THE ROCK IN PHILLY TONIGHT
- 08/23/2006 (3:14:28 pm)
- Georgiann Makropoulos
Leg injury upsets his Game Plan too….
I know this is short notice, but I just found out that THE ROCK will be in Philly, PA tonight for the premier of "Gridiron Gang" movie. He will be appearing at the
United Artist Movie Theater - 1400 S. Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA @ 6 PM
It is located a few blocks from the old ECW Arena.
For further information, call 215-755-2353...
(S. Columbus Boulevard/S. Delaware Avenue)
(If any of our readers gets to go, please send us a report
Thanks to Mike Informer:
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson says it wasn't the damage he knew he had done to his Achilles ' tendon while doing football drills that bothered him most. It was the cancellation of the Boston-area filming of the Disney flick "The Game Plan." "It snapped and . . . I immediately knew what happened. I was there on that field in Malden, on June 19 at 5:30 p.m., standing there with my hands on my hips, and I knew I had to get my Achilles reattached. And then I thought, there go a lot of jobs," said Johnson, in town promoting his other football movie, "Gridiron Gang," which opens Sept. 15 and is based on a documentary by the same name. Calling his injury the ``biggest blessing in disguise," Johnson said it forced him to take some time off and spend the summer at home in Florida, something he hasn't done ``since I got out of college in 1995." It also allowed Johnson more time to promote ``Gridiron Gang," in which he plays probation officer Sean Porter, who starts a high school football team in the California youth prison where he works. "First, I wanted to do right by the story and do right by Sean and what they accomplished," Johnson said. The former college football star and former pro wrestler's quick trip back to Boston included a screening last night of "Gridiron Gang," with Boston Celtic Ryan Gomes and 150 young people from programs around the city, including the Bird Street Community Center, the Charlestown Boys and Girls Club in Charlestown, DARE Family Services, and Roxbury Youth Works. Still, he's looking forward to getting his cast off in three days and returning to Boston in September to begin shooting on ``The Game Plan." ``I'll be ready," he said.
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