News On SD!, Maria Speaks Out, Hogan, Orton's Next Film

Big Red, the WWE Studios film which stars Randy Orton, Ed Harris (Gone Baby Gone) and Amy Madigan (Grey's Anatomy), completed principal shooting on March 19, according to a recent interview with Orton. The film tells the story of Andy, an intelligent 12-year-old boy whose English teacher (Harris) teams him up with social outcast Stanley (the film's titular "Big Red"). The lives of all 3 are changed forever when Andy watches Stanley stand up to a school bully. Orton plays the bully's father, an adversary for Harris's character.

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– The May 25 SmackDown! taping will emanate from the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, OH. Tickets go on sale April 10th at 10 AM.

– An interview with Maria is available at https://www.scrippsnews.com/node/52468 She had this to say about her in-ring ability: "I wasn't blessed with amazing wrestling ability. I worked my tail off to get better. But some people look good fighting and some look like spiders in the ring. I was a spider with only seven legs and one dangling. I watch some of my matches and say, 'Oh dear.' I think people felt sorry for me and thought, 'I know that girl,' or, 'I am that girl.'"

– ShopTNA.com has released a Hulk Hogan "Fu Power" T-shirt.

– USA won the weekly cable race yet again with a 2.3 average rating, against a 2.1 for Fox News. Syfy was at 18 with 0.8 and Spike was at 23 with a 0.7 average. The Stone Cold-hosted Raw came second and third overall behind Life on Discovery (3.8). In the 18-34 group, the second hour came in at 8 while ther first hour was not in the top 10. In the 18-49 demographic, Raw came in at 3 and 5.

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