” dominates the discussion, but movies that examine ...

First responders swarmed the major transit hub around 7:50 p.m. after MTA police received a report of a man on fire at the ...