{"id":25178,"date":"2022-08-13T23:26:53","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T22:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/?p=25178"},"modified":"2022-09-01T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T08:07:18","slug":"pinball-movie-world-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/2022\/08\/13\/pinball-movie-world-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;PINBALL&#8217; MOVIE WORLD PREMIERE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton, New York is scheduled to premiere the movie based on How Roger C. Sharpe&#8217;s testimony &#8220;saved&#8221; the game of pinball in New York City. <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-4-690x1024.png\" alt=\"Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game\" class=\"wp-image-25181\" width=\"518\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-4-690x1024.png 690w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-4-202x300.png 202w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-4-768x1140.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-4.png 831w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Actor Mike Faist plays the part of young Roger in the feature-length &#8216;dramedy&#8217; which is written and directed by Austin and Meredith Bragg. Roger C. Sharpe himself is both the Executive Producer and the Technical Consultant for the movie.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game\" class=\"wp-image-25179\" width=\"558\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-2.jpeg 744w, https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Pinball-2-218x300.jpeg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bragg brothers said, &#8220;<em>The history of pinball is fascinating and uniquely American. Roger\u2019s impact on the game is well-known to pinball fans but worthy of wider attention. We\u2019re excited to work with Roger to share his remarkable journey.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There was a brief teaser of the movie posted on YouTube but it has subsequently been taken down.  However, there is now a website about it, including details of the cast and crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can see that at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinballfilm.com\/\">pinballfilm.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 30th-anniversary film festival takes place October 7th-16th, 2022. General admission tickets will be on sale beginning September 27th. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information visit the festival website at: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hamptonsfilmfest.org\" target=\"_blank\">hamptonsfilmfest.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hamptons International Film Festival in East Hampton, New York is scheduled to premiere the movie based on How Roger C. Sharpe&#8217;s testimony &#8220;saved&#8221; the game of pinball in New York City. Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game Actor Mike Faist plays the part of young Roger in the feature-length &#8216;dramedy&#8217; which is written &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[314,271,1884],"class_list":["post-25178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-movie","tag-new-york","tag-roger-sharpe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25178"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25493,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions\/25493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pinballnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}