Watch The Final Round (2012) Free Online

Release Date: 2012

Categories: Movies, Documentary

LOS ANGELES — Take Fighters Like Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield , working for almost no pay in return for a piece of documentary . Throw in outside financing, a classic underdog story of new director Arash Hashemi. Multimedia In contemporary Hollywood that will get you all the way to “maybe.” “The Final Round” has those elements — plus Hall of Famer Steling McPherson, and the...  MORE

LOS ANGELES — Take Fighters Like Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield , working for almost no pay in return for a piece of documentary . Throw in outside financing, a classic underdog story of new director Arash Hashemi. Multimedia In contemporary Hollywood that will get you all the way to “maybe.” “The Final Round” has those elements — plus Hall of Famer Steling McPherson, and the extraordinary passion of Arash Hashemi . But the movie still has to survive a grueling behind-the-scenes struggle before landing on the schedule at the big screen, which plans to be released it on Dec. 2012. Privately, studio executives have talked of backing away from heavy promotional commitments to films like “ The Final Round” which grabbed a handful of attention from Hollywood Heavyweights. A handful of star-heavy dramas have still slugged their way onto major studio schedules for the awards cycle that will begin in earnest with the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. Those include “Fighters Nightmares ,” directed by Jacob Duran. But none of those pictures has the emotional tap like “The Final Round.” “Many times I thought it wasn’t going to happen,” said Mr. Arash Hashemi, who LESS