Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood

Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood

Sandlot Venture Group Partners with Red Bird Cinema to Fund Movie Production

LOS GATOS, Calif., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Sandlot Venture Group today announced its partnership with Red Bird Cinema to fund a variety of future movie ventures. Founded in 2007, Sandlot Venture Group is focused on the financing and development of high profile film projects. Its first act in alliance with Red Bird Cinema will be to produce a feature film based on the life story of boxing legend, Sugar Ray Leonard, with Pulitzer Prize winning author H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger to write the screenplay.

Based in Silicon Valley, Sandlot Venture Group (SVG) is a $25 million private equity fund to procure, develop and package its high-profile film projects. Comprised of individual investors from technology, entertainment and professional sports as well as several successful business entrepreneurs, SVG will combine outstanding deal flow, great experience in optimizing investment terms and an investor base that is focused on developing outstanding feature films and a solid return on investment.

"I am very excited about the potential of a Silicon Valley style venture fund focused on a small number of very high profile entertainment projects," stated Don Herman, SVG Managing Director. "SVG investors are a group that encompasses technology, entertainment and professional sports into one cohesive vehicle."

SVG has strategically partnered with Red Bird Cinema which is made up of recognized individuals with long successful track records structuring movie deals. Red Bird Cinema was founded by John Loar, producer and managing director, Kevin Pollak, producer and actor/writer/director, and Tony La Russa, producer and the St. Louis Cardinals manager, and currently has four film ventures in the works. With the new partnership, Sandlot Venture Group and Red Bird Cinema will produce a variety of Hollywood feature films and capitalize on the tremendous buzz that's already surrounding this entertainment and sports dream team.

"Red Bird Cinema has developed a tremendous portfolio deal flow and we proudly bring our expertise to the table," states John Loar, Producer and Managing Director of Red Bird Cinema. "We are thrilled at the opportunity to partner with Sandlot Venture Group and create an array of great feature films."

In addition to creating film projects, SVG will be working with leaders in Silicon Valley to develop new and innovative means of profitable content distribution through technology applications. With the prospect of DVD sales, electronic distribution and licensing deals, SVG hopes to create an array of exceptional properties among its premium family of feature films.

Among the planned film ventures is the production of Sugar Ray Leonard's life story with the screenplay to be written by Pulitzer Prize winning author H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger. Also intended for production is "Three Nights In August," a screenplay written by actor/writer Kevin Pollak based on Bissinger's New York Times Bestseller about baseball and 2006 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinal manager Tony La Russa.

About Sandlot Venture Group

Sandlot Venture Group is a $25M private equity fund based in Silicon Valley. Sandlot Venture Group (SVG) has created an investment model that focuses on the development and production of high potential film projects. SVG Fund 1 is developing a portfolio approach to the business and brings a very strong operational focus to the success of these investments. In addition, SVG is leveraging deep Silicon Valley relationships to develop new avenues of film content distribution through technology applications. The investors in SVG include individuals from technology, venture, professional sports and entertainment. If interested in receiving investment information, please contact Don Herman, Managing Director at don@sandlotventuregroup.com or Frank Pollifrone, Media Relations at frank@sandlotventuregroup.com

About Red Bird Cinema

Red Bird Cinema is a film production company founded in 2006. The Red Bird Cinema team consists of John Loar, producer and managing director, Kevin Pollak, producer and actor-scribe, and Tony La Russa, producer and the St. Louis Cardinals manager. Red Bird Cinema is currently producing four feature films. Its most recent project is an adaptation of H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger's Three Nights In August, a story about baseball and 2006 World Series Champion St. Louis Cardinal manager Tony La Russa. Actor/writer Kevin Pollak did the screenplay adaptation.

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Source: Sandlot Venture Group; Red Bird Cinema

CONTACT: Diane Shader Smith, +1-310-386-6803, or Megan MacLeod,
+1-310-854-8315, both of Rogers & Cowan, for Sandlot Venture Group and Red
Bird Cinema

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