Sports movies fans, this one is for you.
Trailers for two different sports movies that are coming in the early months of 2014 have been released online today.
First up is Million Dollar Arm, starring Jon Hamm as a baseball agent determined to find the next great baseball star. Take a look:
Million Dollar Arm is set to hit theaters on May 16. Hamm stars as J.B. Bernstein, a sports agent who set up The Million Dollar Arm contest in India in hopes of finding a Cricket player with the arm to make the transformation to professional baseball player. The film boasts a very good supporting cast that includes Bill Paxton, Lake Bell, Alan Arkin, Aasif Mandvi, and Life of Pi‘s Suraj Sharma.
Based on the trailer, the film looks like it will take what may or may not have been a feel-good story for everybody involved and gloss over some details to make the film undoubtedly feel-good. Make no mistake, we’re not saying that’s a bad thing. As long as the sub-plots don’t overpower the actual story, it should make for a decent sports flick.
But before Million Dollar Arm hits the theaters, we’ll have the April 11 football film Draft Day which stars Kevin Costner as General Manager of the Cleveland Browns. Watch this trailer below:
Costner is the midst of a career resurgence with films like Man of Steel, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, and 3 Days to Kill, and it just wouldn’t be right to not have that list include a sports movie, which Costner is beloved for with films such as Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, For Love of the Game, and Tin Cup.
Draft Day will mark Costner’s first foray into the football sub-genre of sports movies, and it’ll also be the first ever football movie that the NFL has cooperated in the production of. This will allow for real teams and real football celebrities to be in the movie, and it will be exciting to finally see that.
This film too has a strong supporting cast. Jennifer Garner, Tom Welling, Terry Crews, Sam Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, and David Ramsey will join Costner for Draft Day.